I was assigned a summer course during the 1994 World Cup and I told the students their grade would suffer if Brazil did not win it all. It worked. Just saying it.

For World Logic Day, the ontological proof of God's non-existence (I think I heard it first from my late friend Aldo Antonelli): God is a being such that there could none more awesome It is pretty awesome to be all-powerful, all-knowing etc. ...

Good to see Kantians out there driving in Toronto.

So relieved to learn that Texas A&M is not banning Plato altogether, but merely redacting his work to ensure it conforms to accepted state ideology

College Campus Tour Ends Inside Unmarked ICE Vehicle https://theonion.com/college-campus-tour-ends-inside-unmarked-ice-vehicle/

Perhaps we are learning that many people's enthusiastic advocacy for teaching the canon was predicated on having never read any of it.

Can we imagine what would happen if American conservatives were not so strongly committed to free speech?

Word trend for 2026: "Kidnap" is out; "capture" is in.

The applications for our Visiting Fellowships at the University of Toronto Centre for Ethics for 2026-7 are now open. They are non-stipendiary fellowships. but they do come with a modest research budget, nice offices, library access, etc. Please share widely! sites.google.com/view/uoftc4e...

Happy to see that so many of my friends and colleagues have signed this document www.academia.edu/129505708/Bl...

Trump's most promising anti-immigration policy seems to be his efforts to turn the US into a place no one will want to live in.

I am already dreading the cartoon in which my visits to the dentist are also exposed to the whole world.

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. Fellini's 17 For an Average Amount of Dollars More Donas Flores and their Four Husbands Huge Medium-Sized Lies (ok it's a TV series but I think it's a legit candidate for tariffs)

Stephen White was a really insightful philosophers and a real mensch; his early death was immensely sad and tragic. So happy that the APA is honouring him in this way. dailynous.com/2025/04/24/n...

Someone has to produce a redacted version of this piece, so one can have the good ideas without being distracted by the complete misunderstanding of the Prisoner Dilemma choice structure: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Note to Columbia University: This is how you do it. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

Looking forward to our undergraduate conference, and can't wait to hear Alice MacLachlan's Keynote address. The Keynote address is open to the public (Monday, April 7 at 3:30PM).

Apparently, Princeton is not caving in, at least not yet. So, give or take some market fluctuation, the price of freedom in American academia right now seems to be around $4M per student.

The anticipatory obedience of (some) American universities has been really scary: www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

When are we complicit in the wrongful actions of others? From climate change to war, explore ethical topics at the Moral Complicity: Theory and Context Conference on May 9–10, 2025 at the Centre for Ethics! More details here: sites.google.com/view/moral-c...

The Centre for Ethics has a call for applications for a second post-doctoral fellowship to help us launch a new project on Algorithm Bias. If you already applied for the other post-doc fellowship, and want to be considered for this one, just let us know! ethics.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...

Dr. Liu offered to remove some of her slides but apparently this wasn't enough to calm the fears that NYU would not be fully capitulating to the regime.

Very happy to have Jason Stanley join our department (well, 25% of him at least). Having him and Timothy Snyder join the Munk Centre is really great news for U of T. Hopefully Trump will keep sending us these amazing scholars

A rare moment in contemporary history in which my age group is a force for good.

I am not at a US university, so I can't sign this. But Jewish colleagues in the US, not matter what your views are on the Gaza war, Israel, etc., you might want to consider signing this letter. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Friend saw this in the wild. Short of having Tesla control being forcibly transferred to an NGO, I'm not sure this is still possible.

Very excited about this upcoming event at the @uoftethics.bsky.social

This is ridiculous! My next paper will cite all and only those papers that do not cite themselves.

🌟 Exempt or excused? How should we rethink mental disorder in the responsibility context? Join us this coming Wednesday, March 12, at 12 PM for Ethics@Noon-ish with Emily Baron at the Centre for Ethics! See you then!

🔹 How can the Two Row Wampum guide us today in building peace and mutual respect? Join us this Friday, March 14, 5-7PM, for Towards a Decolonial Phenomenology of the Lifeworld, a talk by Lisa Guenther. 📍 In-person only | Part of the Race, Ethics, & Power Project

When I first saw Martin's deranged letter to Dean Treanor I thought it was fake. Apparently, it is not. Hopefully other schools will be at least as forceful in their response to these attacks on academic freedom.

Friends & Fellow Colleagues: I am very excited to release the latest episode of The Young Idealist Series. A Special Book Presentation featuring Dr. Owen Ware (U of T). on his new book: Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy & Literature. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT4l...

Posting this here because I like it, but also because I want to find it next time I teach the trolley problem: www.tiktok.com/@nbcsnl/vide...

Really interesting piece by my colleague Joe Heath: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...

The level of sycophantic abasement required to be part of this administration is wild.

i am physically nauseated by this exchange

Looking forward to this talk!

Post-doc opportunity at our Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto. Please share widely!

Wow, wow, people, let's not jump to conclusions here.

What you get when you combine First Past the Post and a broad political alliance vs a divided opposition. NDP, Liberals, and Greens are ideologically very close centre-left parties, andthey represent the majority of the voters. And yet we'll get a conservative supermajority

Cardinals in the snow

"We promoted Big Balls to Senior Adviser of the Bureau of Diplomatic Technology". If someone delivered that line in a 70s BBC sketch comedy, people would have thought it was a bit much.

🔎 Can we move from domination to emancipation? This Wednesday, Feb 12, 12-2PM, Zach Hollander explores insights from Marcuse, King, Jr., and Davis at Ethics@Noon-ish. Join in person at the Centre for Ethics or online: www.youtube.com/live/CK_D6nr...

Finally deactivated my Twitter account. There are many things that I like about the platform, like how much information I can find about my Brazilian football team. Yet "being owned by a Nazi sympathizer trying to use it to push his agenda" seemed like a somewhat serious strike against it.

Rushing to change my pronouns in bio to "he/him/his except inside territories within US jurisdiction" mashable.com/article/trum...

All these executive orders and nothing banning polar vortexes. I guess they wouldn't be valid in Canada until annexation becomes official anyway.

🎉 Happy New Year from C4E! Kick off 2025 with thought-provoking insights at Ethics@Noon-ish! 🕛 Tomorrow (Jan 15, 12 PM), join Tim McKee for "Social Media Narrativity". This in-person-only talk promises fresh perspectives. See you there!

For World Logic Day, an anecdote from my dear late friend, Aldo Antonelli. Aldo was being interviewed for a job, and someone asks him "How would you describe the relation between logic and philosophy". To which, Aldo succinctly answered: "Part-whole". Incomprehensibly, he did not get the job.