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The History of Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome guest speaker Steven Methven, David Mitchell Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Oxford University. Dr. Methven’s specialities are the history of analytic philosophy, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mathematics.
Wurst’s research interests are in early modern philosophy. The title and abstract of Wurst’s talk will be posted shortly.
Anthony Bruno is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University.
Guest speakers and U of T alumni Adam Harmer (UC Riverside), Owen Ware (UTM), and Anthony Bruno (McGill University) will answer questions about their experiences in the academic job market.
Owen Pikkert, PhD candidate at U of T, works primarily in early modern philosophy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion.
Prof. Wolf will discuss similarities and differences between aesthetic and moral responsibility and speculate on what a consideration of aesthetic responsibility tells us about both responsibility and humanity.
Talk Title: “A Novel Approach to the Phenomenal Overflow Thesis”
Talk Title: “An Intellectualist Conception of Human Freedom: Action and Control in the Late Thirteenth Century”
Talk Title: “The Stoic Semantics for Nouns”
In his talk, ‘Hegel’s account of thinking in his Logics’, Prof. Tolley will forumalate a critical assessment and partial defense of Hegel’s theologized (rather than Kantian-transcendental) conception of logic.
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Dr. Heide’s research interests include Kant, early modern philosophy, normative ethics, applied ethics, and symbolic logic.
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John Carriero is Professor in the UCLA Department of Philosophy. His areas of interest include early modern philosophy (esp. Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz). Among his publications is Between Two Worlds: A Reading of Descartes’s Meditations (Princeton University Press, 2008).
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Prof. Rice’s research areas focus on philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of mind, including cognitive science.
