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    A Celebration of David Gauthier

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 & Room 418

    Join us as we gather in celebration of our colleague and former chair of the department David Gauthier.

  • Head shot of Daniel Muñoz, a man with short brown hair smiling broadly into the camera and wearing a dark blue button-down shirt

    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Daniel Muñoz, UNC)

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

    Daniel Muñoz is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, where he also forms part of the core faculty of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program. His work mostly counts as “normative ethics,” which means it’s too concrete to be “meta,” but not concrete enough to be useful. He is writing a book called "What We Owe to Ourselves." 

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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Jessica Isserow, Notre Dame)

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

    Jessica Isserow, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, pursues main research interests in metaethics, normative ethics, and moral psychology.

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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Zoë A. Johnson King, Harvard)

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

    Zoë A. Johnson King, an assistant professor at Harvard, works primarily in ethics, metaethics, and epistemology. She primarily concerns herself with moral agency and moral responsibility, with a particular focus on praiseworthiness.

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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Rahul Kumar, Queen’s University)

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

    Rahul Kumar, a professor and department head at Queen's University, primarily studies non-consequentialist ethical theory, with particular focus on the strengths and pitfalls of Scanlon’s contractualism.

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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Gustaf Arrhenius, Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm)

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

    Gustaf Arrhenius is the director of the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm and a professor of practical philosophy. His research interests focus primarily on moral and political philosophy, with a special interest in issues at the intersection between moral and political philosophy and the medical and social sciences.

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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Andrew Sepielli, Toronto)

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

    Andrew Sepielli is professor and associate chair at the UTM Department of Philosophy. He has published on ethics, metaethics, pragmatism, and the philosophy of law.

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    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Hallie Liberto, Maryland)

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

    Hallie Liberto is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. Dr. Liberto is a moral philosopher who studies normative power, writing about the power we have to change the moral, legal, and social world through speech acts and other expressions of our will.

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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.