Conference: Kant and Analytic Metaphysics

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

Organized by Professor Nick Stang, this conference aims to generate dialogue between contemporary analytic metaphysicians and scholars of Kant, who famously questioned whether such a thing as metaphysics is even possible. Participants include Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth), Eric Watkins (UC San Diego), our own Damian Melamedoff, and many more.

Continental Philosophy Group Talk (Daniel Breazeale, University of Kentucky)

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

Daniel Breazeale has been at the University of Kentucky since 1971. He specializes in German philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, with a research focus on post-Kantian idealism and the philosophy of J. G. Fichte. Other interests include existentialism, skepticism, and social and political philosophy.  

Workshops on Systematicity in Metaphysics and Kant

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

Aaron Segal (Hebrew University) and Nick Stang (University of Toronto) will teach a pair of seminars on the topic of systematicity. Aaron Segal's seminar will focus on recent work he has published on systematicity in metaphysics. The following seminar taught by Nick Stang will focus on systematicity in Kant. If ... Read More

CANCELLED—Kant & Post-Kantian German Philosophy Group Talk (James Conant, Chicago)

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

James Conant is Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago, with research interests in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, German idealism, and the history of analytic philosophy.

Placement Practice Job Talk—Damian Melamedoff-Vosters

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

Join us for a practice placement job talk by Damian Melamedoff-Vosters titled "Obligation and Causation in Kant’s Second Analogy."

Kant & Post-Kantian German Philosophy Group Talk (Pirachula Chulanon, Toronto Metropolitan)

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

Pirachula Chulanon (Toronto Metropolitan) specializes in Kant's theories of knowledge and mind. His work concerns the origins and limits of our understanding of our own humanity and rationality. He pairs this with research and teaching interests in ethics and aesthetics, especially theories of art in the German-speaking tradition after Kant.

Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Nicholas Vrousalis, Erasmus Rotterdam)

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

Nicholas Vrousalis, an associate professor of Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, works on distributive ethics, democratic theory, and the history of political philosophy, with an emphasis on Kant, Hegel, and Marx.

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