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)

Online

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)

Online

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.

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.

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).

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).

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