Prof. Zeyad El Nabolsy (York) made me aware of this series of talks that might be interesting for several among us: www.yorku.ca/research/tub... #Philosophy #Philsky

Next talk on #ChinesePhilosophy at #UofT, by Hannah Kim, title: "Fiction without Mimesis: A Comparative Philosophy of Fiction" #Philosophy #philsky #GlobalPhilosophy philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...

Kumārila conference starting! elisafreschi.com/2025/04/18/s... #SanskritPhilosophy #Philosophy #GlobalPhilosophy

3-year postdoc on Avicena. The position is part of the ERC project “Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation” (ALIVE) jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/1...

If you're in Toronto today and hate the sunshine, come see scholars working on ten different philosophical traditions talking about epistemic achievements! sites.google.com/view/globalp...

Today and tomorrow at JHB, @uoft.bsky.social, "Other Epistemic Achievements" conference: sites.google.com/view/globalp...

Join us for a zoom talk at the Global Philosophy Research Group (@globalphilosophy.bsky.social) this Thursday, Mar20, 3-5pm EST: Kara Richardson: Avicenna on the Principle of Sufficient Reason and the “Same Cause-Same Effect” Principle Abstract & Zoom info: philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...

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Our next #online talk will take place next Thursday (20.3.2025), 3 to 5pm (Toronto time), with Kara Richardson (on Avicenna and the principle of sufficient reason). Read more here: philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global... (the zoom link will be distributed later)

On Thursday December 5 and Friday December 6, 2024:

Last (small and student-oriented) workshop of 2024 within our research interest group. You may want to join for F.X.Clooney and Ch.Ram-Prasad's talks. elisafreschi.com/2024/11/18/w...

Don't forget Eric Hutton's talk today (also per Zoom). Eric Hutton is currently Prof. of Chinese Philosophy at UofT, but usually he is professor at University of Utah. He received his BA at Stanford in China and Classics, his MA at Harvard in Chinese, his PhD at Stanford in Philosophy. 1/

This is a reminder of Eric Hutton's talk tomorrow (Friday Nov 29, 3—5pm). Talk's title: "On Trust, Politics, and Justice in Early Confucianism and Plato". More details here: philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global... For the ones among you who cannot make it in person, there is also a Zoom link.

Next interesting events at UofT Philosophy: —Talk by Eric Hutton on Confucius and Plato on November 29 (philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...)

I created a starter pack of faculty members / researchers at the University of Toronto from across academic disciplines, faculties, and campuses. I tried to find as many as I could. Please let me know which additional colleagues to add. go.bsky.app/GjLWXGA #UofT

The next #GlobalPhilosophy talk will happen today! More (and zoom link): philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global... #BuddhistPhilosophy #Philosophy #BuddhistStudiesTalks #Ethics

My paper "Friendship with the ancients" is out in Journal of the APA. I look at the philosophical practice to "make friends" with long-dead authors, and what you get out of it: a specific kind of understanding, relational understanding, and intellectual humility www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Join us in 30' in person or on line for Amit Chaturvedi's talk! philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...

A new academic year is about to start! In case you need something to look forward to, here come our next talks: —Amit Chaturvedi (Hong Kong), October 17, Buddhist philosophy —Amod Lele (Boston), November 15, Buddhist ethics —Eric Hutton (Utah), November 29, Chinese philosophy #Philosophy

We very much look forward to our next talk (probably the last this academic year), by Curie Virág on philosophy of action in Chinese philosophy. More details: philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global... Should you not be able to join us in person, please use the zoom link (at the webpage). 1/2

Reviewer two, you were wrong and you were mean. But your review made us do more experiments sooner than we otherwise would have, and because of that we're learning new things that make our story better.

Making philosophy truly global involves rethinking what is "philosophy", and realizing that what we happen to consider "philosophy" and "not philosophy" is the result of historical accidents. There can be redde rationem within speculations abt ritual and dogmatism within logic #GlobalPhilosophy

Evelyn Fox Keller has died. It is a great loss. “To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03819-4 #Histsci #philsci #complexity #hpbio 🧪 #femsky

If you are in Toronto or can join online, don't forget this talk, starting in a little bit more than 60': philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global... #IslamicPhilosophy #GlobalPhilosophy #Philosophy

Happening tomorrow (Dec 1st, 11--1pm Eastern): #MohammedRustom on evil and suffering in #IslamicPhilosophy (both online and in person) philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global... #GlobalPhilosophy

Happening today! James Madaio on #consciousness in #RamchandraGandhi! #AdvaitaVedānta #ContemporaryIndianPhilosophy philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...

Our next talks: October the 20th, James Madaio. December the 1st, Mohammed Rustom. philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...