20th Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference
OnlineDrawing on diverse and fresh perspectives, the 20th Graduate Philosophy Conference aims to aid in the of breaking new ground and challenging long-held philosophical assumptions.
Drawing on diverse and fresh perspectives, the 20th Graduate Philosophy Conference aims to aid in the of breaking new ground and challenging long-held philosophical assumptions.
Kourken Michaelian, of the University of Grenoble, focuses his research on the philosophy of memory, especially simulation theory.
Jeremy Goodman's (USC) research focuses on metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and philosophical logic.
Dmitri Gallow's (ACU) research focuses on the metaphysics of causation and chance and the rational norms governing credence and choice.
Daniel Hoek (Virginia Tech.) researches the philosophy of language and mathematics, and has written about loose talk, questions, choices, probability and infinity.
Diane Jeske is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. Her published work in ethics addresses topics such as the grounds of special obligations to intimates, the nature of friendship, utilitarianism versus deontology, political obligation, and the nature of reasons.
Jennifer Rose Carr (California, San Diego) works primarily in epistemology, including in epistemic utility theory, belief modeling, and normative uncertainty. She is also interested in philosophy of language.
Angela Mendelovici, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western University and a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy there, focuses her research focuses on intentionality, consciousness, and the relationship between the two.
Join us for a two-day colloquium comprising talks and workshops in ancient and medieval philosophy. The colloquium is organized by Martin Pickavé, Deborah Black, and Peter King.
Victor Tadros, a professor in the School of Law at the University of Warwick, has research interests that span across much of moral, legal, and political philosophy. His current work concentrates on consent to sex and on responsibility.
Aidan Gray (Illinois Chicago) has research interests in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, linguistics, and the history of analytic philosophy. Most of his work focuses on proper names, reference, and issues surrounding Frege's Puzzle.
Jonas Vandieken, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy, works primarily in ethics, meta-ethics, and political philosophy.
Join us for the the 21st Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Debra Satz (Stanford) and Vida Panitch (Carleton).
Alex Worsnip (UNC) currently pursues philosophical interests in the theory of rationality and epistemology (especially political epistemology).
Matti Eklund has been Chair Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Uppsala University in Sweden since 2013. His work concentrates primarily on metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of logic.
Tamar Lando (Columbia) has a particular interest in modal logic, topological and probabilistic semantics, as well as philosophical theories of chance, coincidence, and luck.
Jessica Flanigan is the Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values at the University of Richmond, where she is also an associate professor of Leadership Studies and of Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. Her research addresses the nature and limits of people’s enforceable rights.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, an associate professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, in his theoretical work draws liberally from the Black radical tradition, contemporary philosophy of language, contemporary social science, German transcendental philosophy, materialist thought, and histories of activism and activist thinkers.
In this lecture and workshop hosted by the Dramaturgies of Resistance Working Group, Emmanuel Renault (Université Paris Nanterre) will address the return of labour within critical theory and the experience of exploitation in theories of domination.
Christopher M. Howard, an assistant professor of Philosophy at McGill University, mainly works at the intersection of normative ethics and metaethics. He also enjoys writing and talking about issues in political philosophy, moral psychology, and the history of ethics, as well as issues surrounding the ethics of technology.
Nicholas Vrousalis, an associate professor of Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, works on distributive ethics, democratic theory, and the history of political philosophy, with an emphasis on Kant, Hegel, and Marx.
Justin Bledin is an associate professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. His core research develops an informational view of logic and deductive inquiry.
Join us for a two-day colloquium comprising talks and workshops in ancient and medieval philosophy. The colloquium is organized by Martin Pickavé, Deborah Black, and Peter King.
John Campbell, the Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, has main research interests in the theory of meaning, metaphysics, and the philosophy of psychology. He is currently working on the question of whether consciousness, and in particular sensory awareness, plays any key role in our knowledge of our surroundings.
Join us for the the 22nd Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Amie L. Thomasson (Dartmouth) and Christine M. Korsgaard (Harvard).
Valerie Tiberius, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, focuses her research and teaching 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.
Robin Zheng, a lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, has research interests ranging across ethics, moral psychology, feminist, social, and political philosophy. She focuses especially on issues of moral responsibility, structural injustice, and social change, with emphasis on issues of gender, race, and social inequality.
Nate Oppel, a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy, will give a talk on our intentional capacity to revise beliefs, while Stacy Chen, also a U of T graduate student in Philosophy, will address in her lecture reasonableness in medical decision-making.
Mark Schroeder (Southern California) works on areas of philosophy in some way connected to metaethics. He is interested in the ways in which rationality, reasons, value, and other "evaluative’" or "normative" categories are related to the mundane, physical world in which we live, in which things are round, red, or left of one another. For example, are there really facts about what is rational or not, to go along with the facts about what is round or not?
Daniel Muñoz is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, where he also forms part of the core faculty of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program. His work mostly counts as “normative ethics,” which means it’s too concrete to be “meta,” but not concrete enough to be useful. He is writing a book called "What We Owe to Ourselves."
Trenton Merricks is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. He specializes in metaphysics.
Snow Xueyin Zhang, an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, works on formal epistemology, philosophy of probability, and the philosophy of statistics.