2024 Alexander Lecture (Carlotta Pavese, Cornell)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Carlotta Pavese, an associate professor of Philosophy at Cornell's Sage School of Philosophy, has areas of specialization are epistemology, action theory, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. She also works in linguistics, especially formal semantics and syntax.

UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Linda M. Alcoff, CUNY)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Linda Martín Alcoff, a professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Centre, CUNY, has worked for many years on the intersections of knowledge, identity, and power. She specializes in social epistemology, feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, decolonial theory and continental philosophy, especially the work of Michel Foucault.

History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Thierry Côté, Toronto)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Thierry Côté, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in early modern philosophy and aesthetics, with additional interests in the philosophy of music, the philosophy of literature, and contemporary French philosophy.

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Andrew Y. Lee, Toronto)

Jackman Humanities Building 519

Andrew Y. Lee, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, is interested in the structure of consciousness. His work examines how structural concepts—such as degrees, dimensions, continuity, discreteness, parts, wholes, isomorphisms, and state-spaces—can be applied to conscious experiences. Some of his work can be described as “mathematical phenomenology.”

Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Eric Hutton, University of Toronto)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Eric Hutton is a visiting professor from the University of Utah. His research focuses on Chinese philosophy, Greek philosophy, and ethics. On the Chinese side, he focuses on the pre-Qin period, especially Confucianism. On the Greek side, his work centers around the moral/political views of Plato and Aristotle.

Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Gina Schouten, Harvard)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Gina Schouten, a professor at Harvard, primarily studies issues of social and political philosophy and ethics. Her most sustained research projects concern political liberalism and political legitimacy, educational justice, and the gendered division of labor.

Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad is a Distinguished Professor of comparative religion and philosophy at Lancaster University and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research interests include Indian philosophy, comparative philosophy of epistemology, metaphysics, and phenomenology, and classical Indian religions.

Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Dylan Shaul, California, Riverside)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dylan Shaul, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, works primarily in 18th- and 19th-century philosophy (especially German Idealism) and Jewish philosophy.

Colloquium (Jocelyn Benoist, Sorbonne)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jocelyn Benoist, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, is the author of, most recently, Toward a Contextual Realism (Harvard University Press, 2021). He is also a recipient of the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize. He works in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.

Colloquium (C. Thi Nguyen, Utah)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

C. Thi Nguyen, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, writes about trust, art, games, and communities, interested in the ways our social structures and technologies shape how we think and what we value.

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