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  • Miranda Fricker

    World Philosophy Day Lecture: Miranda Fricker (CUNY)

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    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.

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    Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire: a workshop — with Andrew Cole, Frank Ruda, and others

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

    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. 

  • Christopher Mole

    Alexander Lecture: Christopher Mole (UBC)

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    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”

  • Owen Pikkert

    Placement Practice Job Talk – Dr. Owen Pikkert

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

    Talk Title "The modal status of Leibniz's principle of sufficient reason"

  • Placement Practice Job Talk – Dr. Simona Vucu

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

    Talk Title   "Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, and Godfrey of Fontaines on sine qua non Causes"

  • Holly Andersen

    Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Holly Andersen, Simon Fraser University)

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

    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).

  • Michael Szlachta

    Placement Practice Job Talk – Michael Szlachta

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

    Talk Title “‘Why Did You Choose That?’ Some Thoughts on Preference and Motivation in Peter John Olivi’s Summa”

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    Workshop: New Perspectives on Mental State Attribution

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    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.

  • Philosophy Department Book Sale

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 401 170 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    In Room 401 of the Jackman Humanities Building on the following days:   Tuesday, December 11 from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Wednesday, December 12 from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Thursday, December 13 from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm   New and used ... Read More

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    Thinking towards Action: 2019 Underrepresented Philosophy Conference

    Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College 73 Queens Park Crescent East (91 Charles Street West), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    The 2019 Underrespresented Philosophy Conference by the Philosophy Course Union bridges disciplines to create an invested dialogue on the state of knowledge in higher learning and ethics in morally precarious times.

  • Lisa Shapiro

    Colloquium (Lisa Shapiro, Simon Fraser University)

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Professor Shapiro's research interests include early modern philosophy, feminism and philosophy, and philosophy of mind (especially perception and emotions). She co-authored the volume Emotion and Cognitive Life in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy with our department's Professor Martin Pickavé.