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Every year, the department of philosophy offers to its community a series of lectures given by local and guests scholars.

Conferences

Unless otherwise noted, all lectures are held in Desmarais Hall
Room 8161 at 2:30 p.m.

Past conferences

October 2
Louis-Philippe Hodgson
(York University)
Liberal Justice and Social Ideals

***This event will start at 3pm, instead of 2:30***

October 2-3
Aristotle and Science
Annual Conference of the Canadian Aristotle Society

***This event will take place in rooms 125 and 129 of the Simard Hall all day***

See complete program

October 9-10
World-Building
Annual Graduate Interuniversity Conference Voir | Dire

***This event will take place in rooms 129 of the Simard Hall all day***

See complete program

October 16
Reza Hasidi
(University of Toronto)
TBD

December 11
Estelle Ferrarese
(Université de Picardie - Jules Vernes)
TBD

January 15
Laurence Ricard
(University of Ottawa)
TBD

January 22
Jenny Saul
(University of Waterloo)
TBD

February 19
Chike Jeffers
(Dalhousie University)
TBD

February 26
Jimmy Plourde
(Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
TBD

March 26
Anne-Marie Gagné
(Université Laval)
TBD

September 12

Arnaud Petit (Oxford University)
A humbling play of voices: Merleau-Ponty and the ending of Phenomenology

September 26

Zachary Candy (Ludwig Maximilians Universität)
Islamic Philosophpers on the Senses of Existence: Do They Agree with Frege?

October 15-17

Monde moderne, mondes alternatifs international and interdisciplinary conference

***This event will take place in Hamelin Hall, room 509, from 8:30am to 5:30pm***

See the conference program

October 24-25

Aristotle and the De Anima conference

***This event will take place in Simard Hall, rooms 125 and 129, from 8:30am to 5:30pm***

See the conference program

October 31

Andrew Sneddon (University of Ottawa)
Taking Moral Theorising Seriously (Book presentation)

November 14

Rachel Barney (University of Toronto)
Plato and the Normativity

November 21

***World Philosophy Day Event***
Panel discussion with Meena Krishnamurti, on her bookThe Emotion of Nonviolence: Revisiting Martin Luther King Jr's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

January 16

Eleonora Alfano (McGill University)
L'Anatomie comparée des sexes de Louise Dupin (1706-1799): une féministe au siècle des Lumières

January 30

Ryan Simonelli
TBD

February 6

Emmanuel Chaput (Université Laval)
"Wechselwirkung": On the Interaction between Biology and Socio-Political Philosophy

February 13

Marie-Hélène Desmeules (Université de Sherbrooke)
TBD

March 6

Christine Sypnowich
TBD

March 13

Samuel Vitel (Université d'Ottawa)
TBD

March 27

Patrick Turmel (Université Laval)
TBD

Fall 2024

September 13
Hériter, transmettre. Colloque hommage à Daniel Tanguay

***This event is held at Hamelin Hall, room 509, from 9am to 5 pm, both days (view complete program here: http://philottawa.blogspot.com/2024/09/heriter-transmettre-colloque-hommage.html)***

September 27
Kyla Bruff
(Carleton University)
Do we need Anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene? Schelling and Adorno on the Human Being’s Unique Place in Nature

October 4
Michel Seymour
(Université de Montréal)
Nation et nationalisme au XXIe siècle

October 11
Thierry Côté
(University of Toronto)
Hume's Skepticism about Moral Improvement

October 25
Jeffrey Reid
(University of Ottawa)
The Meaning of Music in Hegel

November 8-9
Annual conference of the Canadian Aristotle Society
See complete program

November 21
Special event : World Philosophy Day
This activity is cosponsored by the philosophy departments of Carleton Univeristy and University of Ottawa
Special panel with:
Shireen Hassim (History and African Studies, Carleton), specializes in feminist theory and African politics,
Roopen Majithia (Philosophy, Mount Allison) specializes in Indian philosophy,
Eric Hutton (Philosophy, University of Utah) specializes in Chinese philosophy

***The event is held on the Carleton University campus, at Dunton Tower, room 2017, 5:30pm, and will be followed by a reception***

Winter 2025

January 31
Raphaël Tossings
(Université d'Ottawa)
Pan-relationalism as the thread of Rorty’s work: a hermeneutical and philosophical defense

February 28
Jérôme Gosselin-Tapp
(Université Laval)
TBD

March 28
Charles Larmore
(Brown University)
Le Concept de bien

More to come...

September 30

Johannes Steizinger
The Dark Legacy of Lebensphilosophie: Erich Rothacker’s Path to National Socialism

***Start time is 3:00pm***

October 14
Jason Millar (University of Ottawa)
Situating the Ethical Engineering of Robotics and AI

Novembre 18
Angela Ferraro (Université Laval)
Se tromper de bonne foi: Autour de l'obscurité et de l'ambiguïté du sentiment intérieur chez Malebranche

February 3
Alberto Luis López (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico/University of Ottawa)
Berkeley, Politics and Society

March 10
by videoconference
Étienne Brown (San Jose State University)
Désinformation et liberté d'expression: faut-il interdire les fausses nouvelles?

March 24
Jeffrey Reid (University of Ottawa)
AI Ideology: Marxcist Critique

September 17
Jim Vernon
(York University)
Dropouts understand things students don't: Huey Newton's Lessons for the Academic Left

October 22
Anna Ghighlione
(Université de Montréal)
La quête taoïste d’unité et les limites de la verbalisation selon le Zhuangzi

November 12
Kevin Klement
(University of Massachusetts)
Russell and a Possible Paradox of Facts

November 26
Nicholas Wiltsher
(Uppsala University)
Relations of Power in Aesthetic Communities

December 3
Sonia Sikka
(University of Ottawa)
Is anti-Muslim bigotry a species of racism? India as a case study

December 10
Doug Moggach
(University of Ottawa)
Perfectionism after Kant

January 21
Elsa Grasso
(Université de Nice)
Ontologie d’un étranger. Le Sophiste et l’entrelacs de l’ousia

11 mars
Gordon Davis
(Carleton University)
Western and Non-Western forerunners of moral consequentialism: Whether and how to honour the pioneers of no-self approaches

March 25
Valérie Daoust
(Université d’Ottawa)
La critique butlerienne de la femme-khôra chez Luce Irigaray
Exclue ou exclusive : la différence sexuelle et les possibilités énonciatrices ‘Autres’

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