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SUMMARY:Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Jacob McNulty\, Yale)
DESCRIPTION:The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Jacob McNulty\, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. \nTalk Title\n“Hegel and Nietzsche on Masters and Slaves” \nTalk Abstract\nHegel and Nietzsche agree that a primitive social relationship of domination — and its breakdown—was consequential for the history of the human race. Yet they differ in their understanding of that relationship\, specifically over whether it is born of a desire for recognition or not. Hegelian masters desire recognition\, whereas Nietzschean ones are largely indifferent. As Deleuze was the first to point out\, Hegel’s account appears suspect from a Nietzschean point of view\, specifically because it seems to involve a slavish perspective on mastery — over-generalizing what is in fact a slavish personality trait\, namely\, the desire for standing in the eyes of others. In this talk\, I respond to Deleuze by presenting two arguments on behalf of Hegel’s recognition-based model of the master/slave relationship. These arguments leverage what I will the economic and the existential dimensions of social relationships of domination and oppression to show that they are inherently recognitive. The lesson to emerge is that Nietzsche biologizes and psychologizes what are\, in fact\, “spiritual” phenomena in Hegel’s sense. Nietzsche’s account then involves a bad appeal to “immediacy” or brute fact. \n  \nAbout the Continental Philosophy Group\nOne of six departmental research interest groups\, the Continental Philosophy Group works in the traditions of textual interpretation of human consciousness\, phenomenology\, and post-structuralist critical theory\, among other related traditions of thought. \n  \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/continental-philosophy-research-group-talk-jacob-mcnulty-yale/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Isaac Wilhelm)
DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Philosophy of Science Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Isaac Wilhelm\, an associate professor at the National University of Singapore. \nTalk Title\nAlgebraic Quantum Gunk \nTalk Abstract\nTheories of the parthood relation generally focus on the non-relativistic\, non-quantum realm: on parthood among more ordinary\, familiar objects like tables and chairs. According to most metaphysicians\, however\, the parthood relation also obtains among far more fundamental items than that — including the posits of relativistic quantum physics. So in this paper\, I propose and defend a theory of parthood based on the posits of algebraic quantum field theories. Among its other virtues\, the theory implies several standard mereological principles that are usually adopted as axiomatic primitives. Importantly\, the theory supports an argument from a wide class of algebraic quantum field theories to the existence of mereological gunk. And finally\, and more generally\, the theory illustrates what metaphysicians stand to gain from sustained attention to contemporary physics.\n\n\nAbout the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group hosts talks on logic\, general philosophy of science\, and philosophy of the particular sciences\, as well as talks in allied areas such as formal epistemology\, decision theory\, and the metaphysics of science.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/logic-and-philosophy-of-science-group-talk-isaac-wilhelm/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:2026 Roseman Lecture in Practical Ethics (Sally Haslanger\, MIT)
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Roseman Lecture will be delivered by Sally Haslanger\, the Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies at MIT. She pursues broad philosophical interests\, beginning her philosophical career specializing in analytic metaphysics and epistemology\, and in ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle). Over time she has developed interests in social and political philosophy\, feminist theory\, and critical race theory. Dr. Haslanger has published on the problem of persistence through change\, pragmatic paradox\, and Aristotle’s hylomorphic theory of substance. \nTalk Title\nThe “Care Crisis”: A Systems Approach \nTalk Abstract\nIf societies are complex dynamic systems\, how can local interventions scale to promote social transformation?  For the purposes of this lecture\, I will focus on women’s role in unwaged caregiving in the private sphere\, traditionally in families. This is a domain where gender oppression is rampant and the gender norms that govern in the family spread far and wide across society.  Moreover\, this gendered division of labor produces a relatively stable equilibrium that is difficult to change. I will argue that attention to the dynamics of social reproduction points to some strategies that give women more power.  I’m rather skeptical about policy changes\, at least until we have done more to change social norms. So I’ll sketch very briefly a model for social change through chapter-based social movements that takes aim at social norms. \n  \nThe Roseman Lectures in Practical Ethics are sponsored by Ellen Roseman and the Constance and David Roseman Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation. \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/roseman-lecture-practical-ethics-sally-haslanger-mit/
LOCATION:Claude T. Bissell Building\, BL 205\, 140 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 3G6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate
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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Group Talk (Jack Beaulieu\, Oxford)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Jack Beaulieu\, a graduate from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and now a Fellow by Examination (Junior Research Fellow) in Philosophy at Magdalen College\, Oxford.  Dr. Beaulieu works on the history of Sanskrit philosophy\, focusing on philosophers belonging to the Nyāya and Prābhākara traditions and\, consequently\, also maintaining interests in Dharmakīrti. Dr. Beaulieu works broadly in the fields of epistemology\, philosophy of mind\, and metaphysics\, with his research to date focusing primarily on absence. He is currently working on issues related to introspection and iterated knowledge\, especially whether the former offers a route into the latter. Dr. Beaulieu also maintains active teaching interests in philosophy of disability. \nTalk Title\nExtrinsicism and Default Trust in Gaṅgeśa’s Gemstone \nTalk Abstract\n\nTBD \n\n  \nZoom Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/81486075870 \nMeeting ID: 814 8607 5870\nPasscode: 107577  \n\nThe Global Philosophy Research Interest Group explores the benefits of drawing on diverse traditions of thought in approaching philosophical questions. These include novel insights into familiar problems\, new questions and research directions\, and fresh methodologies. We work to deprovincialize and decolonize all aspects of philosophy in the academy. The group currently has strengths in Sanskrit philosophy\, and Chinese philosophy\, Indian philosophy in English\, and classical Islamic philosophy.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global-philosophy-group-talk-jack-beaulieu-oxford/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Rationality and Epistemology
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will focus on rationality and epistemology. Featured speakers include: Timothy Williamson (Oxford)\, Gurpreet Rattan (Toronto)\, Yonathan Fiat (Toronto)\, David Barnett (Toronto) and Jennifer Nagel (Toronto). \n  \nSaturday\, April 4 \nLocation: JHB 100 \n  \nSession I (9:45 – 11:00am): \nJennifer Nagel (Toronto) \n“The Dawn of Human Rationality” \nComments: Julia Minarik (Toronto) \n  \nSession II (11:10am – 12:25pm): \nDavid Barnett (Toronto) \n“Skepticism about the Self” \nComments: Joshua Brecka (Toronto) \n  \nSession III (1:30 – 2:45pm): \nYonathan Fiat (Toronto) \n“Ravens Knowledge” \nComments: Yi-Cheng Lin (Toronto) \n  \nSession IV (2:55 – 4:10pm): \nGurpreet Rattan (Toronto) \n“Understanding Maximization” \nComments: Shahdah Mahhouk (Toronto) \n  \nSession V (4:20 – 5:35pm): \nTimothy Williamson (Oxford) \n“Recognitional Capacities and their Uses” \nComments: Eirini Martsoukaki (Toronto)
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/workshop-on-rationality-and-epistemology-keynote-speaker-timothy-williamson-oxford/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building 100
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Sayeh Meisami\, Dayton)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Sayeh Meisami\, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton. Dr. Meisami has published several books and articles in the fields of philosophy and religion. She is the author of Mulla Sadra (2013)\, Knowledge and Power in the Philosophies of Ḥamīd al-Dīn Kirmānī and Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (2018)\, and Nasir al-Din Tusi: A Philosopher for All Seasons (2019). In line with her interdisciplinary interests\, her most recent articles demonstrate the significance of poetic techniques of thinking and writing in later Islamic philosophy and sufism\, and her ongoing research is on the continuity of mythological and philosophical discourses in the Persianate context. \nTalk Title\nPoetic Thinking and the Divergent Philosophies of Rumi and Heidegger \nTalk Abstract\n\nThe talk is a critical analysis of Martin Heidegger’s engagement with “poetic thinking” by comparing it to that of Rumi’s. The comparison aims to investigate how a poetic thinker’s historical\, cultural\, and lived experiences fundamentally shape the ethical and sociopolitical outcomes of the discourses they create in their philosophies. I attempt to demonstrate that Heidegger correctly considers poetic thinking as a wholesome conflict between conceptualization and experiential finding that is essential to authentic human experience. This is exemplified by his reading of German lyrical voices\, such as Hölderlin\, that is conditioned by Eurocentrism and German exceptionalism.  I argue that both Heidegger and Rumi are great at poetic thinking and for this reason their starkly different lived experiences lead them to diverging directions:  Heidegger’s poetic thinking unleashes the “will to power”\, and Rumi’s poetic thinking that is grounded in his experience as a multi-cultural immigrant and a lover gives rise to the “will to love.”  I will ultimately demonstrate that Rumi’s “will to love” functions as an interpretive/epistemic lens that justifies his philosophy of unity and inclusivity.   \n\n  \nThe Global Philosophy Research Interest Group explores the benefits of drawing on diverse traditions of thought in approaching philosophical questions. These include novel insights into familiar problems\, new questions and research directions\, and fresh methodologies. We work to deprovincialize and decolonize all aspects of philosophy in the academy. The group currently has strengths in Sanskrit philosophy\, and Chinese philosophy\, Indian philosophy in English\, and classical Islamic philosophy.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global-philosophy-research-interest-group-talk-sayeh-meisami-dayton/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Colloquium (Mitzi Lee\, Colorado\, Boulder)
DESCRIPTION:As speaker for our first Spring 2026 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee\, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado\, Boulder. Dr. Lee specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. She is the author of Epistemology after Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato\, Aristotle\, and Democritus (Clarendon Press\, 2005)\, which won an honorable mention in the American Philosophical Association Book Prize 2007\, for authors under 40. \nTalk Title\nJustice as a Natural Virtue in Aristotle’s Ethics \nTalk Abstract\n\nAristotle thinks that justice is\, like all the other virtues\, a natural virtue. What does this mean? How does he accommodate its connection to and dependence upon convention\, agreements\, and laws – the sorts of facts that would seem to make it an “artificial” virtue\, in Hume’s words?
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-mitzi-lee-colorado-boulder/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260321T170000
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Medhātithi: Medhātithi across Sanskrit jurisprudence and philosophy of action (keynote: Alessandro Giudice\, Ludwig Maximilian University)
DESCRIPTION:On March 21 2026 the University of Toronto will host a workshop on “Medhātithi across Sanskrit jurisprudence and philosophy of action” (keynote: Alessandro Giudice\, Ludwig Maximilian University) Medhātithi (9th c.) is a key figure in Sanskrit jurisprudence\, who applied reasoning methods from the Mīmāṃsā school of philosophy to the understanding of the most well-known and influential jurisprudential text\, Manu’s Treatise on the Norm (Mānavadharmaśāstra).\n\n  \nThis one-day long workshop will see students of UofT engaging with his philosophy of action and of law and exploring several issues\, from his discussion of why lying is compulsory if a person’s life is at risk to the purpose of fighting once all hopes of victory are gone and up to whether sex might ever be a duty.\n\n  \nThe keynote address will be delivered by Alessandro Giudice\, who is a postdoctoral researcher within the Cluster of Excellence “Cross-Cultural Philology” at the Institute for Indology and Tibetology\, Munich University\, and the author of a recent monograph on Medhātithi\, available OA here: https://www.edizioniets.com/priv_file_libro/5546.pdf.\n\n  \nThe title of the keynote will be: “Medhātithi\, a Wide-Ranging Ninth-Century Scholar: From Law to Grammar\, from Rhetoric to Philosophy.” (12pm\, Toronto time)\n\n  \nFor updates on this event please check Workshop on Medhātithi on Elisa Freschi’s website.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/workshop-on-medhatithi-medhatithi-across-sanskrit-jurisprudence-and-philosophy-of-action-keynote-alessandro-giudice-ludwig-maximilian-university/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260320T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260320T150000
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SUMMARY:Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Karen Ng\, Vanderbilt)
DESCRIPTION:The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Karen Ng\, an associate professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Ng\, who also serves as director of graduate studies\, specializes in nineteenth-century European philosophy (esp. Hegel and German Idealism) and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. Her book\, Hegel’s Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness\, Freedom\, Logic (Oxford University Press\, 2020)\, won the 2021 Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize. In addition to her research in post-Kantian philosophy\, Dr. Ng is interested in the ongoing influence of Hegel and Marx for critical social theory\, particularly as their legacies help us understand the relation between human beings and nature\, possibilities and failures of mutual recognition\, and conceptions of progress and critique. \nTalk Title\nWhat is the Gattungsprozess?\nSocial Freedom and Social Reproduction in Hegel and Marx \nTalk Abstract\nIn this paper\, I analyze the key features of what Hegel calls the Gattungsprozess — the process of species-life — and defend its importance for an account of social freedom. Specifically\, I argue that we can view the Gattungsprozess as providing the basis for a broadly historical materialist approach to social freedom in which this depends upon and is articulated through two processes: first\, the metabolic exchange with an environment that has both natural and social characteristics; and second\, social reproduction. In developing this Hegelian-Marxian account of social freedom\, I argue against existing accounts that focus exclusively on institutional recognition. Instead\, I show that social freedom is the historical and self-conscious realization of a concrete Gattungsprozess\, the central aim of which is the production and reproduction of free individuals. One of the key contributions of Hegel and Marx is thus to provide an account of free individuality as possible and historically realizable only within the context of species-life and its ongoing reproduction. \nAbout the Continental Philosophy Group\nOne of six departmental research interest groups\, the Continental Philosophy Group works in the traditions of textual interpretation of human consciousness\, phenomenology\, and post-structuralist critical theory\, among other related traditions of thought.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/continental-philosophy-research-group-talk-karen-ng-vanderbilt/
LOCATION:Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)\, Room 5240\, 371 Bloor Street West\, Toronto M5S 1V6\, ON\, M5S 1V6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Philosophy of Mind Talk (Lok-Chi Chan\, National Taiwan University)
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome as guest speaker Lok-Chi Chan\, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at National Taiwan University. Dr. Chan\, who also serves as Co-Director of the NTU Center for Traditional and Scientific Metaphysics\, works on philosophy mind\, metaphysics\, and philosophy of religion\, with a focus on metaphysical naturalism. \nTalk Title\nNaturalizing Phenomenal Ineffability: A Neo-Galilean Physicalist Hypothesis Concerning Phenomenal Ineffability \nTalk Abstract\n\nIn the philosophy of mind\, ineffability is widely regarded as one of the key features of subjective phenomenal experience by both physicalists and non-physicalists\, and both metaphysicians who discusses the hard problem and specialists who study specific experiences. Physicalists typically employ accounts under the umbrella term “phenomenal concept strategy” to explain this ineffability; yet\, the resulting idea about the relationship between phenomenal and theoretical concepts appears at least incomplete\, as an unqualified version of it leads to the implausible consequence that phenomenal information is isolated\, thus epiphenomenal and practically useless. In this paper\, I propose a novel naturalistic account of phenomenal ineffability that clarifies the relevant issues by adopting a deflationary attitude that takes seriously considerations from phenomenology\, the natural sciences\, and the history of knowledge. Drawing on the Enlightenment distinction between primary\, secondary\, and tertiary qualities in a non-literal way\, this account has a two-way explanation of why certain phenomenal concepts remain untranslatable into theoretical concepts\, and vice versa. \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/language-epistemology-metaphysics-and-mind-research-interest-group-talk-lok-chi-chan-national-taiwan-university/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 401\, 170 St. George St.\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260313T170000
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SUMMARY:Philosophy Undergraduate Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:Friday March 13\, 2026\, 9:00 am – 5:15 pm\, JHB 418 \nIt’s that time of year again! Join us for exciting debates and new ideas in undergraduate philosophy scholarship at the 2026 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference. Expect a full day of insight\, discussion\, and community. \nThis year’s keynote speaker is Arianna Falbo (TMU)\, who will be speaking at 3:45 PM on Friday March 13\, 2026. Dr. Falbo’s research focuses on inquiry\, with areas of expertise in epistemology\, feminist and social philosophy\, and philosophy of language. \n  \nUndergraduate Philosophy Research Conference 2026 Schedule \nAll talks will be held in JHB 418 \n  \n8.30-9.00: Coffee\, Tea\, and Pastries \n9.00-10.00: Session One \n\nXinyue Ji “From Emptiness to Praxis: Chan as the Performative Realization of Madhyamaka”\nAyesha Noon: “When Meaning Bursts Forth All at Once: A Look into and Refutation of Bhartrhari’s Theory of the Sentence and Its Meaning as Indivisible Units”\n\n10.00-11.00: Session Two \n\nJack Lamon: “The Probability of Yes: Equiprobability as a Necessary Condition for Agency & Consent”\nArion Okubo: “What if the Deceived Businessman Finds Out?”\n\n11.00-11.15: Break                                                             \n11.15-12.15: Session Three \n\nSofia McTaggart: “Partless Temporal Extension: In Defense of Simplism”\nWillow Macdonald: “Kant Against Fundamental Mereology”\n\n12:15-12:45: Lunch \n12.45-2.15: Session Four \n\nSarah Morra: “For the Greater Good Me: An Exploration of the Dichotomy Between Hubris and Humility in Civic Life”\nSantiago Alzamora Goller: “International Students & Free Speech in the Age of the Internet”\nNathaniel Dickie: “Equality versus Choice: A Defense of Educational Adequacy and Community Self-Determination”\n\n2.15-2.30: Break \n2.30-3.30: Session Five \n\nChi Zhang: “The Skeptic and the Dogmatist about Induction”\nOleksii Varlamov: “Why Moral Skepticism Does Not Entail Normative Skepticism”\n\n3.30-3.45: Break \n3.45-5.15: Keynote Presentation \n\nArianna Falbo (TMU): “Shouldn’t Have Inquired?”
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/philosophy-undergraduate-conference/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:St. George,Undergraduate
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SUMMARY:Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Sorin Bangu\, Bergen)
DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Philosophy of Science Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Sorin Bangu\, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen in Norway. Dr. Bangu works in philosophy of science (especially philosophy of mathematics and physics)\, with further interests in Wittgenstein and Quine. He is involved in the activities of the Wittgenstein Archives Bergen and serves as a co-editor of its open access journal\, Nordic Wittgenstein Review. \nTalk Title\nThe Odd Couple: later Wittgenstein and Quine on the Existence of Numbers \nTalk Abstract\nThe aim of this talk is to sketch and contrast later Wittgenstein’s and Quine’s views on the perennial\, and central\, question in metaphysics and in the philosophy of mathematics: do numbers exist? Against the background of an example involving elementary arithmetic\, I’ll maintain that they are indeed an odd couple: their views are both very different\, but also related. I’ll argue that one of them (easy to guess who) holds that ‘the question contains a mistake’\, so can’t even be meaningfully asked\, let alone answered — which is disturbing news for both the realist and the antirealist projects in the contemporary philosophy of mathematics. Quine\, on the other hand\, contends that the answer to the question is affirmative. However\, his reason to answer so is quite provocative as well\, for it illustrates a pragmatic approach to metaphysical question. It relies on the contingent fact that mathematics is successfully applied — that it is\, in fact\, indispensable to science and everyday life. It is this perspective\, the paramount role assigned to the applicability of mathematics\, that he and Wittgenstein share.\nAbout the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group hosts talks on logic\, general philosophy of science\, and philosophy of the particular sciences\, as well as talks in allied areas such as formal epistemology\, decision theory\, and the metaphysics of science.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/logic-philosophy-of-science-sorin-bangu-bergen/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Qiu Lin\, Simon Fraser)
DESCRIPTION:The History of Modern Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Qiu Lin\, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University.  Dr. Lin’s research areas are early modern philosophy\, history and philosophy of science\, and Chinese Islamic philosophy. \nTalk Title\nFrom Non-Extended Simples to Extended Bodies: Revisiting Du Châtelet’s Argument \nTalk Abstract\n\nIn §77 of Foundations of Physics\, Du Châtelet offers an account of how we acquire the idea of extension. Later\, in the chapter “On the Elements of Matter\,” she invokes §77 as a premise to argue for the conclusion that “an aggregate of simple beings must be extended (§133).” In this paper\, I provide a reconstruction of Du Châtelet’s argument. First\, I show that existing reconstructions in the scholarship overlook an important interpretive constraint: in §77\, the only faculty at work is the imagination\, but for Du Châtelet\, non-extended simples cannot be represented by this faculty — they can only be represented by the understanding. Second\, I draw attention to a crucial detail that scholars have not yet taken into account: for Du Châtelet\, human souls are simples. Finally\, I offer a reconstruction of Du Châtelet’s argument in §133 that incorporates these two findings. If my reconstruction is correct\, her explanation of how non-extended simples “give rise to” extended bodies is neither Wolffian nor Leibnizian\, but a distinctive contribution to the history of monadologies. \n\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the History of Philosophy Group explores topics in ancient and/or medieval philosophy\, the period from Descartes to Kant\, and Jewish philosophy from the medieval period to the 20th century.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/history-philosophy-group-talk-qiu-lin-sfu/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED--Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (Nicolás García Mills\, Binghamton)
DESCRIPTION:This event has unfortunately had to be cancelled due to illness. \nThe Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is delighted to welcome as its guest speaker Nicolás García Mills\, a lecturer in Philosophy at Binghampton University. Dr. García Mills’s research focuses primarily on the history of moral\, social and political philosophy in the post-Kantian tradition. His current work includes three research projects\, respectively devoted to (1) Hegel’s ethical views; (2) the social theories of Hegel\, Marx\, and the Frankfurt School; and (3) 20th-century Latin American philosophy. Each of these projects is concerned in one way or another with the broader question: In what ways are we free (or unfree) and how do our animal nature and the natural and social worlds outside us bear on our capacity for freedom and its exercise? \nTalk Title\nHegel’s Neo-Aristotelianism and Hierarchical Ontology \nTalk Abstract\nIn this paper\, I argue that\, in addition to a familiar\, broadly neo-Aristotelian view\, Hegel espouses another view of evaluative judgment\, which is undergirded by his hierarchical conception of the natural and spiritual worlds. I argue further that this hierarchical view is not only compatible with Hegel’s neo-Aristotelian view but also supplements this latter view by answering the question: In what sense is the good of human\, spiritual beings higher than the good of non-human animals and other living things? I end by addressing the accusation that Hegel’s hierarchical view has speciesist implications. \n  \nThe Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is a a subgroup of the History of Philosophy Research Group\, which focuses on European philosophy in Kant and post-Kantian traditions.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/post-kantian-talk-nicolas-garcia-mills-binghampton/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Stang":MAILTO:nick.stang@utoronto.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251205T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251205T170000
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SUMMARY:Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (Johannes Haag\, Potsdam)
DESCRIPTION:The Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is delighted to welcome as its guest speaker Johannes Haag\, a professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Potsdam. His systematic interests in theoretical philosophy concern the philosophy of language\, epistemology\, the philosophy of mind\, and in particular the theory of intentionality. Historically\, he works mainly on issues in early modern philosophy\, the philosophy of Enlightenment\, the philosophy of Kant and German Idealism. In addition to Kant and Descartes\, he is especially interested in Spinoza\, Berkeley\, and Fichte. \nIn addition to his talk on December 5\, Dr. Haag will also lead an all-day workshop on December 6\, titled “The Ground of the Unity of the Supersensible as a Key to Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of Aesthetic Judgment.” The morning session will be devoted to “the connection of the legislations of understanding and reason through the power of judgment”; the afternoon session will concern “taste as the ‘idea of a faculty that is yet to be acquired and is artificial’ – the structure of the transcendental deduction of pure aesthetic judgments (§§ 30-59).” Please contact Nick Stang to participate in the workshop. \nTalk Title\nAutonomous Judgment: On the Unity of Kant’s Critique of Judgment \nTalk Abstract\nIn the Critique of Judgment\, Kant introduces a new transcendental principle for the power of judgement: a principle of the formal subjective purposiveness of nature\, i.e. a purposiveness of nature in its formal structure for our powers of cognition. This principle was not yet available to Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason\, and in his correspondence\, he framed this finding as a genuine discovery. I will argue that this principle can explain the unity of the Critique of Judgment – a unity that\nhas often been questioned by Kant’s readers. In particular\, I will try to show that the power of judgment subjects itself to „the same principle“ (CPJ\, FI XI\, 20:244) in its logical\, aesthetic\, and teleological autonomy\, thereby bridging the seeming disparity of the subjects discussed in the introductions\, the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment and the Critique of Teleological Judgment. In this way\, the various concepts of a technique of nature in all three cases result from the autonomous application of one and the same transcendental principle. And in all cases this technique will turn out to be\, properly speaking\, not a technique of nature at all\, but a „technique of the power of judgment“ (CPJ\, FI VII\, 20:219). \n  \nThe Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is a a subgroup of the History of Philosophy Research Group\, which focuses on European philosophy in Kant and post-Kantian traditions.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/post-kantian-talk-johannes-haag-potsdam/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Stang":MAILTO:nick.stang@utoronto.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251204T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251204T170000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium (Barry Maguire\, Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:As speaker for our second Fall 2025 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome Barry Maguire\, a professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Maguire’s current central research project is the development of an ethical theory based on an ideal of caring solidarity. This approach aims to integrate standards of justification in the ethics of economics\, political philosophy\, and moral philosophy. \nTalk Title\nSocialism and the Collective Ownership of the Means of Production \nTalk Abstract\nThis paper was co-authored with Jan Kandiyali. \nHistorically\, socialism has been identified with collective ownership of the means of production. However\, in the face of the purported failure of central planning\, and influential arguments about the necessity of markets and private ownership\, many contemporary socialists have sought to sever the link between socialism and collective ownership. Here\, we aim to rehabilitate a constitutive relationship between them. The argument proceeds in three main steps. First\, the heart of socialism is an ideal of caring solidarity. The idea of caring solidarity enjoins us to engage in the shared activity of caring about one another\, or in other words\, to do what we can to meet others’ needs collaboratively. Second\, caring solidarity constitutively involves collective planning of the means of production\, and that planning is possible only if there is collective control of those means. Third\, collective control is incompatible with private ownership of the means of production but instead would constitutively involve collective ownership. Hence socialism\, as caring solidarity\, would constitutively involve the collective ownership of the means of production. 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-barry-maguire-edinburgh/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Marcus Schmücker\, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Marcus Schmücker\, a senior researcher at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Schmücker has been a research fellow at the IKGA since 1996. In addition to interdisciplinary work in the fields of theology and philosophy\, his research interests focus on the traditions of Ad­vaita Ve­dānta and Viśiṣṭādvaita Ve­dān­ta. \nThis is an in-person event\, but those who cannot come to campus may join the talk on Zoom. \nMeeting ID: 827 5076 5002\nPasscode: 637917\nIn addition to this lecture\, Dr. Schmücker will be holding a workshop Friday\, November 28\, 9 AM-3 PM\, and Saturday\, November 29\, 9 AM-5 PM. \nTalk Title\nWorld-\, Self-\, and God-Relation according to the Indian Tradition of Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta \nTalk Abstract\n\nThe question of how we relate to the world\, how we relate to ourselves\, and how God relates to us—are philosophical themes that the tradition of Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta has developed extensively from its beginnings up to its most renowned exponent\, Veṅkaṭanātha. It is primarily in light of his teachings that we aim to uncover the structure and the underlying presupposition common to these three forms of relation\, which I would like to examine from an epistemological perspective.  \nWe begin with Veṅkaṭanātha’s analysis of our everyday relation to the world. How is this relation expressed when our cognition is directed toward something? For Veṅkaṭanātha\, such a relation is bound to a linguistic judgment that irreducibly takes the form: “This is in such-and-such a way.” With the word “this\,” we refer to something worldly\, objective\, and self-subsistent—a substratum to which we could not refer unless we already perceived it as something determinate (for instance\, through its properties). Between “this” and “such-and-such\,” a prior unity of reference and determination underlies the very act of cognition.  \nVeṅkaṭanātha thus presupposes an underlying unity (aikya) that we must take for granted if the external world is to be intelligible to us through our linguistic judgment. This structure of unity\, however\, is not limited to our relation to the external world; it also concerns the structure of cognition itself. Cognition does not merely happen to have an object or not by chance—it consists essentially in a prior unity with its determinable object of reference. Otherwise\, cognition of anything at all would be impossible.  \nAgain\, this prior unity underlies not only object-directed cognition but also self-directed cognition\, since our reference to our self always occurs in a determinate way—we never encounter a pure\, undetermined self. If this unity always constitutes a necessarily determined ground\, then the question finally arises as to its ultimate ground\, which\, for Veṅkaṭanātha and his tradition\, is God. How\, then\, does he characterize God’s knowledge of the world? 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global-philosophy-research-interest-group-talk-marcus-schmuecker-austrian-academy-of-sciences/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Alberto Toscano\, Goldsmiths\, London/Simon Fraser)
DESCRIPTION:The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Alberto Toscano\, professor emeritus of  Critical Theory at Goldsmiths\, University of London\, and the co-director of its Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. He currently lives in Vancouver and teaches at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Toscano is the author of Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri (2025)\, Late Fascism: Race\, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (2023)\, Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum (2023) and Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2017\, 2nd ed). He edits the series The Italian List and Seagull Essays for Seagull Books. \nTalk Title\nTragedy under Siege \nTalk Abstract\nIn his 1937 text\, “Nietzschean Chronicle\,” published in the wake of the aerial bombing of Guernica and during the siege of Madrid by Franco’s Nationalist forces\, Georges Bataille took the occasion of Jean-Louis Barrault’s staging of Cervantes’ The Siege of Numantia to deploy a critique of popular-frontist or humanist anti-fascism anchored in the tragic myth-image of the Spanish city that had sought to resist Roman invasion\, only to be destroyed in 133 BC. Up against the servile sovereignty imposed by modern state-forms (“German Caesarism” or “Soviet Caesarism”)\, the only alternative for Bataille was “the community without a leader\, bound together by the obsessive image of tragedy”. The talk will explore the nexus of anti-politics\, anti-fascism and tragedy in Bataille’s thinking of the 1930s\, its post-war attenuations and the broader resonances of the “siege” as a site through which to think political aesthetics. \nAbout the Continental Philosophy Group\nOne of six departmental research interest groups\, the Continental Philosophy Group works in the traditions of textual interpretation of human consciousness\, phenomenology\, and post-structuralist critical theory\, among other related traditions of thought.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/continental-philosophy-research-group-talk-alberto-toscano-goldsmiths-london-simon-fraser/
LOCATION:Centre for Ethics\, 200 Larkin\, 15 Devonshire Place\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:b2B Philosophy Career Night - Careers in Bioethics
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the upcoming b2B Philosophy Career Night\, Careers in Bioethics. This is a great opportunity to discover the different career options available to you after graduation and what you can do now to prepare. This online session will also allow you to interact with alumni during a moderated Q&A session. \nPanelists\nNipa Chauhan\, Bioethics Associate\, Mount Sinai Hospital \nAndrew Franklin-Hall\, Associate Professor\, Department of Philosophy\, University of Toronto \nJennifer Gibson\, Director\, Joint Centre for Bioethics\, University of Toronto \nDate: Thursday\, November 27\, 2025\nTime: 5:15 pm – 6:30 pm \nZoom: \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88302074675 \nMeeting ID: 883 0207 4675\nPasscode: 446798 \nTo register\, please RSVP by email at Careers in Bioethics – Fill out form \nWe look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/b2b-philosophy-career-panel-careers-in-bioethics/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eric Correia":MAILTO:eric.correia@utoronto.ca
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SUMMARY:Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Hallie Liberto\, Maryland)
DESCRIPTION:The Ethics and Political Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Hallie Liberto\, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. Dr. Liberto is a moral philosopher who studies normative power. She writes about the power we have to change the moral\, legal\, and social world through speech acts and other expressions of our will. She also works on exploitation theory\, and much of her work relates to sexual ethics. \nThis is an in-person event\, but those not able to come to campus can join via Zoom. \n  \nTalk Title\nThreat\, Intentions\, and Illocutionary Force \nTalk Abstract\nThere are many traditional ways of distinguishing threats. Some threats are communicated\, while others are simply behaviors or speech through which a person intentionally evinces danger. Some threats are conditional and some are unconditional (or categorical). Some things that sound like threats might be mere warnings about one’s future behavior. Some threats are non-commital\, while others sound like a dark version of a promise. Finally\, some threats rely for their credibility on the threat-maker’s rational\, calculating presentation\, while others rely on the threat-maker’s wild or emotional presentation. In this project\, I examine these distinctions and I defend the view (against recent contestation) that there is a distinct illocutionary force involved in threat-making speech-acts\, and that the speech act in no way relies upon the intentions of the threat-maker. For instance\, it does not require that the threat-making act plays a special role in the generation of the intentions it communicates. In this way\, I position my view against at least two popular accounts in moral philosophy\, including one popular theory of coercion. \nAbout the Ethics and Political Philosophy Group\nThe Ethics and Political Philosophy Group meets periodically throughout the year to discuss topics in value theory and related fields\, including meta-ethics\, normative ethics\, applied ethics\, social and political philosophy\, philosophy of law\, moral psychology\, practical reason\, agency\, and identity.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/ethics-and-political-philosophy-hallie-liberto-maryland/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Paul Boghossian\, NYU)
DESCRIPTION:This year\, we welcome as the 2025 UNESCO World Philosophy Day Lecture speaker Paul Boghossian\, the Silver Professor of Philosophy at NYU.  Dr. Boghossian also serves as the director of the New York Institute of Philosophy and the director of NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are primarily in epistemology\, the philosophy of mind\, and the philosophy of language.  Dr. Boghossian has written on a variety of topics\, including color\, rule-following\, eliminativism\, naturalism\, self-knowledge\, a priori knowledge\, analytic truth\, realism\, relativism\, the aesthetics of music\, and the concept of genocide. \nTalk Title\nShould We Be Moral Relativists? \nZoom Link\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://utoronto.zoom.us/j/89003127683 \nMeeting ID: 890 0312 7683\nPasscode: 490827 \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/unesco-world-philosophy-day-paul-boghossian-nyu/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251120T170000
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SUMMARY:Martin Buber & the Bible: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an all-day international workshop titled “Martin Buber & the Bible: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives\,” organized by Michael Rosenthal and co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy\, the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies\, and the Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy. \nSchedule\n9:30-9:45 Greetings   \nMichael Rosenthal  \n9:45-10:45 Session 1  \nChair:   Sol Goldberg (University of Toronto)  \nSpeaker:   Leora Batnizky (Princeton University)  \nTitle:  “Buber and Winnicott: Rethinking Buber’s Biblical Theology through the Lens of ‘the Good Enough Mother’”  \n10:45-11:00 Break   \n11:00-12:00 Session 2  \nChair:   Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto)  \nSpeaker: Ilana Pardes (Hebrew University and University of Toronto)  \nTitle: “The David Story and Buber’s ‘Biblical Leadership’”  \n12-1:30 Lunch (kosher\, all attendees and participants invited)  \n1:30-2:30 Session 3  \nChair:  Willi Goetschel (University of Toronto)  \nSpeaker:   Michael Rosenthal (University of Toronto)  \nTitle: “The Idea of Faith and the Problem of Conscience in Buber’s Kingship of God and The Prophetic Faith“  \n2:30-2:45 Break   \n2:45-3:45 Session 4  \nChair: Oren Yirmiya (University of Toronto)  \nSpeaker: Vivian Liska (University of Antwerp and Hebrew University of Jerusalem)  \nTitle: “Woman as World in Buber’s Dialogic and Biblical Writings“ \n3:45-4:00 Break   \n4:00-5:00 Session 5 \nChair: Karen Weisman (University of Toronto)   \nSpeaker: Ynon Wygoda (Hebrew University)  \nTitle: “Buber’s Deuteronomy: Translating the Entrance into the Land”  \n7:00 Conference Dinner (by invitation only) 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/martin-buber-the-bible-literary-and-philosophical-perspectives/
LOCATION:Goldring Student Centre\, Regents Room (206)\, 150 Charles Street West\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 1K5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251114T180000
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SUMMARY:In Celebration of Lloyd P. Gerson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon celebrating the scholarship and teaching of Lloyd P. Gerson\, who\, after half a century in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto\, recently retired from teaching. \nProgram\nWelcome—Martin Pickavé (Toronto) \n“Lloyd Gerson’s Contribution to the Study of Ancient Philosophy” \nCarl Séan O’Brien (Irish Dominican House of Studies\, Dublin) \n“The Skopos of Platonic Principles: Essays in Honor of Lloyd Gerson and Giuseppe Blasotta’s Hen Kai Polla” \nSarah Klitenic Wear (Franciscan University\, Steubenville) \n“The Constitution of the Soul and of the Universe in Proclus’ Essay on the Myth of Er” \nJohn Finamore (Iowa) \nConcluding Remarks—Lloyd Gerson (Toronto)
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/in-celebration-of-lloyd-p-gerson/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251114T150000
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SUMMARY:Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (David Suarez\, Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:The Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Research Interest Group is pleased to welcome as a speaker David Suarez\, a part-time assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at U of T. His research is focused on understanding subjectivity and its place in the natural world. His work draws on Kant\, and the history of post-Kantian philosophy\, so as to frame and address problems in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. One of Dr. Suarez’s central aims is to show that understanding the natural conditions that make the world available to us requires us to reconceive nature along the lines explored by phenomenologists. \nTalk Title\nAmphiboly in Sartrean Bad Faith \nTalk Abstract\nI offer a critical response to the recent suggestion by McNulty that Sartre is a dialetheist. My interpretive thesis is that Sartre’s paradoxical formulation in Being and Nothingness that human reality “is what it is not\, and that is not what it is” is a rhetorical flourish that elides the distinction between human reality’s different modes of being. This elision makes it seem that he is talking about being and not being in a univocal sense\, such that attributing being F and not being F to the same entity would result in a contradiction. Sartre’s actual view is that being is not a univocal concept: there are different senses of being\, namely being in-itself and being for-itself. Sartre allows being to be said in at least these two ways\, and explicitly flags the importance of distinguishing between them. The duplicity of bad faith is enabled by improper conceptualization of what are\, in fact\, two distinct modes of being through a single\, univocal concept of being that blends the features of both. Sartre describes this concept as ‘amphibolic’ [amphibolique]\, which suggests (on an analogy with Kant’s use of the term ‘amphiboly’)\, that bad faith depends on a confusion in the application of a concept — not on a true contradiction which obtains in reality. \nThe Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Research Group is a a subgroup of the History of Philosophy Research Group\, which focuses on European philosophy in Kant and post-Kantian traditions.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/kant-post-kantian-philosophy-group-dave-suarez-toronto-2/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Stang":MAILTO:nick.stang@utoronto.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251113T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251113T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T152058
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SUMMARY:Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Miguel Ohnesorge\, Boston)
DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Philosophy of Science Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Miguel Ohnesorge\, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston University. Dr. Ohnesorge is a philosopher of science and a historian of science and philosophy. He is broadly interested in the concepts and methods that structure scientific inquiry (e.g.\, measurement\, quantity\, evidence)\, and much of his work uses history to study these concerns. He research also attends to the logic\, purpose\, and evidential support of quantitative measures\, especially when we apply them to very complex and socially consequential phenomena like earthquakes or human verbal ability. \nTalk Title\nQuantitative Science without Experiments \nTalk Abstract\nThere are longstanding debates about which sciences can quantify the attributes they study. While these debates are especially prominent in the human sciences – psychology\, medicine\, economics\, etc –\, they draw heavily from the history and practice of quantitative physics. If we understand the conditions under which we first quantified attributes like temperature or acceleration\, the basic intuition goes\, we can judge whether we will be able to achieve quantitative measurement elsewhere.\nWe identify a basic problem within these debates: All prominent exemplars of physical quantification are drawn from experimental physics. As a result\, researchers in measurement theory\, psychology\, and philosophy\, have (i) misidentified experimental control as a necessary condition for quantification and (ii) overlooked central methodological lessons on how quantification without experiment might succeed.\n\nTo remedy this situation\, we present novel historical research on how twentieth-century seismologists quantified “earthquake size” without being able to experimentally control earthquakes. The study serves to (i) refute the idea that experimental control is a necessary condition for quantification and (ii) provide a positive model on how quantitative measurement might be achieved without high degrees of experimental control. We then apply that model to cutting-edge measurements in psychology to illustrate its payoffs in understanding the potential and persistent problems of quantification in the human sciences.\nAbout the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group hosts talks on logic\, general philosophy of science\, and philosophy of the particular sciences\, as well as talks in allied areas such as formal epistemology\, decision theory\, and the metaphysics of science.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/logic-science-miguel-ohnesorge-boston/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251107T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251107T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T152058
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SUMMARY:Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (William Ross\, Groupement de Recherche en Théorie Critique\, Reims)
DESCRIPTION:The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker William Ross\, who forms part of the Groupement de Recherche en Théorie Critique at the University of Reims. He is the president of the Association for Adorno Studies\, and he works across topics in epistemology and critical theory. Dr. Ross is particularly interested in the concept of Darstellung in German philosophy from Kant to Adorno. He also works on the reconstruction of the Frankfurt School’s social theory. \nTalk Title\nThe Concept of Fantasy in Benjamin and Adorno \nTalk Abstract\nFor Critical Theory\, fantasy is neither an escape from reality nor an act of creation ex nihilo\, but the very site where totality can be conjured. In Adorno’s work\, Phantasie marks this fault line—running from his early reflections in “The Actuality of Philosophy” to later works such as Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory. This talk traces the concept’s trajectory from Kant’s “lawless imagination” through Benjamin’s allegorical melancholy to Adorno’s notion of “exact fantasy.” Against readings that treat fantasy as a merely epistemic gesture or conflate it with imagination\, I argue that it designates a distinctive form of experience—one that interrupts the subject’s self-posited unity and transforms the very form of subjectivity. Finally\, fantasy will be situated within the constellation of Adorno’s materialism\, alongside the priority of the object and the concept of obstinacy. \nAbout the Continental Philosophy Group\nOne of six departmental research interest groups\, the Continental Philosophy Group works in the traditions of textual interpretation of human consciousness\, phenomenology\, and post-structuralist critical theory\, among other related traditions of thought.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/continental-philosophy-research-group-talk-william-ross-reims/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251107T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251107T150000
DTSTAMP:20260419T152058
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SUMMARY:Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Melissa Fusco\, Columbia)
DESCRIPTION:The Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind Research Group welcomes as guest speaker Melissa Fusco\, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and the director of graduate admissions there. Dr. Fusco works in philosophy of language—especially formal semantics—decision theory\, and philosophical logic. She also has interests in metaethics and metaphysics. Current projects include natural language theories of modality and the semantics of disjunctive questions. \nTalk Title\nImaging and the Diachronic Dutch Book \nTalk Abstract\nCausal decision theorists update by conditionalization on their own acts\, just like evidential decision theorists and rational pure observers do. But should they? Imaging (Lewis\, 1976; Gardenfors\, 1982) can be treated as a counterfactual-inspired recipe for belief revision. In a decision-theoretic context\, a longstanding\, though not popular\, gloss on imaging involves norms of update: conditioning is the correct response to learning that A is the case\, while imaging is the correct response to making A the case.  Here\, I aim to counter a major obstacle to the viability of that position: the diachronic Dutch Book (Teller\, 1973). \nAbout the Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics and Mind Research Group\nOne of six departmental research interest groups\, the Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics and Mind Group undertakes research in philosophy of mind\, philosophy of cognitive science\, traditional and formal epistemology\, metaphysics\, and philosophy of language.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/lemm-interest-group-talk-melissa-fusco-columbia/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251106T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251106T170000
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SUMMARY:History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Tarek Dika\, Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:The History of Modern Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Tarek Dika\, an associate professor in the department who specializes in phenomenology\, especially Heidegger and contemporary French phenomenology. He also has research interests in early modern philosophy and science\, especially Descartes. He has recently completed a book on Descartes’ method\, and he is currently writing a book on Heidegger and the possibility of ontology. \nTalk Title\nTheory of Distinctions and Ontology in Descartes: Some Problems \nTalk Abstract\n\nTBD \n\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the History of Philosophy Group explores topics in ancient and/or medieval philosophy\, the period from Descartes to Kant\, and Jewish philosophy from the medieval period to the 20th century.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/history-philosophy-group-talk-tarek-dika-toronto/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251024
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251026
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SUMMARY:2025 Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 24th Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference\, with keynote speakers Nancy Cartwright (Durham) and J. David Velleman (Johns Hopkins). \nSchedule\nFriday\, October 24\, 2025\n\n\n\nTime\nSession Information\n\n\n9:30-10:00\nBreakfast (JHB 418)\n\n\n10:00-12:10\nSession 1 (JHB 418) \nChair: Nick Halme\, University of Toronto\n\n\n10:00-11:00\nThe Preface Paradox Is a Modeling Artifact \nEthan Lai\, University of St Andrews \nCommentator: Cameron Yetman\, University of Toronto\n\n\n11:00-11:10\nBREAK\n\n\n11:10-12:10\nSemantics for Explanation \nJulian Lee-Sursin\, École Normale Supérieure/Johns Hopkins University \n  \nCommentator: James Risk\, University of Toronto\n\n\n12:10-1:30\nLUNCH\n\n\n1:30-3:40\nSession 2 (JHB 418) \nChair: Yvette-Yuefan Wu\, University of Toronto\n\n\n1:30-2:30\nSparse First-orderism and Russell’s Paradox \nMinseok Kim\, Syracuse University \nCommentator: Gerald Teng\, University of Toronto\n\n\n2:30-2:40\nBREAK\n\n\n2:40-3:40\nEssence\, Supervenience\, and Non-Naturalism (Zoom) \nTong Pan\, Syracuse University \n  \nCommentator: Eric Fishback\, University of Toronto\n\n\n3:40-4:00\nBREAK\n\n\n4:00-6:00\nKEYNOTE 1 – (JHB 100)\n\n\n\n  \nCausal Processes and Their Warrant \nNancy Cartwright\, University of California San Diego and Durham University\n\n\n7:30\nDinner for U of T grad students and keynotes (PLANTA\, 180 Queen St W)\n\n\n\nSaturday\, October 25\, 2025\n\n\n\nTime\nSession Information\n\n\n8:30-9:00\nBreakfast (JHB 100)\n\n\n9:00-12:20\nSession 1 (JHB 100) \nChair: Jules Sheldon\, University of Toronto\n\n\n9:00-10:00\nThe Requirement to Use Outside Utility \nBailey Ingham\, Texas Tech University \nCommentator: Elizabeth Lynes-Fisher\, University of Toronto\n\n\n10-10:10\nBREAK\n\n\n10:10-11:10\nLosing Standing to Blame Because of Virtual Hypocrisy \nAlexander Carty\, McGill University \nCommentator: Nirali Patel\, University of Toronto\n\n\n11:10-11:20\nBREAK\n\n\n11:20-12:20\nRe-assessing Deepfake Pornography: Depiction and Consent \nAriel Gordy\, University of Southern California \nCommentator: Dakota Champagne\, University of Toronto\n\n\n12:20-1:30\nLUNCH (JHB 100)\n\n\n1:30-3:40\nSession 2 (JHB 100) \nChair: Noa Buckle\, University of Toronto\n\n\n1:30-2:30\nAbsolute Blackness\, Gradable Whiteness \nKate Yuan\, Yale University \nCommentator: Sophie Choy\, University of Toronto\n\n\n2:30-2:40\nBREAK\n\n\n2:40-3:40\nThe Aspirant’s Reasons \nJonah Dunch\, Yenching Academy of Peking University \nCommentator: Shahdah Mahhouk\, University of Toronto\n\n\n3:40-4:00\nBREAK\n\n\n4:00-6:00\nKEYNOTE 2 – (streamed in JHB 100)\n\n\n\nAnimate Intellects (Zoom) \nDavid Velleman\, Johns Hopkins University\n\n\n7:30\nDinner for speakers\, commentators\, and keynotes (Bangkok Garden\, 18 Elm Street)\n\n\n\nKeynote Speakers\n\nNancy Cartwright\, FBA FAcSS\, is a professor of Philosophy at Durham University and Distinguished Professor at the University of California\, San Diego (UCSD). In the first half of her career at Stanford University she specialized in the philosophy of the natural sciences\, especially physics; in the second half\, at the London School of Economics and now Durham and UCSD\, she has focused on the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences\, with special attention to economics. Her current research focuses on objectivity and evidence\, especially for evidence-based policy. \nJ. David Velleman is Miller Research Professor in Philosophy and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Bioethics at NYU. He has worked in the philosophy of action\, moral psychology\, the foundations of ethics\, the history of ethics\, and bioethics. He has also written about narrative\, psychoanalysis\, and the philosophy of perception\, and he has co-authored a book of empirical moral psychology on the career of the Nazi judge Konrad Morgen. Dr. Velleman has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation\, is the co-founder and former co-editor of Philosophers’ Imprint\, the first open-access journal in philosophy\, and a founding co-editor of The Raven\, an online philosophy magazine. \nPlease contact Rachel Cripps\, Michael Lanc\, or Eirini Martsoukaki with any questions about the conference. \n\n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/2025-annual-toronto-graduate-philosophy-conference/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 & Room 418
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:Applying to Grad School Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Are you considering a grad program in Philosophy at U of T? If so\, we invite you to join us for our annual “Applying to Grad School” workshop. The event will take place on Zoom\, with the appropriate link added closer to the date. \nAt the workshop you will hear information about requirements\, application procedures\, and deadlines. Our panel of experts will share advice and be available to answer audience questions. \nPanelists\n\nJessica Gelber\, Director of Graduate Admissions\nMichael Miller\, Director of Undergraduate Studies\nKrista Tao\, PhD student\nVictor Chung\, MA student\n\nPlease RSVP at this link: Grad School Workshop RSVP \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://utoronto.zoom.us/j/82333452366\nMeeting ID: 823 3345 2366\nPasscode: 743718
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/applytogradschool-2025/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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