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  • b2B Careers in Philosophy

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

    Join Philosophy alumni in working in various non-academic fields to learn about their career paths and the role of philosophy in following them.

  • Close crop of Sara Aronowitz, who has medium-length borwn hair and glasses, standing against an outside brick wall wearing a gray T-shirt.

    Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Sara Aronowitz, Toronto)

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

    Sara Aronowitz, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, studies learning and memory in humans, machines, and idealized thinkers. In this talk she will consider the question of ideal rationality.

  • Screen shot of Mark Schroeder, a bald white man with glasses and a beard, sitting in a home office wearing a gray sweater.

    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Mark Schroeder, Southern California)

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

    Mark Schroeder (Southern California) works on areas of philosophy in some way connected to metaethics. He is interested in the ways in which rationality, reasons, value, and other "evaluative’" or "normative" categories are related to the mundane, physical world in which we live, in which things are round, red, or left of one another. For example, are there really facts about what is rational or not, to go along with the facts about what is round or not?

  • Close crop of Hagop Sarkissian, a middle-aged bald man with a slight, gray goatee and glasses, looking into the camera in front of a bookshelf.

    Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Hagop Sarkissian, CUNY)

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

    Hagop Sarkissian, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY, as well as a professor at CUNY's Graduate Center, focuses his research on moral psychology, drawing on other relevant disciplines (evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, Chinese philosophy) to inform his work.

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    The 15th Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP)

    Great Hall, Lillian Massey Building 125 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Join us for the 2024 edition of the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP). This year the workshop will focus on early Christian philosophy.

  • Close crop of David Morris, a middle-aged man, clean-shaven with receding gray hair, wearing bright blue spectacles, a blue flower-print shirt, and a blue blazer, smiling broadly into the camera.

    CANCELLED—Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk and Workshop (David Morris, Concordia)

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

    David Morris, a professor of Philosophy at Concordia and the graduate director at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture there, has main research interests in phenomenology, especially Merleau-Ponty, with a focus on the philosophy of the body, mind, and nature in relation to current biology and science.

  • Head shot of Daniel Muñoz, a man with short brown hair smiling broadly into the camera and wearing a dark blue button-down shirt

    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Daniel Muñoz, UNC)

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

    Daniel Muñoz is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, where he also forms part of the core faculty of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program. His work mostly counts as “normative ethics,” which means it’s too concrete to be “meta,” but not concrete enough to be useful. He is writing a book called "What We Owe to Ourselves." 

  • Head shot of Jeta Mulaj, a woman with long, thick black hair wearing a bright green shirt and looking seriously into the camera, her chin resting on on hand, her elbow propped up.

    Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Jeta Mulaj, Toronto Metropolitan)

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

    Jeta Mulaj, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University, specializes in feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy, critical theory, Marxism, and decolonial thought.

  • Head shot of Ellie Anderson, a young white woman with long blonde hair smiling brightly into the camera wearing a burnt-orange top while leaning against beige couch cushions.

    Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (Ellie Anderson, Pomona)

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

    Ellie Anderson, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Pomona College, specializes in continental European philosophy, with an emphasis on twentieth-century French philosophy and feminist theory. She also co-hosts the philosophy podcast Overthink.

  • Very dark etching of a skeletal man (Job) sitting with other bearded and turbaned men on the floor

    Modern Philosophical Readings of the Book of Job

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 318 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Join us for an international conference on modern philosophical readings of the Book of Job. Schedule Monday, April 1 (Jackman Humanities Building, 318) 10:00-10:15 Opening remarks:  Michael Rosenthal (Toronto) and Ynon Wygoda (Toronto) 10:15-11:30 José María Sánchez de León Serrano (Barcelona) The God of Imagination: Spinoza's Remarks on Job 11:30-11:45 ... Read More

  • On a royal blue background, the words "Philosophy Career Night, b2B, Careers in Law" alongside four paragraph symbols, alternating in red and light blue

    Philosophy Career Night – Careers in Law

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

    Join us at the upcoming Philosophy Career Night, Careers in Law. This is a great opportunity to discover the different career options available to you after graduation and what you can do now to prepare.

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    2024 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 & Room 418

    Let ideas take flight: Join us for the annual conference showcasing the best undergraduate research in Philosophy of 2024, as well as keynote speaker Kym Maclaren of the Department of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University.

  • Head shot of Igor Shoikhedbrod, a whiteman with short brown hair and a short beard, wearing a suit and tie in front of a gray background, smiling.

    Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Igor Shoikhedbrod, St. Francis Xavier)

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

    Igor Shoikhedbrod, an assistant professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University, works on political theory, legal theory, ethics, law, and political economy.

  • A black-and-white head shot of Sophie-Jan Arrien, a middle-aged woman with middle-length dark hair and eyes

    Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Sophie-Jan Arrien, Laval)

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

    Sophie-Jan Arrien is a professor of Philosophy at the Université Laval. Her research focuses on phenomenology, hermeneutics, aesthetics, German, and French philosophy, with a particular interest in the work of Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, and Paul Ricoeur.

  • Head shot of Antonia LoLordo, a middle-aged woman with mediaum-length gray hair and brown eyes standing smiling in front of a bookshelf and wearing a short-sleeved black blouse.

    History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Antonia LoLordo, Virginia)

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

    Antonia LoLordo, George C. and Clare F. Downing Memorial Professor of Philosophy and the chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, works on 17th- and 18th-century European philosophy, with a special interest in figures such as Gassendi, Locke, and Shepherd and topics such as causation, freedom, rationality, and canon formation.

  • Bara Kolenc, a middle-aged woman with shoulder-length dark hair wearing a loose, long-sleeved white top with a broad black neckline, standing to the right in a wide open studio space with blurred paintings and sculptures in the background.

    Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Bara Kolenc, Ljubljana)

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

    Bara Kolenc, a research associate at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, is also affiliated with the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis and currently serves as the president of the International Hegelian Association Aufhebung.

  • Gregor Moder, a bald white man with glasses dressed in short-sleeved shirt and jeans, stands in the middle of a glass doorway, showing urban reflections to both sides and the interior of the building in the middle. Tonally, everything is monochromatically blue-gray.

    Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Gregor Moder, Ljubljana)

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

    Gregor Moderis a senior research associate at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He co-founded Aufhebung—International Hegelian Association.

  • Black-and-white close crop of Curie Virág, an unsmiling, middle-aged East Asian woman with her long black hair tied in a low ponytail

    CANCELLED—Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Curie Virág, Warwick)

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

    Curie Virág, a senior research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, works in early and medieval Chinese philosophy and intellectual history, specializing in the history of ethics, moral psychology, and emotions.

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    Recent Work on Aristotle’s “De anima”: Workshop

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

    Please join us for a two-day workshop considering recent work on Aristotle's De anima.