Philosophy upcoming and past events

Friday, September 22, 2023 3:30 pm - Friday, March 8, 2024 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Pre-event Social


Join us in the Philosophy Reading Room, Hagey Hall room 335, an hour prior to each talk for some light refreshments and social time. Coffee, tea, and pastries will be provided. You can also join us remotely. Zoom meeting links will be sent out for each talk the Monday before the event.


Upcoming Talks


September 22nd 2023
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm

The Sharma Lecture
Jonathan Tsou view profile
Psychiatry and Epistemic Justice
Pre-talk social 2:30 pm HH 335
Talk 3:00 pm - 5: 00 pm HH 373

October 27th, 2023
2:30 - 5:00 pm

Colloquium Speaker 
Reza Hadisi view profile
Tūsī on Perfectionism and Virtues
Pre-talk social 2:30 pm HH 335
Talk 3:00 pm - 5: 00 pm HH 373

November 10th, 2023
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Colloquium Speaker
Alice MacLachlan view profile 
So You [Don’t] Want to Publicly Shame
Pre-talk social 2:30 pm HH 335
Talk 3:00 pm - 5: 00 pm HH 373
 

March 4th, 2024
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Colloquium Speaker
Monique Deveaux view profile
Topic Forth Coming
Pre-talk social 2:30 pm HH 335
Talk 3:00 pm - 5: 00 pm HH 373


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Past Talks

January 27th

wooden carving on orange and blue background

Andrea Sullivan-Clarke, University of Windsor
“Strategic Ignorance and Two Objections Involving Indigenous Epistemology.”
Hagey Hall room 373
3:30pm - 5pm


February 10th

people walking down a dark street at night

Maria Robaskiewicz, Paderborn University, Germany
"Reclaiming the Public Space. Women’s Revolution in Dark Times."
Hagey Hall room 373
3:30pm - 5pm


February 17th

graffiti in Blood Alley, Vancouver BC

Matt Doucet
Post-sabbatical Research talk
"Addiction, Autonomy and Harm Reduction"
Hagey Hall room 373
3:30pm - 5pm


March 24

3 photos, 1 of malcom X, 1 of a civil rights march, 1 of Angela Davis

William Paris, University of Toronto
"What was Black Power?: James Boggs's Materialist Theory of Rights."
Hagey Hall room 373
3:30pm - 5pm


September 30th

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Kate Norlock, Trent University
"We're going backwards": The Possibility of Moral Regress
Hagey Hall room 373
3:30pm -5pm


October 21st 

people siloetted infront of sunset all looking at their phones

Gus Skorburg, University of Guelph
"Persons or Datapoints?"
Hagey Hall room 373
3:30pm - 5pm


November 11th

text that reads "The Ethics of Optimality", with a bar graph , graph has two eyes in it looking out at you

Patricia Marino, University of Waterloo
Post-sabbatical research talk
"The Ethics of Optimality: Values and Quantification in Social Decision-Making." 
Hagey Hall room 373
3:30pm - 5pm


December 2nd

intersecting pentagon pattern, 2 with image of exploding particles, 2 with decending graph, rest coloured

Doreen Fraser University of Waterloo
Post sabbatical research talk
"From colliding particles to crashing stock markets: Modeling across domains"
Hagey Hall room 373
3:30pm - 5pm