Ibn ‘Arabi and the Shi’i Tradition: Texts, Ideas, Receptions
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Join us for a day-long conference on Islamic Philosophy, co-sponsored by the Shi’a Research Institute.
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.
In this weeklong workshop, we will read, translate, and discuss Maṇḍana’s Vidhiviveka (“Discernment about Commands”), chapter 15, with a group of international scholars.
Julia Jorati is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The main focus of Dr. Jorati’s research is the history of early modern philosophy, at the moment especially debates about slavery and race in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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.”
Jenann Ismael is the inaugural William H. Miller III Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in philosophy of physics, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mind.