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    Second Toronto Bioethics Workshop

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

    The second Toronto Bioethics Workshop focuses on public bioethics, featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katie Engelhart as keynote speaker.

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    History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Paul Rateau, Sorbonne)

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

    Paul Rateau, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, works in the history of philosophy, with a focus on the work of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

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    Colloquium (Casey O’Callaghan, Washington in St. Louis)

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

    Casey O'Callaghan, a professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, focuses his research on philosophical questions about perception, in particular, on auditory perception and the nature of its objects, as well as on multisensory perception and consciousness.

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    Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Annina Loets, Wisconsin-Madison)

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

    Annina Loets is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests lie in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language, and currently, she is working on a larger research project on agentive possibilities such as abilities, opportunities, and options.

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    History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Tarek Dika, Toronto)

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

    Tarek Dika is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at U of T who specializes in phenomenology, especially Heidegger and contemporary French phenomenology. He also has research interests in early modern philosophy and science, especially Descartes.

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    Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Melissa Fusco, Columbia)

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

    Melissa Fusco is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and the director of graduate admissions there. She works in philosophy of language---especially formal semantics---decision theory, and philosophical logic. She also has interests in metaethics and metaphysics. Current projects include natural language theories of modality and the semantics of disjunctive questions.

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    Colloquium (Barry Maguire, Edinburgh)

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

    Barry Maguire, a professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, is pursuing as his current central research project the development of an ethical theory based on an ideal of caring solidarity.

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

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

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

  • Philosophy of Mind Talk (Lok-Chi Chan, National Taiwan University)

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

    We are delighted to welcome as guest speaker Lok-Chi Chan, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at National Taiwan University. Dr. Chan, who also serves as Co-Director of the NTU Center for Traditional and Scientific Metaphysics, works on philosophy mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, with a focus ... Read More

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    Colloquium (Mitzi Lee, Colorado, Boulder)

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

    Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.

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    CANCELLED–History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Amy Schmitter, Alberta)

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

    Amy Schmitter is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta with research interests include the history of early modern philosophy, the philosophy of art, the history of metaphysics and philosophy of mind, the history of theories of emotions, and feminist approaches to the history of philosophy

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    Global Philosophy Research Group Talk (Jack Beaulieu, Oxford)

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

    Jack Beaulieu, a graduate from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and now a Fellow by Examination (Junior Research Fellow) in Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, works on the history of Sanskrit philosophy, focusing on philosophers belonging to the Nyāya and Prābhākara traditions. Dr. Beaulieu works broadly in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, with his research to date focusing primarily on absence.