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    2024 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy

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

    Join us for a two-day colloquium comprising talks and workshops in ancient and medieval philosophy. The colloquium is organized by Martin Pickavé, Deborah Black, and Peter King.

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    CANCELLED—History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Qiu Lin, Simon Fraser)

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

    Qiu Lin, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University, has main research areas in early modern philosophy, history and philosophy of science, and Chinese philosophy, especially Chinese Islamic philosophy.

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    Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Joseph K. Schear, Oxford)

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

    Joseph K. Schear is a regular faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oxford interested in post-Kantian European philosophy, especially phenomenology, philosophy of mind (esp. the theory of intentionality), and some issues in metaphysics.

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    Colloquium (Ralph Wedgwood, Southern California)

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

    Ralph Wedgwood, a professor of Philosophy and the director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, works in ethics and epistemology, more specifically, in metaethics, practical reason, normative ethical theory, and the history of ethics.

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    Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Amit Chaturvedi, Hong Kong)

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

    Amit Chaturvedi, an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong, has a particular interest in the contributions of Indian philosophical traditions to contemporary debates concerning non-conceptual perception and reflexive self-awareness.

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    History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Anik Waldow, Sydney)

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

    Anik Waldow, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, works mainly in early modern philosophy and has published articles on the moral and cognitive function of sympathy, theories of personal identity, the role of affect in the formation of the self, skepticism, and associationist theories of thought and language.

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    Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Jacob Beck, York)

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

    Jacob Beck is a York Research Chair in the Philosophy of Visual Perception in the Department of Philosophy at York University. Beck’s research makes progress on longstanding philosophical puzzles about the mind by reconceptualizing them in light of contemporary cognitive science.

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    Toronto-London Workshop on Perception

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

    Join us for an international workshop on perception. Organized by Jacob Beck (York University), Bill Brewer (King's College London), Kevin J. Lande (York University), Sonia Sedivy (University of Toronto, Scarborough), Matthew Soteriou (King's College London), and James Stazicker (King's College London) Program Friday, Nov 1  9:30-11:00 – Kevin Lande (York University): ... Read More

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    UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Linda M. Alcoff, CUNY)

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

    Linda Martín Alcoff, a professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Centre, CUNY, has worked for many years on the intersections of knowledge, identity, and power. She specializes in social epistemology, feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, decolonial theory and continental philosophy, especially the work of Michel Foucault.