Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach currently holds the chair of "Diversifying Philosophies" at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Her research focuses on world philosophies
Join the PCU and its three invited speakers for the 2022 Bioethics Symposium, "The Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy of Abortion and Other Matters of Life and Death." Speakers are Donald C. Ainslie, Steven Coyne, and Wayne Sumner.
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Rory harder titled "Updates beyond Semantics and Pragmatics."
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Eliran Haziza titled "Are the Norms of Inquiry Epistemic?"
Alex Worsnip (UNC) currently pursues philosophical interests in the theory of rationality and epistemology (especially political epistemology).
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Seyed Yarandi titled "Doxastic Wronging and Commendatory Reasons."
Claude Romano, an associate professor of Philosophy at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and a professorial fellow at Australian Catholic University, works in contemporary philosophy, especially philosophical hermeneutics and phenomenology.
Metaphysically emergent phenomena synchronically depend on, yet are also to some extent autonomous from, complex lower-level physical goings-on. Jessica Wilson will speak about two forms of emergence, weak and strong, and argue for free will as a strongly emergent phenomenon.
The period 100 BCE to 200 CE saw some of the most far-reaching innovations in Western philosophical history, including a striking efflorescence of philosophy in the Mediterranean, especially in the east; old systems were revitalized through discussion and debate with new (including Christianity).
Matti Eklund has been Chair Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Uppsala University in Sweden since 2013. His work concentrates primarily on metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of logic.
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Melissa Rees titled "Uninformed Consent."
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Valerie Bernard titled "Sartre and Naive Realism."
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Damian Melamedoff-Vosters titled "Obligation and Causation in Kant’s Second Analogy."
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Dylan Shaul titled "Hegel’s Concept of Reconciliation: On the ‘Highest Goal’ of Philosophy."
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Rowan Mellor titled "Skepticism about the No-Difference Challenge."
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Julia Smith titled "Higher-Order Evidence and Higher-Order Attitudes."
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Manual Vasquez Villavicencio.
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Nicole Yokum.
Join us for the book launch and discussion of Phenomenology of Black Spirit (Edinburgh University Press), authored by Biko Mandela Gray (Syracuse) and Ryan J. Johnson (Elon), with discussion partners Rebecca Comay (Toronto) and Rinaldo Walcott (Toronto).
The University of Toronto Philosophy Course Union (PCU) invites you to their annual Symposium on Love! On the menu: two talks (by Alex Koo and Zoe Anthony) and a workshop (with Sophia Whicher) on that most elusive feeling.
Tamar Lando (Columbia) has a particular interest in modal logic, topological and probabilistic semantics, as well as philosophical theories of chance, coincidence, and luck.
Allauren Forbes's (McMaster) research lies at the intersection of feminist philosophy and early modern philosophy.
Angela Potochnik is a professor of Philosophy and the director of the Center for the Public Engagement with Science at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Potochnik's research addresses the nature of science and its successes, the relationships between science and the public, and methods in population biology.
Jessica Flanigan is the Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values at the University of Richmond, where she is also an associate professor of Leadership Studies and of Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. Her research addresses the nature and limits of people’s enforceable rights.
Join us for the 2023 edition of the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP). This year the workshop will focus on Aristotle's Organon.
Viacheslav Zahorodniuk, a current postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy, is working on a project dedicated to Hume’s epistemology and methodological approaches under the supervision of Donald C. Ainslie.
Pirachula Chulanon (Toronto Metropolitan) specializes in Kant's theories of knowledge and mind. His work concerns the origins and limits of our understanding of our own humanity and rationality. He pairs this with research and teaching interests in ethics and aesthetics, especially theories of art in the German-speaking tradition after Kant.
Rainer Forst (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), winner of the 2012 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, works mainly on political theory, pragmatism, tolerance, and political and social justice. He is considered one of the world's most eminent authorities on the subject of toleration. This year's Simon Lectures occur under the general title "The Nature of Normative Concepts: Dependence vs. Independence."
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. This session will also allow you to interact with alumni during a moderated Q&A session. ... Read More
Espen Hammer, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Temple University, is a Norwegian philosopher whose main focus is on the post-Kantian European tradition of philosophy. Most of his work deals with questions of ethics, politics and subjectivity.
Reza Hadisi (Toronto) pursues questions in ethics, epistemology, and action theory through the study of the history of philosophy. He is particularly interested in the Medieval Arabic and Persian traditions and Kant.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, an associate professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, in his theoretical work draws liberally from the Black radical tradition, contemporary philosophy of language, contemporary social science, German transcendental philosophy, materialist thought, and histories of activism and activist thinkers.
Brian Bitar, a sessional lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, concentrates his research on moral and political philosophy, with consideration of their metaphysical basis. He specializes in the early modern period.
Joseph Len "Joey" Miller is an assistant professor of Philosophy at West Chester University who specializes in Native American philosophy and ethics. As an enrolled member of Muscogee Nation, his research focuses on understanding the ethical frameworks of his ancestors and how these frameworks have been adapted to address settler colonialism.
Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, is renowned for his contributions to philosophy of language and epistemology, whose tools in his more recent work he brings to bear on questions of political philosophy.
Food for thought: Join us for the annual conference showcasing the best undergraduate research in Philosophy of 2023, as well as keynote speaker Sol Goldberg of the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.
Taras Lyutyy, a visiting professor from Ukraine, specializes in the philosophy of Nietzsche, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophy of culture.
Elena Gordon is currently an Extending New Narratives Postdoctoral Research Fellow at McGill University. She mainly works on the philosophy of David Hume, but her research for the Extending New Narratives project examines Catharine Macaulay's (1731-1791) philosophy of education, with a particular focus on the role of non-human animals in human moral and epistemic development.
In this lecture and workshop hosted by the Dramaturgies of Resistance Working Group, Emmanuel Renault (Université Paris Nanterre) will address the return of labour within critical theory and the experience of exploitation in theories of domination.
Christopher M. Howard, an assistant professor of Philosophy at McGill University, mainly works at the intersection of normative ethics and metaethics. He also enjoys writing and talking about issues in political philosophy, moral psychology, and the history of ethics, as well as issues surrounding the ethics of technology.
Harmen Grootenhuis, a visiting graduate student from the University of Groningen, will be speaking on Spinoza.
Huw Price, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Center for Science and Thought, University of Bonn, and Emeritus Bertrand Russell Professor at the University of Cambridge., will be speaking about quantum entanglement.
Sajjad Rizvi (Exeter) is an intellectual historian interested in the course of philosophy in the Islamic world both past and present. He also takes an increasing interest in how that study and category of philosophy coincides with the emergent category of global philosophy.
Join us for a two-day conference on acosmism and pantheism in Spinoza and German idealism, Kant, and Post-Kantian philosophy. Hosted by Michael Rosenthal and Nick Stang. Please note: all events begin at listed times, not 10 or 15 minutes after Program Monday, May 1 9:30–11:00 Karolina Hübner (Cornell), “How to Be a ... Read More
Nicholas Vrousalis, an associate professor of Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, works on distributive ethics, democratic theory, and the history of political philosophy, with an emphasis on Kant, Hegel, and Marx.
Francesca Zaffora Blando (Carnegie Mellon) devotes most of her work to showing that the theory of algorithmic randomness can be fruitfully applied to shed light on the foundations of inductive learning.
The Women and Gender Studies Institute and the Department of Philosophy are hosting a memorial service in honour of the late Professor Emerita Kathryn P. Morgan celebrating her life, legacy, and work.
Birgit Kellner is a Buddhologist and Tibetologist who serves as the director of the Institute for Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia in Vienna, part of the Austrian Academy of Science.
Justin Bledin is an associate professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. His core research develops an informational view of logic and deductive inquiry.
In this weeklong workshop, we will read, translate, and discuss Maṇḍana's Vidhiviveka ("Discernment about Commands"), chapters 12—14, with a group of international scholars.
The fifth annual SURe Workshop, in honour of Margie Morrison and with keynote speakers Eran Tal (McGill) and Agnes Bolinska (South Carolina) aims to foster greater synergy between scientific understanding and scientific representation in the philosophy of science, as they face complementary problems—and hold the promise of complementary solutions.
Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie), Canada Research Chair in Africana Studies, is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, cross-appointed with Canadian Studies and International Development Studies. He specializes in Africana philosophy and philosophy of race, with general interest in social and political philosophy and ethics.
This three-day event will celebrate the life and work of our dear colleague Mohan Matthen, who is retiring this year. Program JULY 13 9:00-9:15 AM Introduction and Welcome 9:15-10:15 AM Lana Kuhle (Illinois State), "The Tone of Embodiment in Perception & Action" 10:30-11:30 AM Casey O’Callaghan (Washington in St. Louis), ... Read More
Sean M. Smith, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa works at the intersection of Indian Buddhist philosophy (with a particular emphasis on the Pāli tradition) and contemporary philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and moral psychology.
This conference will celebrate the work and life of our cherished colleague Tom Hurka, who is retiring this year. It will take place in person in the Jackman Humanities Building at the University of Toronto, as well as being live-streamed. To register for the Zoom link, please contact the assistant ... Read More
Brian Bitar, a sessional lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, concentrates his research on moral and political philosophy, with consideration of their metaphysical basis. He specializes in the early modern period.
Jenann Ismael is the inaugural William H. Miller III Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in philosophy of physics, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mind.
Pauline Kleingeld is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. Her academic interests lie in Kant and Kantian philosophy, as well as in ethics and political philosophy.
Join 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.
John Campbell, the Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, has main research interests in the theory of meaning, metaphysics, and the philosophy of psychology. He is currently working on the question of whether consciousness, and in particular sensory awareness, plays any key role in our knowledge of our surroundings.
Lawrence Pasternack, a professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University, focuses his work on Kant, with publications across his ethical theory, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.
Rainer Forst (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), winner of the 2012 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, works mainly on political theory, pragmatism, tolerance, and political and social justice. He is considered one of the world's most eminent authorities on the subject of toleration. This year's Simon Lectures occur under the general title "The Nature of Normative Concepts: Dependence vs. Independence."
David Suarez is a part-time assistant professor of Philosophy at U of T. His work aims to understand and rehabilitate post-Kantian philosophy.
This two-day workshop offers engagement with questions that have been at the forefront of political discourse in recent years: Can uncivil, violent resistance ever be justified as a means of protest? Speakers include Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill), Candice Delmas (Northeastern), Jeffrey Howard (University College London), Cristina Lafont (Northwestern), Chong-Ming Lim (Nanyang Tech), José Medina (Northwestern), Temi Ogunye (Oxford), Avia Pasternak (Toronto), Erin R. Pineda (Smith College), Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ Ṣóyẹmí (Oxford), and Daniel Viehoff (NYU).
This two-day workshop with international guests will examine various aspects of the philosophy of Francisco Suárez (1548-1617), a scholastic philosopher working at the crossroads of late medieval and early modern philosophy.
Julia Jorati is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The main focus of Dr. Jorati’s research is the history of early modern philosophy, at the moment especially debates about slavery and race in the 17th and 18th centuries.
James Madaio is a research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. His areas of interest lie in Indian philosophical traditions, the historiography and genealogy of modern Hindu movements, Indic theories of the self, pedagogy, and hermeneutics, and cross-cultural philosophy and dialogues.
