guest speakers Archives - Department of Philosophy

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9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Join us for a workshop on aging and memory that brings together researchers from empirical and theoretical fields.

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Monday June 9, 2025 - Wednesday June 11, 2025

Join us for a three-day conference on Hermann Cohen’s “Ethics of Maimonides” organized by Michael Rosenthal and Ynon Wygoda.

Monday May 12, 2025 - Friday May 16, 2025

The aim of this international workshop, organized by Elisa Freschi and Nilanjan Das and held at the Department of Philosophy at the UTM campus, will be to read and translate a critique of an influential Buddhist theory of yogic perception offered by the Sanskrit philosopher and polymath Vācaspati Miśra.

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Friday October 24, 2025 - Saturday October 25, 2025

Join us for the the 24th Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Nancy Cartwright (Durham) and David Velleman (Johns Hopkins).

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Monday April 7, 2025 - Tuesday April 8, 2025

Let ideas take flight: Join us for the annual conference showcasing the best undergraduate research in Philosophy of 2025, as well as keynote speaker TBD from TBD.

Monday May 5, 2025 - Friday May 9, 2025

The conference, organized by Elisa Freschi and Nilanjan Das and held at the Department of Philosophy at the UTM campus, will bring together experts who will lead two-hour reading sessions on key passages of Kumārila’s texts and provide participants with the necessary tools to understand the hidden gems of Kumārila’s philosophy

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Friday May 2, 2025 - Sunday May 4, 2025

This conference, organized by Pirachula Chulanon & Reza Hadisi and hosted jointly by the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University, will bring together scholars from different traditions to explore alternate pathways for theorizing epistemic achievements and virtues.

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9:15 am - 5:00 pm

The Canadian Opera Company (COC) will be mounting the Canadian composer Julien Bilodeau’s new opera, La Reine-Garçon, with a libretto by Michel Marc Bouchard. This one-day symposium will explore how La Reine-Garçon is grounded in Cartesian philosophy and contemporary theories of gender and performance.

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Friday November 22, 2024 - Saturday November 23, 2024

Join us for a workshop on early modern philosophy.

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Friday November 1, 2024 - Saturday November 2, 2024

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

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Thursday September 5, 2024, 9:00 am - Friday September 6, 2024, 5:00 pm

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.