Join us for a two-day colloquium comprising talks and workshops for graduate students and faculty working in ancient and/or medieval philosophy. The colloquium is organized by Martin Pickavé, Deborah Black and Peter King.
Guest speakers and U of T alumni Adam Harmer (UC Riverside), Owen Ware (UTM), and Anthony Bruno (McGill University) will answer questions about their experiences in the academic job market.
Prof. Rice's research areas focus on philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of mind, including cognitive science.
Wurst's research interests are in early modern philosophy. The title and abstract of Wurst's talk will be posted shortly.
John Carriero is Professor in the UCLA Department of Philosophy. His areas of interest include early modern philosophy (esp. Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz). Among his publications is Between Two Worlds: A Reading of Descartes's Meditations (Princeton University Press, 2008).
Dr. Heide's research interests include Kant, early modern philosophy, normative ethics, applied ethics, and symbolic logic.
In his talk, ‘Hegel’s account of thinking in his Logics’, Prof. Tolley will forumalate a critical assessment and partial defense of Hegel's theologized (rather than Kantian-transcendental) conception of logic.
Talk Title: "The Stoic Semantics for Nouns"
Talk Title: "An Intellectualist Conception of Human Freedom: Action and Control in the Late Thirteenth Century"
Owen Pikkert, PhD candidate at U of T, works primarily in early modern philosophy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion.
Talk Title: "A Novel Approach to the Phenomenal Overflow Thesis"
Prof. Wolf will discuss similarities and differences between aesthetic and moral responsibility and speculate on what a consideration of aesthetic responsibility tells us about both responsibility and humanity.
