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  • replica of the altar and utensils used during Athirathram

    Workshop: Maṇḍana on Ritual Duties

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

    In this weeklong workshop, we will read, translate, and discuss Maṇḍana's Vidhiviveka ("Discernment about Commands"), chapters 12—14, with a group of international scholars.

  • 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).

  • Head shot of Roy A. Sorensen, a gray-haired white man smiling broadly into the camera wearing a blue button-down shirt

    Graduate Workshop with Roy Arnold Sorensen (Texas at Austin)

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 1040

    Roy A. Sorensen is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, a professorial fellow in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and the Jackman Humanities Institute's Distinguished Visiting Fellow for the academic year 2023-24. He has research interests in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language, areas in which he has published widely.

  • replica of the altar and utensils used during Athirathram

    Workshop: Maṇḍana on Various Types of Commands

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

    In this weeklong workshop, we will read, translate, and discuss Maṇḍana's Vidhiviveka ("Discernment about Commands"), chapter 15, with a group of international scholars.

  • Grainy, bright blue image of fibre strands, with an ethereal hint of a dress to the right side. The latter's inside's show dots of orange and yellow. All in all a ghostly, mysterious image of suggestion.

    Recent Work on Aristotle’s “De anima”: Workshop

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

    Please join us for a two-day workshop considering recent work on Aristotle's De anima.

  • Image of a green cell and a blue nucleus, slightly blurred as in movement.

    Inaugural Toronto Bioethics Workshop

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

    The inaugural Toronto Bioethics Workshop focuses on philosophical bioethics, with a specific emphasis on health, healthcare, and health research, including public health, research ethics, clinical ethics, neuroethics, and reproductive ethics. Keynote speaker is Dominic Wilkinson (Oxford).

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    Platonist Discourses on Dualism: First Century BC to Third Century AD

    Lillian Massey Building, Room 205 125 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    This two-day, interdisciplinary workshop explore the concept of dualism in Platonist discourses in the Imperial Age, seeking to help create an inclusive overview of the concept for the era by also taking into consideration sources not strictly philosophical.

  • Drawing of typical landmarks of Toronto and London (England): CN Tower, Tower of London, a Ferris wheel, both alongside water, with a giant eye above them in the sky

    Toronto-London Workshop on Perception

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

    Join us for an international workshop on perception. Organized by Jacob Beck (York University), Bill Brewer (King's College London), Kevin J. Lande (York University), Sonia Sedivy (University of Toronto, Scarborough), Matthew Soteriou (King's College London), and James Stazicker (King's College London) Program Friday, Nov 1  9:30-11:00 – Kevin Lande (York University): ... Read More

  • On a bright yellow background, a hand-drawn, colorful syringe with needle and the words "2nd annual Toronto Bioethics Workshop, Public Bioethics, with keynote speaker Katie Engelhart"

    Second Toronto Bioethics Workshop

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

    The second Toronto Bioethics Workshop focuses on public bioethics, featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katie Engelhart as keynote speaker.

  • Workshop on Medhātithi: Medhātithi across Sanskrit jurisprudence and philosophy of action (keynote: Alessandro Giudice, Ludwig Maximilian University)

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

    On March 21 2026 the University of Toronto will host a workshop on "Medhātithi across Sanskrit jurisprudence and philosophy of action" (keynote: Alessandro Giudice, Ludwig Maximilian University) Medhātithi (9th c.) is a key figure in Sanskrit jurisprudence, who applied reasoning methods from the Mīmāṃsā school of philosophy to the understanding of ... Read More

  • Workshop on Rationality and Epistemology

    Jackman Humanities Building 100

    This workshop will focus on rationality and epistemology. Featured speakers include: Timothy Williamson (Oxford), Gurpreet Rattan (Toronto), Yonathan Fiat (Toronto), David Barnett (Toronto) and Jennifer Nagel (Toronto).   Saturday, April 4 Location: JHB 100   Session I (9:45 – 11:00am): Jennifer Nagel (Toronto) "The Dawn of Human Rationality" Comments: Julia ... Read More