The Québec-Ontario Conference in Early Modern Philosophy will include talks by Christian Leduc (Université de Montréal), Elliot Paul (Queens University), Sandrine Roux (Université du Québec à Montréal), and many more scholars working in early modern philosophy.
Professor Roberts' areas of specialization are formal semantics and pragmatics. She has been working on long-term projects that pertain to projective meaning and natural language metaphysics. She will deliver a talk titled "The Character of Epistemic Modals in Natural Language: Evidential Indexicals."
U of T Department of Philosophy and the Ontario Philosophy Teachers' Association present a workshop for high school educators on teaching philosophy. We encourage all members of the U of T philosophy community to attend! Lunch will be served.
Professor Strevens' research is in philosophy of science (including scientific explanation, complex systems, probability, the social structure of science) and the philosophical applications of cognitive science (especially the psychology of concepts).
Mark UNESCO World Philosophy Day with a lecture by Miranda Fricker of CUNY's Graduate Center. Professor Fricker's research includes feminist philosophy, social epistemology, and moral philosophy.
This one-day workshop is hosted by Professor Rebecca Comay. Visiting speakers will be Andrew Cole (Princeton) and Frank Ruda (Dundee). A full schedule and list of participants will be posted closer to the date of this event.
This year's Alexander Lecture welcomes Christopher Mole, Chair of the Programme in Cognitive Systems at UBC where he also teaches in the Department of Philosophy. Professor Mole will deliver a talk on “Dynamic Semantics, Embodied Syntax, and the Evidence of Sign-Language Aphasia”
Talk Title "The modal status of Leibniz's principle of sufficient reason"
Talk Title "Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, and Godfrey of Fontaines on sine qua non Causes"
Professor Andersen's research is in philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology, and particularly causation (application of causal methodology to case studies in philosophy of science, causal explanation, problems related to mental causation, and the metaphysics of causation).
Talk Title “‘Why Did You Choose That?’ Some Thoughts on Preference and Motivation in Peter John Olivi’s Summa”
This two-day workshop on new perspectives on mental state attribution is organized by Professor Jennifer Nagel and welcomes presentations by Rebecca Saxe (MIT), Neil Rabinowitz (Google DeepMind), Kristen Andrews (York), and more.
