Events at: BUCH A103

Colloquia: Jacob Stegenga

Abstract: Bayesian Mechanista “There are two radical views regarding the role of mechanistic knowledge in causal inference in medicine. One view holds that inferences about the effectiveness of interventions should be based only on data from population-level studies (usually statistical evidence from randomised trials). The other view holds that such inferences must be based in […]

Philosophy Colloquia – Dr. Brian Berkey: “Who is Wronged by Wrongful Exploitation?”

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to our 2022/2023 colloquium series. Our guest speaker Dr. Brian Berkey, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics and of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania will give a talk on “Who is Wronged by Wrongful Exploitation?” on March 3. Brian works in moral and […]

Philosophy Colloquia – Dr. Eddy Keming Chen: “Strong Determinism”

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to our 2022/2023 colloquium series. Our next talk will be given by Dr. Eddy Keming Chen, assistant professor in philosophy at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Talk Title: “Strong Determinism” Time: 3 – 5 pm, March 24, 2023 Location: Buchanan A103 Abstract: A strongly […]

Philosophy Colloquium – Dr. Gurpreet Rattan: “I think therefore I am not”

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to our 2022/2023 colloquium series. Our next talk will be given by Dr. Gurpreet Rattan, Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and Professor and Chair at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. Talk Title: “I think […]

Philosophy Colloquium – Dr. Rudolf Meer: ‘The 1913 Declaration of the Philosophers. Alois Riehl and the History of Psychology’

Abstract: Alois Riehl was one of the six initiators of the “Declaration Against the Occupation of Philosophical Chairs with Representatives of Experimental Psychology”. Based on Riehl’s philosophical position in “The Principles of the Critical Philosophy” and further archive materials, I reconstruct the emergence of the declaration and the reasons why Riehl signed and defended it […]

Philosophy Colloquium – Dr. Yitzhak Y. Melamed: ‘Spinoza and Hegel on Actual Infinity’

Abstract: In this paper I study some crucial stations in the complex story of the rehabilitation of the notion of actual infinity, from Aristotle, through Crescas, Spinoza, Hegel, and Cantor. Among other things I attempt to clarify Cantor’s significant engagement with Spinoza’s text, and Cantor’s view of Spinoza’s advocacy of actual infinity as partly inspiring […]