The Department of Philosophy regularly hosts 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 2023
Friday, February 24, 2023 - Jarislowsky Chair Lecture Series in Human Nature and Technology
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST
Lecture Series in Human Nature and Technology
Harmut Rosa, Erfurt University and Friedrich, Schiller University (Jena)
Title: Resonance, Acceleration and Alienation: The Desire for Control and The Uncontrollability of the World
Location: TBA
Monday, January 9, 2023 - Workshop
Time: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. EST
David J. Chalmers, New York University
Title: Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
Location: TBA
FALL 2022
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 - Symposium
Time: 1:30-5:00 p.m. EST
J. Maclure, V. Müller, A. Zimmermann, S. Wachter
Title: Taking Stock of AI Ethics: Where are We? What Should We Hope For?
Location: TBA
Friday, September 30, 2022 - Jarislowsky Chair Lecture Series in Human Nature and Technology
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST
Dr. Karina Vold, Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology, University of Toronto
Title: TBA
Location: TBA
Website: https://www.ihpst.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/karina-vold
WINTER 2022
Friday, March 18, 2022 - Jarislowsky Chair Lecture Series in Human Nature and Technology
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST
Simone Chambers, University of California, Irvine
Title: Wrecking the Public Sphere: new-authoritarians and the digital attack on pluralism and truth (Poster)
Location: 2001 McGill College, Room 1201
Website: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/sechambe/
Friday, March 11, 2022 - Colloquium Virtual Series
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST
Alex King, Simon Frasier University
Title: Aesthetic Moore Paradoxes
Website: http://www.philosopher-king.com/
Friday, February 11, 2022 - Colloquium Virtual Series
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST
Maya Goldenberg, University of Guelph
Title: Well-Placed Trust and Public Resistance to Science
Website: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/philosophy/people/maya-j-goldenberg
FALL 2021
Friday, December 3, 2021 - Jarislowsky Chair Lecture Series in Human Nature and Technology
Time: 4:00 p.m. EST, In-person at 2001 McGill College, Room 1201 and live on Zoom
Markus Gabriel, Chair in Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, Bonn University
Title: Being Human in the Digital Age – On Human and Artificial Intelligence
markus_gabriel_event.pdf
Website: https://www.philosophie.uni-bonn.de/de/personen/professoren/prof.-dr.-markus-gabriel-2
Friday, November 12, 2021 - Colloquium Virtual Series
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST, Virtual
Katharina Nieswandt, Concordia University
Title: Gender Ratio in Philosophy: An Inferential-Statistical Model of Possible Determinants
website: https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/philosophy/faculty=katharina-Nieswandt
Friday, October 29, 2021 - Colloquium Virtual Series
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST, Virtual
Simona Vucu, Postdoctoral Researcher with the project Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy, supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Title: Catherine of Siena on the Unity of Virtue
Website: https://www.mcgill.ca/philosophy/people/postdoc
Friday, October 1, 2021 - Colloquium Virtual Series
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST, Virtual
Jonathan Simon, Université de Montréal
Title: Can Consciousness be Indeterminate? Some Decision Theoretic Puzzles
Website: https://jonsimon.net/
WINTER 2021
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 - Anti-Racist Lens Panel Event
Time: 4:00 p.m. EST, Virtual
Moderated by Alia Al-Saji, McGill University
Panel: David Austin, Agnès Berthelot-Raffard and Geneviève Vande Wiele Nobert
Title: Teaching Philosophy through an Anti-Racist Lens
Friday, March 19, 2021 - Colloquium Virtual Series
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST, Virtual
Myisha Cherry, University of California, Riverside
Title: Racialized Forgiveness
WINTER 2020
Friday, April 3, 2020 - 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, 2020 - 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, 2020 - Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Kate Nolfi, University of Vermont
Title: Nonfactive knowledge