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    Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Sayeh Meisami, Dayton)

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

    Sayeh Meisami is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton who has published several books and articles in the fields of philosophy and religion. In line with her interdisciplinary interests, she also has articles on the significance of poetic techniques of thinking and writing in later Islamic philosophy and sufism, and her ongoing research focuses on the continuity of mythological and philosophical discourses in the Persianate context.

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    Global Philosophy Research Group Talk (Jack Beaulieu, Oxford)

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

    Jack Beaulieu, a graduate from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and now a Fellow by Examination (Junior Research Fellow) in Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, works on the history of Sanskrit philosophy, focusing on philosophers belonging to the Nyāya and Prābhākara traditions. Dr. Beaulieu works broadly in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, with his research to date focusing primarily on absence.

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    An Unusual Zoroastrian Solution to the Problem of Evil

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

    Speaker: Daniel Nolan (UC, Santa Cruz) The 'Olamā-ye Eslām is a Zoroastrian apologetic work, perhaps from the thirteenth century CE. This paper argues that it contains a distinctive response to the problem of why an omnipotent and all-good deity would permit the existence of evil. Ormazd, the great good deity ... Read More

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    Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Martin Adam, University of Victoria)

    Jackman Humanities Building 100

    The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Martin Adam, an associate professor in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria. His work is centered on Indian Buddhism and Buddhist Ethics, with more general interests in other south Asian religious ... Read More