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

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

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."

Philosophy Career Night – Careers in Law

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

Join us at the upcoming Philosophy Career Night, Careers in Law. This is a great opportunity to discover the different career options available to you after graduation and what you can do now to prepare. This session will also allow you to interact with alumni during a moderated Q&A session. ... Read More

CANCELLED—Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Espen Hammer, Temple)

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

Espen Hammer, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Temple University, is a Norwegian philosopher whose main focus is on the post-Kantian European tradition of philosophy. Most of his work deals with questions of ethics, politics and subjectivity.

Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Reza Hadisi, Toronto)

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

Reza Hadisi (Toronto) pursues questions in ethics, epistemology, and action theory through the study of the history of philosophy. He is particularly interested in the Medieval Arabic and Persian traditions and Kant.

Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Olufemi Taiwo, Georgetown)

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

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, an associate professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, in his theoretical work draws liberally from the Black radical tradition, contemporary philosophy of language, contemporary social science, German transcendental philosophy, materialist thought, and histories of activism and activist thinkers.

CANCELLED–History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Brian Bitar, Toronto)

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

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.

Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Joey Miller, West Chester)

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Joseph Len "Joey" Miller is an assistant professor of Philosophy at West Chester University who specializes in Native American philosophy and ethics. As an enrolled member of Muscogee Nation, his research focuses on understanding the ethical frameworks of his ancestors and how these frameworks have been adapted to address settler colonialism.

Guest Lecture by Jason Stanley (Yale)

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

Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, is renowned for his contributions to philosophy of language and epistemology, whose tools in his more recent work he brings to bear on questions of political philosophy.

2023 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference

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

Food for thought: Join us for the annual conference showcasing the best undergraduate research in Philosophy of 2023, as well as keynote speaker Sol Goldberg of the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.

History of Philosophy Group Talk (Taras Lyutyy, NaUKMA)

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

Taras Lyutyy, a visiting professor from Ukraine, specializes in the philosophy of Nietzsche, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophy of culture.

History of Philosophy Group Talk (Elena Gordon, McGill)

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

Elena Gordon is currently an Extending New Narratives Postdoctoral Research Fellow at McGill University. She mainly works on the philosophy of David Hume, but her research for the Extending New Narratives project examines Catharine Macaulay's (1731-1791) philosophy of education, with a particular focus on the role of non-human animals in human moral and epistemic development.

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