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  • replica of the altar and utensils used during Athirathram

    Workshop: Maṇḍana on Various Types of Commands

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

    In this weeklong workshop, we will read, translate, and discuss Maṇḍana's Vidhiviveka ("Discernment about Commands"), chapter 15, with a group of international scholars.

  • Head shots of Stacy Chen (l), an East Asian woman with long black hair wearing a black top, and Nate Oppel (r), a white man with brown curly hair and glasses wearing a red hoodie under a casual jacket.

    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Nate Oppel & Stacy Chen, Toronto)

    Jackman Humanities Building 100

    Nate Oppel, a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy, will give a talk on our intentional capacity to revise beliefs, while Stacy Chen, also a U of T graduate student in Philosophy, will address in her lecture reasonableness in medical decision-making.

  • Close crop of Branden Fitelson, a middle-aged white man with short gray hair standing smiling in front of an open window.

    Public Lecture in Celebration of World Logic Day (Branden Fitelson, Northeastern)

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

    Branden Fitelson, a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University, shows how to apply the insights of David Lewis to repair Lewis's own triviality argument against the Adams's thesis, leading to a more reasonable rendition of the equation.

  • b2B Careers in Philosophy

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

    Join Philosophy alumni in working in various non-academic fields to learn about their career paths and the role of philosophy in following them.

  • Close crop of Sara Aronowitz, who has medium-length borwn hair and glasses, standing against an outside brick wall wearing a gray T-shirt.

    Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Sara Aronowitz, Toronto)

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

    Sara Aronowitz, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, studies learning and memory in humans, machines, and idealized thinkers. In this talk she will consider the question of ideal rationality.

  • Screen shot of Mark Schroeder, a bald white man with glasses and a beard, sitting in a home office wearing a gray sweater.

    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Mark Schroeder, Southern California)

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

    Mark Schroeder (Southern California) works on areas of philosophy in some way connected to metaethics. He is interested in the ways in which rationality, reasons, value, and other "evaluative’" or "normative" categories are related to the mundane, physical world in which we live, in which things are round, red, or left of one another. For example, are there really facts about what is rational or not, to go along with the facts about what is round or not?

  • Close crop of Hagop Sarkissian, a middle-aged bald man with a slight, gray goatee and glasses, looking into the camera in front of a bookshelf.

    Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Hagop Sarkissian, CUNY)

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

    Hagop Sarkissian, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY, as well as a professor at CUNY's Graduate Center, focuses his research on moral psychology, drawing on other relevant disciplines (evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, Chinese philosophy) to inform his work.

  • Detail color image of a fresco from the ancient city of Pompeii.

    The 15th Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP)

    Great Hall, Lillian Massey Building 125 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Join us for the 2024 edition of the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP). This year the workshop will focus on early Christian philosophy.

  • Close crop of David Morris, a middle-aged man, clean-shaven with receding gray hair, wearing bright blue spectacles, a blue flower-print shirt, and a blue blazer, smiling broadly into the camera.

    CANCELLED—Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk and Workshop (David Morris, Concordia)

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

    David Morris, a professor of Philosophy at Concordia and the graduate director at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture there, has main research interests in phenomenology, especially Merleau-Ponty, with a focus on the philosophy of the body, mind, and nature in relation to current biology and science.

  • Head shot of Daniel Muñoz, a man with short brown hair smiling broadly into the camera and wearing a dark blue button-down shirt

    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Daniel Muñoz, UNC)

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

    Daniel Muñoz is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, where he also forms part of the core faculty of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program. His work mostly counts as “normative ethics,” which means it’s too concrete to be “meta,” but not concrete enough to be useful. He is writing a book called "What We Owe to Ourselves."