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Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (John Campbell, Berkeley)

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

John Campbell, the Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, has main research interests in the theory of meaning, metaphysics, and the philosophy of psychology. He is currently working on the question of whether consciousness, and in particular sensory awareness, plays any key role in our knowledge of our surroundings.

Color etching of the 16th-century philosopher Francisco Suárez.

Francisco Suárez: Philosopher at the Crossroads

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

This two-day workshop with international guests will examine various aspects of the philosophy of Francisco Suárez (1548-1617), a scholastic philosopher working at the crossroads of late medieval and early modern philosophy.

Head shot of Julia Jorati, a white woman with short, dark blonde hair wearing glasses and standing in front of a reddish building background

Colloquium (Julia Jorati, Massachusetts Amherst)

Tartu College Event Space 3 Madison Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada

Julia Jorati is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The main focus of Dr. Jorati’s research is the history of early modern philosophy, at the moment especially debates about slavery and race in the 17th and 18th centuries.

James Madaio, white, bearded man with short hair, leaning against an outdoor railing against a backdrop of sea and seagulls.

Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (James Madaio, Czech Academy of Sciences)

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

James Madaio is a research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. His areas of interest lie in Indian philosophical traditions, the historiography and genealogy of modern Hindu movements, Indic theories of the self, pedagogy, and hermeneutics, and cross-cultural philosophy and dialogues.

On the right, a headshot of a bespectacled Wahhed Hussain, sporting glasses and a stubbly beard. To the left, the cover of "Living with the Invisible Hand," featuring a futuristic inside of a building.

Book Launch: Waheed Hussain, Living with the Invisible Hand

Centre for Ethics Larkin Building, Room 200, 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, Canada

Join us for the book launch of Living with the Invisible Hand: Markets, Corporations, and Human Freedom (OUP, 2023), by the late Waheed Hussain and edited by Arthur Ripstein and Nicholas Vrousalis.

Engraving of R. Descartes holding a carved pumpkin

Phantoms and Philosophy

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 8214

Calling all Witches and Wittgensteinians, all Golems and Gödelians, all Fairies and Fregeans, and all other philosophers with a taste for the eerie: the Philosophy Course Union (PCU) is excited to announce the return of its annual "Phantoms and Philosophy" event. Come dressed as your favourite philosopher and sit in on three presentations whose topics deal with the scarier side of philosophy.

Head shot of Sharon Street, a white woman with long, light brown hair, wearing a dark top and standing against a blurred grassy background

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.

Photo of Kate Withy, a white woman with curly brown hair wearing a flowered scarf over a black sweater, standing against a backdrop of a wooded path, with another person walking in the background

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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Applying to Grad School Workshop

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Interested in a graduate program in Philosophy at U of T? Have a panel of experts share their advice and insights.

Head shot of Chris Smeenk, a man with borwn hair and a short beard, smiling and wearing a checkered shirt standing in front of a university building covered in red ivy

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.

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