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Jñānaśrīmitra on Yogic Perception

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

This workshop will focus on a single Sanskrit text: Yoginirṇayaprakaraṇa (“A Monograph on the Investigation of Yogins”) by the 10th-century Buddhist philosopher, Jñānaśrīmitra. For Buddhist philosophers, the insight that paves the way for liberation is an experience that presents things as they truly are: as suffering, as impermanent, and so on. Participants will include Bhikṣu Hejung (Joongang Sangha University), Jed Forman (Simpson College), Elisa Freschi (Toronto), Lawrence McCrea (Cornell), Parimal Patil (Harvard), and Davey Tomlinson (Villanova).

Rediscovering the Philosophy of Ralph Cudworth

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

Join us for a two-day international conference on the philosophy of Ralph Cudworth (1618-1688), an English philosopher and clergyman who defies classification within customary categories of the history of philosophy.

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.

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.

2024 Undergraduate Orientation

Online

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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