BRN Speaker Series: In Conversation with William Paris

McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology + Online 39A Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto

William Paris will give the inaugural talk of the newly established Black Research Network Speakers Series, in conversation with Rinaldo Walcott. The topic will be Black power in the work of James Boggs.

Québec-Ontario Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The two-day 2022 Québec-Ontario Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy will include talks by an array of international scholars.

History of Modern Philosophy Research Group Talk (Denis Kambouchner, Sorbonne)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Denis Kambouchner, professor emeritus at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, has focused his research on the work of René Descartes. Since 2019, he has also served as president of the Société Française de Philosophie. 

Continental Philosophy Group Talk (Bettina Bergo, Montreal)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bettina Bergo is a professor of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal whose main research concerns the connections among Husserlian phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and continental thought on sensibility.

UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Agnes Callard, Chicago)

George Ignatieff Theatre 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON

Agnes Callard is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and that department's director of undergraduate studies. Dr. Callard's primary areas of specialization lie in ancient philosophy and ethics., and she is also noted for her work in and on public philosophy.

PCU Bioethics Symposium 2022

Jackman Humanities Building 100

Join the PCU and its three invited speakers for the 2022 Bioethics Symposium, "The Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy of Abortion and Other Matters of Life and Death." Speakers are Donald C. Ainslie, Steven Coyne, and Wayne Sumner.

UTSC Celebration of Research Excellence Lecture—Jessica Wilson

Online

Metaphysically emergent phenomena synchronically depend on, yet are also to some extent autonomous from, complex lower-level physical goings-on. Jessica Wilson will speak about two forms of emergence, weak and strong, and argue for free will as a strongly emergent phenomenon.

Placement Practice Job Talk—Rowan Mellor

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Join us for a practice placement job talk by Rowan Mellor titled "Skepticism about the No-Difference Challenge."

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