In his talk, ‘Hegel’s account of thinking in his Logics’, Prof. Tolley will forumalate a critical assessment and partial defense of Hegel's theologized (rather than Kantian-transcendental) conception of logic.
In her talk, "Logical Disagreement", Prof. Hattiangadi investigates three approaches to the semantics of normative statements and judgments in application to logical disagreement, and argues that none of these semantic theories is able to provide an adequate account of what we disagree about when we disagree about logic.
Talk Title: "The Stoic Semantics for Nouns"
Organized by the Philosophy Course Union, UNESCO World Philosophy Day will be marked with a lecture by Alva Noë of UC Berkeley, who specializes in perception, consciousness, and theories of art.
Talk Title: "An Intellectualist Conception of Human Freedom: Action and Control in the Late Thirteenth Century"
Prof. Vertin's research interests have been in epistemology and the philosophy of religion. Prof. Vertin's talk, “Theology in the Church”, will be followed by a reception.
Owen Pikkert, PhD candidate at U of T, works primarily in early modern philosophy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion.
Talk Title: "A Novel Approach to the Phenomenal Overflow Thesis"
Prof. Wolf will discuss similarities and differences between aesthetic and moral responsibility and speculate on what a consideration of aesthetic responsibility tells us about both responsibility and humanity.
The History of Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome guest speaker Steven Methven, David Mitchell Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Oxford University. Dr. Methven's specialities are the history of analytic philosophy, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mathematics.
Prof. Gurpreet Rattan (Toronto) and Prof. Herman Cappelan (Oslo) are co-hosting a one-day workshop on conceptual engineering, featuring speakers Cheryl Misak, Tim Sundell, Steven Methven, and more.
Robert Mason is a PhD student in U of T's Department of Philosophy whose research is in early modern philosophy and ethics. Robert's talk is titled "Leibniz on the Determination of Substances in Possible Worlds".
