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  • Detail of the title leaf of Mary Shepherd's "Essays on the Perception of an External Universe and Other Subjects Connected with the Doctrine of Causation," published in 1827.

    Mary Shepherd’s Philosophy at 200

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 & Room 418

    A two-day workshop on the work of philosopher Mary Shepherd (1777-1847) on its 200th anniversary.

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    Platonist Discourses on Dualism: First Century BC to Third Century AD

    Lillian Massey Building, Room 205 125 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    This two-day, interdisciplinary workshop explore the concept of dualism in Platonist discourses in the Imperial Age, seeking to help create an inclusive overview of the concept for the era by also taking into consideration sources not strictly philosophical.

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    2024 Undergraduate Orientation

    Online

    New undergrads, join us for two hours on Zoom to learn about the department and its people.

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    Knowledge, Empiricism, & the Political: In Debate with Danny Goldstick

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

    5:00 PM Welcome and Refreshments 5:30 PM Speaker: Duncan MacIntosh (Dalhousie) Title: "Interrogating the Goldstick Maneuver: Arguing from Beliefs to Metaphysical Realities" 6:00 PM Reply from Danny Goldstick and discussion 6:20 PM Break 6:30 PM Speaker: David Alexander (Iowa) Title: "Goldstick on A Priori Knowledge" 7:00 PM Reply from Danny ... Read More

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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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    2024 Jerome S. Simon Lectures (Cailin O’Connor, California, Irvine)

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

    Cailin O'Connor, a professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine, works in the philosophy of biology and behavioral sciences, the philosophy of science more generally, and in evolutionary game theory.

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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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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Jessica Isserow, Notre Dame)

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

    Jessica Isserow, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, pursues main research interests in metaethics, normative ethics, and moral psychology.

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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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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Zoë A. Johnson King, Harvard)

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

    Zoë A. Johnson King, an assistant professor at Harvard, works primarily in ethics, metaethics, and epistemology. She primarily concerns herself with moral agency and moral responsibility, with a particular focus on praiseworthiness.

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    2024 Alexander Lecture (Carlotta Pavese, Cornell)

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

    Carlotta Pavese, an associate professor of Philosophy at Cornell's Sage School of Philosophy, has areas of specialization are epistemology, action theory, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. She also works in linguistics, especially formal semantics and syntax.

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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.

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    History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Thierry Côté, Toronto)

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

    Thierry Côté, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in early modern philosophy and aesthetics, with additional interests in the philosophy of music, the philosophy of literature, and contemporary French philosophy.

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    Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Andrew Y. Lee, Toronto)

    Jackman Humanities Building 519

    Andrew Y. Lee, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, is interested in the structure of consciousness. His work examines how structural concepts—such as degrees, dimensions, continuity, discreteness, parts, wholes, isomorphisms, and state-spaces—can be applied to conscious experiences. Some of his work can be described as “mathematical phenomenology.”

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    Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Eric Hutton, University of Toronto)

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

    Eric Hutton is a visiting professor from the University of Utah. His research focuses on Chinese philosophy, Greek philosophy, and ethics. On the Chinese side, he focuses on the pre-Qin period, especially Confucianism. On the Greek side, his work centers around the moral/political views of Plato and Aristotle.

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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Gina Schouten, Harvard)

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    Gina Schouten, a professor at Harvard, primarily studies issues of social and political philosophy and ethics. Her most sustained research projects concern political liberalism and political legitimacy, educational justice, and the gendered division of labor.

  • Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, an Indian man wearing a blue suit, stands at a 3/4 angle towards the viewer. Behind him are shelves of orange and blue books.

    Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster)

    Online

    Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad is a Distinguished Professor of comparative religion and philosophy at Lancaster University and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research interests include Indian philosophy, comparative philosophy of epistemology, metaphysics, and phenomenology, and classical Indian religions.

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    Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk and Workshop (Karin Nisenbaum, Syracuse)

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

    Karin Nisenbaum is an assistant professor of philosophy and the Renée Crown Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University. She specializes in Kant, German Idealism, and 19th & 20th-century Jewish thought.

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    Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Dylan Shaul, California, Riverside)

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

    Dylan Shaul, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, works primarily in 18th- and 19th-century philosophy (especially German Idealism) and Jewish philosophy.

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    Symposium on La Reine-garçon

    Innis Town Hall 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    The Canadian Opera Company (COC) will be mounting the Canadian composer Julien Bilodeau’s new opera, La Reine-Garçon, with a libretto by Michel Marc Bouchard. This one-day symposium will explore how La Reine-Garçon is grounded in Cartesian philosophy and contemporary theories of gender and performance.

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    Colloquium (Jocelyn Benoist, Sorbonne)

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

    Jocelyn Benoist, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, is the author of, most recently, Toward a Contextual Realism (Harvard University Press, 2021). He is also a recipient of the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize. He works in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.

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    Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (James Bahoh, Memphis)

    Jackman Humanities Building 519

    James Bahoh, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, focuses his research on phenomenology, post-phenomenological Continental philosophy, and ontology/metaphysics in the context of German and French thought from Kant to today.

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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Rahul Kumar, Queen’s University)

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

    Rahul Kumar, a professor and department head at Queen's University, primarily studies non-consequentialist ethical theory, with particular focus on the strengths and pitfalls of Scanlon’s contractualism.

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    Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Will Davies, Oxford)

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

    Will Davies, an assistant professor and Gabriele Taylor Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, Oxford, is interested in the philosophy of mind - including philosophy of psychology and psychiatry - and related areas of epistemology and metaphysics.

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    CANCELLED–Colloquium (C. Thi Nguyen, Utah)

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

    C. Thi Nguyen, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, writes about trust, art, games, and communities, interested in the ways our social structures and technologies shape how we think and what we value.

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    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.

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    2025 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference

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

    Let ideas take flight: Join us for the annual conference showcasing the best undergraduate research in Philosophy of 2025, as well as keynote speaker TBD from TBD.

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    History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Sarah Tropper, Toronto)

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

    Sarah Tropper, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in early modern philosophy, medieval philosophy, and metaphysics.

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    Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Stefan Linquist, Guelph)

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

    Stefan Linquist, an associate professor at the University of Guelph, is a philosopher of biology with research interests in ecology, genomics, and evolution. His current work examines theoretical issues in genomics and ecology. 

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    Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Alejandro Pérez Carballo, UMass Amherst)

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

    Alejandro Pérez Carballo, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, is interested in questions in the philosophy of mind and language, especially as they relate to issues in the philosophy of mathematics and metaethics, as well as in some questions in metaphysics and formal epistemology.

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    The 16th Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP)

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 & Room 418

    Join us for the 2025 edition of the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP). This year the workshop will focus on Aristotle's "Parva Naturalia."

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    History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Stephen Peprah, Toronto)

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

    Stephen Peprah, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, works in ancient and early modern philosophy. One of his two main current research projects focuses on the philosophical works of Anton Wilhelm Amo, an eighteenth-century Ghanaian-German slave-turned-academic.

  • Neil Sinhababu, a middle-aged South Asian man with short gray hair and glasses, standing at a podium engaged in speaking while wearing a blue button-down shirt.

    Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (Neil Sinhababu, Singapore)

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

    Neil Sinhababu, an associate professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, works in ethics, Nietzsche, political philosophy, metaphysics, as well as philosophy of mind and action.

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    Other Epistemic Achievements – Global Perspectives

    This conference, organized by Pirachula Chulanon & Reza Hadisi and hosted jointly by the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University, will bring together scholars from different traditions to explore alternate pathways for theorizing epistemic achievements and virtues.

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    Second Kumārila Conference

    Jackman Humanities Building 100 & 401 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

    The conference, organized by Elisa Freschi and Nilanjan Das and held at the Department of Philosophy at the UTM campus, will bring together experts who will lead two-hour reading sessions on key passages of Kumārila’s texts and provide participants with the necessary tools to understand the hidden gems of Kumārila’s philosophy

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    Sanskrit Reading and Translation Workshop: Vācaspati Miśra on Yogic Perception

    MN 3230, University of Toronto Mississauga

    The aim of this international workshop, organized by Elisa Freschi and Nilanjan Das and held at the Department of Philosophy at the UTM campus, will be to read and translate a critique of an influential Buddhist theory of yogic perception offered by the Sanskrit philosopher and polymath Vācaspati Miśra.

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    Second Toronto Bioethics Workshop

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

    The second Toronto Bioethics Workshop focuses on public bioethics, featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katie Engelhart as keynote speaker.

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    Hermann Cohen’s “Ethics of Maimonides”

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

    Join us for a three-day conference on Hermann Cohen’s "Ethics of Maimonides" organized by Michael Rosenthal and Ynon Wygoda.

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    2025 Undergraduate Orientation

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

    The department invites all undergraduates to come to an orientation session in which students will be introduced to the Department of Philosophy and some of its people.

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    History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Paul Rateau, Sorbonne)

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

    Paul Rateau, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, works in the history of philosophy, with a focus on the work of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

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    Colloquium (Casey O’Callaghan, Washington in St. Louis)

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

    Casey O'Callaghan, a professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, focuses his research on philosophical questions about perception, in particular, on auditory perception and the nature of its objects, as well as on multisensory perception and consciousness.

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    2025 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 Deborah Black, Reza Hadisi, Peter King, Jon McGinnis, and Martin Pickavé.

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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Gustaf Arrhenius, Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm)

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

    Gustaf Arrhenius is the director of the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm and a professor of practical philosophy. His research interests focus primarily on moral and political philosophy, with a special interest in issues at the intersection between moral and political philosophy and the medical and social sciences.

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    Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Patrick Girard, Auckland)

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

    Patrick Girard, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, works in philosophy of logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of mathematics.

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    Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk and Workshop (Robert Pippin, Chicago)

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

    Robert Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books and articles on German idealism and later German philosophy.

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    Workshop on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Iota

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

    Join us for a two-day workshop on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Iota .

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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Andrew Sepielli, Toronto)

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

    Andrew Sepielli is professor and associate chair at the UTM Department of Philosophy. He has published on ethics, metaethics, pragmatism, and the philosophy of law.

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    Ideas of Women in Philosophy

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

    A one-day event celebrating the ideas of women in philosophy as presented by women from our very own department. Speakers are Cheryl Misak, Amy Mullin, Marleen Rozemond, and Simona Vucu

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    Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Annina Loets, Wisconsin-Madison)

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

    Annina Loets is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests lie in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language, and currently, she is working on a larger research project on agentive possibilities such as abilities, opportunities, and options.

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    Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Hannah Kim, Arizona)

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

    Hannah Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and a faculty affiliate with the Center for East Asian Studies at Arizona. She works on aesthetics, metaphysics, and Asian philosophy, and has recently been bringing together literary theory and close reading with analytic philosophy to study fiction across cultures and media.

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    Applying to Grad School Workshop

    Online

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

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    2025 Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 & Room 418

    Join us for the the 24th Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Nancy Cartwright (Durham) and David Velleman (Johns Hopkins).

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    History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Tarek Dika, Toronto)

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

    Tarek Dika is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at U of T who specializes in phenomenology, especially Heidegger and contemporary French phenomenology. He also has research interests in early modern philosophy and science, especially Descartes.

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    Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Melissa Fusco, Columbia)

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

    Melissa Fusco is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and the director of graduate admissions there. She 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.

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    Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Miguel Ohnesorge, Boston)

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

    Miguel Ohnesorge is 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.

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    Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (David Suarez, Toronto)

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

    David Suarez is a part-time assistant professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of Philosophy at U of T whose research focuses on understanding subjectivity and its place in the natural world.

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    In Celebration of Lloyd P. Gerson

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

    An afternoon celebrating the research and teaching of recently retired Professor Emeritus Lloyd P. Gerson.

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    Martin Buber & the Bible: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives

    Goldring Student Centre, Regents Room (206) 150 Charles Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    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.

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    UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Paul Boghossian, NYU)

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

    Paul Boghossian is the Silver Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham in the UK.  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. 

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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Hallie Liberto, Maryland)

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

    Hallie Liberto is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. Dr. Liberto is a moral philosopher who studies normative power, writing about the power we have to change the moral, legal, and social world through speech acts and other expressions of our will.

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    b2B Philosophy Career Night – Careers in Bioethics

    Online

    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.

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    Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Alberto Toscano, Goldsmiths, London/Simon Fraser)

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

    Alberto Toscano, professor emeritus of Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and currently teaching at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, divides his current research into three main strands: a theoretical and historical inquiry into the politics of authoritarianism and their links to the racial, geopolitical and gendered crises of capital; artistic efforts to represent or ‘map’ racial capitalism, and in the revitalization of a critical theory of political action informed by anti-colonial and anti-racist thought; the translation and reception of Italian literature, literary criticism, and critical theory.

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    Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Marcus Schmücker, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

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

    Marcus Schmücker is a senior researcher at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 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.

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    Colloquium (Barry Maguire, Edinburgh)

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

    Barry Maguire, a professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, is pursuing as his current central research project the development of an ethical theory based on an ideal of caring solidarity.

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    Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (Johannes Haag, Potsdam)

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

    Johannes Haag is 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.

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

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

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

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    Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Sorin Bangu, Bergen)

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

    Sorin Bangu is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen in Norway who works in philosophy of science (especially philosophy of mathematics and physics), with further interests in Wittgenstein and Quine.

  • Philosophy Undergraduate Research Conference

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

    Friday March 13, 2026, 9:00 am - 5:15 pm, JHB 418 It’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. This year’s keynote speaker is ... Read More

  • Philosophy of Mind Talk (Lok-Chi Chan, National Taiwan University)

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 401 170 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    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 ... Read More

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    Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Karen Ng, Vanderbilt)

    Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 5240 371 Bloor Street West, Toronto M5S 1V6, ON, Canada

    Karen Ng is an associate professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University who specializes in nineteenth-century European philosophy (esp. Hegel and German Idealism) and Frankfurt School Critical Theory.

  • Workshop on Medhātithi: Medhātithi across Sanskrit jurisprudence and philosophy of action (keynote: Alessandro Giudice, Ludwig Maximilian University)

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

    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 ... Read More

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    Colloquium (Mitzi Lee, Colorado, Boulder)

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

    Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.

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    Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Sayeh Meisami, Dayton)

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

    Sayeh Meisami is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton who has published several books and articles in the fields of philosophy and religion. In line with her interdisciplinary interests, she also has articles on the significance of poetic techniques of thinking and writing in later Islamic philosophy and sufism, and her ongoing research focuses on the continuity of mythological and philosophical discourses in the Persianate context.

  • Workshop on Rationality and Epistemology

    Jackman Humanities Building 100

    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).   Saturday, April 4 Location: JHB 100   Session I (9:45 – 11:00am): Jennifer Nagel (Toronto) "The Dawn of Human Rationality" Comments: Julia ... Read More

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    Global Philosophy Research Group Talk (Jack Beaulieu, Oxford)

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

    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, works on the history of Sanskrit philosophy, focusing on philosophers belonging to the Nyāya and Prābhākara traditions. Dr. Beaulieu works broadly in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, with his research to date focusing primarily on absence.

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    2026 Roseman Lecture in Practical Ethics (Sally Haslanger, MIT)

    Claude T. Bissell Building, BL 205 140 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Sally Haslanger is 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.

  • Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Isaac Wilhelm)

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

    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. Talk Title Algebraic Quantum Gunk Talk Abstract Theories of the parthood relation generally focus on the non-relativistic, non-quantum realm: on parthood among more ordinary, familiar ... Read More

  • Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Jacob McNulty, Yale)

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

    The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Jacob McNulty, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Talk Title "Hegel and Nietzsche on Masters and Slaves" Talk Abstract Hegel and Nietzsche agree that a primitive social relationship of domination — and its breakdown—was consequential for ... Read More

  • Spinoza on Religion and Politics Conference

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

    Spinoza on Religion and Politics or The Contemporary Relevance of a 17th Century Text: THE THEOLOGICAL-POLITICAL TREATISE   Location: The Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, Larkin 200   Thursday April 23rd Session I (9:45 AM) Julie Klein (Villanova University) "Obedience"   Session II (11:00 AM) Daniel Garber (Princeton University) ... Read More

  • Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (Myriam Stihl, HU-Berlin)

    Jackman Humanities Building 519

    The Kant and Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Myriam Stihl, a doctoral researcher in philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.   Talk Title Temporal Divisibility in Kant's Second Antinomy Talk Abstract TBD   There will be a workshop of a pre-read paper by Myriam Stihl the ... Read More

  • Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy 2026: Ancient Political Thought

    Jackman Humanities Building 100

    Friday April 24 Session I (2:00 – 3:30pm): Jean-Marc Narbonne (Laval) "Protagoras’ Democratic Involvement and his Epistemological Background” Commentator: Mark Johnstone (McMaster) Session II (4:00 – 5:30pm): Cecilia Li (Western) "A Fork in the Road: Politics as the Master Art in Plato’s Gorgias (517c4–518c1)" Commentator: Merrick Anderson (Southern California)   Saturday April ... Read More

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    Global Philosophy Roundtable (Mohammed Rustom, Carleton)

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

    Mohammed Rustom will be joining us for a roundtable on the question: What would make it possible for you to include more global philosophy materials in your classes? Occasioned by the publication of: A Sourcebook in Global Philosophy (2025)

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    History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Amy Schmitter, Alberta)

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

    Amy Schmitter is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta with research interests include the history of early modern philosophy, the philosophy of art, the history of metaphysics and philosophy of mind, the history of theories of emotions, and feminist approaches to the history of philosophy

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    Vasubandhu on Intentional Action: From Mind-Body to Mind-Only (Allison Aitken, Columbia)

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

    The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Allison Aitken, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University. Dr. Aitken’s research centers on non-standard theories of relations and dependence structures in the history of metaphysics, with a particular focus on Sanskrit and ... Read More

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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Interest Group (Nicolas Dunn, Lethbridge)

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

    In this talk, Nicholas Dunn (University of Lethbridge) examines the current debate about expanding MAID eligibility for persons with mental illness as the sole underlying condition (MI-SUMC) through the lens of structural injustice. To this end, he develops the notion of structurally embedded suffering to consider how unjust social structures ... Read More

  • Third Kumārila Conference

    Maanjiwe nendamowinan 1535 Outer Circle Road, Mississauga

    From Monday May 18, 2026 to Friday May 22, 2026, the third Kumārila conference will take place at Maanjiwe Nendamowinan, 1535 Outer Circle, University of Toronto Mississauga. Kumārila is one of the rare thinkers who are truly irreplaceable. Sanskrit philosophy would not have been the same without his contributions to ... Read More

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    Conference on South Asian Philosophy & Religion

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    The inaugural Conference on South Asian Philosophy & Religion will be held on May 25th at UTM (MN2260) and May 26th at St. George (Faculty of Social Work, SK720). The conference brings together graduate students working on South Asia from philosophy and religious studies for interdisciplinary dialogue across methodological boundaries. ... Read More

  • How is Metaphysics Possible? A Critique of Analytic Reason

    Jackman Humanities Building 100

    On May 27–28, the Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Research Group (KPK) will host a 2-day workshop on (parts of) Nick Stang's in-progress book manuscript, How is Metaphysics Possible? A Critique of Analytic Reason. The invited discussants will be: Dai Heide (Simon Fraser), Damian Melamedoff-Vosters (NYU-Shanghai), Kris McDaniel (Notre Dame), and ... Read More

  • Toronto Bioethics Workshop

    Third Annual Toronto Bioethics Workshop

    Jackman Humanities Building 100

    The Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce the third annual Toronto Bioethics Workshop, taking place on Friday, June 12th and Saturday, June 13th at the St. George (downtown) campus of the University of Toronto. The theme of the workshop is philosophical bioethics, with a ... Read More