Placement Practice Job Talk – Speaker: Eric Mathison
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaTalk Title: "The Prudential Badness of Failure"
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Placement Practice Job Talk – Speaker: Curtis Forbes (IHPST)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaTalk Title: "Appealing to Kuhn: Forced Incommensurability as a Method of Career Advancement"
Placement Practice Job Talk – Speaker: Jeremy Davis
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaTalk Title: "Collective Partiality"
Placement Practice Job Talk – Speaker: Joshua Brandt
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaTalk Title: "Forgiveness and Negative Partiality"
Conference – Collective and Temporally Extended Rights and Wrongs (Day 1)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDay one of a two-day conference on ethics co-sponsored by U of T's Faculty of Law, Munk School of Global Affairs, and Centre for Ethics takes place at the Dept. of Philosophy. Learn more.
Graduate Research Weekend
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaKeynote speakers: U of T alumni Janette Dinishak (UC Santa Cruz) and Jacob Weinrib (Queen’s University). A full schedule of speakers and events for Graduate Research Weekend will be announced shortly.
Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Laura Franklin-Hall, NYU)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaLaura Franklin-Hall, Associate Professor of Philosophy at New York University, researches problems in the philosophy of biology, the general philosophy of science, and metaphysics.
History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Marcy Lascano, Cal State, Long Beach)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaProf. Lascano's research interests lie primarily in the history of early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion, and metaphysics. She will deliver a talk on "Reconsidering Astell’s relation to Locke: Mary Astell’s account of God’s existence and human freedom."
History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Samuel Fleischaker, Illinois)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaProf. Fleischaker's research is primarily in moral and political philosophy, the history of philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and aesthetics. His talk is titled “Empathy and Perspective: A Smithian Conception of Humanity.”
Conference: Kant and Analytic Metaphysics
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaOrganized by Professor Nick Stang, this conference aims to generate dialogue between contemporary analytic metaphysicians and scholars of Kant, who famously questioned whether such a thing as metaphysics is even possible. Participants include Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth), Eric Watkins (UC San Diego), our own Damian Melamedoff, and many more.
*CANCELLED* History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Margaret Atherton, UW-Milwaukee)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaProf. Atherton's research interests include English philosophers of the early modern period, the work of women philosophers in the history of philosophy, and historical issues in the philosophy of psychology.
History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Michael Hickson, Trent)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaProf. Hickson's recent research has focused on the history of 17-century philosophy, especially Descartes, Bayle, skepticism, and the problem of evil. Increasingly, his research includes both historical and contemporary issues related to conscience and toleration.