2023 Jerome S. Simon Lectures (Rainer Forst, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Jackman Humanities Building 100, Victoria College 215, Claude Bissell Building 205

Rainer Forst (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), winner of the 2012 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, works mainly on political theory, pragmatism, tolerance, and political and social justice. He is considered one of the world's most eminent authorities on the subject of toleration. This year's Simon Lectures occur under the general title "The Nature of Normative Concepts: Dependence vs. Independence."

The Ethics of Uncivil Protest: A Workshop

Centre for Ethics Larkin Building, Room 200, 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, Canada

This two-day workshop offers engagement with questions that have been at the forefront of political discourse in recent years: Can uncivil, violent resistance ever be justified as a means of protest? Speakers include Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill), Candice Delmas (Northeastern), Jeffrey Howard (University College London), Cristina Lafont (Northwestern), Chong-Ming Lim (Nanyang Tech), José Medina (Northwestern), Temi Ogunye (Oxford), Avia Pasternak (Toronto), Erin R. Pineda (Smith College), Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ Ṣóyẹmí (Oxford), and Daniel Viehoff (NYU).

Francisco Suárez: Philosopher at the Crossroads

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

This two-day workshop with international guests will examine various aspects of the philosophy of Francisco Suárez (1548-1617), a scholastic philosopher working at the crossroads of late medieval and early modern philosophy.

Colloquium (Julia Jorati, Massachusetts Amherst)

Tartu College Event Space 3 Madison Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada

Julia Jorati is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The main focus of Dr. Jorati’s research is the history of early modern philosophy, at the moment especially debates about slavery and race in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (James Madaio, Czech Academy of Sciences)

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

James Madaio is a research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. His areas of interest lie in Indian philosophical traditions, the historiography and genealogy of modern Hindu movements, Indic theories of the self, pedagogy, and hermeneutics, and cross-cultural philosophy and dialogues.

Book Launch: Waheed Hussain, Living with the Invisible Hand

Centre for Ethics Larkin Building, Room 200, 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, Canada

Join us for the book launch of Living with the Invisible Hand: Markets, Corporations, and Human Freedom (OUP, 2023), by the late Waheed Hussain and edited by Arthur Ripstein and Nicholas Vrousalis.

Public Lecture (Michael Della Rocca, Yale)

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

Michael Della Rocca (Yale) is an authority on the history of early modern philosophy, rationalism, and contemporary metaphysics, as well as on epistemology and the philosophy of action.

Phantoms and Philosophy

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 8214

Calling all Witches and Wittgensteinians, all Golems and Gödelians, all Fairies and Fregeans, and all other philosophers with a taste for the eerie: the Philosophy Course Union (PCU) is excited to announce the return of its annual "Phantoms and Philosophy" event. Come dressed as your favourite philosopher and sit in on three presentations whose topics deal with the scarier side of philosophy.

2023 Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference

Centre for Ethics (Larkin 200), Jackman Humanities Building 100 & online

Join us for the the 22nd Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Amie L. Thomasson (Dartmouth) and Christine M. Korsgaard (Harvard).

Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Valerie Tiberius, Minnesota)

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

Valerie Tiberius, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, focuses her research and teaching on ethics and moral psychology, with a special interest in applying Humean principles to modern philosophical questions. Much of her work is centered at the junction of practical philosophy and practical psychology, examining how both disciplines can meaningfully improve lives.

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