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SUMMARY:Acosmism and Pantheism in Spinoza and German Idealism
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a two-day conference on acosmism and pantheism in Spinoza and German idealism\, Kant\, and Post-Kantian philosophy. Hosted by Michael Rosenthal and Nick Stang. \nPlease note: all events begin at listed times\, not 10 or 15 minutes after \nProgram\nMonday\, May 1\n9:30–11:00 \nKarolina Hübner (Cornell)\, “How to Be a Part of an Infinite Thing” \n11:10–12:40 \nSanem Soyarslan (North Carolina State)\, “How to Understand the Ineliminable Weakness of Finite Modes in Spinoza” \nLunch  \n1:40–3:10 \nJosefine Klingspoor (Yale)\, “Competitive and Non-Competitive Models of Finite and Divine Agency in Spinoza” \n3:20–4:50 \nKristin Primus (UC Berkeley)\, “Spinoza and the Dissolution of Discrete Minds” \n5:00–6:30 \nMichael Rosenthal (Toronto)\, “The Provisional World” \n  \nTuesday\, May 2\n 10:30–Noon \nYitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins)\, “Ai’n [אין]\, Acosmism\, and the Return to Nothingness in Hassidism\, Salomon Maimon\, and Spinoza.” \nLunch  \n 1:40–3:10 \nJames Kreines (Claremont McKenna)\, “From Shapeless Abyss towards Self-Developing Thought: Hegel and Spinoza” \n3:20–4:50 \nNick Stang (Toronto)\, “Hegel and omnis determinatio est negatio: Using Spinoza to Overcome Spinoza” \n5:00–6:30 \nBrady Bowman (Penn State)\, “The Problem of Acosmism: Is There One?”
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/conference-on-acosmism-and-pantheism/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Nicholas Vrousalis\, Erasmus Rotterdam)
DESCRIPTION:The Ethics and Political Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Nicholas Vrousalis\, an associate professor in Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Dr. Vrousalis’s work revolves around distributive ethics\, democratic theory\, and the history of political philosophy\, with an emphasis on Kant\, Hegel\, and Marx. \nTalk Title\nExploitation as Domination: An Overview \nTalk Abstract\nThe exploitation of human by human is a globally pervasive phenomenon. Slavery\, serfdom\, and the patriarchy are part of its lineage. Guest and sex workers\, commercial surrogacy\, precarious labour contracts\, sweatshops\, and markets in blood\, vaccines\, or human organs are contemporary manifestations of exploitation under capitalism.What makes these exploitative transactions unjust? And is capitalism inherently exploitative? This book offers answers to these two questions. In response to the first question\, it argues that exploitation is a form of domination\, self-enrichment through the domination of others. On the domination view\, exploitation complaints are not\, fundamentally\, about harm\, coercion\, or unfairness. Rather\, they are about who serves whom and why. Exploitation\, in a word\, is a dividend of servitude: the dividend the powerful extract from the servitude of the vulnerable. In response to the second question\, the book argues that this servitude is inherent to capitalist relations between consenting adults; capital just is monetary title to control over the labour capacity of others. It follows that capitalism\, the mode of production where capital predominates\, is an inherently unjust social structure. \nAbout the Ethics and Political Philosophy Group\nThe Ethics and Political Philosophy Group meets periodically throughout the year to discuss topics in value theory and related fields\, including meta-ethics\, normative ethics\, applied ethics\, social and political philosophy\, philosophy of law\, moral psychology\, practical reason\, agency\, and identity.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/ethics-and-political-philosophy-group-talk-nicholas-vrousalis-erasmus-rotterdam/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230504T170000
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SUMMARY:Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Francesca Zaffora Blando\, Carnegie Mellon)
DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Philosophy of Science Group is pleased to welcome guest speaker Francesca Zaffora Blando\, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Zaffora Blando specializes in logic\, formal epistemology\, and the philosophy of science—in particular\, the philosophy of probability and induction. Most of her work is devoted to showing that the theory of algorithmic randomness—a branch of  computability  theory—can be fruitfully applied to shed light on the foundations of inductive learning. \nThis is an in-person event\, but audience members can also join the livestream on Zoom: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/8187874412 \nTalk Title\nPride and Probability \nTalk Abstract\nConvergence-to-the-truth theorems are a staple of Bayesian epistemology. Yet rather than seeing them as an asset of the Bayesian framework\, a number of authors take them to be the Achilles heel of Bayesianism. Most recently\, Gordon Belot argued that these results mandate a sweeping epistemic immodesty on the part of Bayesian agents\, since Bayesian agents are bound to believe they will be inductively successful even when they are guaranteed to fail on a topologically “large” collection of data streams. My aim in this talk is to shed new light on the question of when Bayesian convergence to the truth occurs not only on a set of probability one\, but also on a co-meagre set (a topologically typical set). I will show that\, by classifying the inductive problems faced by a Bayesian agent (the random variables a Bayesian agent has to successfully estimate) using the tools of descriptive set theory and computability theory\, one can identify natural classes of learning problems for which convergence to the truth indeed happens on a co-meagre set. Moreover\, appealing to computability theory allows to offer a much more fine-grained analysis of the phenomenon of Bayesian convergence to the truth. In particular\, I will show that the theories of algorithmic randomness and effective genericity can be used to single out specific co-meagre sets of data streams along which successful learning provably occurs\, no matter which inductive problem from a given class of effective inductive problems the agent is trying to solve.\nAbout the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group hosts talks on logic\, general philosophy of science\, and philosophy of the particular sciences\, as well as talks in allied areas such as formal epistemology\, decision theory\, and the metaphysics of science.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/logic-science-francesca-zaffora-blando-carnegie-mellon/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Life of Kathryn P. Morgan
DESCRIPTION:In honour of our late colleague Professor Emerita Kathryn P. Morgan\, the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) and the Department of Philosophy will be hosting a memorial service to celebrate her life\, legacy\, and work. \nAll those planning to attend are asked to RSVP no later than March 31\, 2023. \nMasks are encouraged at the event.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/celebrating-the-life-of-kathryn-morgan/
LOCATION:William Doo Auditorium\, 45 Willcocks Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1C7
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Birgit Kellner\, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Birgit Kellner\, a Buddhologist and Tibetologist who since 2015 has served as the director of the Institute for Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia in Vienna\, part of the Austrian Academy of Science. Previously\, she was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Hamburg\, as well as a visiting professor at the University of California\, Berkeley. In 2010 she joined the University of Heidelberg as a professor of Buddhist Studies within the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context.” \nThis is an in-person event\, but those wishing to can also join the livestream. \nJoin Zoom Meeting:\nhttps://utoronto.zoom.us/j/87295525023\nPasscode: 128515 \nTalk Title\nAllies\, Adversaries . . .  or Something Else? On Contextualism and Philosophical Engagement in the Study of Indian Buddhist Philosophy \nTalk Abstract\nThe study of Indian Buddhist philosophy in Europe\, Northern America\, as well as Japan has historically been dominated by a historico-philological approach. Scholars have pored over Sanskrit manuscripts that are frequently preserved only in fragments\, and painstakingly studied this evidence with the help of historical Chinese and Tibetan translations. They have struggled to establish relative chronologies in historical settings where external data is scarce; they have reconstructed important debates and traced the development of theories\, ideas and arguments. Implicit in such endeavours is a contextualism that considers “philosophy” as a historically situated and culturally contextualized enterprise. As the academic discipline of philosophy extends its gaze towards Asian traditions\, studies that philosophically engage with their ideas and explore them on the backdrop of contemporary (often analytic) philosophy have gained ground\, and at times issued challenges to historico-philological approaches and their contextualism. This talk will outline contextualism and philosophical engagement as two distinct approaches\, drawing on the field of Indian Buddhist philosophy in particular\, and it will advance an argument about how they are\, or should be\, related to each other. \nThe Global Philosophy Research Interest Group explores the benefits of drawing on diverse traditions of thought in approaching philosophical questions. These include novel insights into familiar problems\, new questions and research directions\, and fresh methodologies. We work to deprovincialize and decolonize all aspects of philosophy in the academy. The group currently has strengths in Sanskrit philosophy\, and Chinese philosophy\, Indian philosophy in English\, and classical Islamic philosophy.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global-philosophy-research-interest-group-talk-birgit-kellner-austrian-academy-of-sciences/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230512T170000
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SUMMARY:Joint Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind & Logic and Philosophy of Science Research Interest Groups Talk (Justin Bledin\, Johns Hopkins)
DESCRIPTION:The Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind Research Group and the Logic and Philosophy of Science Research Group welcome as guest speaker Justin Bledin\, an associate professor of Philosophy at John Hopkins University. His core research develops an informational view of logic and deductive inquiry. He also serves as the director of graduate studies in the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins. \nTalk Title\nNegative Individuals in a Semantics of Menus \nTalk Abstract\nI explore a nonstandard perspective on the logical foundations of English that shifts the focus from the truth value to what I will call the “menu.” On this view\, speakers demonstrate their logical competence by building or constructing alternative sets\, or menus\, of different items throughout the grammar—determiner phrases signify menus of entities\, while verb phrases signify menus of states\, and so forth. The logical connectives are ‘menu constructors’: conjunction is a collective operator for putting combinations of items on a menu\, disjunction contributes nondeterminism or choice between items on a menu\, while negation renders items ‘off menu’ by introducing negative individuals or states. The inclusion of negative individuals in my semantic theory allows for a non-Montagovian alternative to generalized quantifier theory on which determiner phrases are interpreted uniformly in a lower type as menus of entities rather than in a higher-order type as generalized quantifiers or property sets. The primary linguistic application of the theory pertains to the debate between the collective “non-Boolean” theory of conjunction based on plurality formation versus the traditional intersective “Boolean” theory based on logical conjunction. I demonstrate how a collective conjunction can be integrated with my semantics for negation to yield appropriate truthmaking conditions for sentences that involve coordinations with non-upward entailing determiner phrases\, which have previously been considered one of the toughest challenges for the collective theory.  \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/lemm-interest-group-talk-justin-bledin-johns-hopkins/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Maṇḍana on Ritual Duties
DESCRIPTION:In this weeklong workshop\, we will read\, translate\, and discuss Maṇḍana’s Vidhiviveka (“Discernment about Commands”)\, chapters 12—14\, with Elliot Stern (Philadelphia)\, Lawrence McCrea (Cornell)\, Andrew Ollett (Chicago)\, Parimal Patil (Harvard)\, Akane Saito (Austrian Academy of Sciences)\, Nilanjan Das (Toronto)\, and many others. For chapters 12 and 13\, we will also read Vācaspati’s commentary (Nyāyakaṇikā). \nIf you would like to join\, please contact Elisa Freschi\, and she will share the working version of the edition with you.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/workshop-ma%e1%b9%87%e1%b8%8dana-on-ritual-duties/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Fifth Annual Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Representations play a central role in scientists’ understanding of the world. From mathematical models to diagrams\, different representations in highly varied contexts yield diverse insights across the physical\, biological\, and social sciences. Although how a phenomenon is represented has far-reaching ramifications for how it is understood\, the literatures on scientific understanding and scientific representation remain largely independent of each other. The time is ripe to foster greater synergy between these two areas in the philosophy of science\, as they face complementary problems—and hold the promise of complementary solutions. \nThis hybrid conference will be held in honor of the late Margie Morrison. Keynote speakers are Eran Tal (McGill) and Agnes Bolinska (South Carolina). \nThose interested in attending in person should register here. Those wishing to attend online can do so at this link.  \nFind out more about the SURe workshop series.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/fifth-annual-scientific-understanding-and-representation-sure-workshop/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 & online\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George
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