Mary Shepherd’s Philosophy at 200
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 & Room 418A two-day workshop on the work of philosopher Mary Shepherd (1777-1847) on its 200th anniversary.
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Platonist Discourses on Dualism: First Century BC to Third Century AD
Lillian Massey Building, Room 205 125 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThis two-day, interdisciplinary workshop explore the concept of dualism in Platonist discourses in the Imperial Age, seeking to help create an inclusive overview of the concept for the era by also taking into consideration sources not strictly philosophical.
2024 Undergraduate Orientation
OnlineNew undergrads, join us for two hours on Zoom to learn about the department and its people.
Knowledge, Empiricism, & the Political: In Debate with Danny Goldstick
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada5:00 PM Welcome and Refreshments 5:30 PM Speaker: Duncan MacIntosh (Dalhousie) Title: "Interrogating the Goldstick Maneuver: Arguing from Beliefs to Metaphysical Realities" 6:00 PM Reply from Danny Goldstick and discussion 6:20 PM Break 6:30 PM Speaker: David Alexander (Iowa) Title: "Goldstick on A Priori Knowledge" 7:00 PM Reply from Danny ... Read More
2024 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoin us for a two-day colloquium comprising talks and workshops in ancient and medieval philosophy. The colloquium is organized by Martin Pickavé, Deborah Black, and Peter King.
2024 Jerome S. Simon Lectures (Cailin O’Connor, California, Irvine)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaCailin 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.
CANCELLED—History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Qiu Lin, Simon Fraser)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaQiu Lin, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University, has main research areas in early modern philosophy, history and philosophy of science, and Chinese philosophy, especially Chinese Islamic philosophy.
Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Joseph K. Schear, Oxford)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoseph K. Schear is a regular faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oxford interested in post-Kantian European philosophy, especially phenomenology, philosophy of mind (esp. the theory of intentionality), and some issues in metaphysics.
Kant & Post-Kantian German Philosophy Group Talk (Johannes Steizinger, McMaster)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJohannes Steizinger (McMaster) takes as his primary field of research European philosophy of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Jessica Isserow, Notre Dame)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJessica Isserow, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, pursues main research interests in metaethics, normative ethics, and moral psychology.
Colloquium (Ralph Wedgwood, Southern California)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRalph Wedgwood, a professor of Philosophy and the director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, works in ethics and epistemology, more specifically, in metaethics, practical reason, normative ethical theory, and the history of ethics.
Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Declan Smithies, Ohio State)
Jackman Humanities Building 318Declan Smithies, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University, works primarily on issues in epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Amit Chaturvedi, Hong Kong)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAmit Chaturvedi, an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong, has a particular interest in the contributions of Indian philosophical traditions to contemporary debates concerning non-conceptual perception and reflexive self-awareness.
2024 Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference
Join us for the the 23rd Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Ted Sider (Rutgers) and Samuel Scheffler (NYU).
History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Anik Waldow, Sydney)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAnik Waldow, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, works mainly 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.
Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Jacob Beck, York)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJacob Beck is a York Research Chair in the Philosophy of Visual Perception in the Department of Philosophy at York University. Beck’s research makes progress on longstanding philosophical puzzles about the mind by reconceptualizing them in light of contemporary cognitive science.
Toronto-London Workshop on Perception
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoin us for an international workshop on perception. Organized 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) Program Friday, Nov 1 9:30-11:00 – Kevin Lande (York University): ... Read More
Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Zoë A. Johnson King, Harvard)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaZoë A. Johnson King, an assistant professor at Harvard, works primarily in ethics, metaethics, and epistemology. She primarily concerns herself with moral agency and moral responsibility, with a particular focus on praiseworthiness.