2024 Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference
Join us for the the 23rd Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Ted Sider (Rutgers) and Samuel Scheffler (NYU).
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History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Anik Waldow, Sydney)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAnik 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.
Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Jacob Beck, York)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJacob 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.
Toronto-London Workshop on Perception
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoin 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
Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Zoë A. Johnson King, Harvard)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaZoë 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.
2024 Alexander Lecture (Carlotta Pavese, Cornell)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaCarlotta 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.
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Amod Sandhya Lele, Northeastern)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAmod Sandhya Lele is the associate director of the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University. They also run the Love of All Wisdom Substack newsletter and co-author the Indian Philosophy Blog.
UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Linda M. Alcoff, CUNY)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaLinda 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.
Québec-Ontario Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 4426 & Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418Join us for a workshop on early modern philosophy.
Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Joshua Schechter, Brown)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoshua Schechter, a professor in and current chair of the Department of Philosophy at Brown University, pursues research in epistemology, metaethics, the philosophy of logic, and in technical issues in logic itself.
History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Thierry Côté, Toronto)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThierry 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.
Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Andrew Y. Lee, Toronto)
Jackman Humanities Building 519Andrew 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.”
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Eric Hutton, University of Toronto)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaEric 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.