The inaugural YUSEMP seminar, organized by York University’s Matthew Leisinger, Zeyad El Nabolsy, and Ian MacLean-Evans, aims to be a small, informal venue for scholars of early modern philosophy at various career stages to share and discuss their work. Featured keynote speakers: Marleen Rozemond (Toronto) and Patricia Sheridan (Guelph).
Join us for a two-day international conference on the philosophy of Ralph Cudworth (1618-1688), an English philosopher and clergyman who defies classification within customary categories of the history of philosophy.
Ralph Wedgwood, a professor of Philosophy and the director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, works in ethics and epistemology, more specifically, in metaethics, practical reason, normative ethical theory, and the history of ethics.
Cailin O’Connor, a professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine, works in the philosophy of biology and behavioral sciences, the philosophy of science more generally, and in evolutionary game theory.
Join us for a day-long conference on Islamic Philosophy, co-sponsored by the Shi’a Research Institute.
Antonia LoLordo, George C. and Clare F. Downing Memorial Professor of Philosophy and the chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, works on 17th- and 18th-century European philosophy, with a special interest in figures such as Gassendi, Locke, and Shepherd and topics such as causation, freedom, rationality, and canon formation.
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).
A two-day workshop on the work of philosopher Mary Shepherd (1777-1847) on its 200th anniversary.
Trenton Merricks is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. He specializes in metaphysics.
Michael Della Rocca (Yale) is an authority on the history of early modern philosophy, rationalism, and contemporary metaphysics, as well as on epistemology and the philosophy of action.
Join us for the 2024 edition of the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP). This year the workshop will focus on early Christian philosophy.
John Campbell, the Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, has main research interests in the theory of meaning, metaphysics, and the philosophy of psychology. He is currently working on the question of whether consciousness, and in particular sensory awareness, plays any key role in our knowledge of our surroundings.
