metaphysics Archives - Department of Philosophy

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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Jack Beaulieu, a graduate from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and now a Fellow by Examination (Junior Research Fellow) in Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, works on the history of Sanskrit philosophy, focusing on philosophers belonging to the Nyāya and Prābhākara traditions. Dr. Beaulieu works broadly in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, with his research to date focusing primarily on absence.

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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Amy Schmitter is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta with research interests include the history of early modern philosophy, the philosophy of art, the history of metaphysics and philosophy of mind, the history of theories of emotions, and feminist approaches to the history of philosophy

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1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

David Suarez is a part-time assistant professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of Philosophy at U of T whose research focuses on understanding subjectivity and its place in the natural world.

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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Annina Loets is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests lie in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language, and currently, she is working on a larger research project on agentive possibilities such as abilities, opportunities, and options.

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1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Patrick Girard, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, works in philosophy of logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of mathematics.

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Andrew Y. Lee, an assistant professor of Philosophy in the Graduate Department of Philosophy at St. George and in the Philosophy Department at UTSC, will give a lecture in honour of his winning two Marc Sanders Prizes in 2024, one in Philosophy of Mind, the other in Metaphysic

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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Neil Sinhababu, an associate professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, works in ethics, Nietzsche, political philosophy, metaphysics, as well as philosophy of mind and action.

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Will Davies, an assistant professor and Gabriele Taylor Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, is interested in the philosophy of mind – including philosophy of psychology and psychiatry – and related areas of epistemology and metaphysics.

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Alejandro Pérez Carballo, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, is interested in questions in the philosophy of mind and language, especially as they relate to issues in the philosophy of mathematics and metaethics, as well as in some questions in metaphysics and formal epistemology.

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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

James Bahoh, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, focuses his research on phenomenology, post-phenomenological Continental philosophy, and ontology/metaphysics in the context of German and French thought from Kant to today.

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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Jocelyn Benoist, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, is the author of, most recently, Toward a Contextual Realism (Harvard University Press, 2021). He is also a recipient of the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize. He works in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.

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11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Qiu Lin, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University, has main research areas in early modern philosophy, history and philosophy of science, and Chinese philosophy, especially Chinese Islamic philosophy.

metaphysics

Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (David Suarez, Toronto)

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Patrick Girard, Auckland)

Lecture in Celebration of Marc Sanders Prizes in Philosophy of Mind and in Metaphysics (Andrew Y. Lee, Toronto)

Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (Neil Sinhababu, Singapore)

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Will Davies, Oxford)

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Alejandro Pérez Carballo, UMass Amherst)

Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (James Bahoh, Memphis)

Colloquium (Jocelyn Benoist, Sorbonne)