PCU 2023 Symposium on Love

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 4416 252 Bloor Street West

The University of Toronto Philosophy Course Union (PCU) invites you to their annual Symposium on Love! On the menu: two talks (by Alex Koo and Zoe Anthony) and a workshop (with Sophia Whicher) on that most elusive feeling.

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Angela Potochnik, Cincinnati)

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

Angela Potochnik is a professor of Philosophy and the director of the Center for the Public Engagement with Science at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Potochnik's research addresses the nature of science and its successes, the relationships between science and the public, and methods in population biology.

The 14th Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP)

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

Join us for the 2023 edition of the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP). This year the workshop will focus on Aristotle's Organon.

History of Philosophy Group Talk (Viacheslav Zahorodniuk, Toronto)

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

Viacheslav Zahorodniuk, a current postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy, is working on a project dedicated to Hume’s epistemology and methodological approaches under the supervision of Donald C. Ainslie. 

Kant & Post-Kantian German Philosophy Group Talk (Pirachula Chulanon, Toronto Metropolitan)

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

Pirachula Chulanon (Toronto Metropolitan) specializes in Kant's theories of knowledge and mind. His work concerns the origins and limits of our understanding of our own humanity and rationality. He pairs this with research and teaching interests in ethics and aesthetics, especially theories of art in the German-speaking tradition after Kant.

CANCELLED—Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Espen Hammer, Temple)

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

Espen Hammer, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Temple University, is a Norwegian philosopher whose main focus is on the post-Kantian European tradition of philosophy. Most of his work deals with questions of ethics, politics and subjectivity.

Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Reza Hadisi, Toronto)

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

Reza Hadisi (Toronto) pursues questions in ethics, epistemology, and action theory through the study of the history of philosophy. He is particularly interested in the Medieval Arabic and Persian traditions and Kant.

Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Joey Miller, West Chester)

Online

Joseph Len "Joey" Miller is an assistant professor of Philosophy at West Chester University who specializes in Native American philosophy and ethics. As an enrolled member of Muscogee Nation, his research focuses on understanding the ethical frameworks of his ancestors and how these frameworks have been adapted to address settler colonialism.

Guest Lecture by Jason Stanley (Yale)

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

Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, is renowned for his contributions to philosophy of language and epistemology, whose tools in his more recent work he brings to bear on questions of political philosophy.

2023 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference

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

Food for thought: Join us for the annual conference showcasing the best undergraduate research in Philosophy of 2023, as well as keynote speaker Sol Goldberg of the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.

History of Philosophy Group Talk (Taras Lyutyy, NaUKMA)

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

Taras Lyutyy, a visiting professor from Ukraine, specializes in the philosophy of Nietzsche, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophy of culture.

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