Brian Bitar, a sessional lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, concentrates his research on moral and political philosophy, with consideration of their metaphysical basis. He specializes in the early modern period.
Jenann Ismael is the inaugural William H. Miller III Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in philosophy of physics, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mind.
Pauline Kleingeld is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. Her academic interests lie in Kant and Kantian philosophy, as well as in ethics and political philosophy.
Join us for a two-day colloquium comprising talks and workshops in ancient and medieval philosophy. The colloquium is organized by Martin Pickavé, Deborah Black, and Peter King.
John Campbell, the Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, has main research interests in the theory of meaning, metaphysics, and the philosophy of psychology. He is currently working on the question of whether consciousness, and in particular sensory awareness, plays any key role in our knowledge of our surroundings.
Lawrence Pasternack, a professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University, focuses his work on Kant, with publications across his ethical theory, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.
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."
David Suarez is a part-time assistant professor of Philosophy at U of T. His work aims to understand and rehabilitate post-Kantian philosophy.
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).
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.
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.
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.
