Speaker: Mark Alznauer (Northwestern) More info to come. This event will be followed by an all-day workshop on Saturday, September 5, on Mark Alznauer's forthcoming book, Hegel's Sole Idea: The Last Great Metaphysical System (Chicago, 2026).
The workshop will be about Prof. Mark Alznauer's forthcoming book, Hegel's Sole Idea: The Last Great Metaphysical System (Chicago, 2026). More information to come. Contact Nick Stang (nick.stang@utoronto.ca) for workshop materials.
Join us on Wednesday, September 9, for our annual philosophy book sale, held in Room 401. The book sale will run from 10 am - 5:00 pm. Cash only, please. Proceeds from the sale will go to the Graduate Philosophy Student Union (GPSU).
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
The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Daniel Nolan, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He specializes in metaphysics, especially hyperintensionality and the use of impossible worlds to resolve metaphysical problems. Daniel has additional interests in possible ... 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
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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 Peter King (University of Toronto), Gyula Klima (Fordham University), Simone L. Migliaro (Humboldt University, Berlin – University of Toronto), Calvin Normore (University of California, Los Angeles), Claude Panaccio (Université du Québec à Montreal), and Giorgio Pini (Fordham University). ... 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.
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.
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.
