Lectures & Events
Upcoming lectures & events
Animal Ethics and Sensibility in Levinas
Recent lectures & events
- Arash Abizadeh (McGill University)
- Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University)
- Patti Tamara Lenard (University of Ottawa)
- Agnes Tam (Concordia University)
- Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University)
- Kevin Vallier (Bowling Green State University)
- Daniel Weinstock (McGill University)
- Juliette Roussin (Laval University)
- Joseph Heath (University of Toronto)
- Will Kymlicka (Queen’s University)
- Jules Salomone-Sehr (CRÉ/CUNY)
- Brennen Harwood (Queen’s University)
- Víctor Muñiz-Fraticelli (McGill University)
- Colleen Murphy (University of Illinois)
Eric S. Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He works on Chinese, German, and Jewish philosophy. He is the author of "Daoism and Environmental Philosophy" (Routledge, 2020), "Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other" (SUNY Press, 2020), and "Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2017). He has published over seventy-five articles and book chapters and is the editor of "Interpreting Dilthey: Critical Essays" (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Rajiv Kaushik is Professor of Philosophy at Brock University. He works in the areas of phenomenology, hermeneutics, aesthetics, and psychoanalytic theory. He is the author of three books on Merleau-Ponty. This paper presentation concerns the theme of "positive negation" developed in the book "Merleau-Ponty Between Philosophy and Symbolism: The Matrixed Ontology," published by SUNY Press in 2019.
Carol C. Gould's research addresses hard questions in social and political philosophy, with particular attention to the relationship between theory and practice. Her interests range across democratic theory, the philosophy of human rights, problems of global justice, feminist philosophy, and critical social theory. Gould is the author and editor of many books, most recently of "Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice," published by Cambridge University Press in 2014.
The Philosophy Department will host an information session for prospective philosophy students.
Catarina Dutilh Novaes’s forthcoming book "The Dialogical Roots of Deduction: Historical, Cognitive, and Philosophical Perspectives on Reasoning" will serve as the Canadian Society for Epistemology's 2020 meeting theme.
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Affiliated Lecture Series
Montreal Inter-University Workshop in the History of Philosophy
Interuniversity Research Group in Political Philosophy (GRIPP) (Profs. Matthias Fritsch, Pablo Gilabert, Researchers)
Interuniversity Research Group in Normativity (GRIN) (Profs. Murray Clarke, Ulf Hlobil, Katharina Nieswandt, Researchers)
Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) (Profs. Pablo Gilabert, Katharina Nieswandt, Ulf Hlobil)
