Panel: The Greater Picture — Philosophical Issues in Modern Physics
A panel of physics and philosophy professors tackle philosophical issues in modern physics.
12 events found.
Events
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Physics Grad Lounge, McLennan Physical Labs MP110, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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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, CanadaThe 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.
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Colloquium (Lisa Shapiro, Simon Fraser University)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaProfessor 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.
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UTM Debate on the Ethics of Abortion
New North Building, Rm. 1210, UTM 3359 Mississauga Rd., Mississauga, ON, Canada -
Continental Philosophy Group Talk (John Russon, Guelph)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaA 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).
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Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Chunghyoung Lee, Postech, South Korea)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaChunghyoung 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. -
Irregular Migrants, Refugees, and Open Borders: What Is to Be Done? (Joseph Carens, Toronto)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 401 170 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoseph Carens, an advocate of open borders, focuses on contemporary political theory, especially on issues related to immigration and political community.
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Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Hasko von Kriegstein, Ryerson)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaHasko von Kriegstein's main research interests lie in business ethics and normative ethical theory. He thinks that the most promising way of defending capitalist institutions lies in showing that they are conducive to public welfare.
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Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Geoff Sayre-McCord, UNC–Chapel Hill)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaGeoff Sayre-McCord, the Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, has worked and published extensively on moral theory, metaethics, the history of ethics, and epistemology.
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Colloquium (David Sedley, Cambridge)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaProfessor Sedley's research is in 1st century BC philosophy and Plato's Phaedo. His publications include Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity, 2007 (Berkeley) and The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato’s Theaetetus, 2004 (Oxford).
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Annual Toronto Workshop on Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaNew work on the concept of hylomorphism in Aristotle, featuring talks by Mary Louise Gill, David Charles, and others.
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Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Group Talk (Julia Staffel, Colorado)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJulia Staffel specializes in formal epistemology and traditional epistemology, and her work also relates to issues in philosophical logic, philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science. In this talk she will argue that there is a large class of rationality judgments we routinely endorse that fall neither into the category of doxastic nor the category of propositional rationality.