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    The 15th Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP)

    Great Hall, Lillian Massey Building 125 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Join us for the 2024 edition of the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP). This year the workshop will focus on early Christian philosophy.

  • Head shot of Antonia LoLordo, a middle-aged woman with mediaum-length gray hair and brown eyes standing smiling in front of a bookshelf and wearing a short-sleeved black blouse.

    History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Antonia LoLordo, Virginia)

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

    Antonia LoLordo, George C. and Clare F. Downing Memorial Professor of Philosophy and the chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, works on 17th- and 18th-century European philosophy, with a special interest in figures such as Gassendi, Locke, and Shepherd and topics such as causation, freedom, rationality, and canon formation.

  • Two painted portraits beside each other, to the left, René Descartes, to the right, Damaris Cudworth Masham

    Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (YUSEMP) (UPDATED)

    Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

    The inaugural YUSEMP seminar, organized by York University's Matthew Leisinger, Zeyad El Nabolsy, and Ian MacLean-Evans, aims to be a small, informal venue for scholars of early modern philosophy at various career stages to share and discuss their work. Featured keynote speakers: Marleen Rozemond (Toronto) and Patricia Sheridan (Guelph).

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    Inaugural Toronto Bioethics Workshop

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

    The inaugural Toronto Bioethics Workshop focuses on philosophical bioethics, with a specific emphasis on health, healthcare, and health research, including public health, research ethics, clinical ethics, neuroethics, and reproductive ethics. Keynote speaker is Dominic Wilkinson (Oxford).

  • Dark painted portrait of the 17th-century philosopher and clergyman Ralph Cudworth

    Rediscovering the Philosophy of Ralph Cudworth

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

    Join us for a two-day international conference on the philosophy of Ralph Cudworth (1618-1688), an English philosopher and clergyman who defies classification within customary categories of the history of philosophy.

  • Detail of the title leaf of Mary Shepherd's "Essays on the Perception of an External Universe and Other Subjects Connected with the Doctrine of Causation," published in 1827.

    Mary Shepherd’s Philosophy at 200

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 & Room 418

    A two-day workshop on the work of philosopher Mary Shepherd (1777-1847) on its 200th anniversary.

  • On a green-teal background, an illustration of two light green comfy chairs against a backdrop of a red arrow with the words, in white: "Knowledge, Empiricism, & the Political: In Debate with Danny Goldstick

    Knowledge, Empiricism, & the Political: In Debate with Danny Goldstick

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

    5:00 PM Welcome and Refreshments 5:30 PM Speaker: Duncan MacIntosh (Dalhousie) Title: "Interrogating the Goldstick Maneuver: Arguing from Beliefs to Metaphysical Realities" 6:00 PM Reply from Danny Goldstick and discussion 6:20 PM Break 6:30 PM Speaker: David Alexander (Iowa) Title: "Goldstick on A Priori Knowledge" 7:00 PM Reply from Danny ... Read More

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    2024 Jerome S. Simon Lectures (Cailin O’Connor, California, Irvine)

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

    Cailin O'Connor, a professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine, works in the philosophy of biology and behavioral sciences, the philosophy of science more generally, and in evolutionary game theory.

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    CANCELLED—History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Qiu Lin, Simon Fraser)

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

    Qiu Lin, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University, has main research areas in early modern philosophy, history and philosophy of science, and Chinese philosophy, especially Chinese Islamic philosophy.

  • Stark black-and-white head shot of Ralph Wedgwood, a middle-aged white man with close-cropped hair wearing a button-down shirt open at the neck under a blazer.

    Colloquium (Ralph Wedgwood, Southern California)

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

    Ralph Wedgwood, a professor of Philosophy and the director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, works in ethics and epistemology, more specifically, in metaethics, practical reason, normative ethical theory, and the history of ethics.