Recent Work on Aristotle’s “De anima”: Workshop
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaPlease join us for a two-day workshop considering recent work on Aristotle's De anima.
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CANCELLED—Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Joseph K. Schear, Oxford)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoseph 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.
Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (YUSEMP) (UPDATED)
Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, CanadaThe inaugural YUSEMP seminar, organized by York University's Matthew Leisinger, Zeyad El Nabolsy, and Ian MacLean-Evans, aims to be a small, informal venue for scholars of early modern philosophy at various career stages to share and discuss their work. Featured keynote speakers: Marleen Rozemond (Toronto) and Patricia Sheridan (Guelph).
Inaugural Toronto Bioethics Workshop
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe inaugural Toronto Bioethics Workshop focuses on philosophical bioethics, with a specific emphasis on health, healthcare, and health research, including public health, research ethics, clinical ethics, neuroethics, and reproductive ethics. Keynote speaker is Dominic Wilkinson (Oxford).
2024 CPA Summer Institute Lecture (Meena Krishnamurthy, Queen’s)
Centre for Ethics Larkin Building, Room 200, 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, CanadaJoin us for the public lecture for the 2024 CPA Summer Institute at the University of Toronto, featuring Meena Krishnamurthy, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University.
Kumārila Conference
Maanjiwe nendamowinan, Room 3230, UTM 1535 Outer Circle, Mississauga, ON, CanadaThe 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
Jñānaśrīmitra on Yogic Perception
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 401 170 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThis 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, CanadaJoin 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.
Ibn ‘Arabi and the Shi’i Tradition: Texts, Ideas, Receptions
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoin us for a day-long conference on Islamic Philosophy, co-sponsored by the Shi'a Research Institute.
Mary Shepherd’s Philosophy at 200
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 & Room 418A 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, CanadaThis 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
OnlineNew 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, Canada5:00 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, CanadaJoin 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, CanadaCailin 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, CanadaQiu 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, CanadaJoseph 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.
Kant & Post-Kantian German Philosophy Group Talk (Johannes Steizinger, McMaster)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJohannes Steizinger (McMaster) takes as his primary field of research European philosophy of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Jessica Isserow, Notre Dame)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJessica 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, CanadaRalph 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.
Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Declan Smithies, Ohio State)
Jackman Humanities Building 318Declan Smithies, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University, works primarily on issues in epistemology and the philosophy of mind.