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Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Brian Weatherson, Michigan)

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

The Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Mind Research Group welcomes Brian Weatherson, Professor and Graduate Studies Chair in the Department of Philosophy at University of Michigan. Prof. Weatherson specializes in epistemology and philosophy of language. Talk Title Deliberation Costs Abstract Humans are informationally and computationally limited. The standard theory of decision ... Read More

History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Michaela Manson, U of T)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 401 170 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Michaela Manson is a Graduate Student with us whose philosophical interests centre around the early modern period, with a particular concern for questions about mind, cognition, perception, and understanding. Talk Title: TBA

Logic and Philosophy of Science Research Group Talk (Peter Fritz, Oslo)

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

Peter Fritz is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo. Professor Fritz works mainly on logic and its philosophy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. He also has interests in the philosophy of mathematics and epistemology. Much of his work is on questions concerning modality and existence, and ... Read More

History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Michaela Manson, Toronto)

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

Michaela Manson is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Toronto. She has interests in philosophies of mind and lanaguage and feminist philosophy in the early modern period.

Continental Philosophy Group Talk (Bettina Bergo, Montreal)

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

Bettina Bergo is a professor of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal whose main research concerns the connections among Husserlian phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and continental thought on sensibility.

History of Philosophy Group Talk (Jonathan Cottrell, Edinburgh)

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

Jonathan Cottrell, a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, focuses his research on early modern philosophy, especially Hume’s work.

History of Philosophy Group Talk (Viacheslav Zahorodniuk, Toronto)

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

Viacheslav Zahorodniuk, a current postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy, is working on a project dedicated to Hume’s epistemology and methodological approaches under the supervision of Donald C. Ainslie. 

CANCELLED–History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Brian Bitar, Toronto)

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

Brian Bitar, a sessional lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, concentrates his research on moral and political philosophy, with consideration of their metaphysical basis. He specializes in the early modern period.

History of Philosophy Group Talk (Taras Lyutyy, NaUKMA)

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

Taras Lyutyy, a visiting professor from Ukraine, specializes in the philosophy of Nietzsche, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophy of culture.

History of Philosophy Group Talk (Elena Gordon, McGill)

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

Elena Gordon is currently an Extending New Narratives Postdoctoral Research Fellow at McGill University. She mainly works on the philosophy of David Hume, but her research for the Extending New Narratives project examines Catharine Macaulay's (1731-1791) philosophy of education, with a particular focus on the role of non-human animals in human moral and epistemic development.

History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Brian Bitar, Toronto)

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

Brian Bitar, a sessional lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, concentrates his research on moral and political philosophy, with consideration of their metaphysical basis. He specializes in the early modern period.

Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (John Campbell, Berkeley)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.

History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (David James Barnett, Toronto)

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

David James Barnett, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. He is interested in the epistemic significance of self-consciousness and the boundaries of the self.

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