The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Jacob McNulty, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Talk Title "Hegel and Nietzsche on Masters and Slaves" Talk Abstract Hegel and Nietzsche agree that a primitive social relationship of domination — and its breakdown—was consequential for ... Read More
Spinoza on Religion and Politics or The Contemporary Relevance of a 17th Century Text: THE THEOLOGICAL-POLITICAL TREATISE Location: The Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, Larkin 200 Thursday April 23rd Session I (9:45 AM) Julie Klein (Villanova University) "Obedience" Session II (11:00 AM) Daniel Garber (Princeton University) ... Read More
The Kant and Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Myriam Stihl, a doctoral researcher in philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Talk Title Temporal Divisibility in Kant's Second Antinomy Talk Abstract TBD There will be a workshop of a pre-read paper by Myriam Stihl the ... Read More
Friday April 24 Session I (2:00 – 3:30pm): Jean-Marc Narbonne (Laval) "Protagoras’ Democratic Involvement and his Epistemological Background” Commentator: Mark Johnstone (McMaster) Session II (4:00 – 5:30pm): Cecilia Li (Western) "A Fork in the Road: Politics as the Master Art in Plato’s Gorgias (517c4–518c1)" Commentator: Merrick Anderson (Southern California) Saturday April ... Read More
Mohammed Rustom will be joining us for a roundtable on the question: What would make it possible for you to include more global philosophy materials in your classes? Occasioned by the publication of: A Sourcebook in Global Philosophy (2025)
Amy Schmitter is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta with research interests include the history of early modern philosophy, the philosophy of art, the history of metaphysics and philosophy of mind, the history of theories of emotions, and feminist approaches to the history of philosophy
The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Allison Aitken, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University. Dr. Aitken’s research centers on non-standard theories of relations and dependence structures in the history of metaphysics, with a particular focus on Sanskrit and ... Read More
In this talk, Nicholas Dunn (University of Lethbridge) examines the current debate about expanding MAID eligibility for persons with mental illness as the sole underlying condition (MI-SUMC) through the lens of structural injustice. To this end, he develops the notion of structurally embedded suffering to consider how unjust social structures ... Read More
From Monday May 18, 2026 to Friday May 22, 2026, the third Kumārila conference will take place at Maanjiwe Nendamowinan, 1535 Outer Circle, University of Toronto Mississauga. Kumārila is one of the rare thinkers who are truly irreplaceable. Sanskrit philosophy would not have been the same without his contributions to ... Read More
Speakers: Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder) & Giuliano Torrengo (Università degli Studi di Milano)
The inaugural Conference on South Asian Philosophy & Religion will be held on May 25th at UTM (MN2260) and May 26th at St. George (Faculty of Social Work, SK720). The conference brings together graduate students working on South Asia from philosophy and religious studies for interdisciplinary dialogue across methodological boundaries. ... Read More
On May 27–28, the Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Research Group (KPK) will host a 2-day workshop on (parts of) Nick Stang's in-progress book manuscript, How is Metaphysics Possible? A Critique of Analytic Reason. The invited discussants will be: Dai Heide (Simon Fraser), Damian Melamedoff-Vosters (NYU-Shanghai), Kris McDaniel (Notre Dame), and ... Read More
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce the third annual Toronto Bioethics Workshop, taking place on Friday, June 12th and Saturday, June 13th at the St. George (downtown) campus of the University of Toronto. The theme of the workshop is philosophical bioethics, with a ... Read More
