Lectures & Events
Upcoming lectures & events
In this lecture, Chris Fraser will inquire into how this approach shapes the attitudes and conduct of the Zhuangist adept toward other persons.
In this talk, Reza Hadisi will reflect on the nature of the premises of practical reasoning.
In this free public lecture, Kristin Andrews will discuss social norms as a socially maintained pattern of behavioral conformity within a community and offer methods for studying social norms in wild and captive primate populations.
Recent lectures & events
Mutating Carnophallogocentrism: Kantian Dignity and the Rights of Nature
Heidegger, Funerary Practices, and the Fourfold
Levinas, Euthanasia, and the Duality of the Moral Subject
Spontaneous Heroism and the Intersubjective Nature of Sacrificial Selflessness in Merleau-Ponty
Shame and the Scope of Moral Responsibility
Disastrous (In)Determination: Exploring the Intersections of Domination, Desire, and Dialogue / (In)Détermination Désastreuse: Explorez les intersections de la domination, du désir, & du dialogue
Defeat has played an important role in epistemology since Gettier (1963). In this talk, I argue that its ubiquity and importance is misplaced, that there is no unified concept or phenomenon of "defeat."
Frequently, philosophers oppose motives to reasons. It is more correct to say that motives are a kind of reason. In an account of practical inference, the goodness of motives can be viewed as constituting validity, the goodness of reasons as securing soundness.
This paper reconstructs the contentious view of biological sympathy that Henri Bergson developed in his "Creative Evolution."
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Affiliated Lecture Series
Montreal Inter-University Workshop in the History of Philosophy (Prof. Greg Lavers)
Interuniversity Research Group in Political Philosophy (GRIPP) (Profs. Matthias Fritsch, Pablo Gilabert)
Interuniversity Research Group in Normativity (GRIN) (Profs. Murray Clarke, Ulf Hlobil, Katharina Nieswandt)
Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) (Prof. Pablo Gilabert)