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
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.
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.
Amod 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.
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.
Join us for a workshop on early modern philosophy.
Joshua 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.
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.
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.”
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kara Richardson, an associate professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University, works primarily in the history of philosophy. She focuses on medieval Aristotelians, especially Avicenna, Aquinas, and Suarez, as well as on Descartes.
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.
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.
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.
Matthew Delhey and Jelscha Schmid are current postdoctoral fellows with the Department of Philosophy, Matthew on the St. George campus, Jelscha at UTM, working wit Owen Ware.
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.
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.
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.
Sarah Tropper, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in early modern philosophy, medieval philosophy, and metaphysics.
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.
W. Clark Wolf (St. John's College, Annapolis) specializes in Kant and German idealism, the philosophies of language and mind, and the history of metaphysics.
Andrew Y. Lee, an assistant professor of Philosophy in the Graduate Department of Philosophy at St. George and in the Philosophy Department at UTSC, will give a lecture in honour of his winning two Marc Sanders Prizes in 2024, one in Philosophy of Mind, the other in Metaphysic
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.
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."
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, 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.
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.
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
Clinton Tolley is a professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego and works in the areas of the history of modern philosophy, philosophy of culture, and social philosophy.
Lucy Allais (University of the Witwatersrand, Johns Hopkins) specializes in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant as well as forgiveness, punishment, and bioethics.
Join us for a workshop on aging and memory that brings together researchers from empirical and theoretical fields.
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.
The second Toronto Bioethics Workshop focuses on public bioethics, featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katie Engelhart as keynote speaker.
Join us for a three-day conference on Hermann Cohen’s "Ethics of Maimonides" organized by Michael Rosenthal and Ynon Wygoda.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Join us for a two-day workshop on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Iota .
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.
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
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.
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.
Interested in a graduate program in Philosophy at U of T? Have a panel of experts share their advice and insights.
Join us for the the 24th Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Nancy Cartwright (Durham) and David Velleman (Johns Hopkins).
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.
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.
William Ross forms part of the Groupement de Recherche en Théorie Critique at the University of Reims. He is the president of the Association for Adorno Studies and works across topics in epistemology and critical theory.
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.
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.
An afternoon celebrating the research and teaching of recently retired Professor Emeritus Lloyd P. Gerson.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nicolás García Mills, a lecturer in Philosophy at Binghampton University, focuses his research primarily on the history of moral, social and political philosophy in the post-Kantian tradition.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
