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UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Sharon Street, NYU)

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

Sharon Street, a professor of Philosophy at NYU, specializes in metaethics. She has authored a series of articles on how to reconcile our understanding of normativity with a scientific conception of the world. Her work concerns the nature of both practical and epistemic reasons, and it draws especially on an evolutionary biological perspective.

Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Kate Withy, Georgetown)

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

Kate Withy, an associate professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, specializes in the work of Martin Heidegger, but she also has interests in 20th-century European philosophy and ancient Greek philosophy. Her research centres on Heidegger’s conception of the human being as open to meaning and subject to breakdowns of meaning.

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Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Chris Smeenk, Western)

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

Chris Smeenk, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western University, and the director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, has research interests in the history and philosophy of physics, general issues in the philosophy of science, and seventeenth-century natural philosophy.

Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Mohammed Rustom, Carleton)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 519

Mohammed Rustom, a professor of Islamic Thought and Global Philosophy at Carleton University and the director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam. focuses his research on Islamic philosophy, Arabic, and Persian Sufi literature, Quranic exegesis, translation theory, and cross-cultural philosophy.

Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (G. Anthony Bruno, Royal Holloway)

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

G. Anthony Bruno is an assistant professor at Royal Holloway University of London whose research focuses on metaphysics and epistemology in early modern, Kantian, and post-Kantian philosophy.

Workshop on the Self with Anil Gomes

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

Anil Gomes is a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford, and a professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Oxford. He works mainly in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and has a long-standing interest in the work of Iris Murdoch.

History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (David James Barnett, Toronto)

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

David James Barnett, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. He is interested in the epistemic significance of self-consciousness and the boundaries of the self.

Workshop: Maṇḍana on Various Types of Commands

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

In this weeklong workshop, we will read, translate, and discuss Maṇḍana's Vidhiviveka ("Discernment about Commands"), chapter 15, with a group of international scholars.

Public Lecture in Celebration of World Logic Day (Branden Fitelson, Northeastern)

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

Branden Fitelson, a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University, shows how to apply the insights of David Lewis to repair Lewis's own triviality argument against the Adams's thesis, leading to a more reasonable rendition of the equation.

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Sara Aronowitz, Toronto)

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

Sara Aronowitz, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, studies learning and memory in humans, machines, and idealized thinkers. In this talk she will consider the question of ideal rationality.

Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Hagop Sarkissian, CUNY)

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

Hagop Sarkissian, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY, as well as a professor at CUNY's Graduate Center, focuses his research on moral psychology, drawing on other relevant disciplines (evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, Chinese philosophy) to inform his work.

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