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Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Maria Alvarez, King’s College London)

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

Maria Alvarez, professor of philosophy at King's College London, specializes in the philosophy of action, including the metaphysics and explanation of actions. She also teaches in the field of ethics and metaethics. Her talk will focus on the work of G. E. M. Anscombe to help elucidate the question of whether nonhuman animals have moral agency.

History of Philosophy Group Talk (Elena Gordon, McGill)

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

Elena Gordon is currently an Extending New Narratives Postdoctoral Research Fellow at McGill University. She mainly works on the philosophy of David Hume, but her research for the Extending New Narratives project examines Catharine Macaulay's (1731-1791) philosophy of education, with a particular focus on the role of non-human animals in human moral and epistemic development.

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