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    2019 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference

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

    Every year, our department hosts a Philosophy Research Conference for undergraduate students to showcase top work at the university. This year's conference will feature 20 student talks, as well as a keynote presentation by Professor Alice MacLachlan of York University. The conference will also see the launch of two journals, volume 20 of Noēsis and the inaugural issue of the journal of the University of Toronto Undergraduate Bioethics Society (UTUBS). All are welcome!

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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Maria Alvarez, King’s College London)

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

    Maria Alvarez, professor of philosophy at King's College London, specializes in the philosophy of action, including the metaphysics and explanation of actions. She also teaches in the field of ethics and metaethics. Her talk will focus on the work of G. E. M. Anscombe to help elucidate the question of whether nonhuman animals have moral agency.

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    Continental Philosophy Group Talk (Daniel Breazeale, University of Kentucky)

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

    Daniel Breazeale has been at the University of Kentucky since 1971. He specializes in German philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, with a research focus on post-Kantian idealism and the philosophy of J. G. Fichte. Other interests include existentialism, skepticism, and social and political philosophy.  

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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Garrett Cullity, University of Adelaide)

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

    Garrett Cullity, Hughes Professor of Philosophy at the University of Adelaide, is a moral philosopher whose work includes publications on eight broad topics in moral philosophy, including practical reasons and rationality, value and fittingness, moral epistemology, and beneficence and aid.

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    Ontario Philosophy Teachers’ Association (OPTA) Conference

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

    The annual OPTA full-day conference consists of a plenary and break-out sessions on topics of two kinds: theoretical sessions led by university professors, and pedagogy-oriented sessions delivered by practicing high school philosophy teachers.

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    Conference: The Idea of Freedom: 19th and 20th Century Perspectives

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

    "The Idea of Freedom: 19th and 20th Century Perspectives" is organized by Professors Owen Ware and Michael Morgan, and will also feature lectures by Jacqueline Mariña, Dean Moyar, and Karin Nisenbaum.

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    Experiencing What’s Not There: A Workshop on Hallucinations, Dreams, Imagination, and Virtual Reality

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

    This workshop on sensory experience brings together some of the best current research on the experience of what's not there, from both philosophers and scientists. Although different in some ways, hallucinations, dreams, imagination, and virtual reality — all being experiences of what's not there —overlap and intersect in interesting and important ways. By bringing together a diverse group of top researchers we hope to foster new and unconventional insights into these problem areas.

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    History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Owen Pikkert, U of T)

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

    Dr. Pikkert is currently a Lecturer here at the University of Toronto at the St. George campus. In his research, he continues to work on the philosophy of Leibniz. Talk Title Clarke, Leibniz, and du Châtelet on the Existence of a Necessary Being

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    Continental Philosophy Group Talk (Robert Stern, University of Sheffield)

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

    Professor Robert Stern's main interests in the history of philosophy are 19th-century post-Kantian German philosophy, especially Hegel. In contemporary philosophy, he focuses on epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy. His current work centres around the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Løgstrup, as well as around Martin Luther viewed from a philosophical perspective.

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    2019 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy

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

    Join us for a two-day colloquium comprising talks on medieval philosophy. The colloquium is organized by Deborah Black, Peter King, and Martin Pickavé.

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    Workshop on “The Radical Demand in Løgstrup’s Ethics” by Robert Stern

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

    Learn more about the work of the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Løgstrup (1905-1981), in particular about his key text titled "The Ethical Demand" (1956) from Professor Robert Stern, the author of "The Radical Demand in Løgstrup's Ethics." Stern offers a full account of Løgstrup's text and situates Løgstrup's distinctive position in relation to Kant, Kierkegaard, Levinas, Darwall and Luther.

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    UTM Philosophy to host talk by Beverley McLachlin, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

    Kaneff Centre UTM, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

    The UTM Department of Philosophy is delighted to announce that on September 24, Justice Beverley McLachlin will visit UTM to give us a glimpse inside her newly published memoir, Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law (Simon & Schuster, September 2019).  McLachlin, who holds BA and MA ... Read More