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SUMMARY:2023 Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 22nd Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference\, with keynote speakers Amie L. Thomasson (Dartmouth) and Christine M. Korsgaard (Harvard). \nPlease note that this is an in-person event: Friday morning sessions and lunch will happen at the Centre for Ethics (Larkin Building\, Room 200\, 15 Devonshire Place)\, sessions on Friday afternoon and all day Saturday will be in the Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (170 St. George Street). All talks will also be live-streamed. Links below the respective sessions. \nSCHEDULE\n  \nFriday\, November 3\, 2023\nSession 1\n(Centre for Ethics; Zoom)\nChair: Julia Minarik (University of Toronto) \n9:00-10:00 AM \nAlex Fisher (University of Cambridge)\, “Virtual Reality\, Perception\, and Imagination” \nCommentator: Cameron Yetman (University of Toronto) \n 10:10-11:10 AM \nEdvard Aviles Meza (Cornell University)\, “Imagination without Awareness” \nCommentator: Marybel Menzies (University of Toronto) \n11:20 AM-12:20 PM \nEmily Margaret FitzGerald (Columbia University)\, “Making Space for Virtual Kata in Embodied Imagination” \nCommentator: Yvette Wu (University of Toronto) \n  \nSession 2\n(JHB 100; Zoom)\nChair: Zain Raza (University of Toronto) \n1:30-2:30 PM \nAlexander Vega (Harvard University)\, “What Does It Mean to Be a Good Member of a Function Kind?” \nCommentator: Andriy Bilenkyy (University of Toronto) \n2:40-3:40 PM \nMinseok Kim (Syracuse University)\, “Way Nominalism: An Ontological Ground for Non-Nominal Quantification” \nCommentator: Marissa Bennett (University of Toronto) \n  \nKEYNOTE\n(JHB 100; Zoom)\n4:00-6:00 PM \nAmie Thomasson (Dartmouth College)\, “Starting a Step Back: Redirecting Metaphysics” \n  \n  \nSaturday November 4\, 2023\nSession 3\n(JHB 100\, Zoom)\nChair: Tessa Ng (University of Toronto) \n9:00-10:00 AM \nAlexander Drusda (University of Toronto)\, “Kant\, Korsgaard\, and Duties to Non-Human Animals” \nCommentator Faisal Bhabha (University of Toronto) \n10:10-11:10 AM \nSamuel Carlesson Tjernström (McGill University)\, “Substantializing the Metaphysics of Doxastic Wrongdoing” \nCommentator: Nate Oppel (University of Toronto) \n11:20 AM-12:20 PM \nAlessandro Giglia (Università della Svizzera Italiana)\, “Potential Infinity and Constant Domain Models” \nCommentator: Patrick Fraser (University of Toronto) \n  \nSession 4\n(JHB 100; Zoom)\nChair: Josh Brecka (University of Toronto) \n1:30-2:20 PM \nJonah Dunch (University of Toronto)\, “Anger and Remorse” \nCommentator: Jasmine Tremblay-D’Ettorre (University of Toronto) \n2:40-3:40 PM \nSarah Gregory (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)\, “Imposter Syndrome and Self-Respect” \nCommentator: Alexandra Gustafson (University of Toronto) \n  \nKEYNOTE\n(JHB 100; Zoom)\n4:00-6:00 PM \nChristine Korsgaard (Harvard University)\, “The Human Good” \n  \n\nKeynote Speakers\nAmie L. Thomasson is Daniel P. Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Dartmouth College. She works in the areas of metaphysics\, philosophical methodology and metaontology\, philosophy of art\, philosophy of social and cultural objects\, philosophy of mind\, and phenomenology. Her current research focuses on questions about what philosophy can legitimately do\, and how we can do it. \nChristine M. Korsgaard is Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University\, where she taught from 1991 to 2020. She works on moral philosophy and its history\, practical reason\, the nature of agency\, personal identity\, normativity\, and the ethical relations between human beings and the other animals. From 1996 to 2002\, Dr. Korsgaard chaired the Harvard Department of Philosophy. \nPlease contact Cameron Yetman or Julia Minarik with any questions about the conference. \n\n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/2023-annual-toronto-graduate-philosophy-conference/
LOCATION:Centre for Ethics (Larkin 200)\, Jackman Humanities Building 100 & online
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Valerie Tiberius\, Minnesota)
DESCRIPTION:The Ethics and Political Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Valerie Tiberius\, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. Tiberius’s work has focused 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. Much of her work takes a non-traditional empirical approach to traditional philosophical questions. Her latest book\, What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters was published in early 2023 by Princeton University Press. \nTalk Title\nTBD \nTalk Abstract\nTBD \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-valerie-tiberius-minnesota/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Sharon Street\, NYU)
DESCRIPTION:This year\, we welcome as 2023 UNESCO World Philosophy Day lecture speaker Sharon Street\, a professor of Philosophy at New York University. Dr. Street specializes in metaethics and has authored a series of articles on how to reconcile our understanding of normativity with a scientific conception of the world. Her work concerns the nature of both practical and epistemic reasons\, and it draws especially on an evolutionary biological perspective. \nThis is an in-person event\, with a livestream available. \nZoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83907159724 \nPasscode: 710782 \nTalk Title\nOn Recognizing Oneself in Mirrors and Others \n  \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/unesco-world-philosophy-day-sharon-street-nyu/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Kate Withy\, Georgetown)
DESCRIPTION:The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Kate Withy\, an associate professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Dr. Withy specializes in the work of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)\, but she also has interests in 20th-century European philosophy and ancient Greek philosophy. Her research centres on Heidegger’s conception of the human being as open to meaning and subject to breakdowns of meaning. She focuses on the ways in which human beings are immersed in meaningful contexts\, open to things that matter\, and radically dependent on entities in the world for carrying out their projects. \nDr. Withy will be giving a lecture on Friday\, November 17\, 3-5 PM\, and an all-day workshop on Saturday\, November 18\, on Heidegger on Being Self-Concealing\, 10 AM–12 PM\, and on Heidegger on Being-Affected\, 2 PM–5 PM. The workshop will take place in JHB 418. For questions about or to participate in the workshop\, please contact Tarek Dika. \nTalk Title\nTolstoy’s Existential Crisis and the Meaning of Life \nTalk Abstract\nMidway through his life\, at 50 years old\, Leo Tolstoy’s life came to a halt: “[M]y life would come to a standstill\, as if I did not know how to live or what to do\, and I felt lost and fell into despair. […] On these occasions\, where life came to a standstill\, the same questions always arose: ‘Why? What comes next?’” (C28). On the standard reading of Tolstoy’s experience\, what brings Tolstoy to a stop is a question about the meaning of life and what starts him going again is an answer to that question\, which is provided by faith. In this paper\, I complicate that reading—both the claim that Tolstoy is dealing with a straightforward question in need of an answer\, and the claim that the answer is provided by a faith-based way of knowing. At stake is the sense in which questions about the meaning of life are questions that the discipline of philosophy can address. I hope to shed light on how philosophy can and should handle—that is: hold on to\, and grapple with—(Tolstoy’s) questions concerning the meaning of life. \nAbout the Continental Philosophy Group \nOne of six departmental research interest groups\, the Continental Philosophy Group works in the traditions of textual interpretation of human consciousness\, phenomenology\, and post-structuralist critical theory\, among other related traditions of thought.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/continental-philosophy-research-group-talk-kate-withy-georgetown/
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:Applying to Grad School Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Are you considering a grad program in Philosophy at U of T? If so\, we invite you to join us for our annual “Applying to Grad School” workshop. The event will take place on Zoom\, with the appropriate link added closer to the date. \nAt the workshop you will hear information about requirements\, application procedures\, and deadlines. Our panel of experts will share advice and be available to answer audience questions. \nPanelists\n\nAmy Mullin\, Director of Graduate Studies\nJim John\, Director of Undergraduate Studies\nMarybel Menzies\, PhD student\nTessa Ng\, MA student\n\nPlease register with Eric Correia by November 21\, 2023. You can also contact Eric with any questions. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86242498971\nMeeting ID: 862 4249 8971\nPasscode: 425522
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/applytogradschool/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T120000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Workshop with Roy Arnold Sorensen (Texas at Austin)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a graduate workshop with Roy Arnold Sorensen\, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin\, a professorial fellow in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland\, and the Jackman Humanities Institute’s Distinguished Visiting Fellow for the academic year 2023-24. Dr. Sorensen has research interests in epistemology\, metaphysics\, and philosophy of language. He has authored several books\, among them Nothing: A Philosophical History (OUP\, 2022)\, A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: A Collection of Puzzles\, Oddities\, Riddles\, and Dilemmas (OUP\, 2016)\, Seeing Dark Things: The Philosophy of Shadows (OUP\, 2008)\, A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind (OUP\, 2003)\, Thought Experiments (OUP\, 1998)\, and Blindspots (OUP\, 1988). \nTitle\nA New Way of Seeing Holes
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-workshop-with-roy-arnold-sorensen-austin-at-texas/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 1040
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Chris Smeenk\, Western)
DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Philosophy of Science Group is pleased to welcome guest speaker Chris Smeenk\, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western University\, and the director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. Before arriving at Western\, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Dibner Institute for History of Science and Technology (MIT) and was an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at UCLA (2003-2007). Dr. Smeenk’s main research interests lie in the history and philosophy of physics\, general issues in the philosophy of science\, and seventeenth-century natural philosophy. \nTalk Title\nInterpretation through Measurement \nTalk Abstract\nMost philosophical approaches to interpreting theories focus on characterizing what the world would be like if the theory were true. Physical significance can be attributed to these possible models\, by specifying how parts of these models map onto empirical observations. Here I will defend an alternative view of empirical content that emphasizes the importance of applications\, and in particular schematic representations of measurement\, as a guide to interpretation. Physical theories typically provide us with an account of what systems can be used to reliably measure some fundamental quantity introduced by the theory\, and over what domains they can be successfully applied. Assessing the reliability of measurements characterized in this way requires claims that extend beyond a single model\, since these implicitly consider a range of counterfactual circumstances. Capturing this modal dimension of measurement requires an appeal to structures defined on the space of models. On my alternative view\, putting these questions front and center leads to a strikingly different account of empirical content\, with implications for questions of underdetermination\, equivalence\, and theory confirmation. I will sketch the view\, respond to several objections to it\, and consider some of these implications. \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-chris-smeenk-western/
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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