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Graduate Workshop with Roy Arnold Sorensen (Texas at Austin)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 1040Roy A. Sorensen is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, a professorial fellow in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and the Jackman Humanities Institute's Distinguished Visiting Fellow for the academic year 2023-24. He has research interests in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language, areas in which he has published widely.
Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Chris Smeenk, Western)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaChris Smeenk, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western University, and the director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, has research interests in the history and philosophy of physics, general issues in the philosophy of science, and seventeenth-century natural philosophy.
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Mohammed Rustom, Carleton)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 519Mohammed Rustom, a professor of Islamic Thought and Global Philosophy at Carleton University and the director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam. focuses his research on Islamic philosophy, Arabic, and Persian Sufi literature, Quranic exegesis, translation theory, and cross-cultural philosophy.
Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (G. Anthony Bruno, Royal Holloway)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaG. Anthony Bruno is an assistant professor at Royal Holloway University of London whose research focuses on metaphysics and epistemology in early modern, Kantian, and post-Kantian philosophy.
Workshop on the Self with Anil Gomes
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAnil Gomes is a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford, and a professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Oxford. He works mainly in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and has a long-standing interest in the work of Iris Murdoch.
History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (David James Barnett, Toronto)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDavid James Barnett, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. He is interested in the epistemic significance of self-consciousness and the boundaries of the self.
Workshop: Maṇḍana on Various Types of Commands
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaIn this weeklong workshop, we will read, translate, and discuss Maṇḍana's Vidhiviveka ("Discernment about Commands"), chapter 15, with a group of international scholars.
CANCELLED–Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Robin Zheng, Glasgow)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRobin Zheng, a lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, has research interests ranging across ethics, moral psychology, feminist, social, and political philosophy. She focuses especially on issues of moral responsibility, structural injustice, and social change, with emphasis on issues of gender, race, and social inequality.
Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Nate Oppel & Stacy Chen, Toronto)
Jackman Humanities Building 100Nate Oppel, a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy, will give a talk on our intentional capacity to revise beliefs, while Stacy Chen, also a U of T graduate student in Philosophy, will address in her lecture reasonableness in medical decision-making.
Public Lecture in Celebration of World Logic Day (Branden Fitelson, Northeastern)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaBranden Fitelson, a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University, shows how to apply the insights of David Lewis to repair Lewis's own triviality argument against the Adams's thesis, leading to a more reasonable rendition of the equation.
b2B Careers in Philosophy
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoin Philosophy alumni in working in various non-academic fields to learn about their career paths and the role of philosophy in following them.
Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Sara Aronowitz, Toronto)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSara Aronowitz, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, studies learning and memory in humans, machines, and idealized thinkers. In this talk she will consider the question of ideal rationality.
Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Mark Schroeder, Southern California)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaMark Schroeder (Southern California) works on areas of philosophy in some way connected to metaethics. He is interested in the ways in which rationality, reasons, value, and other "evaluative’" or "normative" categories are related to the mundane, physical world in which we live, in which things are round, red, or left of one another. For example, are there really facts about what is rational or not, to go along with the facts about what is round or not?
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Hagop Sarkissian, CUNY)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaHagop Sarkissian, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY, as well as a professor at CUNY's Graduate Center, focuses his research on moral psychology, drawing on other relevant disciplines (evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, Chinese philosophy) to inform his work.
The 15th Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP)
Great Hall, Lillian Massey Building 125 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, CanadaJoin us for the 2024 edition of the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP). This year the workshop will focus on early Christian philosophy.
CANCELLED—Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk and Workshop (David Morris, Concordia)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDavid Morris, a professor of Philosophy at Concordia and the graduate director at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture there, has main research interests in phenomenology, especially Merleau-Ponty, with a focus on the philosophy of the body, mind, and nature in relation to current biology and science.