Philosophy Undergraduates, comes join us for an introduction to the Department of Philosophy at U of T's St. George campus. Highlights of the event include -Words of welcome and brief overview of the program from Mike Miller, the Undergraduate Chair -A quick survey of the department's offerings with Profs. Monica ... Read More
Speaker: Daniel Nolan (UC, Santa Cruz) The 'Olamā-ye Eslām is a Zoroastrian apologetic work, perhaps from the thirteenth century CE. This paper argues that it contains a distinctive response to the problem of why an omnipotent and all-good deity would permit the existence of evil. Ormazd, the great good deity ... Read More
Please join us for the 2026 edition of the University of Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy. Program FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 Session I (3:30 – 6:00 pm) Martin Pickavé (University of Toronto): Welcome Stephen Dumont (University of Notre Dame): Deborah as a Scholar, Friend, and Colleague Peter Adamson (LMU Munich): What’s ... Read More
We are pleased to announce Barbara Vetter as our esteemed speaker for the 2026 Jerome S. Simon Memorial Lectures. Dr. Vetter is a professor of theoretical philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin, and co-director of the "Human Abilities" project (www.human-abilities.de). Her work focuses on the metaphysics and epistemology of modal properties ... Read More
This is a read-ahead event; for papers and registration, contact owen.ware@utoronto.ca Speakers Owen Ware (Toronto): “The Holy Revolution: Religion and Perfection in Romanticism”; Commentary by Marc-Andre Murray (Toronto) Karin Nisenbaum (Syracuse): “Schelling’s Autonomy-Preserving View of Kant’s Highest Good”; Commentary by Liam Barer (Toronto) Ariel Zylberman: “Goodness, Obligation, and Perfection in Kant” ... Read More
Speaker: Barry Loewer (Rutgers) This talk examines connections between Quine’s epistemology of science and Lewis’ metaphysics of science and their different conceptions of naturalness. I develop a metaphysical account of nomological modalities and fundamental properties Lewisian in spirit but dispensing with his possible worlds and his version of naturalness in ... Read More
The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Martin Adam, an associate professor in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria. His work is centered on Indian Buddhism and Buddhist Ethics, with more general interests in other south Asian religious ... Read More
The Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Adam Pautz, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Brown University. His research is about consciousness and its place in nature, the idea that all facts are grounded in physical facts, and the ... Read More
Join us for a one-day workshop on linguistic internalism and externalism featuring specialists in medieval and analytic philosophy. Program: Welcome and Introduction to the Topic (9.00 am – 9.30 am) Simone Luigi Migliaro (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – University of Toronto) Paper I (9.30 am – 10.50 am) Giorgio Pini (Fordham ... Read More
The History of Modern Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Bridger Ehli, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Indiana - Bloomington. His research concerns themes in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind in early modern European philosophy. He is ... Read More
Join us for the 25th Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Don Garrett (NYU) and Alva Noë (University of California, Berkeley). More details to follow.
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The Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Brian Hedden, a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. He works in epistemology and decision theory, as well as related areas of ethics and political philosophy. Talk Title TBD Talk ... Read More
The Toronto Workshop on Moral Psychology and Moral Theory is a forum for work at the intersection of empirical moral psychology and fundamental moral theory.
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Olivia Bailey (UC Berkeley) works on questions in moral psychology and the history of moral philosophy (particularly the British moralists). Her current research is concerned with the ethical and epistemic significance of empathy. More details to follow.
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The Logic and Philosophy of Science Research Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Gordon Belot, the Lawrence Sklar Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. Professor Belot's primary interests are in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. His most recent book, Accelerating Expansion: ... Read More
The Early Modern Philosophy Research Interest Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Andreea Mihali (Wilfrid Laurier University) who is an expert in critical thinking, informal logic and argumentation theory, modern philosophy (Descartes to Kant) and visual and musical arguments. Talk Title TBD Talk Abstract TBD
