May 2 - 4, 2025

Other
Epistemic Achievements
Global Perspectives

  Departments of Philosophy
University of Toronto & Toronto Metropolitan University

Various philosophical traditions, east and west, offer rich and alternative ways of theorizing about varieties of epistemic achievements and virtues.  To explore this approach, we aim to bring experts and scholars from ten different traditions in conversation with each other and contemporary epistemologists. These will include some of the perspectives from the Africana, Arabic, Chinese, Early Modern European, Greek, Indigenous Andean, Jewish, Latin American, Medieval Latin, and South Asian traditions. 

Speakers

Lea Cantor (Cambridge)

Strategies for Expressing Skepticism in the Zhuangzi


Zeyad El Nabolsy (York University)

Participation as an Epistemic Achievement in African Philosophy


Maria Heim (Amherst College)

‘Some hold back and some overreach; only those with eyes see’: Buddhaghosa on Learning How to See


Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä)

Between Epistemic Optimism and Pessimism: Before and after Avicenna


Tamer Nawar (Barcelona)

The Epistemic Implications of Divine Omniscience and Foreknowledge


Christiana Olfert (Tufts)

“What is the aim of Pyrrhonian Skepticism?”


Yitzhak Melamed (Hopkins) 

The Apikorsut of the Void: A Heresy beyond All Heresies


Kristin Primus (Berkeley)

Our Knowledge of Thought


Jorge H. Sanchez-Perez (Alberta)

The Harmony of Reality and the Duties of Knowledge: Epistemic Humility and Moral Obligations


Clinton Tolley (UC San Diego) 

'in xóchitl in cuícatl': Flower, Song, and the ('Romantic') Elevation of the Aesthetic Dimension of Truth and Knowledge in Ancient and Modern Mexican Philosophy

Associated Workshops on Pedagogy

March Workshop

How to integrate Chinese philosophy into your teaching

Julianne Chung (York)
Barry Allen (McMaster)  

How to integrate Sanskrit philosophy into your teaching

Nilanjan Das (UofT)
Elisa Freshi (UofT)

March 18, 2025 | 6pm to 8pm
University of Toronto, JHB 100

April Workshop

How to integrate indigenous and  Latin American philosophy into your teaching

Jennifer Komorowski (TMU)
Eric Bayruns García (McMaster)

How to integrate Africana philosophy into your teaching

William Paris (UofT)
Jeta Mulaj (TMU)

April 22, 2025 | 6pm to 8pm
University of Toronto, JHB 100

Organizers: Pirachula Chulanon (TMU) & Reza Hadisi (UofT)
Collaborators: Sara Aronowitz (UofT), Zeyad El Nablosy (York)

The event is co-sponsored by: 

The Department of Philosophy, Toronto Metropolitan University
The Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
Center for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

Painting by Leonora Carrington