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  • Close-up of Vanessa Wills

    UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Vanessa Wills, George Washington)

    Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 2212 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    This year's UNESCO World Philosophy Day lecture speaker, Vanessa Wills, is Assistant Professor at George Washington University. Her areas of interest include moral and political philosophy (particularly Karl Marx) and philosophy of race. Her recent work includes "Revolutionary Admiration" (The Moral Psychology of Admiration, 2019) and "'Man is the Highest ... Read More

  • Head shot of David Wallace

    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").

  • A bespectacled Agnes Callard dressed in a purple-and-black-striped dress sitting in front of a colorful wall of patterened artworks

    UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Agnes Callard, Chicago)

    George Ignatieff Theatre 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON

    Agnes Callard is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and that department's director of undergraduate studies. Dr. Callard's primary areas of specialization lie in ancient philosophy and ethics., and she is also noted for her work in and on public philosophy.

  • Close-up of a bespectacled Jonathan Cottrell

    History of Philosophy Group Talk (Jonathan Cottrell, Edinburgh)

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

    Jonathan Cottrell, a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, focuses his research on early modern philosophy, especially Hume’s work.

  • Taras Lyutyy, a man with reddish brown hair and beard and wearing a blue shirt and blazer, is seen leaning against a background of a wall made of bowed wood.

    History of Philosophy Group Talk (Taras Lyutyy, NaUKMA)

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

    Taras Lyutyy, a visiting professor from Ukraine, specializes in the philosophy of Nietzsche, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophy of culture.

  • Elena Gordon, smiling broadly and wearing glasses in front of an open, brownish background

    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.

  • Head shot of Sharon Street, a white woman with long, light brown hair, wearing a dark top and standing against a blurred grassy background

    UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Sharon Street, NYU)

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

    Sharon Street, a professor of Philosophy at NYU, specializes in metaethics. She has authored a series of articles on how to reconcile our understanding of normativity with a scientific conception of the world. Her work concerns the nature of both practical and epistemic reasons, and it draws especially on an evolutionary biological perspective.

  • An oder Latina woman with long, dark hair wearing a black top and red necklace standing in front of a restaurant window with a serious face facing the camera.

    UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Linda M. Alcoff, CUNY)

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

    Linda Martín Alcoff, a professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Centre, CUNY, has worked for many years on the intersections of knowledge, identity, and power. She specializes in social epistemology, feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, decolonial theory and continental philosophy, especially the work of Michel Foucault.

  • A man with short, gray hair wearing a black button-down and dark glasses looks seriously into the camera against the backdrop of bookshelves.

    UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Paul Boghossian, NYU)

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

    Paul Boghossian is the Silver Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham in the UK.  Dr. Boghossian also serves as the director of the New York Institute of Philosophy and the director of NYU's Global Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are primarily in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.