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Inaugural Toronto Bioethics Workshop

Friday May 17, 2024, 9:00 am - Saturday May 18, 2024, 6:00 pm

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).

Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (John Campbell, Berkeley)

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.

2023 Jerome S. Simon Lectures (Rainer Forst, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Tuesday October 3, 2023, 3:00 pm - Thursday October 5, 2023, 5:00 pm

Rainer Forst (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), winner of the 2012 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, works mainly on political theory, pragmatism, tolerance, and political and social justice. He is considered one of the world’s most eminent authorities on the subject of toleration. This year’s Simon Lectures occur under the general title “The Nature of Normative Concepts: Dependence vs. Independence.”