• 2022 Edith Bruce Memorial Lecture on Immortality (David Wallace, Pittsburgh)

    Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room G162 252 Bloor Street W., Toronto

    This year's Edith Bruce Memorial Lecture on Immortality will be delivered by David Wallace, Mellon Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh whose research focuses on the Everett interpretation of quantum theory (often called the "Many-Worlds interpretation").

  • BRN Speaker Series: In Conversation with William Paris

    McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology + Online 39A Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto

    William Paris will give the inaugural talk of the newly established Black Research Network Speakers Series, in conversation with Rinaldo Walcott. The topic will be Black power in the work of James Boggs.

  • CANCELLED–History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Brian Bitar, Toronto)

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

    Brian Bitar, a sessional lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, concentrates his research on moral and political philosophy, with consideration of their metaphysical basis. He specializes in the early modern period.

  • History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Brian Bitar, Toronto)

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

    Brian Bitar, a sessional lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, concentrates his research on moral and political philosophy, with consideration of their metaphysical basis. He specializes in the early modern period.

  • 2024 Alexander Lecture (Carlotta Pavese, Cornell)

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

    Carlotta Pavese, an associate professor of Philosophy at Cornell's Sage School of Philosophy, has areas of specialization are epistemology, action theory, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. She also works in linguistics, especially formal semantics and syntax.

  • 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.