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  • 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.

  • John Russon

    Continental Philosophy Group Talk (John Russon, Guelph)

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

    A specialist in continental philosophy, Professor Russon's recent work had dealt with the formation of personal identity and with the issues that structure our meaningful involvement in everyday life. He has also published on Hegel, phenomenology (especially on Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger and Derrida) and ancient philosophy (especially Plato and Aristotle).

  • Chunghyoung Lee explaining in front of a computer screen

    Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Chunghyoung Lee, Postech, South Korea)

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

    Chunghyoung Lee from Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech) works in the philosophy of science (especially
    physics and mathematics), metaphysics, and philosophical logic. In particular, he focuses his research on closed spacetime and the conventionality of simultaneity. He is also interested in general issues of history and social studies of science.