Monday June 4, 9:00-12:30 Sympoisum Christine Tappolet (UdeM) Carolyn Price (Open University) Sophie Rietti (University of Ottawa) Murat Aydede (UBC) Laura Sizer (Hampshire College) Christine Tappolet (UdeM)

Symposium Veromi Arsiradam (Western) Andrew Molas (York) Andrea Dionne Warmack (Emory) Chandra Kavanagh (McMaster) Amanda Plain (Waterloo) Bruce Ferguson (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) Sandra Devries (Waterloo) Emily Bingeman (Dalhousie) Tiffany Gordon (Dalhousie) Symposium Daniel Weinstock (McGill) (Organizer) Colin MacLeod (Victoria) Anne Iavaronne-Turcotte (McGill) Muhammad Velji (McGill)

The nature of moods Remarques introductives The Intentionality of Moods Moods and Justification Affect – Core or Not? Sad Songs Say So Much: The Apparent Paradox of Liking Sad Music Organzizer Perspectives From “the Margin”: Student Proposals for Diversifying the Field of Philosophy

Organizer Organizer Organizer Bill 62: A discussion/La loi 62: une discussion

Sympoisum Karen Robrertson (Trent) (Organizer)

CSWIP Anglophone Session: Dimensions of Togetherness: Oppression and Transformation in Space and Time and Corporeality Chair

Marie-Anne Casselot-Legros (Laval ) Emily R. Douglas (McGill) Rachel Elliott (Guelph)

“Manspreading”: A Study of Appropriative Intentionality with Iris Marion Young Phenomenologies of Resistance in and through Fanon Togetherness in the Future

Colloquium Kenneth Boyd (UofT)

Epistemology and Ethics Chair

9:00-9:45

Nicole Ramsoomair (McGill)

Technological Scotomisation: Autonomy in an Echo Chamber

9:55-10:40

Michael Randall Barnes (Georgetown)

10:50-11:35 Charles Côté-Bouchard (Rutgers)

Who Do You Speak For? And How? The Management of Identities on Social Media Is the Internet epistemically safe? Personalization and the threat of epistemological skepticism

11:45-12:30 Craig Agule (Rutgers)

Distinctive Duress and The Good Cognitive Capacity

9:00-9:45

Colloquium Dan McCarthur (York)

Philosophy of Science 1 Chair

Cory Lewis (UofT)

Laws, Models, and Explanations

9:55-10:40 Mark Alliksaar (UofT) 10:50-11:35 Rebecca Livernois (UBC)

The Status of Classical Physics in Contemporary Science Externality, Pollution, and Economic Policy

11:45-12:30 Eve Roberts (University of King's College)

Novelty as an epistemic virtue for ‘Big Data’ research

9:00-9:45

Colloquium Allen Habib (Calgary)

Philosophy of Law 1 Chair

Frédérick Armstrong and Natalie Stoljar (McGill)

Responding to Group-Based Vulnerabilities - Intersectionality and Law Judicial Review or Democracy by Other Means: The Transitivity of the Will of the People Dworkin's Relational Egalitarianism

9:55-10:40 Jorge Humberto Sanchez-Perez (McMaster) 10:50-11:35 L. Chad Horne (Franklin & Marshall) Colloquium

Plato

TBD 9:00-9:45 Stephanie Morais (CPA) 9:55-10:40 Marta Jimenez (Emory) 10:50-11:35 Taylor Barinka (UofT)

Chair The role of choral education in Plato’s Laws Plato on the Role of Anger in our Intellectual and Moral Development Perception and Knowledge in Plato's "Theaetetus" (184b3-186e12)

11:45-12:30 Michael Korngut (Western)

What is the Value of Health (τὸ ὑγιαίνειν) in Plato?

9:00-9:45

Colloquium TBD Danielle Bromwich and Joseph Millum (UMass, Boston, NIH)

9:55-10:40 Julian Jonker (University of Pennsylvania) 10:50-11:35 Nathan Brett (Dalhousie) 11:45-12:30 Attila Ataner (Western) Colloquium 9:00-9:45

Applied Ethics 1 Chair Consent to Medical Research Vulnerability and the Puzzle of Mutually Beneficial Exploitation Climate Change and Common-Sense Morality Kant and Hegel on Our Duties to Preserve the Living Body and the Natural Environment

TBD

Epistemology 1 Chair

Steven Bland (Huron University College)

Sceptical Arguments for Epistemic Relativism

9:55-10:40 Marius Backmann (Konstanz University) 10:50-11:35 David Didomenico (University of Miami) 11:45-12:30 C Dalrymple-Fraser (UofT) Colloquium Xavier Scott (York) 9:00-9:45

Michael Cuffaro and Molly Kao (Western , UdeM)

9:55-10:40

Sandra Raponi (Merrimack College)

10:50-11:35 Leland Harper (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) Susan Dieleman and Zahra Shojaei (University of 11:45-12:30 Saskatchewan)

Varieties of Justification – How (not) to Solve the Old Riddle Hijacked Experiences, Reasoning, and Rationality Building epistemic justice: disability, epistemic exclusions, and the material built environment Social and Political Philosophy: Justice, Responsibility and Religion Chair Employing Agent-Based Computer Simulations in Developing Theories of Distributive Justice Developing a Moral Framework for a New Global Compact on Responsibility Sharing for Refugees Theory and Practice: Ethical Considerations of Religious Pluralism Religious Reasons as Conversation-Stoppers

Colloquium Susan-Judith Hoffmann (McGill)

Contemporary European Philosophy 1 Chair

9:00-9:45

Natalie Helberg (UofT)

Explosive Plasticity, Insubordination, and Deconstruction

9:55-10:40

Patrick Eldridge (KU Leuven)

The Vicissitudes of Remembering: Husserl's Phenomenology of False Memories The Persistence of Memory: Henri Bergson, Margaret Urban Walker, and the Necessity of Moral Repair

10:50-11:35 Bianca Mary Waked (McMaster)

9:00-9:45

Colloquium Sarah Stroud (McGill) Scott Woodcock (Victoria)

Normative Ethics 1 Chair Virtue Ethics Must be Self-Effacing to be Normatively Significant

9:55-10:40

Aaron Ancell (UofT)

Compromising Justice: Should we be principled or pragmatic?

10:50-11:35 Lorenza D'Angelo (Syracuse)

Non-Sensory Phenomenology and Theories of Pleasure

11:45-12:30 Danielle Bromwich (UMass, Boston)

Consent, Conversation, and Communication

9:00-10:00

Colloquium Simon Gurofsky (U. of Chicago)

Hume, Kant and Hegel Chair

Manuel Vásquez Villavicencio (UQAM) TBD

Intellectual curiosity and melancholy in Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature Comments on Villavicencio

10:15- 11:15 Farshid Baghai (Villanova)

The systematic unity of reason in Kant's critical philosophy

11:30-12:30 Kaveh Boveiri (UdeM) TBD

On Hegelian Totality Comments on Boveiri

Colloquium 9:00-9:45

Claudine Verheggen

Language and Mind Chair

Christina Behme (Mount Saint Vincent)

Descartes’ view on animal cognition

Michaela Manson (UofT)

Comments on Behme

9:55-10:40

Hayden Kee (Fordham )

Sense-making from the top down

10:50-11:35 Benjamin Winokur (York)

Davidson, Authoritative Speech, and Privileged Self-Knowledge

11:45-12:30 Chang Liu (Western)

Slurs as Illocutionary Force Indicators Symposium

Autonomy and (non-)domination: the case of non-human animals

Frédéric Coté-Boudreau (Queens) Sue Donaldson & Will Kymlicka (Queens)

Preference Formation: A Non-Rationalistic and Non-Individualistic Approach Freedom in Action

Natalie Evans (Guelph-Humber ) Angie Pepper (UdeM) Kristin Voigt (McGill)

Animal agency, autonomy, and assent in domesticated animal citizens Enabling Nonhuman Animal Agency: Consent, Assent, and Dissent Organizer & co-chair

Valéry Giroux (UdeM)

Organizer & co-chair

Colloquium TBD 9:00-9:45

Kaveh Boveiri (UdeM)

9:55-10:40

Andreanne Veillette (Sherbrooke)

Cognition, langage et science Chair Construction de niche : une réévaluation Cartographier l’épistémologie sociale orientée vers les systèmes : à la recherche de standards de recherche rigoureux

10:50-11:35 Jean-Charles Pelland (UQAM)

Le continu, le discret, et la numérosité

11:45-12:30 Marc Champagne (Trent)

Kripke et Saussure affirmaient-ils la même chose?

Colloquium TBD 9:00-10:00 Alexandre Rouette (UQTR) 10:15-11:15 Jeffrey Reid (Ottawa) Andreas Farina-Schroll (UdeM) 11:30-12:30 Laura Kassar (UdeM) Bernabé Wesley (UdeMl)

Histoire de la philosophie 1 Chair Existe-t-il une inertie des idées chez Spinoza ? Le temps chez Löwith et Hegel Comments on Reid La lecture benjaminienne de Franz Kafka - une oeuvre "de nature prophétique" Comments on Kassar

Sympoisum Nawel Hamidi (Université d'Essex, UK) Kasereka Kavwahirehi (Université d’Ottawa) Kevin Lamoureux U. of Manitoba and U. of Winnipeg) Delphine Abadie (UdeM)

Existence racisée, politiques de résurgence et philosophies de libération / Racialised existences, philosophies of resistance, and the politics of resurgence. La voix des humiliés : pouvoir, récits et généalogie de l’humiliation en Algérie De l’« ego cogito » cartésien à la « corpo-politique » : La philosophie africaine et la recherche d’une autre dimension d’humanité Mino Pimatisiwin: Walking in a good way Organizer

Jenna Woodrow (Thompson Rivers University) Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR)

Organizer Organizer

Symposium David Montminy (UdeM), Organizer

Philosophie et science: dialogue et bénéfices mutuels

Céline Riverin (Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf), organizer François Papale (UdeM) Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (UQAM) Kevin Kaiser (INSEAD0 Simon Goyer (UQAM)

Monday June 4, 2:00-5:30

Sympoisum Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY) Grace Helton (Princeton) Endre Begby (SFU) Jacob Beck (York), Organizer Hayley Clatterbuck (Rochester)

The perception-cognition boundary. Seeing and Conceptualizing: Modularity and the Shallow Contents of Perception Unrevisability and the Divide Between Perception and Cognition On Objectivity and Bias in Perception Hallucinations and Perceptual Noise Chair

Sympoisum Kelin Emmet (UBC) Charlotte Sabourin (McGill) Allauren Forbes (University of Pennsylvania) Sandra Plastina (University of Calabria) Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill), organizer

2:00-3:00

3:15-4:15 4:30-5:30

New Narratives in the History of Philosophy: Renaissance and Early Modern Women Resisting Marriage, Reclaiming Right Subordinates in Society, Equals in the Bedroom: Kant on Women and Marriage The Virtue of Conversation Letters on Natural Philosophy and New Science: Camilla Erculiani (Padua 1584) and Margherita Sarrocchi (Rome 1612) Generation, Agency and Material Causation: Renaissance Men Argue for Women's Worth

Symposium Andrew Botterell (Western) & Mianna Lotz (Macquarie) Veromi Arsiradam (Western) Colin MacLeod (Victoria) Sally Haslanger (MIT) & Isaac Yablo (U. MassBoston) Tina Rulli (UC Davis) Carolyn McLeod (Western)

Having Children By Adoption: Philosophical Reflections

Symposium David Hunter (Ryerson) Mark McCullagh (Guelph), Organizer Gurpreet Rattan & Marion Durand (UofT) David Sosa (University of Texas at Austin) Roy Sorensen (Wash-U, St. Louis) Gurpreet Rattan (UofT), Organizer

Mates's Puzzle: challenging our conceptions of meaning and belief Organizer Two takeaways from the Mates examples The Cognitive Significance of Mates’s Puzzle Mates in Two Embedded Nonsense Chair

Symposium Ronald Beiner (UofT) Étienne Brown (CRÉ), Organizer Sophie Marcotte-Chénard (Carleton), Organizer

Democracy in crisis? Historical and contemporary perspectives Dangerous Minds in Dangerous Times Rhetoric and Democracy: Kant on Self-Government and Representation. Representations of Crisis, Crisis of Representation: Considerations on Lefort's Theory of Democratic Indeterminacy

Robert Sparling (Ottawa) Christian Nadeau (UdeM)

Adam Smith and the Crisis of Liberalism : Public Power, Private Power and Corruption La fragilité des institutions. Délibération et défense des droits

Colloquium Charles Côté-Bouchard (Rutgers)

Epistemology 2 Chair

Kenneth Boyd (UofT)

Figure It Out For Yourself: Moral Knowledge and the Limits of Testimony

Nicole Dular (Franklin College)

Comments on Boyd

Amanda Bryant (Trent)

Why Care about Constraint: Theoretical Constraint as an Epistemic Good

Bryson Brown (Lethbridge)

Comments on Bryant

Jill Cumby (York)

Thinking beyond Imagining

Nathan Howard (USC)

Comments on Cumby

Colloquium

Adoption, Intimacy, and Obligation Children, Adoption, and the Politics of Belonging Decolonizing Adoption Transracial Adoption: Does Openness Matter? To Whom? Taking Back 'Transracial' Organizer

TBD

Philosophy of Law 2 Chair

2:00-3:00

Evan Tiffany (SFU)

Epistemic Duress and the Fair Opportunity to Avoid Ignorance

3:15-4:15

L. Chad Horne (Franklin & Marshall College) Lisa Hecht (Stockholm) Jorge Humberto Sanchez-Perez (McMaster)

Comments on Tiffany Compensation for Justified Harm to the Innocent Comments on Hecht

Shruta Swarup (UofT) Robert Murray (Ryerson)

Rights, Respect, and the Duty to Obey the Law Comments on Swarup

Colloquium Cory Lewis (UofT) Hassan Masoud (University of Alberta)

Epistemology, Logic and Laws Chair Epistemology of Deductive Systems

Boaz Schuman (UofT)

Comments on Masoud

4:30-5:30

2:00-3:00

3:15-4:15

Manish Oza (UofT)

Illogical thought and the external conception

Daniel Munro (UofT)

Comments on Oza

Yang Zhao (University of Alberta)

Laws without properties

Colloquium Christopher Yorke (Open University)

Ethics 1 Chair

Kathy Behrendt (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Unmoored: making sense of fear of death

John McHugh (Denison University)

Comments on Behrendt

3:15-4:15

Howard Nye (University of Alberta) Arron Ancell (UofT)

In Defense of a Harm-Based Account of the Default Wrongness of Killing Comments on Nye

4:30-5:30

Eric Bohner (Calgary)

Praising Secret Agents Who Could Not Have Done Otherwise

Miriam McCormick (U of Richmond)

Comments on Bohner

Colloquium John Hacker-Wright (Guelph)

Moral Psychology 1 Chair

2:00-3:00

Benjamin Wald (UofT) Steven Woodworth (Stanford)

Thin Constitutivism and Motivational Internalism Comments on Wald

3:15-4:15

Etye Steinberg (UofT) Catherine Rioux (UofT)

Reflection and Responsibility for Attitudes Comments on Steinberg

4:30-5:30

Jessica Wright (UofT)

Cognitive Control and Rational Evaluation

Paul Boswell (UdeM)

Comments on Wright

Symposium Jenny Pelletier (KU Leuven-norganizer) & Magali Roques (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies) Claude Panaccio (UQAM) Martin Pickavé (UofT) Gyula Klima (Fordham)

Ockham on Intentionality

Susan Brower-Toland (St. Louis University) Calvin Normore (UCLA) All

Short response to "Ockham on Intentionality" III Short response to "Ockham on Intentionality" IV Roundatble discussion

4:30-5:30

2:00-3:00

Colloquium

Introducing The Language of Thought in Late Medieval Philosophy Ockham on Intentionality Short response to "Ockham on Intentionality" I Short response to "Ockham on Intentionality" II

TBD

Beauty, power and preference Chair

2:00-3:00

Myron A Penner and Amanda Nichols (Trinity Western University, Oklahoma Christian University)

Molecular Symmetry, Beauty, and Truth Comments on Penner and Nichols

3:15-4:15

Danny Goldstick (UofT) Travis Lacroix and Cailin O'Connor (University of California, Irvine) Mike Ashfield (USC)

Comments on Lacroix and O'Connor

Glen Koehn (Huron University College) Alex Koo (UofT)

On the Order of Preferences Comments on Koehn

Symposium Thomas Lamarre (McGill), Organizer Jingjing Li (McGill), Organizer

If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha: Dialectics in East Asian Buddhism Chair Icchantika and Bodhisattva: Dialectics of Ignorance and Awakening Straight is Crooked: Poetry as Performative Dialectics in the Five Ranks Theory of Zen Buddhism Nishitani’s Critique of Ideology: Emptiness in Affect

4:30-5:30

Christopher Byrne (McGill) Melanie Coughlin (McGill) Symposium Nigel DeSouza (Ottawa) François Duchesneau (UdeM) Daniel Dumouchel (UdeM), Organizer Christian Leduc (UdeM), Organizer Mitia Rioux-Beaulne (Ottawa)

On the Role of Power in the Evolution of Inequitable Norms

La philosophie à l'Académie de Berlin au 18e siècle Herder and the Berlin Academy Méthode historique et méthode déductive en philosophie naturelle selon Maupertuis académicien Folie, enthousiasme, songes, pressentiments. Penser les pouvoirs de l’imagination à l’Académie de Berlin L’idée de philosophie spéculative à l’Académie de Berlin Fontenelle et le rôle de l’histoire de l’académie

Colloquium

2:00-2:45

André Duhamel (Sherbrooke)

Philosophie sociale et politique Chair Ricoeur et Nussbaum sur la tragédie : enjeux d’une réappropriation contemporaine de la phronesis

2:55: 3:40

Hugo Rangel Torrijo (UQAM)

La philosophie politique dans le débat de la démocratie en Amérique Latine.

3:50-4:35 4:45-5:30

Lara Jost (UNIGE)

Microaggressions: Défense d'une Approche Idéalisée

TBD

Colloquium TBD 2:00-3:00

Valérie Lynn Therrien (Western) Judy Pelham (York)

3:15-4:15

4:30-5:30

Philosophie de la science et de la logique Chair Le débat sure l'axiome du choix: Sermelo et Sierpinski contre les semi-intuitionnistes francais

Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (UQAM)

Comments on Therrien Boorse et le mouvement antipsychiatrique : même combat? (Winner of the Graduate Student Essay Prize (1st place))

Derek Andrews (Dalhousie)

Comments on Gagné-Julien

Pierre-Yves Rochefort (Cégep de l'Outaouais) Anne-Marie Boisvert (UQAM)

Ruphy, le pluralisme et le réalisme scientifique Comments on Rochefort

Symposium Martin Gibert (UdeM), Organizer Dominique Martin (UQAM), Organizer Vincent Müller (University of Leeds & Anatolia College) Pierre Poirier (UQAM) Miguel Ángel Sebastián (Université Nationale de Christine Tappolet (UdeM)

Éthique et intelligence artificielle “Intelligence, conscience et vie artificielle : les leçons de l'éthique animale” “Agent moral artificiel et structure de la moralité” “Neurosurveillance” “L'arroseur arrosé, et impuissant: Pourquoi nous sommes vulnérables aux effets de “First-Person Representation and the Moral Status of Artificial Intelligence” Présidence

Monday June 4, 6:00-7:00

Sandra Lapoint (McMaster) Samantha Brennan (Guelph)

Presidential Address Chair Fit is a Feminist Issue: Reflections on Public Engagement as a Philosopher

Monday June 4, 7:00-9:00 CPA Reception

Tuesday June 5, 9:00-12:30 Symposium Muhammad Ali Khalidi (York) Laura Franklin-Hall (NYU) Marc Ereshefsky (Calgary) Adrian Currie (CSER, Cambridge)

Historical Kinds What Are Historical Kinds? (And Why Does It Matter?) Why are some kinds historical and others not? Historical Kinds Central Subjects & Historical Individuals

Sympoisum Gwen Bradford (Rice)

Desire and Wellbeing

Chris Heathwood (U Colorado Boulder) Tim Schroder (Rice) (organizer)

Symposium Pablo Gilabert (Concordia) Katharina Nieswandt (Concordia)

Liberty, Equality, and Solidarity at Work: Justice in Employment and Production Exploitation, Solidarity, and Dignity Beyond Frontier Town: Domination and Theories of Private Property

Jeppe von Platz (University of Richmond)

Capitalism and the Problem of Alienation

David Borman (Nipissing University) (organizer)

Capitalist Domination, the Moral Economy, and the Right to Justification

Colloquium Luca Gili (UQAM) 9:00-10:00

Benjamin Wilck (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin) Peter Haskett (Carleton) 10:15-11:15 Jonathan Milad (UofT) Marta Jimenez (Emory) 11:30-12:30 Tiger Zheng (Guelph) John Thorp (Western) Colloquium 9:00-10:00

Comments on Milad It Takes One to Know One - Phronēsis, Sunēsis, the Difficulty of Identifying Aristotelian Exemplars Comments on Zheng Epistemology 3 Chair

Marc-Kevin Daoust (UdeM)

Epistemic Akrasia, Rational Closure and Lotteries

Phyllis Pearson (UBC)

Comments on Daoust

Graham Moore (UBC) Colloquium TBD Andrew Molas (York) Elizaveta Solomonova (McGill)

10:15-11:15 Harry Critchley (Queen's) Heather Stewart (Western) 11:30-12:30 Holly Longair (Vanderbilt)

9:00-10:00

Scientific Definitions and a New Problem for Pyrrhonian Scepticism Comments on Wilck Epictetus and the Notion of the Will

TBD

10:15-11:15 Mikaela Mackenzie (UofT) Whitney Lilly (Northwestern) 11:30-12:30 Juan Pineros Glasscock (Yale)

9:00-10:00

Ancient Philosophy Chair

Internalism vs. Externalism: A Battle of Intuitions Comments on Mackenzie Acquittal from Knowledge Laundering Comments on Glasscock Feminist Philosophy: Ethics and health care Chair Defending a Phenomenological Account of Empathy and an Ethic of Care for Overcoming Stigma Associated with Schizophrenia Comments on Molas The Epistemology of Ignorance and Prenatal Care for Pregnant Women in Provincial Jails in Ontario and Nova Scotia Comments on Critchley Epistemic Injustice and Alternative Epistemic Frameworks: The Case of Cuba

Ryoa Chung (UdeM)

Comments on Longair

Colloquium TBD Thomas Land (Ryerson)

Kant Chair The Importance of Faculty Psychology in Kant

Nick Dunn (McGill) 10:15-11:15 Simon Gurofsky (U. of Chicago) Nik Hamm (McGill)

Comments on Land Kant's Principle of Significance Comments on Gurofsky

11:30-12:30 Samantha Wesch (Alberta) Kaveh Boveiri (UdeM)

9:00-10:00

Colloquium David Copp (UC Davis)

Meta-Ethics 1 Chair

David Rocheleau-Houle (York)

Scanlon, Pure Normative Claims, and Necessity

Mike Ashfield (USC)

Comments on Rocheleau-Houle

10:15-11:15 Griffin Klemick (UofT) Ulf Hlobil (Concordia) 11:30-12:30 Nicole Dular (Franklin College) Félix Aubé-Beaudoin (Laval) Colloquium 9:00-10:00

Kant’s University: The Anthropological Significance Conflict of the Faculties Comments on Wesch

McDowell, Moral Realism, and "Reflective Self-Scrutiny" Comments on Klemick Constructivism's Moral Epistemology Comments on Dular

TBD

Philosophy of Cognitive Science 1 Chair

Dylan Ludwig (York) Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY)

The Psychological Mechanisms of Implicit Bias Comments on Ludwig

10:15-11:15 Andrew Brigham (Ottawa)

Debates in Cognitive Science: mapping the mind using cognitive homologies

Lauren Olin (University of Missouri Saint Louis) 11:30-12:30 Aaron Henry (UofT) Christopher Mole (UBC)

Comments on Brigham Explaining the Sense of Ownership for Action: An Attentional Account Comments on Henry

Colloquium

9:00-10:00

TBD

Normative Ethics 2 Chair

Jordan Thomson (UofT)

Having it Good Without Being Bad: Toward a Defense of Moral Moderation

TBD

Comments on Thomson

10:15-11:15 Jamie Robertson (York) Sophie Rietti (U. Ottawa) 11:30-12:30 Alistair Macleod (Queen's)

9:00-10:00

Silos versus layer-cake: productively contending with the complexity of autonomy Comments on Robertson The Conditionality of Promissory Obligations [ or When Is There No Obligation to Keep a Promise?]

Allen Habib (Calgary)

Comments on Macleod

Colloquium Phil Corkum (Alberta) Jonathan Payton (UofT) Neil Williams (University of Buffalo)

Metaphysics 1 Chair Proportionality and Omissions Reconsidered Comments on Payton

10:15-11:15 Evan Woods (Ohio State) Adam Murray (UofT) 11:30-12:30 Carolyn Garland (Syracuse) Damian Melamedoff (UofT)

Many, but One Comments on Woods Substance Prioritism: Constituent Ontologies and the Order of Dependence Comments on Garland Ethics 2 Chair

9:00-9:45

Colloquium TBD Willem van der Deijl (Centre de Recherche en Ethique)

9:55-10:40

Steven Woodworth (Stanford)

The Asymmetry of Instrumental Reason

10:50-11:35 Dwayne Moore (Saskatchewan) 11:45-12:30 Barry Hoffmaster (Western) Symposium Carrie Jenkins (UBC) Kate Norlock (Trent) Audrey Yap (Victoria) Kate Manne (Cornell) Victor Kumar and CSWIP

Two reasons to step into the matrix

Reconciling Appraisal Love and Bestowal Love The Rationality of Bioethics and More Author Meets Critics Session on Kate Manne’s Down Girl Comments on Down Girl I Comments on Down Girl II Comments on Down Girl III Reply to Jenkins, Norlock, and Yap Organizers Social and Political Philosophy 1

9:00-10:00

TBD

Chair

Phil Smolenski (Queens)

Checking for Stability in a World of Strict Compliance

Blain Neufeld (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee) Comments on Smolenski 10:15-11:15 Devlin Russell (Buffalo)

On a Need-to-Know Basis: A New Theory of Privacy

11:30-12:30 Peter Balint (UNSW)

What can the neutral tolerant state do? The case of mocking cultural appropriation Symposium

Marie-Claude Beaudin (Sherbrooke) Allison Marchildon (Sherbrooke) Dominic Martin (UQAM) (Organizer) Gabriel Monette (UdeM) Michel Séguinv (UQAM)

Symposium

La coopérative comme institution politique “La confiance envers les coopératives : constats et postulats philosophiques” “L'organisation coopérative, lieu privilégié de développement d'une éthique capacitante” “Quel est le rôle de la coopérative dans une société juste?” “Le républicanisme libéral, l'entreprise et la justice économique.” “L'approche éthique de la pratique de la démocratie au sein des cooperatives” Penser le religieux après la « mort de Dieu ». Expériences et interprétations contemporaines du sacré

Jean-Sébastien Hardy (Johns Hopkins) (Organizer) Giulio Mellana (Laval/Paris-Sorbonne) (Organizer)

La « παρουσία des perdus ». L’attente chez Heidegger et dans The Road Abenderkenntnis. Une histoire occidentale

Jean-François Perrier (Laval/Wuppertal) Marc-Antoine Vallée (Collège Edouard-Montpetit) Elisa Bellato (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Clay Mamvemba (Laval) Paul Karazivan (Collège Lasalle)

L’énigme de l’incarnation chez Marc Richir La persistance du religieux et de la métaphysique théiste après la « mort de L’espace du mythe et le temps de l’origine Heidegger et la résurgence des dieux. La phénoménologie religieuse après la mort de Dieu Dionysos et Saint-Paul. Un second souffle pour les Dieux ?

Michel Rhéaume (Laval/Paris-Sorbonne)

Des prophètes sont-ils encore possibles ?

Françoise Baylis (Dalhousie) Alexandre Lavallée (PetalMD) Valéry Giroux (UdeM)

Philosophy in and for Society: Developing Best Practices for Engagement / La philosophie dans et pour la société: développer des pratiques exemplaires d’engagement The roles and responsibilities of scholars in creating public debate: Challenging intuitive ethical considerations Comment et pourquoi faire le marketing de la philosophie? L’engagement antispéciste des chercheurs.ses en éthique animale

William-Jacomo Beauchemin (Exeko)

La médiation intellectuelle : une pratique de la philosophie et un outil d’action sociale

Alain Létourneau (Sherbrooke)

Un engagement en gouvernance de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques

Brooke Struck (Science-Metrix) Matthew Sample & François Claveau

Embodied concepts: how philosophical analysis can guide institutional reform Organizers

Symposium

Tuesday June 5, 12:30 - 2:00 Chair's Lunch Tuesday June 5, 2:00 -5:30 Sympoisum Marina Oshana (UC Davis) Christian Schemmel (Manchester) Éliot Litalien (McGill)

Relational Autonomy, Relational Equality and Self-Regarding Attitudes Does relational autonomy presuppose egalitarianism— and if so, so what? Social Equality, Self-Respect, and Autonomy Agency, Inequality and Self-Respect

Natalie Stoljar & Kristin Voigt (McGill) (co-organizers) Regarding Oneself as an Equal Sympoisum Chris Tillman (Manitoba) Eileen Nutting (University of Kansas) Ali Kazmi (Calgary)

Why 0-adic Relations Have Truth Conditions Chair Comments on Gilmore: Why 0-adic Relation Have Truth Conditions On Plugging Slots: Some Friendly Suggestions for Gilmore

Cody Gilmore (UC Davis) Ben Caplan

Reply to Nutting and Kazmi Organizer

Symposium Christine Tappolet (UdeM)

Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind Comments on Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind I

Heidi Maibom (University of Cincinatti)

Comments on Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind II

Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore)

Comments on Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind III

Joshua May (U. of Alabama at Birmingham) Victor Kumar (Boston University )

Reply to Tappolet, Maibom, and Sinhababu Organizer and Chair

Symposium Alex Miller (University of Otago) Duncan MacIntosh (Dalhousie)

Donald Davidson’s Triangulation Argument Verheggen on Davidson and Kripke on Rule-Following Comments on Donald Davidson's Triangulation Argument II

Kirk Ludwig (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Comments on Donald Davidson's Triangulation Argument III

Paul Hurley (Claremont McKenna College)

Davidson's Debt to Anscombe

Robrert Myers & Claudine Verheggen (York) Olivia Sultanescu (York) (Organizer)

Reply to Miller, Macintosh, Ludwig and Hurley Chair

Colloquium TBD 2:00-3:00 3:15-4:15 4:30-5:30

Whitney Lilly (Northwestern) Arianna Falbo (Brown University) Liang Zhou Koh (UofT) David DiDomenico (Miami) Julia Smith (UofT) Catherine Hundleby (Windsor) Colloquium

2:00-3:00 3:15-4:15 4:30-5:30

Epistemology 4 Chair Constitutive Reasons and the Suspension of Judgment (Winner of the Graduate Student Essay Prize (2nd place)) Comments on Lilly Rational Dispositions, the Brain-Scrambler, and Brains-in-Vats Comments on Koh Unacknowledged Permissivism Comments on Smith

TBD

Normative Ethics 3 Chair

Michael Da Silva (UBC) TBD Frank Hindriks (Groningen) Katharina Nieswandt (Concordia) Brandon Wooldridge (McMaster) John Hacker-Wright (Guelph)

Still Partly Wrong Comments on Da Silva The Problem of Insignificant Hands Comments on Hindriks Is Integrity a Virtue? Comments on Wooldridge

TBD

Colloquium

Applied Ethics: terrorism, business and climate Chair

3:15-4:15

Hasko von Kriegstein (Ryerson) Dominic Martin (UQAM) Michael Montess (York)

The Radical Behavioral Challenge and Wide-Scope Obligations in Business Comments on Kriegstein Challenging the Anthropocentrism in the Ethics of Climate Change

4:30-5:30

Charles Dalrymple-Fraser (UofT) Lu-Vada Dunford (UofT)

Comments on Montess Terrorism as a violent practice of eradiction: Killing bodies to kill ideas

Renaud-Phillippe Garner (UofT)

Comments on Dunford

Colloquium Carolyn Garland (Syracuse)

Metaphysics 2 Chair

2:00-3:00

Phil Corkum (University of Alberta) Jonathan Payton (UofT)

Salience and Metaphysical Explanation Comments on Corkum

3:15-4:15

Ranpal Dosanjh (Iowa State) James Davies (UofT) Fatema Amijee (SFU) Evan Woods (Ohio State)

Is Counterfactual Stability a Guide to Ontological Distinctness Comments on Dosanjh Relativized Fundamentality Comments on Amijee

2:00-3:00

4:30-5:30

Symposium

Reciprocity and Social Justice

Gina Schouten (Harvard) Cynthia Stark (University of Utah)

Reciprocity of Contribution and Justificatory Reciprocity: On the Connection between Two Notions of Reciprocity in Political Liberalism. Publicity, Reciprocity, and Incentives Justice, Reciprocity, and Competing Social Ends: A Proposal for Managing Trade-offs between Gender Equality and Economic Equality. Reciprocity, Desert and Compliance.

Colloquium Letitia Meynell (Dalhousie)

Philosophy of Cognitive Science 2 Chair

2:00-3:00

Sam Clarke (Oxford) Dan Casey (York University)

Beyond the Icon: On Carey’s Characterisation of Core Cognition Comments on Clarke

3:15-4:15

Jean-Charles Pelland (UQAM)

Arithmetic, Culture, and Attention: An internalist approach to numerical cognition

Brian Ball (Oxford) Brandon Tinklenberg (York)

Comments on Pelland Primate Mindreading Revisited: A Dilemma for the Two Systems View of Social Cognition

Hayley Clatterbuck (Rochester)

Comments on Tinklenberg

Colloquium Sonia Sikka (Ottawa )

Social and Political Philosophy 2 Chair

2:00-3:00

Xavier Scott (York) Susan Dieleman (Saskatchewan)

3:15-4:15

Sébastien Lacroix (Laval)

Beyond Metaphysics: Emphasizing Religion's Social and Political Features Comments on Scott Identity & Recognition: Québec’s Identity Debate as a Contribution to Canadian Political Philosophy

Daniel Tanguay (Ottawa)

Comments on Lacroix

D. Anthony Larivière (Lakehead) TBD

Privacy, Security, and Secrecy Comments on Larivière

Christie Hartley (Georgia State) Andrew Lister (Queen's) (Organizer)

4:30-5:30

4:30-5:30

Colloquium TBD

Meta-Ethics 2 Chair

2:00-3:00

David Matheson (Carleton) Devlin Russell (University at Buffalo)

3:15-4:15

Bowen Chan (UofT) Samantha Wesch (Alberta)

Immorality and Meaning in Life Comments on Matheson Making Me Happy: An Obsession with One’s Own Life in Explaining the Value of Virtue Comments on Chan

4:30-5:30

Trystan Goetze (Sheffield) David Collins (McGill)

The Shadow of Answerability: Taking Responsibility and Penumbral Agency Comments on Goetze

Symposium Boyd White (McGill), Natalie Fletcher (Concordia) & Amélie Lemieux (McGill)

La philosophie dans l’éducation / Philosophy before University Aesthetigrams and Philosograms: A philosophical lens on visual mapmaking strategies to record aesthetic encounters with young people

Marc-Antoine Dilhac (UdeM) Manon Claveau (Maison Théâtre) et Natalie Fletcher (Concordia) Pierre Desprès & Emmanuelle Gruber (Collège Montmorency) Estelle Lamoureux (Manitoba Association for Rights and Liberties) et Linda Connor (Manitoba Education Christian Frenette (Cégep de Lanaudière) Remi Robert & François Claveau (Organizers)

TBD Théâtre jeune public et philosophie pour enfants: Développement de la réflexion autonome, de l’esprit critique et de la pensée créatrice

Colloquium

2:00-3:00

3:15-4:15

4:30-5:30

FORUM JEUNESSE « penser la démocratie autrement ». High School Ethics Bowl: Ethical thinking is the new sport Dlibr: Une communauté d'idées en ligne pour enseigner la philosophie

Aesthetics 1

TBD

Chair

Tim Juvshik (U. Mass-Amherst)

Are Artworks Necessarily Artifacts?

Bianca Waked (McMaster)

Comments on Juvshik

John Dyck (CUNY)

There Are No Purely Aesthetic Obligations

Robbie Kubala (Columbia)

Comments on Dyck

Christopher Yorke (Open University)

Suits on Autotelic Value: Is Gameplay a Uniquely and Independently Valuable Activity?

Gwen Bradford (Rice)

Comments on Yorke

Symposium David Hyder (Ottawa) Xavier Corsius (Ottawa) Ageel Al-Fadli (Ottawa) David Gaber (McGill)

Les enjeux de l'interprétation kantienne du temps et de l'espace / Issues on Kant's Interpretation of Space and Time Kant and Einstein on the Causal Order of Time L'algèbre comme science pure du temps : Kant et Hamilton Kant on Simultaneity Kant, Relativity and non-Euclidiean Geometry

Samuel Descarreaux (Ottawa) (Organizer)

Entre spatialité et temporalité schématique : Friedrich-Albert Lange critique de Kant

Symposium

La dialectique comme théorie de la déduction dans la philosophie ancienne

Laurence Godin-Tremblay (UQAM) Benoît Castélnerac (Sherbrooke)

La réfutation dialectique des Éléates (Aristote, Phys. I, 2-3) Socrate mord-il la poussière dans l'Euthydème?

Luis-André Dorion (UdeM) Luca Gili (UQAM) (Organizer)

Les arguments dialectiques dans le livre Gamma de la Métaphysique Chair

Symposium Hasana Sharp (McGill)

Spinoza: Desiring and Knowing: Bodies, Cognition, and Power Duo simul: Eros and power in Spinoza

Syliane Malinowski Charles (UQTR)

Spinoza et les théories contemporaines de la cognition incarnée Natural Individuals of (sive) Political Individual: Self Identity and Knowledge in Norman Whitman (University of Houston Downtown) Spinoza’s Politics Mario Donoso Gómez: (Université Paris 8) Le rôle des affect imitatifs dans la production des notion communes chez Spinoza Sarah M. Kizuk (Marquette University) (Organizer) Chair Oberto Marrama (UQTR) (Organizer)

Tuesday June 5, 5:00 -6:00 Truth and Reconciliation in Academia: Preliminary Reception Tuesday June 5, 6:00 -8:00

Truth and Reconciliation in Academia: What role of non-Indigenous Researchers? Kevin Lamoureux (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, University of Manitoba) Aude Bandini (UdeM) Michael Giudice (York) Avery Kolers (Louisville) Sandra Lapointe (McMaster ) Mihaela Vieru (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences) Douglas Sanderson (UofT) Daniel Weinstock (McGill)

Chair

Wednesday June 6, 9:00-1:00 Prize Winners and CJP Lecture 9:00-10:00

Peter Epstein (Cambridge) Dirk Schlimm (McGill)

10:15-11:15 Dominic Mciver Lopes (UBC) David Collins (McGill) 11:30-1:00 Hannah Ginsborg (Berkeley)

A Priori Concepts in Euclidean Proof (Non-Tenured Faculty Essay Prize) Comments on Epstein Aesthetic Value Naturalism (Tenured Faculty Essay Prize) Comments on Lopes Wittgenstein on Going On (CJP Lecture)

Wednesday June 6, 1:00 - 2:00

Sandra Lapointe (McMaster) Peter Dietsch (UdeM) Tim Wilson Gabriel Miller

Lunchtime workshop on SSHRC Insight Grant Applications 2017 Chair, SSHRC Philosophy Insight Grant evaluation committee 2018 Chair, SSHRC Philosophy Insight Grant evaluation committee Executive Director, Research Grants & Partnerships, SSHRC Executive Director, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Wednesday June 6, 2:00 -5:30 Symposium

2:00-3:00

3:15-4:15

Wesley Cray (Texas Christian University) Sam Cowling (Denison University), Organizer Cathleen Muller (Marist College)

Appreciating Characters qua Mere Characters Fictional Realism in the Funny Pages Grounding Fictional Objects

Colloquium Nicholas Dunn (McGill)

Medieval Philosophy Chair

Michael Szlachta (UofT)

A Challenge for Later Medieval Voluntarism

Peter Eardley (Guelph)

Comments on Szlachta John Duns Scotus on Grounding Possibility in Quaestiones super libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis IX

Simona Vucu (UofT) Andrew Martin (McGill)

4:30-5:30

Francesco Pica (UofT)

Comments on Vucu John Baconthorpe on the divine knowledge of individual things: an interpretation of Averroes

TBD

Comments on Pica

Symposium Deborah Brown (Queensland) Martin Lenz (Groningen University) Donald Ainslie (UofT), Organizer Dario Perinetti (UQAM), Organizer

Is the Early Modern Mind Social? Descartes and the Social Mind Biased Beliefs: Spinoza on the Interaction of Ideas Fictions and Artifices: Hume on Following a Rule Did you see my Ideas? Hume on whether Perceptions are Mental

Symposium Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (UBC) Anna-Sara Malmgren (Stanford) Hilary Kornblith (U Mass) David Barnett (UofT) Anna-Sara Malmgren (Stanford) Ram Neta (UNC)

The Epistemology of Inference Chair Goodness, Availability, and Argument Structure Comments on Malmgren Higher-Order Evidence is the Wrong Kind of Reason Comments on Barnett Organizer

Colloquium

2:00-3:00 3:15-4:15

4:30-5:30

Fictional Reality

TBD

Applied Ethics : Ethics and Health Care Chair

Philip Shadd (Redeemer University College)

Institutional Refusal to Assist in Dying: The Positive Case

Carolyn McLeod (Western)

Comments on Shadd

Elyse Platt (McMaster)

Effective Referral and Equality in Healthcare

Phil Shadd (Redeemer University College)

Comments on Platt

Marnina Norys (York)

Techniques of Relatedness in Practice: Lessons from Community Mental Health

Heather Stewart (Western)

Comments on Norys

Symposium Joe Heath (UofT) Kate Manne (Cornel) Victor Kumar (Boston University), Organizer Paul Bloom (Yale)

Paul Bloom's Against Empathy Comments on Against Empathy I Comments on Against Empathy III Comments on Against Empathy III Reply to Heath, Manne & Kumar

Colloquium Claudien Verheggen (York) Henry Schiller (UT Austin)

Philosophy of Language 1 Chair Responsibility for Saying and Asserting

Travis Lacroix (UC Irvine)

Comments on Schiller

3:15-4:15

David Hunter (Ryerson)

Are beliefs true?

4:30-5:30

Peter Hanks (Minnesota) John Mackay (Wisconsin-Madison)

Comments on Hunter Counterfactual Epistemic Scenarios

Meagan Philips (UofT)

Comments on Mackay

2:00-3:00

TBD

Colloquium

Social and Political Philosophy 3 Chair

2:00-3:00

Robert Murray (Ryerson) TBD

Kant's Challenge and the Navigation Problem Comments on Murray

3:15-4:15

Christopher Lowry (Waterloo) Eliot L'Italien (McGill)

Citizenship, Ability, and Contribution Comments on Lowry

4:30-5:30

Arjun Sawhney (Queen's)

Robot Citizenship

Martin Gibert (UdeM)

Comments on Sawhney

Colloquium Sorin Bangu (Univ. of Bergen, Norway)

Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics 1 Chair

2:00-3:00

3:15-4:15

Eric Guindon (University of Connecticut) Arbitrary reference is pluri-reference Daniel Krasner (Metropolitan State University of Denver) Comments on Guindon Marc Champagne and Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (Trent, Nazarbayev U.) Why images cannot be arguments, but moving ones might Hans Hansen (Windsor)

Comments on Champagne and Ahti-Veikko

Colloquium Mark Fortney (UofT)

Philosophy of Mind 1 Chair

2:00-3:00

Dominic Alford-Duguid (King's College London) Don Oxtoby (Rice)

3:15-4:15

Evan Taylor (UofT) Luke Roelofs (Ruhr-University Bochum)

On the Epistemic Significance of Perceptual Structure Comments on Alford-Duguid Two puzzles about insight in obsessive-compulsive disorder (Winner of the Graduate Student Essay Prize (3rd place)) Comments on Taylor

4:30-5:30

Dennis Papadopoulos (York)

A Collective Emotional Theory of Love

Raymond Aldred (McGill)

Comments on Papadopoulos

Colloquium Thomas Land (Ryerson)

Locke, Leibniz and Kant Chair Mixed Modes and Moral Epistemology in John Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding

2:00-3:00

Elliot Rossiter (Douglas College) Matt Leisinger (Yale)

3:15-4:15

Adam Harmer (UC Riverside)

Leibniz's Argument for Simple Substances

Robert Mason (UofT)

Comments on Harmer

Damian Melamedoff (UofT)

Truthmaker Noumenalism

Fatema Amijee (SFU)

Comments on Melamedoff

4:30-5:30

Symposium

Comments on Rossiter

Agency, Action, and the Interface Problem

Joshua Shepherd (Carleton)

"Practical reasoning, representational formats, and the interface problem"

Myrto Mylopoulos (Carleton)

Skilled Action and the Dynamic Interface Problem

Chris Viger & Robert Foley (Western & Carleton)

The role of semantic hubs in perception and action: a novel solution to the interface problem

Myrto Mylopoulos & Robert Foley (Carleton)

Organizers

Colloquium Hayden Kee (Fordham )

Contemporary European Philosophy 2 Chair

2:00-3:00

Daniel Harris (University of Prince Edward Island) Susan-Judith Hoffmann (McGill)

Nietzsche on Honesty and Truthfulness Comments on Harris

3:15-4:15

Akos Krassoy (KU Leuven) TBD

Music, transcendental philosophy, and ethics Comments on Krassoy

4:30-5:30

Christopher Cohoon (University of King's College) Jordan Glass (Dawson College)

Levinas, Plotinus, and Being Edible Comments on Cohoon Aesthetics 2

TBD

Chair

2:00-3:00

Julianne Chung (Louisville) Melanie Coughlin (McGill)

Moral Cultivation: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Karesansui Gardens Comments on Chung

3:15-4:15

Uku Tooming (University of Tartu) John Dyck (CUNY)

The Puzzle of Good Bad Movies Comments on Tooming

4:30-5:30

Ellen Miller (Rowan University-Glassboro ) Peter Haskett (Dominican University College)

More than a Case Study: Retrieving Depth from Sylvia Plath’s Poetry Comments on Miller

Symposium Frédérick Armstrong (McGill) Christine Straehle (Ottawa) Ryoa Chung (UdeM) Frédérick Armstrong (McGill) Naïma Hamrouni (Laval) Naïma Hamrouni (Laval)

Conceptual Issues on Vulnerability Organizer's Introduction Vulnerability, Autonomy and the Limits of Epistemology Les dimensions structurelles de la vulnérabilité In Defense of Relational and Extrinsic Vulnerability: An Ameliorative Analysis Comments on Staehle, Chung and Armstrong Chair

Symposium Marie-Andrée Ricard (Laval)

CSWIP Francophone Session: L'idéologie en changeant et ses effets La malédiction de la beauté féminine selon Adorno, d’hier à aujourd’hui. Les idéologies (néo)féministes et les mouvements pour les droits de la femme en Amérique Centrale Chair

Sophie Lavoie (University of New Brunswick) Karen Robrertson (Trent) (Organizer) Wednesday June 6, 6:00 - 7:00 AGM

AGM

AGM

Thursday June 7, 9:00-12:30

Symposium Ted Toadvine (Penn State)

Climate Change and the Temporal Sublime

Brett Buchanan (Laurentian)

The Great Disenchantment: Environmentalism and the New Climate Disorder

Matthias Fritsch (Concordia)

Capitalocene, Anthropocene, and the Politics of Generations

Trish Glazebrook (Washington State)

Gendering Climate in the Androcene: A Heideggerian Perspective Environmental Justice in the Urban Anthropocene: Legacies of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Urban Setting Organizer

Chaone Mallory (USC) Marie-Eve Morin (Alberta) Symposium Gordon Davis (Carleton)

Ethical Reflections in the Indian and Indo-Tibetan Philosophical Traditions “Is Buddhist Moral Realism a Modern Fabrication? A Comparison of Two Forms of Buddhist Meta-Normative Realism"

Charles Goodman (Binghamton University (SUNY) )

What Can We Learn from Śāntideva’s Arguments against Anger?

Nicolas Bommarito (Buffalo University (SUNY) )

“Buddhist Generosity"

Sonia Sikka (Ottawa ) Ashwani Peetush (Wilfrid-Laurier )

“Searching for Selfhood: The Neo-Buddhist Challenge to the Ethics of anatta" “The Self as God in Advaita Vedānta: Problematizing the Religion as Faith versus Philosophy as Reason Opposition"

Antoine Panaïoti (Ryerson)

Organizer

Symposium

Making Pictures, Making (Racial) Progress

Agnès Berthelot-Raffard (Ottawa) Serene Khader (CUNY) Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR) Ryoa Chung (UdeM)

Black Feminism et (in)justice raciale à l’Université. Towards a Decolonial Feminist Universalism Organizer Organizer

Symposium Fermín Fulda (Western)

The Holobiont Concept and the Ontology of Multispecies Biological Entities I “Us and Them: Holobionts, Organisms and Agency”

Derek Skillings (University of Bordeaux/CNRS) Antoine C. Dussault (CIRST, Collège Lionel-Groulx), Organizer

“The Ecology of the Holobiont”

Colloquium

“Can Metabolic Interaction Patterns Evolve?” “The Minimal Requirements of Evolution by Natural Selection and the Role Played by Reproduction”

TBD

Spinoza, Leibniz and Hegel Chair

Matthew Wurst (UofT)

Leibniz on Physical Necessity

Adam Harmer (UC Riverside)

Comments on Wurst

10:15-11:15 Torin Doppelt (Queen's) Robbie Matyasi (UofT) 11:30-12:30 Michaela Manson (UofT) Kaveh Boveri (UdeM) Colloquium 9:00-10:00

Racial Justice

Meena Krishnamurty (U. Michigan, Ann Arbor)

François Papale (UdeM), Organizer

9:00-10:00

Continental Perspectives on Climate Change

A Sadness Born of a Fact: a Study of Spinoza's Humility Comments on Doppelt Hegel’s Critique of Spinoza’s Method Comments on Manson

TBD

Social and Political Philosophy 4 Chair

Jeremy Butler (Queen's)

Political Instrumentalism and Equality of Political Power

Frederick Armstrong (McGill)

Comments on Butler

10:15-11:15 Barbara Fultner (Denison University) Éliot Litalien (McGill) 11:30-12:30 Chrisoula Andreou (University of Utah) Guillaume Soucy (UdeM)

Acting Together: Toward a Performative Theory of Joint Agency Comments on Fultner Unpresumptuous Paternalistic Constraint Comments on Andreou

Colloquium

9:00-10:00

Amanda J. Nichols (Oklahoma Christian University)

Chair

Derek Andrews (Dalhousie) Jonathan Tsou (Iowa State)

Natural Kinds and Social Factors: On the Classification of Mental Disorders Comments on Andrews

10:15-11:15 Ananya Chattoraj (Calgary) Dan McCarthur (York) 11:30-12:30 Alex Koo (UofT)

9:00-10:00

De Scientia and De Re Distinctions as a Defense for Scientific Fictionalism Comments on Chattoraj Inference to the Best Explanation and Mathematical Explanation

Marissa Bennett (UofT)

Comments on Koo

Colloquium Robert Myers (York)

Ethics 3 Chair

Caleb Dewey (University of Arizona)

Moral Naturalism in Its Own Right

David Copp (UC Davis)

Comments on Dewey

10:15-11:15 Kate Nicole Hoffman (York) Todd Calder (St. Mary's) 11:30-12:30 Joshua Brandt (UofT)

9:00-10:00

Philosophy of Science 2

Moral Improvement: The Significance of Cultural Practices on Care Ethics Comments on Hoffman Forgiveness and Negative Partiality

Kathryn Norlock (Trent)

Comments on Brandt

Colloquium Marius Backmann (Konstanz University)

Epistemology 5 Chair

Noa Latham (Calgary) Travis LaCroix (UC Irvine)

Simplicity and A Priori Probability Principles Comments on Latham

10:15-11:15 M Bryson Brown (Lethbridge) Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (UBC)

How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Induction Comments on Brown

11:30-12:30 Robert Siscoe (University of Arizona)

Ordinary and Ideal Rationality

9:00-10:00

Adam Sennett (UC Davis)

Comments on Siscoe

Colloquium Catherine Rioux (UofT)

Moral Psychology 2 Chair

Lesley Jamieson (Queen's)

Iris Murdoch's Philosophical Attention

Samantha Wesch (Alberta) 10:15-11:15 Katherine Bourdeau (McMaster) Charlotte Sabourin (McGill)

Comments on Jamieson Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity as a Practice of Moral Repair Comments on Bourdeau

11:30-12:30 Federica Berdini (UofT)

Disorders of Agency, Constitutivism, and Practical Knowledge of Intentional Action

Symposium Matthew Palynchuk (Concordia) Kyle Johannsen (Trent) Louis-Philippe Hodgson (York) Colin Macleod (Victoria) Phil Smolenski (Queens), Organizer Kristin Voigt (McGill) Kyle Johannsen (Trent) Colloquium

9:00-10:00

Johannsen’s A Conceptual Investigation of Justice Chair Synopsis of A Conceptual Investigation of Justice Comments on A Conceptual Investigation of Justice Comments on A Conceptual Investigation of Justice Comments on A Conceptual Investigation of Justice Comments on A Conceptual Investigation of Justice Reply to Hodgson, Macleod, Smolenski and Voigt

I II III IV

TBD

Philosophy of Mind 2 Chair

Luke Roelofs (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Indeterminately Offline States: A New Approach to the Puzzle of Imaginative Desire

Martina Orlandi (McGill) Michele Palmira (University of Barcelona and 10:15-11:15 LOGOS) Tim Schroeder (Rice) 11:30-12:30 Lisa Doerksen (UofT) Ronald De Sousa (UofT)

Comments on Roelofs Inquiry and Doxastic Attitudes Comments on Palmira On the Problem of Taking Oneself as an Object in the World Comments on Doerksen

Colloquium 9:00-10:00

Audry Yap (Victoria)

Logic Chair

Ulf Hlobil (Concordia)

The Cut-Free Approach and the Admissibility-Curry

Philip Kremer (UofT)

Comments on Hlobil

10:15-11:15 Patrick Girard (University of Auckland)

A classical logic for counterpossibles

11:30-12:30 Philip Kremer (UofT)

Quantified Logic in Topological Semantics Symposium

Robert Howton (Pittsburgh) Umrao Sethi (CUNY) Dominic Alford-Duguid (King's College London), Organizer

Observational Properties in Experience and in Thought Mixture and Motion: Aristotle on Motion and the Sensible Qualities Instances Without Bearers: Making Sense of Hallucinations Perception-Based Thought About Properties Tolerates Perceptual Error

Ivan Ivanov (Shandong University, China), Organizer Properties in View and in Mind Colloquium TBD 9:00-9:45

Adam Westra (University of Ottawa)

9:55-10:40

Mathilde Bois (Laval)

10:50-11:35 Arnaud Petit (Ottawa) Pierre-François Noppen (University of 11:45-12:30 Saskatchewan) Symposium Jean-Guy Meunier (UQAM) Louis Chartrand (UQAM), Organizer Janie Brisson & Serge Robert (UQAM) Janie Brisson (UQAM) Christophe Malaterre (UQAM)

Histoire de la philosophie 2 Chair Kant et le symbolisme des Lumières De la liberté de l’imagination chez le génie : une approche facultaire de la comparaison entre beau artistique et beau naturel chez Kant Merleau-Ponty et le problème de la connaissance des autres esprits Souffrir et penser : Adorno et les ressorts conatifs de la rationalité Données empiriques et approches expérimentales en philosophie Empirical analysis of a conceptual intuition : A case study on the computational analysis of MIND in C.S. Peirce's writings Grandma's challenge for experimental philosophy, and what new tools can do about it Beyond the opposition of normativity and empirical science: the interdisciplinary study of human reasoning Studying cognitive sciences from a philosopher's perspective: Challenges and solutions to better grasp empirical experiments Philosophy of Science through the lens of topic-modeling (1934-2015)

Thursday June 7, 2:00 - 5:30

Symposium Justin Donhauser, Gillian Barker & Eric Desjardins (Western) Trish Glazebrook (Washington State ) Edwin Etieyibo (University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)) Jennifer Welchman (University of Alberta ), Organizer Symposium Rohit Dalvi (Brock) Philippe Turenne (Kathmandu University) Shyam Ranganathan (York) Julia Stenzel (McGill) Antoine Panaïoti (Ryerson)

Disruptive Technologies in the Anthropocene: Perspectives from Environmental Philosophy “Potential Hidden Dangers of Biomimicking Robots” “The Two Faces of Drones: Sustainability and the 'War on Terror'” “Ubuntu and the Anthropocene” “Return of the Living Dead? Genetic Resurrection of Zombie Species” Methodological and Hermeneutical Issues in Cross-cultural Philosophy “Don't Fear the Yogī: Towards the Decolonization of Indian Philosophy" “A Critical Look at Rational Reconstruction and the Principle of Charity as Applied to Buddhist Philosophy" “Interpretation, Explication, and the Determination of Philosophical Concepts (The Indian Ones Too)" “Reflections on Secularization as Cross-Cultural Translation" Organizer

Symposium Ramesh Prasad (Waterloo and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institiute)

The Holobiont Concept and the Ontology of Multispecies Biological Entities II

Sinan Sencan (University of Calgary)

Integrative Pluralism and Holobiont Individuality.

Felix Walpole (UofT)

Organisms, Holobionts, Genomes and Epigenomes: Much Ado About Everything

Andrew Inkpen (Dalhousie)

Disease and the Microbiome

The Holobiont Concept and the Ontology of Multispecies Biological Entities

Antoine Dussault & François Papale (CIRST, UdeM)

Organizers

Colloquium Peter Verveniotis (Western)

Philosophy of Cognitive Science 3 Chair

2:00-2:45

Brian Ball (Oxford)

Vehicles of Content and the Representational Theory of Mind

2:55-3:40

Casey Landers (University of Miami)

Specialized Perceptual Experiences

3:50-4:35

Elliot Carter (UofT)

Perception and the Present

4:45-5:30

Mark Fortney (UofT)

The Temporal Profile of Linguistic Understanding

TBD

Colloquium

Ancient and Medieval Chair

2:00-2:45

Peter Haskett (Dominican University College)

The Problem of Private Men in Book IX of Plato's Republic

2:55-3:40

Michael Tremblay (Queen's)

Akrasia in Epictetus: A comparison with Aristotle

3:50-4:35 4:45-5:30

John Thorp (Western) Peter Eardley (Guelph)

Epicurean Theology and the Atomic Storm The Debate over Theology as a Science in Aquinas and Ockham

TBD

Colloquium

Epistemology and Decision Theory Chair

2:00-2:45

Johanna Thoma (LSE)

Instrumental Rationality Without Separability

2:55-3:40

Kenji Lota (Concordia)

Unique and Permissive Updating

3:50-4:35

Arianna Falbo (Brown)

Permissive Epistemic Standards and Rational Isolation

4:45-5:30

Daniel Munro (UofT)

Undercutting Defeaters: A Problem for Mentalism

TBD

Colloquium

Feminist Philosophy Chair

2:00-2:45

Amandine Catala (UQAM)

Epistemic Injustice and Cognitive Disability

2:55-3:40

Lisa Mckeown (New School for Social Research)

Are You Serious? The Insidious Silencing of Romantic Comedies

3:50-4:35

Alex Gruenewald (Waterloo)

What Makes a Man: Determining on Trans Men's Social Needs and Requirements

4:45-5:30

Pamela Lee (Ottawa)

Cultural accommodation, public reason, and Mencian extension by analogy

2:00-2:45

Colloquium TBD Thomas Colbourne (McGill)

Spinoza Chair Spinoza and Mind Control

2:55-3:40

Oberto Marrama (UQTR/ University of Groningen)

Spinoza on Reason, Memory and ‘The habits of virtue’

3:50-4:35 4:45-5:30

Nikolas Hamm (McGill) Robert Matyasi (UofT)

Spinoza's Free Man in Kant's Kingdom of Ends Spinoza and Descartes on representation and intelligibility

Colloquium Ronald De Sousa (UofT)

Meta-Ethics and Moral Psychology Chair

2:00-2:45

Sam Steadman (York)

The Agent and Her Operative Reasons: Binding the Normative to the Mental

2:55-3:40

Alexander Leferman (York)

Practical Reason and Judgment Sensitive Attitudes

3:50-4:35

Quinn Gibson (NYU)

Addiction as Desensitizing Vulnerabililty

4:45-5:30

Arina Pismenny (CUNY)

Staring down the green-eyed monster: romantic jealousy and ideology

TBD

Colloquium

Epistemology and Mind Chair

2:00-2:45

Cameron Boult (Brandon University)

The (Virtue) Epistemology of Political Ignorance

2:55-3:40

Orlandi Martina and Eliot Litalien (McGill)

A Functionalist Account of Group Self-Deception

3:50-4:35

George Christopoulos (Concordia)

4:45-5:30

Agnes Tam (Queen's)

True-to-False Belief Ratios in Epistemic Assessments of Experts & Strategies The Limits of Epistemic Egalitarianism: Why Different Sources of Bias Require Different Remedies

Colloquium

Precarity, Coherence, Intuition and Self-Control

2:00-2:45

TBD Matthew Leisinger (Yale)

Chair Locke and the Possibility of Self-Control

2:55-3:40 3:50-4:35

Nicholas Dunn (McGill) Meagan Phillips (UofT)

Kant on Intuitive Priority and the Givenness of Intuition Tolerance and Coherence

4:30-5:30

Howard Williams (UofT)

Internalism and Epistemic Precarity: A Response to Radical Externalism

Colloquium Patrick Girard (University of Auckland)

Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics 2 Chair

2:00-2:45

James Davies (UofT)

The Significance of Numerals

2:55-3:40

Michael Hymers (Dalhousie)

Noticing Aspects in Mathematics and Philosophy

3:50-4:35

Sorin Bangu (Univ. of Bergen, Norway)

Later Wittgenstein and the Genealogy of Logical Necessity

4:45-5:30

Arnaud Petit (Oxford)

Towards a New Account of Rule-Following

Colloquium Adam Sennett (UC Davis)

Philosophy of Language 2 Chair

2:00-2:45

Agustin Vicente and Dan Zeman (University of the basque Country,University of Vienna)

How to say When. A Reichenbachian approach to the Answering Machine Paradox

2:55-3:40

Olivia Sultanescu (York)

In Defence of the Coherence of the Semantic Sceptic

3:50-4:35

Adam Murray (UofT)

Eternal Existents

4:45-5:30

Kelsey Vicars (Simon Fraser University)

Slurs, Reappropriation, and Bracketing

TBD

Colloquium

Social and Political Philosophy 5 Chair

2:00-2:45 2:55-3:40

Sara Ellenbogen (MIT) Tyler Desroches (Arizona State)

The Right to Rehabilitation Sustainability without Sacrifice: Human Well-Being and Consumption

3:50-4:35

Aaron Crowe (University College of the North)

4:45- 5:30

Daniel Tanguay (Ottawa)

Why Are We Really Talking About UBI? Démocratie et philosophie politique : le dernier dialogue de Claude Lefort avec Leo Strauss

2:00-2:45 2:55-3:40 3:50-4:35 4:45-5:30

Colloquium TBD Pierre-Luc Boudreault (Western) Luca Gili (UQAM) Simon Fortier (Université de Liège) Matthieu Remacle (UofT)

Philosophie ancienne et Philosophie médiévale Chair La conception aristotélicienne du nombre Les principes de la pensée étique de Catherine de Sienne (1347-1380) Les limites de la théologie comme science chez Proclus Transparence sémantique chez al-Fârâbî

Symposium Anne-Marie Boisvert & Christophe Malaterre (UQAM)

Explication scientifique : vers l’unité ou la pluralité ?

Laurent Jodoin (UdeM) David Montminy (UdeM) Eric Muszynski (UQAM) Laurent Jodoin & Christophe Malaterre (UdeM & UQAM)

How a unified model of explanation can help assessing interdisciplionary projects? Données massives et stratégies explicatives Is this pluralism? Diversity in biological explanations of behaviour

Colloquium TBD 2:00-2:45

Jamie Shaw (Western)

2:55-3:40

Yousuf Hasan (Western)

3:50-4:35

Yussif Yakubu (McMaster)

4:45-5:30

Letitia Meynell (Dalhousie)

L’intelligence artificielle explicable

Organizers Philosophy of Science 3 Chair Duhem on Good Sense and Theory Pursuit On the Application of Carnap’s Internal/External Distinction to the Realism/AntiRealism Controversy The Ghost of Saltationism in Contemporary Darwinism Measuring Minds: Towards a Non-anthropocentric Model for the Comparative Study of Cognition