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SUMMARY:2026 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy: A Celebration of Deborah Black
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 2026 edition of the University of Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy. \nProgram\nFRIDAY\, SEPTEMBER 18\nSession I (3:30 – 6:00 pm) \nMartin Pickavé (University of Toronto): Welcome\nStephen Dumont (University of Notre Dame): Deborah as a Scholar\, Friend\, and Colleague\nPeter Adamson (LMU Munich): What’s Truth Got to Do with It? Logic as (Mere) Instrument in Philosophy of the Islamic World \nSATURDAY\, SEPTEMBER 19\nSession II (9:30 am – 12:00 pm) \nGinger Hegedus (Western University): Kalamic Mutations in the Thought of al-Qirqisāni and Ashʿarī\nKara Richardson (Syracuse University): Avicenna on Nature as a Stable Efficient Cause \nSession III (1:45 – 4:15 pm) \nLuis Xavier López-Farjeat (Universidad Panamericana): Ibn Bājja on Imagination and Intellection: An Alternative Interpretation against Averroes’s Reconstruction\nTaneli Kukkonen (NYU Abu Dhabi): Averroes on Past and Future Infinity \nSession IV (4:30 – 6:15 pm) \nStephen Ogden (University of Notre Dame): Avicenna’s Emanationism and Aquinas’s Critique\nDeborah Black: Closing Remarks \nAll sessions are free and open to the public and will be held in Room 100 of the Jackman Humanities Building (170 St. George Street). \nThe colloquium is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy\, the Collaborative Specialization in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy\, the Centre for Medieval Studies\, the Department for the Study of Religion\, the Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations\, and the University of St. Michael’s College. \nOrganizers: Reza Hadisi\, Peter King\, Jon McGinnis\, and Martin Pickavé.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/2025-toronto-colloquium-in-medieval-philosophy-a-celebration-of-deborah-black/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building 100
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:2026 Jerome S. Simon Memorial Lectures (Barbara Vetter\, Freie Universität Berlin)
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce Barbara Vetter as our esteemed speaker for the 2026 Jerome S. Simon Memorial Lectures. Dr. Vetter is a professor of theoretical philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin\, and co-director of the “Human Abilities” project (www.human-abilities.de). Her work focuses on the metaphysics and epistemology of modal properties — dispositions\, abilities\, and so on — and their role in the metaphysics and epistemology of modality. She published Potentiality: From Dispositions to Modality with the Oxford University Press in 2015. In 2026\, she received a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz prize.  Dr. Vetter is currently working on a book that develops an agency-based approach to the epistemology of modality. \nThe title of the series is “Modal Knowledge in Action.” \nLecture 1\n(September 22\, 3-5 PM) \nTitle\nIntroducing Agentive Modality \nAbstract\nWhy do we modalize\, what is the point of modal thought? I submit that the answer to that question should be: to enable our agency. Guided by this thought\, I identify a form of modality that is of particular importance for our actions: agentive modality\, which comprises an agent’s abilities and the affordances in their environment. Despite its importance\, modal epistemology as we have it does not provide an epistemology of agentive modality. This sets the agenda for the following lectures. \nLecture 2\n(September 23\, 3-5 PM) \nTitle\nAgentive Modal Knowledge \nAbstract\nWe know a great deal about agentive modality: our abilities and the affordances around us. This lecture does two things. First\, it develops an account of how this knowledge arises from our experience in acting itself. Second\, it argues — by way of “creature construction” — for the feasibility of a modal epistemology that starts with such agentive modal knowledge. \nLecture 3\n(September 24\, 3-5 PM) \nTitle\nAn Action-First Epistemology of Modality \nAbstract\nAction-first modal epistemology takes our agentive modal knowledge – knowledge of abilities and affordances\, as acquired in and used to guide our agency – as fundamental to modal knowledge in general. This lecture explores and defends such an epistemology of modality\, looking in particular at the potentially troubling cases of our inference from actuality to possibility and knowledge by imagination. It ends with a brief look at our knowledge of metaphysical modality. \nAbout the Simon Lectures\nOne of the department’s several endowed lecture series\, the Jerome S. Simon Lectures are a biennial series of colloquia given by a philosopher of international distinction. After a brief hiatus\, we are thrilled to reinvigorate the series in 2021. Past Simon lecturers have included Cailin O’Connor (UC-Irvine)\, David Velleman (Michigan)\, David Wiggins (Oxford University)\, Anil Gupta (Pittsburgh)\, Barbara Herman (UCLA)\, John Campbell (UC-Berkeley)\, Donald Rutherford (UC-San Diego)\, Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck\, London)\, Samuel Scheffler (NYU)\, Holly M. Smith (Rutgers)\, and Rainer Forst (Goethe University\, Frankfurt).
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/2026-jerome-s-simon-memorial-lectures-barbara-vetter-freie-universitat-berlin/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building 100
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Perfectionism: Kantian and Post-Kantian Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:This is a read-ahead event; for papers and registration\, contact owen.ware@utoronto.ca \nSpeakers \n\nOwen Ware (Toronto): “The Holy Revolution: Religion and Perfection in Romanticism”; Commentary by Marc-Andre Murray (Toronto)\nKarin Nisenbaum (Syracuse): “Schelling’s Autonomy-Preserving View of Kant’s Highest Good”; Commentary by Liam Barer (Toronto)\nAriel Zylberman: “Goodness\, Obligation\, and Perfection in Kant” (UAlbany); Commentary by Noa Buckle (Toronto)\nDouglas Moggach (Ottawa): “Rethinking Perfectionism After Kant”; Commentary by Alex Drusda (Toronto)\n\nPhoto by Worachat Sodsri on Unsplash
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/rethinking-perfectionism-kantian-and-post-kantian-perspectives/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 401\, 170 St. George St.\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Logic and Philosophy of Science Research Group (Barry Loewer\, Rutgers)
DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Philosophy of Science Research Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Barry Loewer\, professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. \nTalk Title\nBringing Quine and Lewis Back Together \nTalk Abstract\nThis talk examines connections between Quine’s epistemology of science and Lewis’ metaphysics of science and their different conceptions of naturalness. I develop a metaphysical account of nomological modalities and fundamental properties Lewisian in spirit but dispensing with his possible worlds and his version of naturalness in favor of probabilities and a Quinean notion of naturalness. This account\, called “the Package Deal Account of laws and chances” (PDA)\, is constructed out of Quine’s epistemology of science. The result is an account of the metaphysics of laws and other nomological modalities that combines features of Quines’ epistemology and Lewis’ physics and brings their views closer together.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/bringin-quine-and-lewis-back-together/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
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