2017 Graduate Student Orientation
Attention incoming graduate students! Meet faculty members, staff, and your fellow grad students, and get tips on how best to navigate your graduate experience and succeed in your program at U of T.
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Lecture – Perception (John Morrison, Barnard College)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoin assistant professor of philosophy at Barnard College John Morrison for a group talk on perception, philosophy of mind, object recognition, and more.
SSHRC Faculty Workshop
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe Department of Philosophy invites faculty members interested in applying for Insight Grants or related funding initiatives to attend a workshop and information session in which resources will be shared among potential applicants.
Continental Philosophy Group Talk (Paula Schwebel, Ryerson)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe department welcomes Paula Schwebel, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Ryerson University. Prof. Schwebel's research interests include Frankfurt School critical theory, 20th-century and contemporary Continental philosophy, modern Jewish thought, social and political philosophy, and philosophy and literature.
Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Guy Kahane, Oxford)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe E+P Group welcomes Oxford's Associate Professor Guy Kahane, whose specializations are practical ethics, ethics, and moral psychology, with a particular focus on meta-ethics, value theory, applied ethics, and the evolution, psychology, and neuroscience of morality.
2017 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 for graduate students and faculty working in ancient and/or medieval philosophy. The colloquium is organized by Martin Pickavé, Deborah Black and Peter King.
Colloquium (Stephen Yablo, MIT)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoin Stephen Yablo for a colloquium at the Jackman Humanities Institute. Professor Yablo's work is on identity, essence, causation, intrinsicness, paradox, metaphor, properties, existence, definition, conceivability, and truth.
Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Group Talk (Roger White, MIT)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRoger White's work considers epistemology and the philosophy of science, including perceptual justification, applications of probability to reasoning, skepticism, induction, and the role of explanatory considerations in theory assessment.
Joseph Boyle Memorial Event
St. Michael's College 81 St Mary Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoseph M. Boyle, Jr., was born in Philadelphia on July 30, 1942 and died on September 24, 2016. He was professor of philosophy at St. Michael’s College and the Department of Philosophy. He retired in 2013.
CPAMP Research Talk (Peter Adamson, Munich)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy is pleased to welcome Distinguished Visitor Dr. Peter Adamson from the Munich School of Ancient Philosophy (MUSAΦ) .
Leibniz Society of North America Meetings
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe Society's 11th Annual Conference will be co-hosted by the University of Toronto and McMaster University in 2017. Speakers at this two-day conference will include Julia Jorati (Ohio State University), Stephen Puryear (North Carolina State University), Martha Bolton (Rutgers University), and more.
Academic job market placement – Q+A with alumni
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 401 170 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, CanadaGuest speakers and U of T alumni Adam Harmer (UC Riverside), Owen Ware (UTM), and Anthony Bruno (McGill University) will answer questions about their experiences in the academic job market.
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