• Third Annual Toronto Bioethics Workshop

    Jackman Humanities Building 100

    The Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce the third annual Toronto Bioethics Workshop, taking place on Friday, June 12th and Saturday, June 13th at the St. George (downtown) campus of the University of Toronto. The theme of the workshop is philosophical bioethics, with a ... Read More

  • Bringing Quine and Lewis Back Together

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

    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

  • Linguistic Internalism and Externalism: Bridging Medieval and Contemporary Thought

    Jackman Humanities Building 100

    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