Roseman Lecture in Practical Ethics: Tommie Shelby, Harvard

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

This year's two-day Roseman Lecture will be delivered by Tommy Shelby, the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University.

*CANCELLED* Roseman Lectures in Practical Ethics: Day 2 (Tommie Shelby, Harvard)

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

This year's two-day Roseman Lecture will be delivered by Tommie Shelby, the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University.

History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Samuel Fleischaker, Illinois)

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

Prof. Fleischaker's research is primarily in moral and political philosophy, the history of philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and aesthetics. His talk is titled “Empathy and Perspective: A Smithian Conception of Humanity.”

Conference – Spinoza: New Directions in Research

170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This year's speakers at this annual conference on Spinoza's philosophy include Lilli Alanen, John Carriero, Olli Koistinen, Jon Miller, Steve Nadler, Alan Nelson, Alison Peterman, and Noa Shein.

Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Serene Khader, Brooklyn College/CUNY)

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

Professor Khader's research focuses on moral and political issues relevant to women in the global South. Her work on adaptive preferences develops an approach to responding to choices made by oppressed and deprived people that perpetuate their own oppression and deprivation. She will deliver a talk titled "Transnational Feminisms and the Normativity Question".

Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Stephen White, Northwestern)

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

Professor White will deliver a talk on "Self-Prediction in Practical Reasoning" which attempts to answer the question: "Are predictions about how one will freely and intentionally behave in the future ever relevant to how one ought to behave?"

Difference and Alterity: Critical Models in Modern Thought

108 N Munk Centre, 1 Devonshire Place 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Programme Friday October 25 2:00-2:15 Opening Remarks 2:15-3:00 Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, The Same Is the Different: Nature, Fortune, History in Machiavelli 3:00-3:45 Oleg Gelikman, The Quake of the Real: on the Ontology of Relation in Montaigne 3:45-4:15 Coffee Break 4:15-5:00 Willi Goetschel, Writing Otherwise: Montaigne and La Boëtie 5:00-5:45 Warren Montag, ... Read More

Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Alex Guerrero, Rutgers)

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Alex Guerrero is the Henry Rutgers Term Chair and an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He also serves as the director of the Rutgers Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy. He has worked on a variety of topics in moral, legal, and political philosophy, as well as in epistemology, especially social epistemology. He has further interests in African philosophy, Latin American philosophy, and Native American philosophy.

Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Meena Krishnamurthy, Queens)

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Meena Krishnamurthy is an assistant professor of Philosophy at Queens University whose work focuses on questions of race and caste. Currently, her particular focus lies on the role played by political emotion in Martin Luther King Jr.'s battle to end racial injustice. She is also interested in applying the thinking of Indian political philosophers about caste to the study of race and racism in the United States.

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