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

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

Schedule

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