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  • A photo of Pauline Kleingeld, an older white woman with blonde hair and glasses, sitting smiling at a desk, with a blue wall and a coatrack visible behind her

    Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (Pauline Kleingeld, Groningen)

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

    Pauline Kleingeld is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. Her academic interests lie in Kant and Kantian philosophy, as well as in ethics and political philosophy.

  • Yellow Vest protestors surrounding a protest fire in the smoky streets of Paris, France

    The Ethics of Uncivil Protest: A Workshop

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

    This two-day workshop offers engagement with questions that have been at the forefront of political discourse in recent years: Can uncivil, violent resistance ever be justified as a means of protest? Speakers include Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill), Candice Delmas (Northeastern), Jeffrey Howard (University College London), Cristina Lafont (Northwestern), Chong-Ming Lim (Nanyang Tech), José Medina (Northwestern), Temi Ogunye (Oxford), Avia Pasternak (Toronto), Erin R. Pineda (Smith College), Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ Ṣóyẹmí (Oxford), and Daniel Viehoff (NYU).

  • Side-by-side headshots of Amie Thomasson (l), a middle-aged white woman with blonde hair to her ears wearing a turquoise top and blue necklace, smiling; and Christine Korsgaard (r), an older, larger woman with long dark hair, large wireframe glasses, and wearing a black blouse.

    2023 Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference

    Centre for Ethics (Larkin 200), Jackman Humanities Building 100 & online

    Join us for the the 22nd Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Amie L. Thomasson (Dartmouth) and Christine M. Korsgaard (Harvard).

  • Black-and-white photo of Meena Krishnamurthy with an open book prominently displayed in front of her

    2024 CPA Summer Institute Lecture (Meena Krishnamurthy, Queen’s)

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

    Join us for the public lecture for the 2024 CPA Summer Institute at the University of Toronto, featuring Meena Krishnamurthy, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University.

  • Neil Sinhababu, a middle-aged South Asian man with short gray hair and glasses, standing at a podium engaged in speaking while wearing a blue button-down shirt.

    Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (Neil Sinhababu, Singapore)

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

    Neil Sinhababu, an associate professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, works in ethics, Nietzsche, political philosophy, metaphysics, as well as philosophy of mind and action.

  • Black-and-white close-up of an older white man with a white goatee looking directly into the camera wearing a black turtleneck.

    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.

  • A middle-aged white man with black hair and a graying beard and glasses standing against a backdrop of large, institutional windows, smiling and wearing a checkered shirt.

    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.

  • A middle-aged white man with short brown hair and a graying stubble beard wearing glasses and business attire. He has a slight smile.

    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.

  • An older white woman with short, gray hair and glasses standing in front of a white architectural background smiling broadly.

    2026 Roseman Lecture in Practical Ethics (Sally Haslanger, MIT)

    Claude T. Bissell Building, BL 205 140 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Sally Haslanger is the Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women's & Gender Studies at MIT. She pursues broad philosophical interests, beginning her philosophical career specializing in analytic metaphysics and epistemology, and in ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle). Over time she has developed interests in social and political philosophy, feminist theory, and critical race theory. Dr. Haslanger has published on the problem of persistence through change, pragmatic paradox, and Aristotle's hylomorphic theory of substance.

  • Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy 2026: Ancient Political Thought

    Jackman Humanities Building 100

    Friday April 24 Session I (2:00 – 3:30pm): Jean-Marc Narbonne (Laval) "Protagoras’ Democratic Involvement and his Epistemological Background” Commentator: Mark Johnstone (McMaster) Session II (4:00 – 5:30pm): Cecilia Li (Western) "A Fork in the Road: Politics as the Master Art in Plato’s Gorgias (517c4–518c1)" Commentator: Merrick Anderson (Southern California)   Saturday April ... Read More