Lectures & Events
Upcoming lectures & events
David Wong will synthesize elements from the Confucian, Daoist and Western democratic traditions to address the contemporary challenge of achieving a reasonable degree of political and social harmony. He will also discuss what a democracy might look like if it realized this synthesis.
Recent lectures & events
Hegel’s Speculative Idealism & The Truth of Freedom
Hegel and the Modern Debate of Historicism in Art: A Contemporary Reading of Hegel’s Ideal of Art through the Musical Form
A Relational Egalitarian Account of Contributive Justice
Karyn Lai is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Jay Bernstein is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research.
Dr. Fabrizio Baldassarri will discuss René Descartes's interpretation of plants as a case study of the mechanistic attempt to define plant activities, life, and behaviour.
Why Relational Facts Need to Be at Least as Primitive as Monadic Facts
Daniel Steel is Associate Professor at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics and the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia.
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Affiliated Lecture Series
Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) (Profs. Matthew Barker, Pablo Gilabert)
Groupe de recherche en éthique environmentale et animale (GRÉEA) (Prof. Matthew Barker)
Inter-University Research Group in Political Philosophy (GRIPP) (Profs. Matthias Fritsch, Pablo Gilabert)
Inter-University Research Group in Normativity (GRIN) (Profs. Murray Clarke, Ulf Hlobil, Katharina Nieswandt)
Loyola Sustainability Research Centre (LSRC) (Profs. Matthew Barker, Matthias Fritsch)
Montreal Inter-University Workshop in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics (Prof. Greg Lavers)
Montreal Philosophy of Science Network (Prof. Matthew Barker)