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SUMMARY:Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Gina Schouten\, Harvard)
DESCRIPTION:The Ethics and Political Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Gina Schouten\, a professor at Harvard who works primarily in the areas of social philosophy\, political philosophy\, and ethics. She has written about political liberalism and political legitimacy\, educational justice\, and the gendered division of labor. She is also interested in issues of justice in higher education\, diversity problems within the discipline of philosophy\, the politics of abortion\, and other topics in feminist philosophy. \nPlease join this online-only talk. \nTalk Title\nLiberal Feminism\, Social Critique\, and Moral Methodology: What Can Reflective Equilibrium Accomplish? \nTalk Abstract\nThis paper brings together two strands of opposition to liberalism: First is the substantive strand\, concerning liberalism’s feminist\, anti-racist\, and egalitarian credentials. Second is the methodological strand\, concerning liberalism’s method of moral justification\, reflective equilibrium. In response to the substantive strand of opposition to liberalism\, left-liberal feminists have argued that\, properly understood\, liberal values entail a deep critique of sexism\, racism\, and economic inequality\, and furnish an emancipatory\, democratic vision for progress toward a more just society. My question in this paper is: Does liberalism’s method of moral justification undermine these liberal feminist attempts to answer the substantive challenge? I defend reflective equilibrium in order to support a negative answer to that question: Liberal feminist attempts to redeem the progressive potential of liberalism are not undermined by their use of reflective equilibrium as a method of moral justification. I make my case by engaging with recent work by Sally Haslanger\, in which she criticizes reflective equilibrium generally but with a particular focus on its implications for feminist normative theorizing. \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-gina-schouten/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad\, Lancaster)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as a guest speaker Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad\, a distinguished professor of comparative religion and philosophy at Lancaster University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy with an interest in Indian philosophy\, as well as the comparative philosophy of epistemology\, metaphysics and phenomenology\, and classical Indian religions. He has published several books\, including Human Being\, Bodily Being: Phenomenology in Classical India (Oxford University Press\, Oxford\, 2018). He is currently working on a project developing a philosophical anthropology of emotion through a reading of classical Indian narrative and aesthetic texts. \nThis is an online-only talk. \nPasscode: 723250 \nTalk Title\nOn the Methodological Challenges of Cross-Cultural Theology \nTalk Abstract\nTBD
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global-philosophy-research-interest-group-talk-chakravarthi-ram-prasad-lancaster/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk and Workshop (Karin Nisenbaum\, Syracuse)
DESCRIPTION:The Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is delighted to welcome as a speaker Karin Nisenbaum\, an associate professor of philosophy and the Renée Crown Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University. Her research areas include Kant\, German Idealism\, and 19th & 20th-century Jewish thought. Her book For the Love of Metaphysics: Nihilism and the Conflict of Reason from Kant to Rosenzweig (Oxford University Press\, 2018) focuses on the role of the principle of sufficient reason and the idea of a primacy of practical reason in the history of German Idealism. She is currently at work on two monographs: the first is on Kantian and post-Kantian conceptions of the highest good; the second defends a post-Kantian form of moral perfectionism. Additionally\, Dr. Nisenbaum has focused her efforts on promoting diversity and inclusion in the discipline of philosophy by creating a support network for women working on Kant and post-Kantian philosophy. \nIn addition to her talk on Friday\, December 6\, Dr. Nisenbaum will be conducting a day-long workshop the following day\, Saturday\, December 7\, in JHB 418. In the morning of the workshop (10 am – noon) Borris Hennig (TMU) will give a talk titled “Marx on Ownership\,” and in the afternoon (3–5 pm)\, there will be a discussion of a pre-circulated paper by Karin Nisenbaum\, titled “Getting at the Root of Evil: Kant and Fichte on the Murderer at the Door.” For more information and to receive the Nisenbaum paper\, please contact Nick Stang. \nTalk Title\nKant and Maimon on the Identity and Role of the Highest Good \nTalk Abstract\nIn his essay\, “Attempt at a New Presentation of the Principle of Morality and a New Deduction of its Reality” (1794)\, Salomon Maimon provides an interpretation of the identity and role of the highest good in Kant’s moral theory.  My aim in this paper is to make the case that Maimon’s interpretation compels us to reexamine widely accepted interpretations of Kant’s own highest good and its relationship to the moral law.  According to the standard interpretation\, virtue or the good will is what Kant calls the supreme good\, but only the complete good (virtue together with happiness) and not the supreme good is the highest good.  By contrast\, I will defend the view that the highest good is both the supreme good (virtue or the good will) and the complete good (virtue together with happiness).  More specifically\, I will argue that the supreme good is the highest good considered as the good maker of other goods\, and the complete good is the highest good considered as the most desirable object.  Once we reassess Kant’s views on the highest good in the light of Maimon’s interpretation\, we will also need to reconsider the widely accepted idea that Kant’s moral theory is one without a notion of value as its fundamental concept (the deontological reading of Kant’s moral theory).  I will argue that Kant’s critical revolution in practical philosophy does not consist in the subordination of all considerations of value to principles of right.  Rather\, his criticism of pre-critical philosophers is that they mistake the nature of the unconditioned good.  Kant puts freedom in the place of eudaimonia. \nThe Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is a a subgroup of the History of Philosophy Research Group\, which focuses on European philosophy in Kant and post-Kantian traditions.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/post-kantian-talk-and-workshop-karin-nisenbaum-syracuse/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Dylan Shaul\, California\, Riverside)
DESCRIPTION:The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Dylan Shaul\, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of California\, Riverside. Dr. Shaul works primarily in 18th- and 19th-century philosophy (especially German Idealism) and Jewish philosophy. He also has interests in early modern philosophy\, 20th-century European philosophy\, ethics\, and the philosophy of religion. \nTalk Title\nHegel and Heidegger on the Future: Time\, Forgiveness\, Decision \nTalk Abstract\nThis paper reconstructs and evaluates Heidegger’s critique of Hegel in Being and Time\, offering a new Hegelian response to this critique. Heidegger criticizes Hegel for his alleged view that Absolute Knowing allows Spirit to annul time in the eternal present of its absolute self-knowledge\, in contrast to Heidegger’s own insistence on Dasein’s ineliminable futurity. Against Heidegger\, I argue that the Hegelian annulling of time in fact constitutes a break in History: by forgiving the past and thereby undoing it\, Spirit can decide to create a new future world. Hegel’s silence about the future entails that the shape of this new world remains radically open.  \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-dylan-shaul-california-riverside/
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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