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SUMMARY:Platonist Discourses on Dualism: First Century BC to Third Century AD
DESCRIPTION:Since at least Plato\, dualism – the idea that there are two distinct types of reality that possibly have different origins – is a central topic of philosophy\, which addresses the concept from a wide range of perspectives: metaphysics\, psychology\, epistemology\, and ethics. In the Imperial Age (27 BC–AD 284) this issue is infused with non-Greek influences and perspectives (e.g. Gnosticism\, Hermeticism)\, hailing mostly from the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. Some of these lead to a stronger form of dualism\, whereby matter and evil are said to arise from a separate evil principle. Toward the end of the Imperial Age and the rise of Neoplatonism\, this view will be resolutely rejected in favour of a clear-cut monism. \nUntil now there still exists no true inclusive overview of this concept in the Imperial Age. The principal reason for this is the relatively recent exploration of philosophy in this period\, as well as the exclusion of sources not strictly philosophical. This two-day workshop organized by Rareș Marinescu will bring together an interdisciplinary team of scholars tasked with considering such an inclusive overview might be achieved. \nSpeakers\n\nKasra Abdavi Azar (KU Leuven/Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg)\nDylan M. Burns (University of Amsterdam)\nLloyd Gerson (University of Toronto)\nPhillip Horky (Durham University)\nRareș Marinescu (University of Toronto)\nArianna Piazzalunga (University of Turin)\nDenis Robichaud (University of Notre Dame)\nChristian Wildberg (University of Pittsburgh)\n\n  \nThe event is generously sponsored by SSHRC\, the Department of Classics\, the Department of Philosophy\, and the Collaborative Specialization in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/platonist-discourses-on-dualism-first-century-bc-to-third-century-ad/
LOCATION:Lillian Massey Building\, Room 205\, 125 Queen's Park\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 2C7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:2024 Undergraduate Orientation
DESCRIPTION:New undergrads\, welcome to the Department of Philosophy! Please join us for an orientation to the department\, its people\, and its offerings Friday\, September 6\, 10 AM – 12 PM. \nJoin Zoom meeting: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83447471868 \nPasscode: 233997 \n  \nSchedule\n10:10 \nWelcome (Arthur Ripstein) \n10:15 \nOpening remarks (Jim John & Eric Correia) \n10:25 \nPCU remarks (Manal Kamran & Sven Oravsky) \n10:35 \nSpecial area highlight 1: Philosophy of Science (Sara Aronowitz) \n10:45 \nSpecial area highlight 2: Global Philosophy (Elisa Freschi) \n10:55 \nSpecial area highlight 3: Logic (Jim John on behalf of Alex Koo) \n11:05 \nSpecial area highlight 4: Bioethics (Andrew Franklin-Hall) \n11:15 \nMental health resources (Andriy Bilenkyy) \n11:20 \nFinal remarks (Jim John & Eric Correia) \n11:25 – 12:00 (or earlier) \nOpen question-and-answer session (moderated by Jim John)
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/2024-undergraduate-orientation/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:St. George,Undergraduate
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SUMMARY:Knowledge\, Empiricism\, & the Political: In Debate with Danny Goldstick
DESCRIPTION:5:00 PM \nWelcome and Refreshments \n5:30 PM \nSpeaker: Duncan MacIntosh (Dalhousie) \nTitle: “Interrogating the Goldstick Maneuver: Arguing from Beliefs to Metaphysical Realities” \n6:00 PM \nReply from Danny Goldstick and discussion \n6:20 PM \nBreak \n6:30 PM \nSpeaker: David Alexander (Iowa) \nTitle: “Goldstick on A Priori Knowledge” \n7:00 PM \nReply from Danny Goldstick and discussion \n7:20 PM \nBreak \n7:30 PM \nSpeaker: Igor Shoikhedbrod (St. Francis Xavier) \nTitle: “Interrogating Goldstick on ‘Interests’” \n8:00 PM \nReply from Danny Goldstick and discussion \n8:30 PM \nEnd \n  \nFor more information\, please contact Belinda Piercy.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/knowledge-empiricism-the-political-in-debate-with-danny-goldstick/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:2024 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 2024 edition of the Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy. Check back closer to the event dates for program details. \nProgram\n\nFRIDAY\, SEPTEMBER 20\nSession I (4:30 – 6:30) \nChair: Giorgio Pini (Fordham University) \nCan Laurens Löwe (Saint Louis University): “William Crathorn on the Relation between a Power and Its Manifestation” \nCommentator: Susan Brower-Toland (Saint Louis University) \n  \nSATURDAY\, SEPTEMBER 21\nSession II (10:00 – 12:00) \nChair: Jon McGinnis (University of Toronto) \nCristina Cerami (CNRS\, Paris): “Al-Fārābī and the Kalām on the Divine Attributes” \nCommentator: Rosabel Ansari (Stony Brook University) \n  \nSession III (2:00 – 4:00) \nChair: Simona Vucu (University of Toronto) \nVikram Kumar (Cornell University): “Augustine’s Proof of the Existence of God in De Libero Arbitrio 2” \nMuhammad Fariddudin Attar (Carleton University): “Efficient Causality and the Divine Mind in Avicenna’s Deduction of the Cosmic Order” \nRebecca Hicks (Saint Louis University): “Thomas Aquinas on the Range of Plato’s Forms” \n  \nSession IV (4:15 – 6:15) \nChair: Jeffrey Brower (Purdue University) \nJuhana Toivanen (University of Jyväskylä): “Peter Olivi on Moral Vices and Self-Love” \nCommentator: Michael Szlachta (St. Francis Xavier 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 Centre for Medieval Studies\, the Faculty of Arts & Science\, the Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations\, and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. \nOrganizers: Deborah Black\, Reza Hadisi\, Peter King\, Jon McGinnis\, and Martin Pickavé \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/toronto-colloquium-medieval-philosophy-2024/
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:2024 Jerome S. Simon Lectures (Cailin O'Connor\, California\, Irvine)
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce Cailin O’Connor as our esteemed speaker for the 2024 Jerome S. Simon Lectures. Dr. O’Connor\, a professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California\, Irvine\, works in the philosophy of biology and behavioral sciences\, the philosophy of science more generally\, and in evolutionary game theory. Her books include Modeling Scientific Communities (Cambridge University Press\, 2023); The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread (Yale University Press\, 2020; with James Owen Weatherall); Games in the Philosophy of Biology (Cambridge University Press\, 2020); and The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution (Oxford University Press\, 2019). \nThe lectures are in-person events\, but if you would like to join via Zoom\, you may do so. \n  \nLecture 1\n(September 24\, 3-5 PM) \nTitle\nWhy Social Contracts Are Not Fair \nAbstract\nMany theorists have employed game theory to model the emergence of stable social norms\, or natural “social contracts.” One branch of this literature uses bargaining games to show why many societies have norms and rules for fairness. In cultural evolutionary models\, fair bargaining emerges endogenously because it is an efficient way to divide resources. But these models miss an important element of real human societies – divisions into groups or social categories. Once such groups are added to cultural evolutionary models\, fairness is no longer the expected outcome.  Instead “discriminatory norms” often emerge where one group systematically gets more when dividing resources. I show why the addition of categories to bargaining models leads to unfairness\, and discuss the role of power and minority status in this process. I also address how categories might emerge to support inequity\, and the possibility of modeling social change. Altogether this work emphasizes that if one wishes to understand the naturalistic emergence of social contracts\, one must account for the presence of categorical divisions\, and unfairness\, as well as for norms of fairness. \nLecture 2\n(September 25\, 3-5 PM) \nTitle\nSignaling\, Fairness\, and Social Categories \nAbstract\nPhilosophers and economists have used cultural evolutionary models of bargaining to understand issues related to fairness and justice\, and especially how fair and unfair conventions and norms might arise in human societies. One line of this research shows how the presence of social categories in such models allows for inequitable equilibria that are not possible in models without social categories. This is taken to help explain why in human groups with social categories inequity is often the rule rather than the exception. But in previous models\, it is typically assumed that these categories are rigid\, easily observable\, and binary. In reality\, social categories are not always so tidy. We introduce evolutionary models where the tags connected with social categories can be flexible\, variable\, or difficult to observe\, i.e.\, where these tags can carry different amounts of information about group membership. We show how alterations to these tags can undermine the stability of unfair conventions. We argue that these results can inform projects intended to ameliorate inequity\, especially projects that seek to alter the properties of category markers. \nLecture 3\n(September 26\, 3-5 PM) \nTitle\nMeasuring Conventionality \nAbstract\nStandard accounts of convention include notions of arbitrariness. But many have conceived of conventionality as an all or nothing affair. In this paper I develop a framework for thinking of conventions as coming in degrees of arbitrariness. In doing so I introduce an information theoretic measure intended to capture the degree to which a solution to a social problem could have been otherwise. I discuss its use to cultural evolutionary explanation\, and its possible uses to thinking about constraints in evolution by natural selection. And in particular\, I discuss its relevance to thinking about gendered division of labor. \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)\, Holly M. Smith (Rutgers)\, and Rainer Forst (Goethe University\, Frankfurt).
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/2024-jerome-s-simon-lectures-cailin-oconnor-california-irvine/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED---History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Qiu Lin\, Simon Fraser)
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, this talk has to be cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances and will be rescheduled in the next academic year. \nThe History of Modern Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Qiu Lin\, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. Her main research areas are early modern philosophy\, history and philosophy of science\, and Chinese philosophy\, especially Chinese Islamic philosophy. Her work has received awards from the Philosophy of Science Association Women’s Caucus (now renamed as the DEI Caucus)\, the British Society for the History of Philosophy\, and the Metaphysical Society of America; additionally\, she has also won two subgrants from major John Templeton projects. \nTalk Title\nDu Châtelet on Sensory Perception\, Bodies\, and Simple Substances \nTalk Abstract\n\nIn chapter 7 of her magnum opus\, Foundations of Physics (1740 & 1742)\, Émilie Du Châtelet attempts to explain why we only ever experience extended bodies even if non-extended simple substances are the only beings that ultimately exist on the metaphysical ground floor. While Du Châtelet repeatedly praises Leibniz for his monadology\, she differs from him in one crucial respect in her thinking about the monad: for her\, monads are all ontologically interconnected with one another in such a way that together\, they form a “Metaphysical union” (§133). This raises some interesting but hard questions: Du Châtelet\, too\, holds that human souls are monads\, but how do they “fit” in the said Metaphysical union? What kind of relation do the internal states of the soul stand in with that of other union members? This paper provides answers to these questions on Du Châtelet’s behalf. By drawing attention to a passage that has so far received little scholarly attention\, I will reconstruct Du Châtelet’s account about sensory perception\, and argue that this account is key to understanding her explanation of bodies\, qua sensible beings\, in terms of monads\, qua beings beyond our sensory experience. \n\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the History of Philosophy Group explores topics in ancient and/or medieval philosophy\, the period from Descartes to Kant\, and Jewish philosophy from the medieval period to the 20th century.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/history-philosophy-group-talk-qiu-lin-simon-fraser/
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:Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Joseph K. Schear\, Oxford)
DESCRIPTION:The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Joseph K. Schear\, a regular faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Dr. Schear is interested in post-Kantian European philosophy\, especially phenomenology (Husserl\, Heidegger\, Sartre\, Merleau-Ponty); philosophy of mind (esp. the theory of intentionality); and some issues in metaphysics. Before moving to Oxford in 2008\, he worked for two years as an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at California Polytechnic State University\, San Luis Obispo. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled “Horizons of Intentionality: From Husserl to Heidegger.” \nDr. Schear will give a lecture on September 27\, as well as an all-day workshop on September 28. Please contact Tarek Dika to register and for more information. \nTalk Title\nSartre and the Problem of Others \nTalk Abstract\nJean-Paul Sartre claims in Being and Nothingness that “‘being-seen-by-the-Other’ is the truth of ‘seeing-the-Other’.” What does this claim mean? Is Sartre’s argument for it persuasive? I address the first question by juxtaposing Sartre’s approach to the problem of the other\, centered on “the Look\,” with Edith Stein’s approach\, focusing in particular on the place of ‘reiterated empathy’ in her theory. After reconstructing Sartre’s argument\, I offer an assessment. If Sartre is right that to understand an other as other is to understand her first and foremost as a free being\, being seen by the other is plausibly understood as ‘the truth’ of seeing the other. \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-joseph-schear-oxford-2/
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:Kant & Post-Kantian German Philosophy Group Talk (Johannes Steizinger\, McMaster)
DESCRIPTION:The Kant & Post-Kantian German Philosophy Research Interest Group is pleased to welcome as a speaker Johannes Steizinger\, an associate professor of Philosophy at McMaster University. Dr. Steizinger takes as his primary field of research European philosophy of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (also known as Continental philosophy). He has a special interest in political\, social\, cultural\, and aesthetic issues. His current research centers on the history of the “philosophy of life” (Lebensphilosophie): from its first systematic formulations in Schopenhauer and Schlegel\, through its main forms in the late nineteenth century (Nietzsche\, Dilthey and Simmel) and in the Weimar Republic\, to its entanglement with National Socialism. \nTalk Title\nThe Existential Relationship of Nature and Culture: Nietzschean Lessons for the Anthropocene? \nTalk Abstract\nNietzsche’s naturalism has played a pivotal role in the scholarship of the last three decades. While the naturalistic tendency of his thinking is now widely acknowledged\, it is still controversial how reductionist his explanations of the cultural development of humanity are.  Such debates usually posit nature and culture as competing principles to understand the contingent genesis of humanity.  In contrast to this polarizing tendency\, I argue that Nietzsche focuses on the cultural characteristics of humanity because of his naturalistic framework. Since he believes that nature is “indifferent” (BGE 9)\, describing its rule as “ruthless” and “cruel” (GT 7\, GS 346\, BGE 22\, 230)\, culture assumes the existential role of giving meaning to life. Moreover\, I submit that Nietzsche’s conceptualization of the entanglement of nature and culture contains important insights for critically understanding the challenges of the Anthropocene today. \n  \nIf you have questions about this talk\, please contact Nick Stang. \n  \nThe Kant & Post-Kantian German Idealism 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/kant-post-kantian-german-philosophy-group-johannes-steizinger-mcmaster/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Jessica Isserow\, Notre Dame)
DESCRIPTION:The Ethics and Political Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Jessica Isserow\, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. She has main research interests in metaethics\, normative ethics\, and moral psychology. Her main research projects center on: moral worth/moral praiseworthiness and “praise-associated attitudes\,” such as pride and esteem; the nature of friendship and the relationship/potential conflicts between moral duties and duties of friendship; and the ethics of blame (e.g.\, hypocrisy\, over-blaming) and blameworthiness over time. She also serves as an associate editor for the journal Analysis. \nThis is an in-person event\, but those unable to attend otherwise can join via Zoom. \nTalk Title\nOn Being Overlooked: Praise and the Ethics of Attention \nTalk Abstract\n Praise—“the brighter side of moral responsibility” (Montminy 2022\, p.28)—has traditionally been regarded as unproblematic. Understandably so; it’s hard to take moral offence at agents expressing pride\, esteem\, or admiration for one another. But our practices of praise have a dark side. Praise can be self-aggrandizing (Jeppsson & Brandenburg 2022)\, or hypocritical (Telech 2024). It also plays an under-appreciated role in supporting structures of oppression (Holroyd 2021\, 2023). There are\, then\, good reasons to be critical of our practices of positive recognition. My primary interest in this work is the distribution of praise—specifically\, the phenomenon of “being overlooked”: many people receive less praise than others not as a result of their lesser merit\, but because their achievements or excellences happen to be less visible. Reflection on such cases reveals something important: our patterns of praise reinforce existing social disadvantages in under-recognized ways\, and also tend to compound non-structural forms of bad luck. The remedy\, I argue\, is not so much to police praise itself as it is to pay greater attention to how we distribute attention. \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-jessica-isserow-notre-dame/
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 (Ralph Wedgwood\, Southern California)
DESCRIPTION:As speaker for our Fall 2024 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome Ralph Wedgwood\, a professor of Philosophy and the director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Dr. Wedgwood works in ethics and epistemology\, more specifically\, in metaethics\, practical reason\, normative ethical theory\, and the history of ethics. Before coming to USC\, he was a professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. \nThis is an in-person event\, but those unable to come to campus may join via Zoom. \nTalk Title\nIntending the Improbable \nTalk Abstract\n\nOne reason why it can be irrational to intend a course of action is if it is clearly a bad thing to do – that is\, clearly inferior to an alternative that one has thought of and rationally regards as available. Another reason why an intention can be irrational – even if the intended course of action would be better than every alternative – is if it is highly improbable that one will take that course of action even if one intends to. How do these two dimensions of rationality relate to each other? \nSome philosophers suggest that it is rational to intend a course of action only if it is conditionally certain that one will take the course of action if one intends to. Others suggest that the “options” that must have maximal expected value if an intention is to be rational must always be “acts of will” rather than external courses of action. Neither of these views is acceptable. A different proposal is defended: these two dimensions of the rationality of intentions must simply be in a way balanced against each other. This proposal turns out to have illuminating consequences about the nature of practical rationality.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-ralph-wedgwood-usc/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Declan Smithies\, Ohio State)
DESCRIPTION:The Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind Research Group welcomes Declan Smithies\, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University. He works primarily on issues in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. His book\, The Epistemic Role of Consciousness\, was published with Oxford University Press in September\, 2019. He has also co-edited two volumes of essays: Introspection and Consciousness (Oxford\, 2012) and Attention: Philosophical and Psychological Essays (Oxford\, 2011). \nThis is an in-person event\, but you are also welcome to join the talk via Zoom.  \nTalk Title\nValenced Experience and the Epistemology of Value \nTalk Abstract\nWhat epistemic role does valenced experience play in justifying our beliefs about value? According to the perceptual model\, valenced experience justifies beliefs about value in much the same way that perceptual experience justifies beliefs about color\, shape\, and motion. The perceptual model generates plausible verdicts in some cases: for example\, feeling aversion to the painful condition of your foot justifies believing that this painful condition is bad for you without needing any justification itself. In other cases\, however\, the perceptual model generates implausible verdicts: feeling moral admiration towards an act of wanton cruelty cannot justify believing that the act is morally admirable when this moral feeling is unjustified. If the perceptual model is right in some cases\, then why isn’t it right in all cases? There is a puzzling asymmetry here that needs to be explained. The challenge is to explain why some valenced feelings can justify belief about value without needing any justification\, while others need to be justified in the same way as beliefs about value We cannot solve this puzzle simply by restricting the perceptual model to those cases where it delivers plausible results. This theoretically unsatisfying without some explanation of why it applies in some cases but not others. And yet the perceptual model doesn’t provide the theoretical resources to explain this in any principled way. Instead\, I explain the puzzling asymmetry by combining an alternative epistemology of value – the inferential model – with plausible assumptions in the metaphysics of value. \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-declan-smithies-ohio-state-2/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building 318
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Amit Chaturvedi\, Hong Kong)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Amit Chaturvedi\, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Chaturvedi has a particular interest in the contributions of Indian philosophical traditions to contemporary debates concerning non-conceptual perception and reflexive self-awareness. His research examines the roles of concepts\, attention\, and memory in structuring the contents of conscious perceptual experience\, as well as how these roles were understood by Buddhist and Nyāya philosophers. \nThis is an in-person event\, but those unable to join on campus are invited to do so via Zoom. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://utoronto.zoom.us/j/84968941202\nPasscode: 462459 \nTalk Title\nAwareness-Atoms\, Alone in the Dark: The Problems with a Possible Buddhist Panpsychism \nTalk Abstract\nSome scholars have claimed that Buddhist philosophers in the Sautrāntika and Yogācāra traditions developed a plausible version of the panpsychist view that mental qualities are fundamental and ubiquitous. Monima Chadha in particular has suggested that Sautrāntika-Yogācāra Buddhists offer useful responses to the various “combination problems” that challenge panpsychists to explain how a unified\, introspectable phenomenal experience can emerge from the aggregation of many microphenomenal entities. In this paper\, I consider certain arguments by classical Yogācāra and Śaiva idealists against the possibility of microphenomenal combination\, which follow from the assumption that awareness-states are reflexively aware. Whereas Chadha takes the posit of reflexive awareness (svasaṃvedana) to explain how individual mental states could belong to a unified conscious experience\, these idealists argue that the essential reflexivity of awareness is precisely what would prevent microscopic “awareness-atoms” (jñānaparamāṇu) from being accessible to other mental states\, and combining their respective phenomenal characters into a macroscopic experience. \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-amit-chaturvedi-hong-kong/
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:2024 Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 23rd Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference\, with keynote speakers Ted Sider (Rutgers) and Samuel Scheffler (NYU). \nThe event will take place in two different venues: The Centre for Ethics (200 Larkin\, 15 Devonshire Place) on Friday\, October 18\, and the Jackman Humanities Building 100 (170 St. George Street) on Saturday\, October 19\, 2024. \nProgram\nFriday\, October 18\, 2024\n\n\n\nTime\nSession Information\n\n\n8:45-9:00\nBreakfast (Centre for Ethics)\n\n\n9:00-12:20\nSession 1 (Centre for Ethics) \nChair: Josh Brecka\, University of Toronto\n\n\n9:00-10:00\nOn Why the Immorality Charge Generalizes: What Version of the Parfit Conditional Do You Accept? \nKacper Mykietyn\, University of Toronto \nCommentator: Shahdah Mahhouk\, University of Toronto\n\n\n10-10:10\nBREAK\n\n\n10:10-11:10\nIn What Sense Is Courage Pleasant? Aristotle on ἀνδρεία \nLuke Jennings\, University of Oxford \nCommentator: Jason Singer\, University of Toronto\n\n\n11:10-11:20\nBREAK\n\n\n11:20-12:20\nToward a Theory of Epistemic Companionship \nYuan Tian\, Harvard University \nCommentator: Marybel Menzies\, University of Toronto\n\n\n12:20-1:30\nLUNCH (Centre for Ethics)\n\n\n1:30-3:40\nSession 2 (Centre for Ethics) \nChair: Gerald Teng\, University of Toronto\n\n\n1:30-2:30\nCoincident Objects and Principles of Plenitude \nHwan Ho\, Syracuse University \nCommentator: Hang Huang\, University of Toronto\n\n\n2:30-2:40\nBREAK\n\n\n2:40-3:40\nMaterial Plenitude for Fineans \nAntonio Freiles\, Syracuse University \nCommentator: Patrick Fraser\, University of Toronto\n\n\n3:40-4:00\nBREAK\n\n\n4:00-6:00\nKEYNOTE 1 – Ted Sider (JHB 100)\n\n\n\n  \nPlenitude and Derivative Ontology \nTed Sider\, Rutgers University \n \n\n\n\n  \nSaturday\, October 19\, 2024\n\n\n\nTime\nSession Information\n\n\n8:45-9:00\nBreakfast (JHB 100)\n\n\n9:00-12:20\nSession 3 (JHB 100) \nChair: Cameron Yetman\, University of Toronto\n\n\n9:00-10:00\nForgive\, Because You Were Forgiven  \nAbraham Mathew\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nCommentator: Jasmine Tremblay D’Ettorre\, University of Toronto\n\n\n10-10:10\nBREAK\n\n\n10:10-11:10\nDo Merely Statistical People Have a Standing to Complain? \nStephanie Van Fossen\, University of Southern California \nCommentator: Nate Oppel\, University of Toronto\n\n\n11:10-11:20\nBREAK\n\n\n11:20-12:20\nDuty and Risk \nMitchell Barrington\, University of Michigan \nCommentator: Ian Campbell\, University of Toronto\n\n\n12:20-1:30\nLUNCH\n\n\n1:30-3:40\nSession 4 (JHB 100) \nChair: Faisal Bhabha\, University of Toronto\n\n\n1:30-2:30\nHow Protest Works\, Even When It Doesn’t \nRaye Ploeger\, UNC Chapel Hill \nCommentator: Henry Krahn\, New York University\n\n\n2:30-2:40\nBREAK\n\n\n2:40-3:40\nPolite Politics: Etiquette as the Realization of Human Dignity and Democratic Ideals \nHelen Han Wei Luo\, Columbia University \nCommentator: Jules Sheldon\, University of Toronto\n\n\n3:40-4:00\nBREAK\n\n\n4:00-6:00\nKEYNOTE 2 – Samuel Scheffler (JHB 100)\n\n\n\n  \nExistential Catastrophe\, the Love of Humanity\, and the Historicist Sensibility  \nSamuel Scheffler\, New York University \n \n\n\n\nKeynote Speakers\n\nSamuel Scheffler is a University Professor and professor of Philosophy and Law at NYU. He works mainly in the areas of moral and political philosophy and the theory of value. His publications include six books: The Rejection of Consequentialism (1982\, rev. ed. 1994)\, Human Morality (1992)\, Boundaries and Allegiances (2001)\, Equality and Tradition (2010)\, Death and the Afterlife (ed. Niko Kolodny\, 2013)\, and Why Worry about Future Generations? (2018)\, all published by Oxford University Press. He has received Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships\, and has been a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College\, Oxford.  He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters\, and a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. \nTed Sider is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Chair at Rutgers University. He specializes mainly in metaphysics (time\, identity\, mereology\, modality\, supervenience\, fundamentality). He also has research and/or teaching interests in philosophy of language\, logic\, philosophy of logic\, philosophy of mathematics\, and philosophy of physics. Recently he has been thinking about how the choice of conceptual tools for articulating metaphysical questions (e.g.\, modality vs. fundamentality vs. ground) affects how we answer those questions\, especially questions about the metaphysics of science. \nPlease contact Yi-Cheng Lin or Sooyoung Moon with any questions about the conference. \n\n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/2024-annual-toronto-graduate-philosophy-conference/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Anik Waldow\, Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:The History of Modern Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Anik Waldow\, a professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney. She mainly works in early modern philosophy and has published articles on the moral and cognitive function of sympathy\, theories of personal identity\, the role of affect in the formation of the self\, skepticism\, and associationist theories of thought and language. She received a Leverhulm research grant (2014-2016) for the interdisciplinary project “Sympathy and its Reflections in History” and has an ARC Discovery Project on the Experimental Self (2017-19)\, which focuses on the role of experience\, sensibility\, and embodiment in the construction of selves and their place in social\, political\, and natural spheres. Dr. Waldow was an Associate Investigator of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (2013-2017) and has more recently started to investigate the role of empathy in linguistic and non-linguistic communications. She is the author of the monographs Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature (OUP\, 2020) and Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (Continuum\, 2009)\, the editor of Sensibility in the Early Modern Era: From Living Machines to Affective Morality (Routledge\, 2016). She also co-edited Philosophical Perspectives on Empathy (Routledge. 2019) and Herder: Philosophy and Anthropology (OUP\, 2017). Since 2018 she has served as the director of the Sydney Intellectual History Network. \nTalk Title\nHow to Trust Oneself? Epistemic Injustice\, Friendship and Doubt: Reflections on Montaigne’s Essays \nTalk Abstract\n\nThinking of selves relationally means accepting that self-conceptions depend in complex ways on social and institutional influences that can enhance\, but also obstruct the self’s capacity for reflective thought. This talk explores a specific aspect arising from this intermingling of selves\, individuals\, groups\, and institutions. How can the self that no longer trusts the norms inculcated by socially established customs and habits preserve its own mental sanity and self-trust? The threat ensuing here is that of ‘madness’ conceived as the loss of rationality triggered through the self’s retreat to its own inner realms. A way out of this predicament\, I argue\, requires what Montaigne describes as the melting away of the self’s original ‘form’ in its engagement with a trusted other. I propose that his process is best understood as an exploratory second-personal enactment of thought. Engaging in this enactment is essential to salvaging command of one’s own rationality and cultivating resources when experiencing situations of epistemic injustice. \n\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the History of Philosophy Group explores topics in ancient and/or medieval philosophy\, the period from Descartes to Kant\, and Jewish philosophy from the medieval period to the 20th century.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/history-philosophy-group-talk-anik-waldow-sydney/
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:Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Jacob Beck\, York)
DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Philosophy of Science Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Jacob Beck\, a professor and the York Research Chair in the Philosophy of Visual Perception in the Department of Philosophy at York University. He is also a member of York’s Cognitive Science Program\, which he directed from 2018 to 2022\, the Centre for Vision Research\, and the Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA) Program. Beck’s research makes progress on longstanding philosophical puzzles about the mind by reconceptualizing them in light of contemporary cognitive science. He has a special interest in pre-linguistic forms of mental representation\, such as perception and the number sense. \nThis is an in-person event\, but those unable to come to campus may join via Zoom. \nTalk Title\nResurrecting a Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction \nTalk Abstract\nJohn Locke famously distinguished primary qualities\, such as size and number\, from secondary qualities\, such as colour and odour. But his view was soon mocked by Berkeley and has been recurrently critiqued in the intervening centuries. Where does that leave us today? Are there grounds to accept a primary–secondary quality distinction in anything like Locke’s sense? I’ll argue that there are. Although the distinction I’ll develop is anachronistic—it is grounded in contemporary perception science and is not intended as a serious interpretation of Locke’s texts—it is extensionally close to Locke’s own and respects several core features of his account. These include Locke’s claim that primary qualities are objective or mind-independent in a way that secondary qualities are not; Locke’s notorious thesis that ideas of primary qualities resemble primary qualities in a way that ideas of secondary qualities do not; and Locke’s indifference to metaphysical distinctions that are elevated in contemporary discussions of secondary qualities. The account I’ll offer also has a further virtue: it’s likely to be true. \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-jacob-beck-york/
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:Toronto-London Workshop on Perception
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an international workshop on perception. \nOrganized 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) \nProgram\nFriday\, Nov 1 \n9:30-11:00 – Kevin Lande (York University): “The Spatial Unity of Perception” \nComments: Andrew Rubner (NYU) \n11:15-12:45 – James Stazicker (King’s College London): “Metacognition\, Informative Identity\, and Related Ways of Underestimating Consciousness” \nComments: Matthias Michel (MIT) \n12:45-2:00 – Lunch \n2-3:30 – Matthew Soteriou (King’s College London): “Time Consciousness and the Temporal Phenomenology of Perceptual Consciousness” \nComments: Sara Aronowitz (University of Toronto) \n4-5:30 – Jessie Munton (University of Cambridge) “How Long Is a Visual Experience” \nComments: Andrew Lee (University of Toronto\, Scarborough) \nSaturday\, Nov 2\n10:30-12:00 – Bill Brewer (King’s College London): “The Role of Concepts in Perceptual Objectivity” \nComments: Myrto Mylopoulos (Carleton University) \n12-1:30 – Lunch \n1:30-3:00 – Umrao Sethi (Brandeis University) & Dominic Alford-Duguid (University of British Columbia): “Perceiving Particulars” \nComments: Alison Springle (University of Miami) \n3:30-5:00 – Imogen Dickie (University of Toronto): “Indeterminacy as a Phenomenon of Focus – the Case of Property Representation” \nComments: Frances Egan (Rutgers University)
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/toronto-london-workshop-on-perception/
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:20241108T170000
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SUMMARY:Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Zoë A. Johnson King\, Harvard)
DESCRIPTION:The Ethics and Political Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Zoë A. Johnson King\, an assistant professor at Harvard who works primarily in ethics\, metaethics\, and epistemology. She primarily concerns herself with moral agency and moral responsibility\, with a particular focus on praiseworthiness. She has written about moral motivation\, moral worth\, and how to evaluate those who are well-meaning but morally uncertain or mistaken\, as well as about some comparisons and contrasts between praise and blame. She is also interested in epistemological notions associated with forming and maintaining one’s beliefs in a responsible manner (i.e. justification\, evidence\, proof)\, both as these notions arise within the law and in everyday contexts. \nThis is an in-person event\, but those unable to come to campus may join online. \nTalk Title\nAretaic Injustice \nTalk Abstract\nPhilosophers have had a lot to say about blameworthiness (and excuses\, and exemptions\, and punishment\, and the standing to blame\, and . . .)\, but much less to say about praiseworthiness. This talk counteracts that trend by summarizing the account of praiseworthiness developed in my book manuscript and drawing out some of its implications. I offer views about the conditions under which people are praiseworthy in virtue of what we care about\, what we try to do\, and what we actually do\, and I explain what these views jointly entail about how to deliberately increase one’s own praiseworthiness. I then describe my account’s implications regarding positive moral luck; in brief\, on my account positive constitutive\, circumstantial\, and resultant luck are each somewhat mitigated but by no means eliminated. I end with some sobering reflections on the ways in which background injustices can affect the distribution of positive moral luck\, thus placing limits on how praiseworthy it is possible for someone to become. \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-zoe-a-johnson-king/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:2024 Alexander Lecture (Carlotta Pavese\, Cornell)
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to welcome Carlotta Pavese\, an associate professor of Philosophy at Cornell’s Sage School of Philosophy\, as the speaker for this year’s Alexander Lecture. While Dr. Pavese has broad interests\, her areas of specialization are epistemology\, action theory\, philosophy of mind\, and philosophy of language. Outside of philosophy\, she works in linguistics\, mostly formal semantics and syntax. \nThis is an in-person event\, but those unable to come to campus may join via Zoom. \nTalk Title\nIntelligence Socialism \nTalk Abstract\nFrom artistic performances in the visual arts and in music to motor control in gymnastics\, from tool use to chess and language\, humans excel in a variety of skills. On the plausible assumption that skillful behavior is a visible manifestation of intelligence\, a theory of intelligence—whether human or not—should be informed by a theory of skills. More controversial is the question as to whether\, in order to theorize about intelligence\, we should focus on certain skills in particular. My target is the view that only a particular class/kind of skill (i.e.\, ‘theoretical’\, or ‘intellectual’ skills\, versus ‘practical’\, and  ‘embodied’ skills) manifests intelligence\, or especially does so. I call this view ‘Intelligence Elitism’. Intelligence Elitism is pervasive in popular culture as well as in psychometrics. It has\, arguably\, a long pedigree in philosophy (though systematic discussion or explicit arguments for it are hard to be found). In this talk\, I introduce the debate between Elitism and Socialism\, sharpen it\, document it\, and highlight its significance. The phenomenon of Broca’s aphasia is discussed in order to reach a better understanding of the distinction between intellectual and embodied skills. In the second part of my talk\,  I lay out the foundations for undermining the hegemony of elitism by mounting a sustained line of argument on behalf of a moderate as well as a strong form of socialism. \nAbout the Alexander Lecture\nThe Alexander Lecture\, which has been on hiatus for a few years\, focuses on philosophy of mind and the intersection of philosophy and psychology. It was established as a memorial to Edwin Alexander who\, after a successful career in business\, pursued graduate studies in Philosophy\, which he could not complete as the consequence of a stroke he suffered.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/alexander-lecture-carlotta-pavese-cornell/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate
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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Amod Sandhya Lele\, Northeastern)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Amod Sandhya Lele\, the associate director of the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University who also runs the Love of All Wisdom Substack newsletter and co-authors the Indian Philosophy Blog. They have taught in the Philosophy Department at Boston University and the Religion Departments at Colorado College and Stonehill College\, and have published in journals including the Journal of Buddhist Ethics\, Philosophy East and West\, and Asian Studies Review. \nThis is an in-person talk\, but those unable to come to campus may attend via Zoom. \nJoin Zoom meeting: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83522515332 \nPasscode: 397027 \nTalk Title\nŚāntideva’s Opposition to Anger: A Defence for the Current Context \nTalk Abstract\nThis presentation applies the critique of anger made by Śāntideva\, the eighth-century Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher\, to a contemporary context of racial and gender injustice. Supplementing Śāntideva’s critique with ideas from Martin Luther King Jr. and Martha Nussbaum\, the presentation points out the ways in which anger can harm the angry person as well as others. It responds to several objections made on anger’s behalf\, several of which fail to persuade\, and others of which require only qualification\, not rejection\, of the thesis that we human beings should generally avoid anger. \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-amod-lele-northeastern/
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:20241121T150000
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SUMMARY:UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Linda M. Alcoff\, CUNY)
DESCRIPTION:This year\, we welcome as the 2024 UNESCO World Philosophy Day Lecture speaker Linda Martín Alcoff\, a professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Centre\, CUNY. Alcoff 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. Her recent books include Rape and Resistance (Polity\, 2018)\, The Future of Whiteness (Polity\, 2018)\, and Visible Identities: Race\, Gender\, and the Self (Oxford University Press\, 2006)\, the latter of which won the Frantz Fanon Award. \nThis is an in-person event\, but those unable to come to campus may attend via Zoom. \nPasscode: 612040 \nTalk Title\nPhilosophy and the Rise of the Far Right \nTalk Abstract\nIn this talk I will discuss the wide political variations in the history of philosophy but also show how the current rise of the  Far Right can be understood through a philosophical lens.  \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/unesco-world-philosophy-day-linda-alcoff-cuny/
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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SUMMARY:Québec-Ontario Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for  the sixth annual Québec-Ontario Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy\, organized by Marleen Rozemond. \nPlease contact Vincent Lee with any questions. \nProgram\nFriday\, November 22\, 2024\n(OISE RM 4426) \n9:00-9:30 \nCoffee and pastries \n9:30-11:00 \nJon Miller (Queen’s)\, “Grotius and Spinoza on Human Nature” \nComment: Vincent Lee (Toronto) \n11:15-12:45 \nMitia Rioux-Beaulne (Ottawa)\, “Publish or Perish: The Problem of Clandestine Philosophy in Diderot’s ‘History of Philosophy’ Articles in the Encyclopédie” \nComment: Emmanuel Mabille (Montréal)  \n12:45-2:15 \nLunch \n2:15-3:45 \nManuel Vasquez-Villavicencio (McMaster)\, “The Pleasures of Truth and Intrinsic Motivation in Hume’s Account of Curiosity and Inquiry” \nComment: Thierry Côté (Toronto) \n4:00-5:30 \nMargaret Schabas (UBC)\, “Hume on Economic Inequality” \nComment: Carole Bongrand (Québec à Montréal) \n\nSaturday\, November 23\, 2024\n(JHB 418) \n10-10:30 \nCoffee and pastries \n10:30-12:00 \nLisa Shapiro (McGill)\, “Gabrielle Suchon on the Desire for Knowledge\, Habit\, and Women’s Solidarity” \nComment: Raphaelle Dupont (Toronto) \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/quebec-ontario-workshop-early-modern-philosophy/
LOCATION:Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)\, Room 4426 & Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Joshua Schechter\, Brown)
DESCRIPTION:The Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind Research Group welcomes as guest speaker Joshua Schechter\, a professor in and current chair of the Department of Philosophy at Brown University. Dr. Schechter’s research ranges from epistemology to metaethics\, the philosophy of logic\, and technical issues in logic itself. \nMuch of his work concerns the epistemology of logic and inferential reasoning—including the development of accounts of the justification of our logical beliefs and basic inferential practices and an explanation of our reliability about these matters. Additional work concerns the epistemology of other a priori domains\, notably moral belief; the rationality of mental states other than beliefs such as emotions and desires; and the nature of logic and validity. He also works on general issues in epistemology—for instance\, on the theoretical significance of the a priori/a posteriori distinction and on the question of which epistemological statuses (e.g.\, knowledge\, justification\, or rational credence) are primary. \nTalk Title\nRational Defeat beyond Belief \nTalk Abstract\nEpistemologists have typically discussed rational defeat as applying to beliefs and other cognitive states. But there is a wide range of mental states that can be rationally defeated\, including emotions and desires. For instance\, the information that such-and-such is not in fact dangerous can (at least apparently) reduce the rationality of one’s fear of such-and-such. The information that some action will not in fact help to achieve some desired end can (at least apparently) reduce the rationality of having an instrumental desire to carry out that action. In this talk\, I argue that there are strong analogies between the rational defeat of beliefs and the rational defeat of other kinds of mental states. I then develop a general account of rational defeat that applies to a wide range of mental states\, with a particular focus on unifying the cases of cognitive states and emotions. \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-joshua-schechter-brown/
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:20241129T130000
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SUMMARY:History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Thierry Côté\, Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:The History of Modern Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Thierry Côté\, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Dr. Côté specializes in early modern philosophy and aesthetics\, with additional interests in the philosophy of music\, the philosophy of literature\, and contemporary French philosophy. He earned his PhD from the Université de Montréal in 2023\, with a dissertation titled “Musique\, parole et signification au siècle des Lumières.” \nTalk Title\nHume on the Redirection and Enlargement of Passions \nTalk Abstract\n\nFor Hume\, culture is not the process by which rational representations come to govern passions. It is\, instead\, a naturally induced\, self-enforcing process of refinement\, redirection and enlargement of natural tendencies. This talk’s purpose is to clarify and question the logic of this process\, and show how it is both produced and limited by core human tendencies. It will especially focus on the two central notions of redirection and enlargement. I will first concentrate on Hume’s account of the origins of justice\, and what he means when he claims reason cannot motivate\, but only provide a “new direction” to natural passions (T 3.2.5.9). I will then address the role of sympathy in Hume’s theory of artificial virtues\, and see how shared moral standards result from of an “intercourse of sentiments” (T 3.3.3.2). Finally\, I will explore how evaluations by standards relate to motivation itself. In my view\, Hume’s purpose as a skeptical moralist is not so much to make metaethical claims about reason’s inertness\, but rather to account for a complex interplay between our cultivated and unpliable natures. \n\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the History of Philosophy Group explores topics in ancient and/or medieval philosophy\, the period from Descartes to Kant\, and Jewish philosophy from the medieval period to the 20th century.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/history-philosophy-group-talk-thierry-cote-toronto/
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:20241129T150000
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SUMMARY:Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Andrew Y. Lee\, Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Philosophy of Science Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Andrew Y. Lee\, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Dr. Lee 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.” \nThis will be a discussion of recent work\, to be circulated in advance. Please get in touch with Denis Walsh to receive a copy. \nTalk Title\nA Puzzle about Sums \nTalk Abstract\nA famous mathematical theorem says that the sum of an infinite series of numbers can depend on the order in which those numbers occur. Suppose we interpret the numbers in such a series as representing instances of some physical quantity\, such as the weights of a collection of items. The mathematics seems to lead to the result that the weight of a collection of items can depend on the order in which those items are weighed. But that is very hard to believe! A puzzle then arises: How do we interpret the metaphysical significance of this mathematical theorem? I first argue that prior solutions to the puzzle lead to implausible consequences. Then I develop my own solution\, where the basic idea is that the weight of a collection of items is equal to the limit of the weights of its finite subcollections contained within ever-expanding regions of space. I show how my solution is intuitively plausible and philosophically motivated\, how it reveals an underexplored line of metaphysical inquiry about quantities and locations\, and how it elucidates some classic puzzles concerning supertasks. \nNote\nI’m working on a new philosophical puzzle—about Hotel infinity—that’s closely related to the subject-matter of this paper. I’ll start the session by briefly presenting the new puzzle\, and then open up discussion on either “A Puzzle about Sums” or on the new puzzle. \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-andrew-lee-toronto/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building 519
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Eric Hutton\, University of Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Eric Hutton\, the Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Visiting Professor in Chinese Thought and Culture at the University of Toronto. His home institution is the University of Utah\, where has also served as departmental chair in Philosophy. 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. \nThis is an in-person talk\, but those unable to come to campus may attend online. \nPasscode: 765578 \nTalk Title\nOn Trust\, Politics\, and Justice in Early Confucianism and Plato \nTalk Abstract\nMost studies comparing ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy first identify certain Greek ideas and then argue that the Chinese sources contain similar ideas. In this talk I reverse that direction of comparison by using Confucianism to re-examine Plato. In particular\, I focus on Confucian ideas about xin 信 (“trust” or “trustworthiness”) and investigate the extent to which Plato is sensitive to the concerns of the Confucians. I argue that Plato does display an interest in the phenomena on which the Confucians focus\, but largely subsumes the relevant issues under the rubric of justice. I end by considering how the Confucians might challenge Plato’s views and vice versa\, and what we might learn about trust and justice from such a debate.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global-philosophy-research-interest-group-talk-eric-hutton/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241205T170000
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SUMMARY:Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Gina Schouten\, Harvard)
DESCRIPTION:The Ethics and Political Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Gina Schouten\, a professor at Harvard who works primarily in the areas of social philosophy\, political philosophy\, and ethics. She has written about political liberalism and political legitimacy\, educational justice\, and the gendered division of labor. She is also interested in issues of justice in higher education\, diversity problems within the discipline of philosophy\, the politics of abortion\, and other topics in feminist philosophy. \nPlease join this online-only talk. \nTalk Title\nLiberal Feminism\, Social Critique\, and Moral Methodology: What Can Reflective Equilibrium Accomplish? \nTalk Abstract\nThis paper brings together two strands of opposition to liberalism: First is the substantive strand\, concerning liberalism’s feminist\, anti-racist\, and egalitarian credentials. Second is the methodological strand\, concerning liberalism’s method of moral justification\, reflective equilibrium. In response to the substantive strand of opposition to liberalism\, left-liberal feminists have argued that\, properly understood\, liberal values entail a deep critique of sexism\, racism\, and economic inequality\, and furnish an emancipatory\, democratic vision for progress toward a more just society. My question in this paper is: Does liberalism’s method of moral justification undermine these liberal feminist attempts to answer the substantive challenge? I defend reflective equilibrium in order to support a negative answer to that question: Liberal feminist attempts to redeem the progressive potential of liberalism are not undermined by their use of reflective equilibrium as a method of moral justification. I make my case by engaging with recent work by Sally Haslanger\, in which she criticizes reflective equilibrium generally but with a particular focus on its implications for feminist normative theorizing. \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-gina-schouten/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241206T110000
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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad\, Lancaster)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as a guest speaker Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad\, a distinguished professor of comparative religion and philosophy at Lancaster University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy with an interest in Indian philosophy\, as well as the comparative philosophy of epistemology\, metaphysics and phenomenology\, and classical Indian religions. He has published several books\, including Human Being\, Bodily Being: Phenomenology in Classical India (Oxford University Press\, Oxford\, 2018). He is currently working on a project developing a philosophical anthropology of emotion through a reading of classical Indian narrative and aesthetic texts. \nThis is an online-only talk. \nPasscode: 723250 \nTalk Title\nOn the Methodological Challenges of Cross-Cultural Theology \nTalk Abstract\nTBD
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global-philosophy-research-interest-group-talk-chakravarthi-ram-prasad-lancaster/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241206T170000
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SUMMARY:Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk and Workshop (Karin Nisenbaum\, Syracuse)
DESCRIPTION:The Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is delighted to welcome as a speaker Karin Nisenbaum\, an associate professor of philosophy and the Renée Crown Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University. Her research areas include Kant\, German Idealism\, and 19th & 20th-century Jewish thought. Her book For the Love of Metaphysics: Nihilism and the Conflict of Reason from Kant to Rosenzweig (Oxford University Press\, 2018) focuses on the role of the principle of sufficient reason and the idea of a primacy of practical reason in the history of German Idealism. She is currently at work on two monographs: the first is on Kantian and post-Kantian conceptions of the highest good; the second defends a post-Kantian form of moral perfectionism. Additionally\, Dr. Nisenbaum has focused her efforts on promoting diversity and inclusion in the discipline of philosophy by creating a support network for women working on Kant and post-Kantian philosophy. \nIn addition to her talk on Friday\, December 6\, Dr. Nisenbaum will be conducting a day-long workshop the following day\, Saturday\, December 7\, in JHB 418. In the morning of the workshop (10 am – noon) Borris Hennig (TMU) will give a talk titled “Marx on Ownership\,” and in the afternoon (3–5 pm)\, there will be a discussion of a pre-circulated paper by Karin Nisenbaum\, titled “Getting at the Root of Evil: Kant and Fichte on the Murderer at the Door.” For more information and to receive the Nisenbaum paper\, please contact Nick Stang. \nTalk Title\nKant and Maimon on the Identity and Role of the Highest Good \nTalk Abstract\nIn his essay\, “Attempt at a New Presentation of the Principle of Morality and a New Deduction of its Reality” (1794)\, Salomon Maimon provides an interpretation of the identity and role of the highest good in Kant’s moral theory.  My aim in this paper is to make the case that Maimon’s interpretation compels us to reexamine widely accepted interpretations of Kant’s own highest good and its relationship to the moral law.  According to the standard interpretation\, virtue or the good will is what Kant calls the supreme good\, but only the complete good (virtue together with happiness) and not the supreme good is the highest good.  By contrast\, I will defend the view that the highest good is both the supreme good (virtue or the good will) and the complete good (virtue together with happiness).  More specifically\, I will argue that the supreme good is the highest good considered as the good maker of other goods\, and the complete good is the highest good considered as the most desirable object.  Once we reassess Kant’s views on the highest good in the light of Maimon’s interpretation\, we will also need to reconsider the widely accepted idea that Kant’s moral theory is one without a notion of value as its fundamental concept (the deontological reading of Kant’s moral theory).  I will argue that Kant’s critical revolution in practical philosophy does not consist in the subordination of all considerations of value to principles of right.  Rather\, his criticism of pre-critical philosophers is that they mistake the nature of the unconditioned good.  Kant puts freedom in the place of eudaimonia. \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-karin-nisenbaum-syracuse/
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:Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Dylan Shaul\, California\, Riverside)
DESCRIPTION:The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Dylan Shaul\, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of California\, Riverside. Dr. Shaul works primarily in 18th- and 19th-century philosophy (especially German Idealism) and Jewish philosophy. He also has interests in early modern philosophy\, 20th-century European philosophy\, ethics\, and the philosophy of religion. \nTalk Title\nHegel and Heidegger on the Future: Time\, Forgiveness\, Decision \nTalk Abstract\nThis paper reconstructs and evaluates Heidegger’s critique of Hegel in Being and Time\, offering a new Hegelian response to this critique. Heidegger criticizes Hegel for his alleged view that Absolute Knowing allows Spirit to annul time in the eternal present of its absolute self-knowledge\, in contrast to Heidegger’s own insistence on Dasein’s ineliminable futurity. Against Heidegger\, I argue that the Hegelian annulling of time in fact constitutes a break in History: by forgiving the past and thereby undoing it\, Spirit can decide to create a new future world. Hegel’s silence about the future entails that the shape of this new world remains radically open.  \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-dylan-shaul-california-riverside/
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:Symposium on La Reine-garçon
DESCRIPTION:From January 31 to February 15\, 2025\, 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. It focuses on Queen Christina of Sweden and her interactions with the philosopher René Descartes\, whom she invited to Stockholm in late 1649. \nThis one-day symposium on January 18\, 2025\, will explore how La Reine-garçon is grounded in Cartesian philosophy and contemporary theories of gender and performance. \nRegistration for the symposium is required. \nQuestions about the symposium? Contact Donald Ainslie or Vincent Lee. \nSymposium Program\n\n9:15-9:30—Welcome \n9:30-10:30—Christina and Descartes: History and Philosophy \n\nMarleen Rozemond\, Philosophy\, University of Toronto\nAlison Smith\, History\, University of Toronto\nChair: Donald Ainslie\, Philosophy\, University of Toronto\n\n10:30-11:00—Break \n11:00-12:00—Representations of Christina \n\nAlice Maurice\, English and Cinema Studies\, University of Toronto\nMichael Slowik\, Film Studies\, Wesleyan University\nChair: Dana Seitler\, English and director of Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies\, University of Toronto\n\n12:00-1:30—Lunch \n1:30-2:30—Opera and Gender \n\nJane Forner\, Music\, University of Toronto\nAria Umezawa\, Director & Co-founder Amplified Opera\nChair: Caryl Clark\, Music\, University of Toronto\n\n2:30-3:00—Break \n3:00-4:00—A Conversation with the Composer and Librettist from the Canadian Opera Company’s La Reine-garçon \n\nJulien Bilodeau\, Composer (tentative)\nChair: Norbert Palej\, Music\, University of Toronto\n\n4:00-5:00—A Conversation with the Creative Team from the Canadian Opera Company’s La Reine-garçon \n\nChair: Johannes Debus\, Music Director\, Canadian Opera Company\n\nConference Sponsors: \n\nJackman Humanities Institute\, University of Toronto\nDepartment of Philosophy\, Faculty of Arts and Science\, University of Toronto\nDepartment of Philosophy\, University of Toronto Mississauga\nDepartment of French\, University of Toronto\nUniversity College\, University of Toronto\nFaculty of Music\, University of Toronto\nMark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies\, University of Toronto\nDepartment of English\, University of Toronto Scarborough\n\nIn addition to the opera and the symposium\, the Queer Cinema Club is screening Queen Christina (1933)\, starring Greta Garbo\, on January 20\, 2025\, 8 PM\, at the  Paradise Theatre (1006 Bloor Street West). The screening will also feature onstage Peter Knegt\, founder of the Queer Cinema Club\, and the musicologist Jane Forner\, both of whom will offer some insight into the film\, the opera\, and the history behind both. Get tickets for the screening!
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/symposium-on-la-reine-garcon/
LOCATION:Innis Town Hall\, 2 Sussex Ave\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S1J5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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