The Department of Philosophy regularly host Departmental Colloquia as well as the Philosophy Workshop Series. Both series take place in Room 927 of the Leacock Building at McGill University. For other philosophy events at McGill and in Montreal, see Other Philosophy Events.
WINTER 2021
Friday, March 19 - Colloquium Virtual Series
Time 3:30 p.m. EST, Virtual
Myisha Cherry, University of California, Riverside
Title: Racialized Forgiveness
WINTER 2020
Friday, April 3 - Colloquium Series (CANCELLED)
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Robin Dembroff, Yale University
Title: Patriarchy: Putting 'Real Men' on Top
Friday, January 24 - Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Efraín Lazos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Title: Kant on mathematical schematism
Friday, January 17, 2020 - Montreal Workshop in Critical Philosophy of Race
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Jacqueline Scott, Loyola University Chicago
Title: ‘This land of thorns is not habitable’: Healing the Despair of Racialized Meta-Oppression.
Friday, January 10 - Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Kate Nolfi, University of Vermont
Title: Nonfactive knowledge
FALL 2019
November 15-16, 2019 - Montreal Workshop in Critical Philosophy of Race
Time and Location: Nov 15 - Starts at 2:30pm & Nov 16 - All day in Leacock 927
https://mtlworkshopcpr.eventbrite.com
Friday, November 1 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Rachana Kamtekar, Cornell University
Title: Accidental agency and agent regret
October 11, 2019 – The 13th Annual Meeting for the Society for Ricoeur Studies
Keynote Lecture: Gaëlle Fiasse, "Ethical Imagination and the Consideration of the Other Human Being”
Time and Location: 10 :45 a.m. – 12 :15 p.m., Birks Building, McGill University, 3520 University Street, Montreal H3A 2A7
www.ricoeursociety.org - 2019 Society for Ricoeur Studies Program
October 10-12, 2019 – 13th Annual Society for Ricoeur Studies Conference
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The theme of the 2019 annual conference is “Imagination and Hermeneutics”. The conference will be hosted by McGill University and the School of Religious Studies.
The SOCIETY FOR RICOEUR STUDIES keynote speakers are Professor Jean Grondin (Université de Montréal) and Professor Gaëlle Fiasse (McGill University).
Friday, October 4 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Jessica Gelber, University of Toronto
Title: Can Aristotle accept cross-species teleology?
September 19 to September 20 – Charles Taylor Lecture Series
Time and Location: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Université de Montréal, 3200 Jean-Brillant, Room B-2325
Philip Pettit, Princeton Unversity and Australian National Unversity
Title: Part One: "Persons", Part Two: ‘Values’
Friday, September 13 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Klaus Vieweg, University of Jena
Title: Wall Street and People’s Republic. Hegel as Founder of the Concept of a Welfare State
WINTER 2019
Friday, January 18 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Emily Fletcher, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: The nature of injustice in Plato's Republic
FALL 2018
Friday, November 23 – Interdisciplinary Speaker Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 934
Moe Touizrar, McGill University
Title: Fictional Transliterations: Cross-Modal Representations of Sunrise in Music
Friday, November 9 – Interdisciplinary Speaker Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Dr. Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor, McGill University
Title: Place and Architectural Space
Monday, October 15 – Panel discussion: Women in Early Modern Philosophy
Time and Location: 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Leacock 638
Guest speakers include:
Martina Reuter, University of Jyväskylä, Finland: “Elisabeth of Bohemia on Free Will”
Patricia Sheridan, University of Guelph: “Catharine Trotter Cockburn on Virtue and Agency”
Marguerite Deslauriers, McGill University: “Lucrezia Marinella on Tyranny”
Friday, September 7– Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Douglas Hedley, Cambridge University
Title: Cudworth and the Romantic philosophers on the chain of being
WINTER 2018
Friday, April 6 - Saturday, April 7 – Conference in Honor of Storrs McCall
Time and Location: April 6 at 3:00 p.m., April 7 at 1:00 p.m.; Leacock 927
Guest speakers include:
Anil Gupta, University of Pittsburgh
Michael Hallett, McGill University
Achille Varzi, Columbia University
James Brown, University of Toronto
Thursday, March 22 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:00 p.m., Leacock 927
Philip Kitcher, Columbia University
Title: Progress in the sciences and in the arts
Thursday, February 15 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 6:00 p.m., Leacock 927
Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: When is the simpler theory better?
FALL 2017
Friday, December 1 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Anouk Barberousse, Université de Paris-IV (Sorbonne)
Title: Formalism, mathematical interpretation, and physical theories
Thursday, November 2 – History and Philosophy of Science Lunchtime Talk Series
Time and Location: 12:00 p.m., Leacock 927
François Claveau, Université de Sherbrooke
Title: Central Banks as Experts: What Can Social Epistemology Say?
Friday, October 27 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Danielle Allen, Harvard University
Title: Difference without domination
Thursday, October 19 – History and Philosophy of Science Lunchtime Talk Series
Time and Location: 12:00 p.m., Leacock 927
Christophe Malaterre, Université du Québec à Montréal
Title: Shades of Life
Thursday, October 5 – History and Philosophy of Science Lunchtime Talk Series
Time and Location: 12:00 p.m., Leacock 927
Molly Kao, Université de Montréal
Title: Discovery and Justification: Refining the Context Distinction
Friday, October 2 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Jacqueline Broad, Monash University
Title: Dignity, Cartesian Metaphysics, and Women’s Rights, 1650-1750
Friday, September 22 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 2:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Cheryl Misak, University of Toronto
Title: Pragmatism and Evaluation of Ethical Beliefs
Thursday, September 21 – History and Philosophy of Science Lunchtime Talk Series
Time and Location: 12:00 p.m., Leacock 927
Faith Wallis, McGill University
Title: Medicine's Academic Turn in the 12th Century: the case of Master Bartholomaeus of Salerno
Monday, September 11 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Calvin Normore, UCLA and McGill
Title: The Power of Freedom
Friday, September 8 – History and Philosophy of Science Talk
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Prof. Sorin Bangu, University of Bergen, Norway
Title: Reductionism, Constructionism and Explanation. The Case of Superconductivity
WINTER 2017
Friday, March 31 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Jennifer Saul, University of Sheffield
Title: Dogwhistles and Figleaves: Techniques of Racist Political Manipulation
Friday, March 31 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 1 p.m., New Chancellor Day Hall 202
Susan Jaack. University of Miami
Title: Justice, Truth and Proof
Friday, March 17 – Montreal Philosophy of Science Network Speaker Series
Time and Location: 9:30 a.m., Leacock 927
Peter Galison, Harvard University
Title: On the objectivity of science
Thursday, February 2 – Montreal Philosophy of Science Network Speaker Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Martin Carrier, Bielefeld University
Title: Agnotological Challenges: How to Capture the Production of Ignorance
Friday, January 27 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
David Hyder, University of Ottawa
Title: Kant and Einstein on the Causal Order of Time
Friday, January 20 - Interdisciplinary Speaker Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Michael Makkai
Title: Meta-Mathematics in Bourbaki's Structuralism
Friday, January 13 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
G. Anthony Bruno
Title: Genealogy and Jurisprudence in Fichte's Genetic Deduction of the Categories
Friday, January 6 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Daniel Stoljar, Australian National University
Title: The reflexive theory of consciousness
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