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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Sean M. Smith\, Hawai'i)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Sean M. Smith\, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Dr. Smith earned both a bachelor’s and a doctoral degree at the University of Toronto. His research is focused on the intersection of Indian Buddhist philosophy (with a particular emphasis on the Pāli tradition) and contemporary philosophy of mind\, cognitive science\, and moral psychology. Specifically\, his work addresses the connection between embodied affect\, consciousness\, and attention. In particular\, he is trying to understand how affective biases shape perceptual salience and what kind of normative obligations we might be under in light of that shaping process. Other related interests include pain and suffering\, animal consciousness\, and the nature of the self. His research has been published in the Journal of Indian Philosophy\, Sophia\, Review of Philosophy and Psychology\, and Philosopher’s Imprint. Dr. Smith was the recipient of the 2022 College of Arts\, Languages & Letters Excellence in Teaching Award at UH Mānoa. \nTalk Title\nPain\, Suffering\, and the Time of Life: A Buddhist Philosophical Analysis \nTalk Abstract\nIn this paper\, I explore how our experiences of pain and suffering structure our experience over time. I argue that pain and suffering are not as easily dissociable\, in living and in conceptual analysis\, as philosophers have tended to think (Klein 2015). Specifically\, I do not think that there is only a contingent connection between physical pain and psychological suffering. Rather\, physical pain is partially constitutive of existential suffering. That is\, when one experiences physical pain\, one endures suffering of an existential sort. The argument I will defend in this paper is as follows: \n\nPains are homeodynamic affects.\nHomeodynamic affects have horizonal and not just object intentionality.\nHomeodynamic affects are partially constitutive of existential suffering.\nPains have horizontal intentionality and are partially constitutive of existential suffering.\n\nI begin with some reasons for the claim that pains are homeodynamic affects. I then explore what Indian Buddhist philosophers have to say about the problem of pain and suffering\, focusing on the work of Buddhaghosa\, Vasubandhu\, and the Pāli sutta material. I note the fluid way in which these concepts seem to shade into each other and how this conceptual blending is philosophically informative rather than a case of sloppy thinking (Gomez 2007). I then argue that pain’s intentional structure is informative\, it tells us something about the world\, which supports the second premise of my main argument. I then argue for premise three by claiming that it is very difficult to distinguish between pain and suffering when we understand pain as a homeodynamic feeling and take seriously the larger role that I interpret Buddhist philosophers as affording homeodynamic feeling in making us suffer. I conclude with some thoughts on what it might mean for a Buddhist to achieve the eradication of suffering. This is important because even fully liberated beings still feel physical pain. So\, Buddhist views on the possibility of physical pain without suffering in the case of a fully liberated person constituted a prima facie objection to the view I will defend. I address this concern at the end of the paper. \n  \nThe Global Philosophy Research Interest Group explores the benefits of drawing on diverse traditions of thought in approaching philosophical questions. These include novel insights into familiar problems\, new questions and research directions\, and fresh methodologies. We work to deprovincialize and decolonize all aspects of philosophy in the academy. The group currently has strengths in Sanskrit philosophy\, and Chinese philosophy\, Indian philosophy in English\, and classical Islamic philosophy.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global-philosophy-research-interest-group-talk-sean-m-smith-hawaii/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Conference in Honour of Tom Hurka
DESCRIPTION:This conference will celebrate the work and life of our cherished colleague Tom Hurka\, who is retiring this year. It will take place in person in the Jackman Humanities Building at the University of Toronto\, as well as being live-streamed. To register for the Zoom link\, please contact the assistant to the chair at phl.chairassistant@utoronto.ca. \n  \nSchedule\nFriday\, September 8\n3:10 PM \nWelcome (Martin Pickavé) \n3:15-4:30 PM  \nGwen Bradford (Rice)\, “Why You Should Be Miserable” \nChair: Sergio Tenenbaum (Toronto) \n4:45-6:00 PM  \nShelly Kagan (Yale)\, “Hurka on Comparative Desert:  Wrong\, Wrong\, Wrong (and Wrong)!” \nChair: Brendan de Kenessey (Toronto) \nSaturday\, September 9\n9:30-10:45 AM \nWayne Sumner (Toronto)\, “Goods: Personal and Otherwise” \nChair: Rachel Barney (Toronto) \n11:00 AM-12:15 PM  \nRob Shaver (Manitoba): “C.D. Broad on Common Sense Morality” \nChair: Andrew Franklin-Hall (Toronto) \n BREAK \n2:00-3:15 PM  \nJohann Frick (Berkeley): “The Value of Life\, the Value of Virtue” \nChair: Hasko von Kriegstein (Toronto Metropolitan) \n3:30-4:45 PM  \nJeff McMahan (Oxford): “Revising Hurka’s Variable Value View” \nChair: Eric Mathison (Toronto) \n5:00-6:00 PM  \nTom Hurka (Toronto)
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/conference-in-honour-of-tom-hurka/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building 100
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Brian Bitar\, Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:The History of Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome as speaker Brian Bitar\, a part-time assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Brian Bitar’s research concentrates on moral and political philosophy with consideration of their metaphysical basis\, specializing in early modern. He is currently working on a book\, Hobbes’s Psychology and the Origins of the Modern Concept of Power\, a critical study of Hobbes’s development of the idea of power as a psychological principle. \n  \nTalk Title\nHobbes’s Transformation of the Conscience \nTalk Abstract\nHobbes\, I argue\, authors a transformational critique and reconception of the conscience. His opening definition of conscience as mere opinion\, taken within his whole naturalistic psychology of selfish passions\, undermines the foundations and content of conscience as previously understood. Yet Hobbes reconceives the conscience according to his own philosophic principles. The distinctness of this account\, what may be called the Hobbesian conscience\, tends to be underappreciated. Hobbes radically modifies specific elements of the conscience from its prior (broadly Augustinian\, Scholastic\, and Protestant) forms. Hobbes’s reconceived natural conscience\, far from peripheral or merely rhetorical\, comes to light as necessary to natural right and law as interior witness-judge. Hobbes’s theorised rational conscience attempts to unify the psyche by overcoming divisions between demands of Christian conscience and justified natural desire\, between conscience and political authority.  \nI reconstruct Hobbes’s argument on conscience in negative-critical and positive-constructive phases. Hobbes cuts away false or exaggerated (mainly Christian) ideas of conscience to reground its genuine hard core. I elucidate the moral psychology of Hobbesian natural private conscience in its strictly natural and civil-political modes. I argue that even in the state of nature-war\, Hobbes affirms the conscience by extreme emphasis on inner intention reinterpreted as desire\, principally in the morally reduced form of desire for self-preservation through peace. He closely identifies conscience with reason in a reduced reconfiguration of (especially Scholastic) rationality of conscience. I evaluate the coherence and plausibility of Hobbes’s account by focusing on cases of cruelty and pride. The Hobbesian conscience is shown to open up tensions or divisions between moral intention and act; subjective judgement of conscience and objective basis in natural right and law; rationality of conscience and its epistemic basis in passions. Hobbes’s political resolution of the problem of conscience compels his further division between private conscience and public or what could be called representative conscience\, which shares or replaces its authority—if by a continually self-effacing dictate of private conscience. I explore in what sense public conscience remains conscience\, and what kind of dual conscience or consciousness is left to the Hobbesian self.   \nAbout the History of Philosophy Group\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the History of Philosophy Group is home to the History of Modern Philosophy Research Group\, which focuses on the period\, roughly\, from Descartes to Kant.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/history-of-modern-philosophy-brian-bitar-toronto-2/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:Colloquium (Jenann Ismael\, Johns Hopkins)
DESCRIPTION:As speaker for our first Fall 2023 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome Jenann Ismael\, the inaugural William H. Miller III Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Ismael concentrates her research on philosophy of physics\, metaphysics\, philosophy of science\, and the philosophy of mind. Before coming to JHU\, she was professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and an affiliate of the Zuckerman Institute. She has also taught at Stanford University (1996-98) and the University of Arizona (1998-2018). \nThis is an in-person event\, but for those who cannot join us on campus today\, a livestream is available. \nTalk Title\nGödel Meets Laplace \nTalk Abstract\nThere’s an understanding of what determinism entails illustrated by the familiar image that Laplace gave us of a demon that can predict everything that will happen in the universe\, from knowledge of initial conditions. I’ll argue that there are both specific and general reasons that there could never be a Laplacian demon in the world: not for classical mechanics\, not for any theory.   
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-jenann-ismael-johns-hopkins/
LOCATION:Claude T. Bissell Building\, BL 205\, 140 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 3G6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (Pauline Kleingeld\, Groningen)
DESCRIPTION:The Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is delighted to welcome as a speaker Pauline Kleingeld\, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. Her academic interests lie in Kant and Kantian philosophy\, as well as in ethics and political philosophy. She is the author of Kant and Cosmopolitanism: The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship (Cambridge University Press\, 2012) and Fortschritt und Vernunft: Zur Geschichtsphilosophie Kants (Königshausen und Neumann\, 1995). She has also edited three volumes with translations of texts by Immanuel Kant and Gottfried Achenwall and in 2020 received the Spinoza Prize. \nTalk Title\nThe Argument of Kant’s Groundwork \nTalk Abstract\nThe structure of Kant’s overall argument in the Groundwork leaves many readers puzzled\, and the book’s third section is seen as downright obscure. There is even deep disagreement as to which metaethical position he is defending in the book. In this paper I argue that one crucial resource for understanding the Groundwork has thus far been overlooked: Kant’s Prolegomena. I propose a new account of the Groundwork’s overall argument by drawing on Kant’s discussion of method and highlighting the striking similarities between the argument structure of the Groundwork and the Prolegomena. I show that Kant develops a three-step argument that is helpfully understood as a form of reverse engineering of common morality. \n  \nThe Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is a a subgroup of the History of Philosophy Research Group\, which focuses on European philosophy in Kant and post-Kantian traditions.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/post-kantian-talk-and-workshop-pauline-kleingeld-groningen/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:2023 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 2023 edition of the Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy. \n  \nSCHEDULE\n  \nFRIDAY\, SEPTEMBER 22\nSession I (4:30 – 6:30) \nChair: Jennifer Hart Weed (University of New Brunswick) \nPasquale Porro (University of Turin): “How Does God’s Knowledge Differ from Tiresias’ Oracles? Revisiting Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy\, Book V” \nCommentator: Martin Pickavé (University of Toronto) \n  \nSATURDAY\, SEPTEMBER 23\nSession II (10:00 – 12:00) \nChair: Thérèse-Anne Druart (Catholic University of America) \nMeryem Sebti (CNRS\, Paris): “Imagination and Individuality of the Soul in Avicenna’s Philosophy” \nCommentator: Seyed Mousavian (Loyola University Chicago) \n  \nSession III (2:00 – 4:00) \nChair: Simona Vucu (University of Toronto) \nRui Xu (University of Toronto): “Henry of Ghent on Creation” \nDominic LaMantia (Notre Dame): “Identity and Real Distinction According to Duns Scotus” \nNick Westberg (Boston College): “Reexamining Suárez’s Theory of Logical Possibility” \n  \nSession IV (4:15 – 6:15) \nChair: Peter Eardley (University of Guelph) \nJean-Luc Solère (Boston College): “On the Constant Attention of the Soul: In Defense of Olivi” \nCommentator: Giorgio Pini (Fordham University) \n  \nAll sessions are free and open to the public and will be held in Room 100 of the Jackman Humanities Building (170 St. George Street). \nThe colloquium is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy\, the Collaborative Specialization in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy\, the Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations\, and the Centre for Medieval Studies. \nOrganizers: Deborah Black\, Peter King\, Martin Pickavé \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/toronto-colloquium-medieval-philosophy-2023-2/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (John Campbell\, Berkeley)
DESCRIPTION:The Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind Research Group welcomes as guest speaker John Campbell\, the Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California\, Berkeley. His main research interests lie in the theory of meaning\, metaphysics\, and the philosophy of psychology. He is currently working on the question of whether consciousness\, and in particular sensory awareness\, plays any key role in our knowledge of our surroundings. He is also working more generally on causation in psychology. He is the author of Past\, Space\, and Self (MIT Press\, 1994) and Reference and Consciousness (Oxford University Press\, 2002). Dr. Campbell was a Guggenheim Fellow\, a Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University\, a British Academy Research Reader\, and between 2003 and 2006 served as the president of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. In 2023\, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. \n  \nTalk Title\nSingular Causation and Free Will \nTalk Abstract\nTBD \nAbout the Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics and Mind Research Group\nOne of six departmental research interest groups\, the Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics and Mind Group undertakes research in philosophy of mind\, philosophy of cognitive science\, traditional and formal epistemology\, metaphysics\, and philosophy of language.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/lemm-interest-group-talk-john-campbell-berkeley/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk and Workshop (Lawrence Pasternack\, Oklahoma State)
DESCRIPTION:The Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is delighted to welcome as a speaker Lawrence Pasternack\, a professor of Philosophy at the Oklahoma State University. Most of his work focuses on Kant\, with publications across his ethical theory\, epistemology\, and philosophy of religion. Dr. Pasternack’s first book\, Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: An Interpretation and Defense\, was published by Routledge in 2014. \nTalk Title\nKant’s Doctrine of the Highest Good: An Interpretation and Defense \nTalk Abstract\nThis book (currently in rough-draft form) develops an interpretation of Kant’s doctrine of the Highest Good which closely follows the actual texts where it is discussed.  As such\, a key hermeneutical principle for the book is that Kant means what he says/says what he means with respect to the Highest Good\, and that we can come to an understanding of it that\, contrary to the prevailing views\, does not have to navigate through alleged textual “flip-flops” or major lacunae. \nMoreover\, it is argued that Kant’s conception of the Highest Good does not significantly change during the Critical period.  For example\, he never abandons the postulate of immortality nor repurposes it in favor of a later “this-worldly” interpretation.  It is thus argued that the “this-worldly” interpretation of the Highest Good is a consequence of certain misreadings from the 1980s which subsequently came to dominate the secondary literature.   Likewise\, it is argued that the Highest Good is not a pre-Critical atavism that Kant should have given up\, nor is it otherwise superfluous to his mature thought. \nWith respect to the function of the Highest Good\, it is argued that while the Groundwork and the second Critique’s Analytic provide an “episodic” account of moral willing (for any instance\, we can set aside our inclination and act from duty)\, there is also a need for a principled and prospective solution to the ongoing conflict between morality and happiness.  This\, in short\, is the role Kant assigns to the Highest Good.  It is the “unconditioned totality of the object of pure practical reason\,” (5:108) meaning that it brings together the heterogeneous practical principles of morality and happiness\, which\, if left discordant\, leaves the moral agent in jeopardy of the sort expressed most vividly by Kant in the third Critique’s example of the Righteous Atheist. \nAccordingly\, this book argues that Kant’s treatment of the Highest Good in all three Critiques\, in the Religion\, and elsewhere\, all speak to the same need: to foster a moral “resolve” (A813/B841)\, an “immutable resolution” (5:123) so as to endure in life what otherwise may “weaken the respect by which the moral law immediately influences” or do “damage to the moral disposition” (5:452). \nThis is a read-ahead event. Please email Dave Suarez to register and receive the required readings. \nThe Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is a a subgroup of the History of Philosophy Research Group\, which focuses on European philosophy in Kant and post-Kantian traditions.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/post-kantian-talk-and-workshop-lawrence-pasternack-oklahoma-state/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:2023 Jerome S. Simon Lectures (Rainer Forst\, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce Rainer Forst as our esteemed speaker for the 2023 Jerome S. Simon Lectures. His three individual lectures will be grouped under the general title “The Nature of Normative Concepts: Dependence vs. Independence.” \nRainer Forst is a professor of Political Theory and Philosophy and the director of the Research Center Normative Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt. His research focuses on questions of justice\, democracy\, and toleration\, as well as critical theory and practical reason. In 2012 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation\, the highest award for a German scholar. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. \nHe held numerous visiting professorships and fellowships in the United States\, for example\, at the New School for Social Research\, Dartmouth College\, Rice University\, the University of Michigan and NYU. In 2021\, he was a Fellow at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles. He is also Visiting Research Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. \nImportant publications: Contexts of Justice (1994\, engl. U of California P\, 2002)\, Toleration in Conflict (2003\, engl. Cambridge UP\, 2013)\, The Right to Justification (2007\, engl. Columbia UP\, 2012)\, Justification and Critique (2011\, engl. Polity\, 2013)\, Normativity and Power (2015\, engl. Oxford UP 2017)\, Die noumenale Republik (2021\, engl. forthcoming with Polity). \nHis work has received great international attention; for example\, in recent years\, five collections of critical essays on his work in English (Arthur Ripstein and Melissa Williams among the authors) with replies by him have been published. \nLectures\nThe Nature of Normative Concepts: Dependence vs. Independence\nGeneral Abstract\nIn these lectures\, I discuss an important distinction concerning the analysis of normative concepts. Some of these are normatively dependent\, that is\, they require other normative sources in order to gain normative value and substance. Solidarity and trust (but also toleration) are examples. Justice\, on the other hand\, is normatively independent\, as its core concept entails a normative content that guides the possible conceptions of justice\, which is not the case with solidarity or trust. Their core concept is of a descriptive nature. \nLecture 1—Solidarity: Concept and Conceptions\n(Tuesday\, October 3\, 3:00 – 5:00 PM\, Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100\, 170 St. George Street) \nAbstract\nThis lecture distinguishes between a general concept and several\, context-specific normative conceptions of solidarity. The general concept refers to a particular practical attitude and involves a form of “standing by” others based on a particular normative bond constituted by a common cause or a shared identity. Since solidarity is a normatively dependent concept\, the nature of such bonds\, causes or identities is not determined by the concept. Furthermore\, solidarity itself\, without the addition of further normative sources\, is not a value; it can serve worthy or unworthy causes. Also\, on the general conceptual level\, the questions whether solidary acts are of a supererogatory nature or presuppose a particular sort of reciprocity or symmetry are left open. These questions have to be dealt with on the level of particular conceptions of solidarity\, of which the article distinguishes four general ones: ethical\, legal\, political\, or moral. \n  \nLecture 2—Trust in Conflict\n(Wednesday\, October 4\, 3:00 – 5:00 PM\, Victoria College\, Room 215\, 73 Queen’s Park Crescent) \nAbstract\nIn this lecture\, I challenge widespread assumptions in trust research according to which trust and conflict are opposing terms or where trust is generally seen as a value. Rather\, I argue that trust\, as a normatively dependent concept\, is only valuable if properly justified\, and I locate such justifications in contexts of social and political conflict. The lecture proposes to define the general concept of a trust relation as a four-place term\, and it distinguishes the general concept from various conceptions of trust. With regard to the justification of trust\, a distinction between internal and full justification is introduced\, and the justification of trust is linked to the relations of justification between trusters and trusted. It is argued that trust in conflict(s) emerges were relations of a certain quality exist among the parties of a conflict\, often by way of institutional mediation. \n  \nLecture 3—Justice—Procedural and Substantive\n(Thursday\, October 5\, 3:00 – 5:00 PM\, Claude Bissell Building\, Room 205\, 140 St. George Street) \nAbstract\nIn this lecture\, I argue for the normative independence and priority of justice as compared to other values. For a conception of justice must provide higher-order reasons for the kind of\, e.g.\, liberty or equality that it allows members of a normative order to claim and demand of each other. Based on a distinction between two ways of thinking about justice\, relational-structural accounts versus outcome- and recipient-oriented approaches (such as luck egalitarianism)\, a conception of justice as justification is developed and located in the first paradigm. That conception considers the first question of justice to be what power individuals and groups have to co-determine the basic structure of their society. Developing the substantive and procedural aspects of this view requires an account of a basic structure of justification that secures the status of non-dominated legal\, political and social equals who ought to be the authorities within that order. \n\nAbout the Simon Lectures\nOne of the department’s several endowed lecture series\, the Jerome S. Simon Lectures are a biennial series of colloquia given by a philosopher of international distinction. After a brief hiatus\, we are thrilled to reinvigorate the series in 2021. Past Simon lecturers have included David Velleman (Michigan)\, David Wiggins (Oxford University)\, Anil Gupta (Pittsburgh)\, Barbara Herman (UCLA)\, John Campbell (UC-Berkeley)\, Donald Rutherford (UC-San Diego)\, Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck\, London)\, Samuel Scheffler (NYU)\, and Holly M. Smith (Rutgers).
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/2021-jerome-s-simon-lectures-rainer-forst-goethe-universitat-frankfurt-2/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building 100\, Victoria College 215\, Claude Bissell Building 205
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231006T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231006T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T190134
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SUMMARY:Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (David Suarez\, Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker David Suarez\, a part-time assistant professor in the teaching stream at the University of Toronto. Dr. Suarez’s research is aimed at understanding and rehabilitating post-Kantian philosophy to develop it today as a viable mode of philosophical inquiry. \nTalk Title \nDeath and Apperception \nTalk Abstract \nFor Heidegger\, and for Kant\, respectively\, death and transcendental apperception are necessary forms belonging to our finite mode of being. Like Kant\, Heidegger is motivated by a concern for systematic understanding of our finite mode of being; like Kant\, he aims to map out the space of meaning in which we live through an understanding of its limits. Kant limits and defines the totality of our possible cognitions through the form given by the unity of transcendental apperception. Heidegger limits and defines the totality of Dasein’s possibilities-to-be through its ‘ownmost’ possibility\, which makes it a whole: its death. In this paper\, I offer a novel reading of the concept of death in Heidegger which draws out these parallels with Kant\, and foregrounds the systematic\, validating role of authentic being-towards-death in enabling our self-determination. \nAbout the Continental Philosophy Group \nOne of six departmental research interest groups\, the Continental Philosophy Group works in the traditions of textual interpretation of human consciousness\, phenomenology\, and post-structuralist critical theory\, among other related traditions of thought.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/continental-philosophy-research-group-talk-david-suarez-toronto/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231012
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231014
DTSTAMP:20260424T190134
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SUMMARY:The Ethics of Uncivil Protest: A Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This two-day\, international workshop offers engagement with questions that have been at the forefront of political discourse in recent years: can uncivil\, violent resistance ever be justified as a means of protest? The workshop brings together leading and emerging scholars who work on the meaning\, practice\, and ethics of uncivil resistance\, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and in a variety of political contexts. Together\, their research challenges the dominant approach to the ethics of protest in liberal ethics\, according to which protest even in so-called liberal democratic states must remain civil and nonviolent. Papers presented in this workshop will examine the nature of incivility\, the tension between incivility and democracy (if such a tension exists)\, the justification of uncivil protest from the perspective of excluded and marginalized groups\, and the limits to incivility and violent protests. Examining such questions from the perspectives of moral philosophy\, critical theory\, Africana and Indigenous philosophy\, as well as philosophy of language aims to generate new understandings on the ethics of protest and resistance. \nThe workshop is organized by Avia Pasternak (Toronto) and Candice Delmas (Northeastern) and will take place in the spaces of the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto. \nPlease note that registration is now closed. \nSchedule\nDay 1 (October 12)\n  \n\n\n\n9:00 \nCoffee\, Start\, and Introductions\n\n\n\n9:15-10:30 \nJosé Medina (Northwestern University)\, “Breaking Silences: Kissing\, Shaming\, and Other Things to Do When Protest Has to Be Uncivil”\n\n\n\n10-min break\n\n\n\n\n10:40-11:55\nCristina Lafont (Northwestern University)\, “Uncivil Protest and Democratic Legitimacy” \n\n\n\n11:55-12:55\nLUNCH\n\n\n\n12:55-14:10\nErin Pineda (Smith College)\, “Carceral Disobedience and Abolitionist Horizons”\n\n\n\n10-min break\n\n\n\n\n14:20-15:20 \nJeff Howard (University College London)\, “The Ethics of Prison Breaks” (Zoom)\n\n\n\n15-min break\n\n\n\n\n15:35-16:50\nTemi Ogunye (Princeton University)\, “What Does It Mean to Be Civil?” \n\n\n\n\nDay 2 (October 13)\n\n\n\n9:00 \nCoffee\n\n\n9:15-10:30 \n Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill University)\, “Indigenous Resistance: Sovereignty\, Transgression\, and Transformation””\n\n\n10-min break\n\n\n\n10:40-11:40\nẸniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ Ṣóyẹmí (Oxford)\, “Participation (and Uncivil Non-Participation) in Steve Biko’s Ethics of Just Resistance” (Zoom)\n\n\n10-min break\n\n\n\n11:50-13:05\nDaniel Viehoff (New York University)\, “On Harming Officials to Stop Injustice”\n\n\n13:05-14:15\nLUNCH\n\n\n14:15-15:30\nCM Lim (Nanyang Technological University)\, “Political Resistance and Property Damage”\n\n\n15-min break\n\n\n\n15:45-17:00\nAvia Pasternak (University of Toronto)\, “Meeting the Necessity test in Violent Protests”\n\n\n\n\n  \nSpeakers\n\nCandice Delmas is an associate professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Northeastern University. Her work is primarily in social and political philosophy\, ethics\, and philosophy of law. She is the author of A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil (OUP 2018).\nAvia Pasternak is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Responsible Citizens\, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their State’s Injustices (OUP 2021)\, and has published work on the ethics of violent resistance.\nYann Allard-Tremblay is an assistant professor in Political Theory at McGill University. His work is concerned with the decolonization and Indigenization of political thought. He has recently published in Polity\, the Canadian Journal of Political Science\, and Political Studies. He is a member of the Huron-Wendat First Nation.\nJeffrey Howard is an associate professor of Political Theory at University College London. He has published on various topics in political philosophy including freedom of speech\, criminal punishment\, and democracy.\nCristina Lafont is Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. She is the author of five books and the co-editor of two collective volumes. Her most recent book is Democracy without Shortcuts: A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy (OUP\, 2020). She has published numerous articles in political philosophy and is currently working on issues related to deliberative activism and democratic legitimacy.\nChong-Ming Lim is an assistant professor of Philosophy at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore. His current research explores whether and how political resistance may be vindicated. He is the recipient of the APA’s Gregory Kavka/UCI Prize in Political Philosophy in 2022.\nJosé Medina is Walter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Epistemology of Resistance (OUP 2013) and The Epistemology of Protest (OUP 2023). He works primarily in critical philosophy of race and political epistemology.\nTemi Ogunye is an associate research scholar at Princeton University’s Department of Politics. He currently works on the political philosophy of activism – that is\, the means by which people intervene in society to shape it for the better..\nErin R. Pineda is Phyllis C. Rappaport ’68 New Century Term Professor of Government at Smith College in Northampton\, Massachusetts. She is the author of Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement (OUP\, 2021)\, which was awarded the 2022 Foundations of Political Theory Best First Book Prize.\nẸniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ Ṣóyẹmí is Departmental Lecturer in Political Philosophy and Public Policy at University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. Her first book\, Law’s Moral Legitimacy\, is under contract with Hart/Bloomsbury Publishing. Her research is focused in contemporary and African political philosophy and theory\, including the ethics of uncivil non-participation in Steve Biko’s political thought.\nDaniel Viehoff is an associate professor of Philosophy at NYU. He works on topics in political\, legal\, and social philosophy\, including democracy\, equality\, authority\, and the right to resist officially inflicted injustice. His research has been published in Philosophy and Public Affairs\, Ethics\, and Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy (among other places)\, and he is currently completing a book on political legitimacy.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/the-ethics-of-uncivil-protest-a-workshop/
LOCATION:Centre for Ethics\, Larkin Building\, Room 200\, 15 Devonshire Place\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2C8\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231013T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231014T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T190134
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SUMMARY:Francisco Suárez: Philosopher at the Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a two-day workshop on the 16th-century Spanish priest\, philosopher\, and theologian Francisco Suárez (1548-1617). It will examine various aspects of Suárez’s philosophy\, a scholastic philosopher working at the crossroads of late medieval and early modern philosophy. \nThe workshop will take place on the afternoon of Friday\, Oct 13 and all day Saturday Oct 14. It is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy\, the Faculty of Arts and Science\, and the Social Sciences\, and Humanities Research Council. \nNeed more information? Please contact Marleen Rozemond or Vincent Lee. \nSchedule\nFriday\, October 13\n2:00-2:15 \nCoffee \n2:15-2:30 \nOpening remarks\, Marleen Rozemond (Toronto) \n2:30-3:45 \nTad Schmaltz (Michigan)\, “Was Suárez an Essentialist in Metaphysics?” \n 4:00-5:15 \nJean-Pascal Anfray (École normale supérieure PSL\, Paris)\, “Suárez on Matter\, Quantity\, and Three Kinds of Extension” \nSaturday\, October 14\n9:30-10:00 \nCoffee & Pastries \n10:00-11:15 \nCecilia Trifogli (Oxford)\, “Suárez on Time” \n11:30-12:45 \nShane Duarte (Notre Dame)\, “Suárez\, Extrinsic Denomination\, and the Explicatio entis“ \n2:15-3:30 \nKara Richardson (Syracuse)\, “Suárez on Final Causality and Human Action” \n3:45-5:00 \nSydney Penner (Asbury)\, “Suárez on the Origin of Falsity” \n  \nSpeakers\n\nJean-Pascal Anfray (École normale supérieure\, Paris)\nShane Duarte (University of Notre Dame)\nSydney Penner (Asbury University)\nKara Richardson (Syracuse University)\nTad Schmaltz (University of Michigan)\nCecilia Trifogli (Oxford University)
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/conference-on-francisco-suarez/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231019T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231019T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T190134
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SUMMARY:Colloquium (Julia Jorati\, Massachusetts Amherst)
DESCRIPTION:As speaker for our second Fall 2023 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome Julia Jorati\, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The main focus of Dr. Jorati’s research is the history of early modern philosophy. At present\, she has a particular interest in philosophical debates about slavery and race in the 17th and 18th centuries. She has also published extensively on the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. \nTalk Title\nThe Effects of Slavery on Enslaved People and Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Arguments \nTalk Abstract\nIn the eighteenth century\, many authors who write about slavery contend that enslavement degrades the human mind and causes enslaved people to exhibit inferior moral or intellectual abilities. Antislavery authors often use this contention to combat the racist claim that Black people are naturally inferior\, insisting instead that if there is an inferiority\, it’s simply an effect of enslavement. After examining this argumentative strategy and what makes it appealing\, I investigate the extent to which it’s nevertheless problematic. First\, this strategy was sometimes used to oppose immediate abolition: some eighteenth-century authors argued that many enslaved people have become incapable of living good lives outside of slavery and that freeing them would therefore be a mistake. Moreover\, this strategy is racist according to some philosophers of race\, it may further marginalize an already oppressed group\, and it can (seem to) blame enslaved people for their condition. I will end with some reflections on whether the strategy might nevertheless be useful for liberatory purposes.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-julua-jorati-massachusetts-amherst/
LOCATION:Tartu College Event Space\, 3 Madison Avenue\, Toronto\, ON\, M5R 2S2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231020T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231020T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T190134
CREATED:20230719T205957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231019T032726Z
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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (James Madaio\, Czech Academy of Sciences)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker James Madaio\, a research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. His areas of interest lie in Indian philosophical traditions\, the historiography and genealogy of modern Hindu movements\, Indic theories of the self\, pedagogy\, and hermeneutics\, and cross-cultural philosophy and dialogues. Dr. Madaio is associate editor of the Journal of Hindu Studies and a regional editor (Indic traditions) for Bloomsbury’s Introductions to World Philosophies book series. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester\, and was a postdoctoral fellow at New Europe College (Bucharest) and an affiliated researcher at the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute (Chennai). Dr. Madaio was previously a lecturer at the University of Maryland\, the University of Manchester\, and Charles University (Czech Republic). He currently serves on the Curriculum Development Board for the Continuing Education Department at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He is the recent recipient of a multiyear research grant from the Czech Science Foundation. \nThis is an in-person event\, but a livestream via Zoom is also offered. \nTalk Title\nConsciousness as Self-Revealing Play in the Advaita of Ramchandra Gandhi \nTalk Abstract\nThis paper explores how the philosopher Ramchandra Gandhi (1937-2007) approaches plurality and ‘the other’ from an Advaita-informed philosophical hermeneutics. Broadly\, I argue that R. Gandhi’s understanding of the līlā (or play) of communicative relationality parallels his understanding of the līlā of consciousness\, which playfully becomes an alterity to itself in order to ‘play the great game’ of seeming self-discovery. More specifically\, in the first section of the paper\, I explore how R. Gandhi understands communication as an ‘everyday sādhanā’ (or spiritual discipline)\, which potentially leads to self-awareness and\, ultimately\, to the understanding that addresser and addressee are fundamentally non-different. The second part of the paper reconstructs R. Gandhi’s distinctive understanding of universal self/consciousness. In doing so\, his approach is discussed in relation to both Advaita Vedānta and Śaiva non-dualism. The paper closes by drawing out broader practical and ethical implications of what I call his post sampradāyic (or post scholastic\, lineage-based) Advaita. \nThe Global Philosophy Research Interest Group explores the benefits of drawing on diverse traditions of thought in approaching philosophical questions. These include novel insights into familiar problems\, new questions and research directions\, and fresh methodologies. We work to deprovincialize and decolonize all aspects of philosophy in the academy. The group currently has strengths in Sanskrit philosophy\, and Chinese philosophy\, Indian philosophy in English\, and classical Islamic philosophy.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global-philosophy-research-interest-group-talk-james-madaio-czech-academy-of-sciences/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231027T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231027T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T190134
CREATED:20230403T173307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T140832Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Waheed Hussain\, Living with the Invisible Hand
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in celebrating and discussing the previously unpublished work of the late Waheed Hussain\, now available as Living with the Invisible Hand: Markets\, Corporations\, and Human Freedom (Oxford University Press\, 2023)\, edited by Arthur Ripstein and Nicholas Vrousalis. \nSpeakers\n\nChiara Cordelli (University of Chicago)\nAndrew Franklin Hall (University of Toronto)\nJoseph Heath (University of Toronto)\nLouis-Philippe Hodgson (York University\, Glendon)\nMartin O’Neill (University of York)\nEric Orts (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/book-launch-waheed-hussain-living-with-the-invisible-hand/
LOCATION:Centre for Ethics\, Larkin Building\, Room 200\, 15 Devonshire Place\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2C8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231027T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231027T150000
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture (Michael Della Rocca\, Yale)
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to welcome to the Department of Philosophy Michael Della Rocca\, Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Dr. Della Rocca is an authority on the history of early modern philosophy\, rationalism\, and contemporary metaphysics\, as well as on epistemology and the philosophy of action. He has authored three field-defining books: Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in Spinoza (Oxford University Press\, 1996)\, Spinoza (Routledge\, 2008)\, and The Parmenidean Ascent (Oxford University Press\, 2020). \nPlease contact Donald Ainslie or Michael Rosenthal for more information. \nTalk Title\n“Humeanism in Hume and in Spinoza: Some Pathologies”
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/public-lecture-michael-della-rocca-yale/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231030T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231030T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T190134
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SUMMARY:Phantoms and Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Calling all Witches and Wittgensteinians\, all Golems and Gödelians\, all Fairies and Fregeans\, and all other philosophers with a taste for the eerie: the Philosophy Course Union (PCU) is excited to announce the return of its annual “Phantoms and Philosophy” event. Come dressed as your favourite philosopher and sit in on three presentations whose topics deal with the scarier side of philosophy. \nYummy and awesome food + refreshments will be provided. See you there! \nFor those who would like to join on Zoom\, please email Manal Kamran. \nSpeakers\nDavid Suarez\, “On Having Intercourse with the Dead” \nJennifer Gibson\, TBA \nMichael Blézy\, “The Greatest Weight: Grappling with the World of Nietzsche’s Demon” \n\n\n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/phantoms-and-philosophy/
LOCATION:Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)\, Room 8214
CATEGORIES:St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231105
DTSTAMP:20260424T190134
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SUMMARY:2023 Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 22nd Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference\, with keynote speakers Amie L. Thomasson (Dartmouth) and Christine M. Korsgaard (Harvard). \nPlease note that this is an in-person event: Friday morning sessions and lunch will happen at the Centre for Ethics (Larkin Building\, Room 200\, 15 Devonshire Place)\, sessions on Friday afternoon and all day Saturday will be in the Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (170 St. George Street). All talks will also be live-streamed. Links below the respective sessions. \nSCHEDULE\n  \nFriday\, November 3\, 2023\nSession 1\n(Centre for Ethics; Zoom)\nChair: Julia Minarik (University of Toronto) \n9:00-10:00 AM \nAlex Fisher (University of Cambridge)\, “Virtual Reality\, Perception\, and Imagination” \nCommentator: Cameron Yetman (University of Toronto) \n 10:10-11:10 AM \nEdvard Aviles Meza (Cornell University)\, “Imagination without Awareness” \nCommentator: Marybel Menzies (University of Toronto) \n11:20 AM-12:20 PM \nEmily Margaret FitzGerald (Columbia University)\, “Making Space for Virtual Kata in Embodied Imagination” \nCommentator: Yvette Wu (University of Toronto) \n  \nSession 2\n(JHB 100; Zoom)\nChair: Zain Raza (University of Toronto) \n1:30-2:30 PM \nAlexander Vega (Harvard University)\, “What Does It Mean to Be a Good Member of a Function Kind?” \nCommentator: Andriy Bilenkyy (University of Toronto) \n2:40-3:40 PM \nMinseok Kim (Syracuse University)\, “Way Nominalism: An Ontological Ground for Non-Nominal Quantification” \nCommentator: Marissa Bennett (University of Toronto) \n  \nKEYNOTE\n(JHB 100; Zoom)\n4:00-6:00 PM \nAmie Thomasson (Dartmouth College)\, “Starting a Step Back: Redirecting Metaphysics” \n  \n  \nSaturday November 4\, 2023\nSession 3\n(JHB 100\, Zoom)\nChair: Tessa Ng (University of Toronto) \n9:00-10:00 AM \nAlexander Drusda (University of Toronto)\, “Kant\, Korsgaard\, and Duties to Non-Human Animals” \nCommentator Faisal Bhabha (University of Toronto) \n10:10-11:10 AM \nSamuel Carlesson Tjernström (McGill University)\, “Substantializing the Metaphysics of Doxastic Wrongdoing” \nCommentator: Nate Oppel (University of Toronto) \n11:20 AM-12:20 PM \nAlessandro Giglia (Università della Svizzera Italiana)\, “Potential Infinity and Constant Domain Models” \nCommentator: Patrick Fraser (University of Toronto) \n  \nSession 4\n(JHB 100; Zoom)\nChair: Josh Brecka (University of Toronto) \n1:30-2:20 PM \nJonah Dunch (University of Toronto)\, “Anger and Remorse” \nCommentator: Jasmine Tremblay-D’Ettorre (University of Toronto) \n2:40-3:40 PM \nSarah Gregory (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)\, “Imposter Syndrome and Self-Respect” \nCommentator: Alexandra Gustafson (University of Toronto) \n  \nKEYNOTE\n(JHB 100; Zoom)\n4:00-6:00 PM \nChristine Korsgaard (Harvard University)\, “The Human Good” \n  \n\nKeynote Speakers\nAmie L. Thomasson is Daniel P. Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Dartmouth College. She works in the areas of metaphysics\, philosophical methodology and metaontology\, philosophy of art\, philosophy of social and cultural objects\, philosophy of mind\, and phenomenology. Her current research focuses on questions about what philosophy can legitimately do\, and how we can do it. \nChristine M. Korsgaard is Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University\, where she taught from 1991 to 2020. She works on moral philosophy and its history\, practical reason\, the nature of agency\, personal identity\, normativity\, and the ethical relations between human beings and the other animals. From 1996 to 2002\, Dr. Korsgaard chaired the Harvard Department of Philosophy. \nPlease contact Cameron Yetman or Julia Minarik with any questions about the conference. \n\n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/2023-annual-toronto-graduate-philosophy-conference/
LOCATION:Centre for Ethics (Larkin 200)\, Jackman Humanities Building 100 & online
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231110T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231110T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T190134
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SUMMARY:Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Valerie Tiberius\, Minnesota)
DESCRIPTION:The Ethics and Political Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Valerie Tiberius\, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. Tiberius’s work has focused on ethics and moral psychology\, with a special interest in applying Humean principles to modern philosophical questions. Much of her work is centered at the junction of practical philosophy and practical psychology\, examining how both disciplines can meaningfully improve lives. Much of her work takes a non-traditional empirical approach to traditional philosophical questions. Her latest book\, What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters was published in early 2023 by Princeton University Press. \nTalk Title\nTBD \nTalk Abstract\nTBD \nAbout the Ethics and Political Philosophy Group\nThe Ethics and Political Philosophy Group meets periodically throughout the year to discuss topics in value theory and related fields\, including meta-ethics\, normative ethics\, applied ethics\, social and political philosophy\, philosophy of law\, moral psychology\, practical reason\, agency\, and identity.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/ethics-and-political-philosophy-group-talk-valerie-tiberius-minnesota/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Sharon Street\, NYU)
DESCRIPTION:This year\, we welcome as 2023 UNESCO World Philosophy Day lecture speaker Sharon Street\, a professor of Philosophy at New York University. Dr. Street specializes in metaethics and has authored a series of articles on how to reconcile our understanding of normativity with a scientific conception of the world. Her work concerns the nature of both practical and epistemic reasons\, and it draws especially on an evolutionary biological perspective. \nThis is an in-person event\, with a livestream available. \nZoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83907159724 \nPasscode: 710782 \nTalk Title\nOn Recognizing Oneself in Mirrors and Others \n  \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/unesco-world-philosophy-day-sharon-street-nyu/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231118T170000
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SUMMARY:Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Kate Withy\, Georgetown)
DESCRIPTION:The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Kate Withy\, an associate professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Dr. Withy specializes in the work of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)\, but she also has interests in 20th-century European philosophy and ancient Greek philosophy. Her research centres on Heidegger’s conception of the human being as open to meaning and subject to breakdowns of meaning. She focuses on the ways in which human beings are immersed in meaningful contexts\, open to things that matter\, and radically dependent on entities in the world for carrying out their projects. \nDr. Withy will be giving a lecture on Friday\, November 17\, 3-5 PM\, and an all-day workshop on Saturday\, November 18\, on Heidegger on Being Self-Concealing\, 10 AM–12 PM\, and on Heidegger on Being-Affected\, 2 PM–5 PM. The workshop will take place in JHB 418. For questions about or to participate in the workshop\, please contact Tarek Dika. \nTalk Title\nTolstoy’s Existential Crisis and the Meaning of Life \nTalk Abstract\nMidway through his life\, at 50 years old\, Leo Tolstoy’s life came to a halt: “[M]y life would come to a standstill\, as if I did not know how to live or what to do\, and I felt lost and fell into despair. […] On these occasions\, where life came to a standstill\, the same questions always arose: ‘Why? What comes next?’” (C28). On the standard reading of Tolstoy’s experience\, what brings Tolstoy to a stop is a question about the meaning of life and what starts him going again is an answer to that question\, which is provided by faith. In this paper\, I complicate that reading—both the claim that Tolstoy is dealing with a straightforward question in need of an answer\, and the claim that the answer is provided by a faith-based way of knowing. At stake is the sense in which questions about the meaning of life are questions that the discipline of philosophy can address. I hope to shed light on how philosophy can and should handle—that is: hold on to\, and grapple with—(Tolstoy’s) questions concerning the meaning of life. \nAbout the Continental Philosophy Group \nOne of six departmental research interest groups\, the Continental Philosophy Group works in the traditions of textual interpretation of human consciousness\, phenomenology\, and post-structuralist critical theory\, among other related traditions of thought.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/continental-philosophy-research-group-talk-kate-withy-georgetown/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231123T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231123T180000
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SUMMARY:Applying to Grad School Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Are you considering a grad program in Philosophy at U of T? If so\, we invite you to join us for our annual “Applying to Grad School” workshop. The event will take place on Zoom\, with the appropriate link added closer to the date. \nAt the workshop you will hear information about requirements\, application procedures\, and deadlines. Our panel of experts will share advice and be available to answer audience questions. \nPanelists\n\nAmy Mullin\, Director of Graduate Studies\nJim John\, Director of Undergraduate Studies\nMarybel Menzies\, PhD student\nTessa Ng\, MA student\n\nPlease register with Eric Correia by November 21\, 2023. You can also contact Eric with any questions. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86242498971\nMeeting ID: 862 4249 8971\nPasscode: 425522
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/applytogradschool/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T120000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Workshop with Roy Arnold Sorensen (Texas at Austin)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a graduate workshop with Roy Arnold Sorensen\, 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. Dr. Sorensen has research interests in epistemology\, metaphysics\, and philosophy of language. He has authored several books\, among them Nothing: A Philosophical History (OUP\, 2022)\, A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: A Collection of Puzzles\, Oddities\, Riddles\, and Dilemmas (OUP\, 2016)\, Seeing Dark Things: The Philosophy of Shadows (OUP\, 2008)\, A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind (OUP\, 2003)\, Thought Experiments (OUP\, 1998)\, and Blindspots (OUP\, 1988). \nTitle\nA New Way of Seeing Holes
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-workshop-with-roy-arnold-sorensen-austin-at-texas/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 1040
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T170000
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SUMMARY:Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Chris Smeenk\, Western)
DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Philosophy of Science Group is pleased to welcome guest speaker Chris Smeenk\, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western University\, and the director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. Before arriving at Western\, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Dibner Institute for History of Science and Technology (MIT) and was an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at UCLA (2003-2007). Dr. Smeenk’s main research interests lie in the history and philosophy of physics\, general issues in the philosophy of science\, and seventeenth-century natural philosophy. \nTalk Title\nInterpretation through Measurement \nTalk Abstract\nMost philosophical approaches to interpreting theories focus on characterizing what the world would be like if the theory were true. Physical significance can be attributed to these possible models\, by specifying how parts of these models map onto empirical observations. Here I will defend an alternative view of empirical content that emphasizes the importance of applications\, and in particular schematic representations of measurement\, as a guide to interpretation. Physical theories typically provide us with an account of what systems can be used to reliably measure some fundamental quantity introduced by the theory\, and over what domains they can be successfully applied. Assessing the reliability of measurements characterized in this way requires claims that extend beyond a single model\, since these implicitly consider a range of counterfactual circumstances. Capturing this modal dimension of measurement requires an appeal to structures defined on the space of models. On my alternative view\, putting these questions front and center leads to a strikingly different account of empirical content\, with implications for questions of underdetermination\, equivalence\, and theory confirmation. I will sketch the view\, respond to several objections to it\, and consider some of these implications. \nAbout the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group hosts talks on logic\, general philosophy of science\, and philosophy of the particular sciences\, as well as talks in allied areas such as formal epistemology\, decision theory\, and the metaphysics of science.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/logic-science-chris-smeenk-western/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Mohammed Rustom\, Carleton)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Mohammed Rustom\, a professor of Islamic Thought and Global Philosophy at Carleton University and the director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam. His publications include Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of ‘Ayn al-Qudat (SUNY Press\, 2023)\, Global Philosophy: A Sourcebook (Equinox\, in press)\, and Why Read Mulla Sadra Today? (Cambridge University Press\, forthcoming). \nHe has been the recipient of a number of academic distinctions and prizes such as the Ibn ‘Arabi Society Latina’s Tarjuman Prize\, a Templeton Foundation Global Philosophy of Religion grant\, the Institute of Ismaili Studies’ Annemarie Schimmel Fellowship\, Iran’s World Prize for the Book of the Year\, and Senior Fellowships courtesy of the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute’s Library of Arabic Literature and Humanities Research Fellowship programs. \nAn internationally recognized scholar whose works have been translated into more than 10 languages\, Dr. Rustom’s research focuses on Islamic philosophy\, Arabic and Persian Sufi literature\, Quranic exegesis\, translation theory\, and cross-cultural philosophy. \nThis is an in-person event\, but if you need to join the livestream\, please follow the Zoom link. \nPasscode: 429871 \nTalk Title\nEvil\, Suffering\, and the Art of Listening in Islamic Philosophy \nTalk Abstract\nDrawing on the rich resources of the Islamic philosophical tradition (past and present)\, this lecture will put forward an anthropocentric conception of evil and suffering by arguing that the cultivation of human attentiveness and listening are the most meaningful kinds of “responses” to the problem of evil. The lecture will then shift gears and examine the practical dimensions of the art of listening by presenting a dialogue between a philosophy graduate student and a certain sage whom the student mysteriously chances upon one morning on his way to class. The student poses several challenging questions to the sage on the nature of evil and suffering\, and the sage responds point by point\, leaving the questioner with much to think about concerning his own epistemic resources and categories of interpretation. \nThe Global Philosophy Research Interest Group explores the benefits of drawing on diverse traditions of thought in approaching philosophical questions. These include novel insights into familiar problems\, new questions and research directions\, and fresh methodologies. We work to deprovincialize and decolonize all aspects of philosophy in the academy. The group currently has strengths in Sanskrit philosophy\, and Chinese philosophy\, Indian philosophy in English\, and classical Islamic philosophy.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global-philosophy-research-interest-group-talk-mohammed-rustom-carleton/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 519
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231201T150000
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SUMMARY:Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (G. Anthony Bruno\, Royal Holloway)
DESCRIPTION:The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker G. Anthony Bruno\, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Royal Holloway University of London. Dr. Bruno research focuses on metaphysics and epistemology in early modern\, Kantian\, and post-Kantian philosophy. His first book\, Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant\, is now under contract with Oxford University Press\, and he has begun work on his second book\, which will provide a history of the origin\, transformation\, and continuing relevance of the concept of nihilism. \nTalk Title \nNeither a Witness Nor a Wave: Jacobi\, Fichte\, and Husserl on Nihilism \nTalk Abstract \nIn 1917\, Husserl declares his affinity with the German idealists\, saying that what he regards as “great and eternally important in German idealism” is that it shares with his own phenomenological system both a “common adversary”\, namely\, “naturalism”\, and a common advantage\, namely\, the “same gods” that each system “serve[s]” in its “own way”. What is the naturalism of the “era” to which Husserl thinks German idealism and phenomenology belong? In their “battle” against this foe\, which gods do they jointly serve? And what makes serving these gods “indispensable for the advancement of philosophy”? I will answer these questions by defending three claims. First\, the naturalistic adversary that German idealism and phenomenology face is in fact nihilism. Second\, the gods that they serve in their battle against nihilism are human freedom and purposiveness—the very things that nihilism threatens. Third\, they serve freedom and purposiveness as the conditions of doing\, and hence of advancing\, philosophy. \nAbout the Continental Philosophy Group \nOne of six departmental research interest groups\, the Continental Philosophy Group works in the traditions of textual interpretation of human consciousness\, phenomenology\, and post-structuralist critical theory\, among other related traditions of thought.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/continental-philosophy-research-group-talk-g-anthony-bruno-royal-holloway/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231202T170000
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SUMMARY:Workshop on the Self with Anil Gomes
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a two-day workshop on the concept of the self with Anil Gomes. Anil 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. He also serves as the reviews editor for MIND. Dr. Gomes recently held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for a project on self-consciousness and objectivity. It resulted in a book\, The Practical Self\, forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2024. \nYou can read a précis of The Practical Self. If you would like to read the entire manuscript\, please contact Gurpreet Rattan. \nThose interested in attending the workshop\, RSVP to Gurpreet Rattan at your earliest convenience. \nSchedule\nFriday\, December 1\nNew Work on the Self\n3:10–3:15 \nWelcome \n3:15–4:15 \nDavid Barnett (Toronto)\, “Ownership Matters” + Q/A \n4:30–5:30 \nSophia Arbeiter (Pittsburgh)\, “I-Thoughts: Between the Solipsist and the A-user” + Q/A \n5:45 – 6:45 \nKatharina Kraus (Johns Hopkins)\, “Kant on Self-Formation: The Rational Demand for Self-Integration” (online) + Q/A \nSaturday\, December 2\n9:30–10:00 \nCoffee and baked goods \nNew Work on the Self\, Continued\n10:00–11:00 \nDavid Suarez (Toronto)\, “The Practical Self in Heidegger and Kant” + Q/A     \n11:15–12:15 \nLisa Doerksen (Toronto)\, “On the Possibility of Doubting One’s Own Existence” + Q/A \n12:15–1:30 \nLunch (in the department) \nOn Anil Gomes’s The Practical Self (forthcoming 2024\, OUP)\n1:30–2:30 \nAnil Gomes (Oxford)\, Précis of The Practical Self + Q/A \n 2:45–3:45 \nManish Oza (Western)\, Comments on The Practical Self + discussion \n 4:00–5:00 \nNilanjan Das (Toronto)\, Comments on The Practical Self + discussion \n 5:15–6:15 \nGurpreet Rattan (Toronto)\, Comments on The Practical Self  + discussion
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/workshop-on-the-self-with-anil-gomes/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (David James Barnett\, Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:The History of Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome as speaker David James Barnett\, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto who specializes in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. Dr. Barnett is interested in the epistemic significance of self-consciousness and the boundaries of the self. In practice\, this means writing papers about self-knowledge\, epistemic akrasia\, perception\, memory\, skepticism\, epistemic circularity\, and social epistemology. \n  \nTalk Title\nIntellectual Autonomy and the Cartesian Circle \nTalk Abstract\nTBA \n\nAbout the History of Philosophy Group\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the History of Philosophy Group is home to the History of Modern Philosophy Research Group\, which focuses on the period\, roughly\, from Descartes to Kant.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/history-of-modern-philosophy-david-james-barnett-toronto/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Maṇḍana on Various Types of Commands
DESCRIPTION:In this weeklong workshop\, we will read\, translate\, and discuss Maṇḍana’s Vidhiviveka (“Discernment about Commands”)\, chapter 15. The key issue of the chapter is the Mīmāṃsā claim that there are several types of prescriptions (the originative prescription is the first one enjoining one to do something\, the applicatory one adds hierarchically linked subsidiaries to the main one and so on). How can this be possible within Maṇḍana’s interpretation of commands as just statement of what is beneficial to one’s goals? \nParticipants: Elliot Stern (Philadelphia)\, Lawrence McCrea (Cornell)\, Andrew Ollett (Chicago)\, Parimal Patil (Harvard)\, Akane Saito (Austrian Academy of Sciences)\, Elisa Freschi (Toronto)\, and many others. We will also read Vācaspati’s commentary (Nyāyakaṇikā) on chapter 15 of the Vidhiviveka.  \nIf you would like to join\, please contact Elisa Freschi\, and she will share the working version of the edition with you. \nThis is an in-person workshop\, but if you would like to join online\, please use this Zoom link. Passcode: 951779 \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/workshop-ma%e1%b9%87%e1%b8%8dana-on-various-types-of-commands/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED--Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Robin Zheng\, Glasgow)
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, the talk by Robin Zheng has been cancelled at this time. \nThe Ethics and Political Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Robin Zheng\, a lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. Dr. Zheng 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. She is also an associate editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy\, a co-editor of the De Gruyter Transforming Political Philosophy book series\, the Glasgow representative of the Scots Philosophical Association\, and a committee member of the Analysis Trust. She has also served on the APA Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion\, as well as on the APA Task Force on a Good Practices Guide. Before joining the University of Glasgow\, Dr. Zheng was an assistant professor in Philosophy at Yale-NUS College\, Singapore\, from 2016-2022\, where she co-founded the Yale-NUS Gender Research Cluster and served as co-chair of the Yale-NUS College Diversity & Inclusion Committee. \nTalk Title\nSolidarity\, Disagreement\, and Strategies for Change \nTalk Abstract\nTBD \nAbout the Ethics and Political Philosophy Group\nThe Ethics and Political Philosophy Group meets periodically throughout the year to discuss topics in value theory and related fields\, including meta-ethics\, normative ethics\, applied ethics\, social and political philosophy\, philosophy of law\, moral psychology\, practical reason\, agency\, and identity.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/ethics-and-political-philosophy-group-talk-robin-zheng-glasgow/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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