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

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.

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.

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.

History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Anik Waldow, Sydney)

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

Anik Waldow, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, works mainly in early modern philosophy and has published articles on the moral and cognitive function of sympathy, theories of personal identity, the role of affect in the formation of the self, skepticism, and associationist theories of thought and language.

History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Thierry Côté, Toronto)

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

Thierry Côté, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in early modern philosophy and aesthetics, with additional interests in the philosophy of music, the philosophy of literature, and contemporary French philosophy.

Colloquium (Jocelyn Benoist, Sorbonne)

Centre for Ethics, 200 Larkin 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, Canada

Jocelyn Benoist, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, is the author of, most recently, Toward a Contextual Realism (Harvard University Press, 2021). He is also a recipient of the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize. He works in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.

Colloquium (C. Thi Nguyen, Utah)

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

C. Thi Nguyen, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, writes about trust, art, games, and communities, interested in the ways our social structures and technologies shape how we think and what we value.

History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Sarah Tropper, Toronto)

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

Sarah Tropper, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in early modern philosophy, medieval philosophy, and metaphysics.

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