Victoria Day (University closed)
For the 2017-18 university-wide holiday schedule, please visit the U of T HR and Equity website.
12 events found.
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2018 Formal Epistemology Workshop (FEW)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe 2018 Formal Epistemology Workshop will present papers in formal epistemology, broadly construed to include related areas of philosophy as well as cognate disciplines like statistics, psychology, economics, computer science, and mathematics. This year's FEW will feature two keynote addresses, by Lara Buchak and Mike Titelbaum, as well as 10 submitted papers.
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CPAMP Research Talk: George Boys-Stones (Durham)
The Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy welcomes George Boys-Stones, Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. Professor Boys-Stones will deliver a talk on "'Becoming' as an End: A Forgotten Debate Over the Self in the Background to Plotinus".
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CPAMP Seminar: George Boys-Stones (Durham)
The Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy welcomes George Boys-Stones, Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. Professor Boys-Stones will lead a seminar on "Alcibiades' Error: Moral Beauty in Plato’s Symposium".
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Conference – Interdisciplinary Simmel
208 North House Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThis conference explores interdisciplinary approaches to the work of George Simmel; presenters include Omar Lizardo, Natàlia Cantó Milà, Elizabeth Goodstein, and more.
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Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Group Talk (Hartry Field, NYU)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaHartry Field's current research focuses on objectivity and indeterminacy, a priori knowledge, causation, and the semantic and set-theoretic paradoxes. He will talk on "Epistemology from a "Naturalistic" (but not Reliabilist) Perspective."
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Conference – Spinoza: New Directions in Research
170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThis year's speakers at this annual conference on Spinoza's philosophy include Lilli Alanen, John Carriero, Olli Koistinen, Jon Miller, Steve Nadler, Alan Nelson, Alison Peterman, and Noa Shein.
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2018 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 in ancient and medieval philosophy. The colloquium is organized by Martin Pickavé, Deborah Black, and Peter King.
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History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Ken Winkler, Yale)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaProfessor Winkler is a leading scholar of early modern philosophy best known for his work on Berkeley and Hume. He will deliver a talk titled "Locke on the Scope of Sensitive Knowledge".
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Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Serene Khader, Brooklyn College/CUNY)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaProfessor Khader's research focuses on moral and political issues relevant to women in the global South. Her work on adaptive preferences develops an approach to responding to choices made by oppressed and deprived people that perpetuate their own oppression and deprivation. She will deliver a talk titled "Transnational Feminisms and the Normativity Question".
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Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Jacob Stegenga, Cambridge)
Victoria College, Room 115 73 Queen Park's Crescent #106, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaA university lecturer in philosophy of science at Cambridge University, Jacob Stegenga's research focuses on methodological problems of medical research, conceptual questions in evolutionary biology, and fundamental topics in reasoning and rationality.
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Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Group Talk (Gabriel Greenberg, UCLA)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaProfessor Greenberg's research is oriented around language, mind, and depiction. His publications include “Beyond Resemblance”, in Philosophical Review (2013), and “Varieties of Iconicity”, in a special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2015).