Schedule

Day 1: Friday, May 2

3:00 – 4:30 PM

Christiana Olfert (Tufts)
What is the aim of Pyrrhonian Skepticism?

Chair: Jessica Gelber (UofT)

4:30 – 6:00 PM

Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä)
Between Epistemic Optimism and Pessimism: Before and after Avicenna

Chair: Jon McGinnis (UofT)

7:00 PM

Conference Dinner* [Govinda's, 243 Avenue Road (Entrance off Roxborough next to driveway)]

Day 2: Saturday, May 3

8:30 AM

Light breakfast and coffee

9:00 – 10:30 AM

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

Chair: Pirachula Chulanon (TMU)

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Maria Heim (Amherst College)
‘Some hold back and some overreach; only those with eyes see’ – Buddhaghosa on learning how to see

Chair: Elisa Freschi (UofT)

12:00 – 1:30 PM

Lunch 

1:30 – 3:00 PM

Tamer Nawar (Barcelona)
The Epistemic Implications of Divine Omniscience and Foreknowledge

Chair: Gurpreet Rattan (UofT)

3:00 – 4:30 PM

Kristin Primus (Berkeley)
Our Knowledge of Thought

Chair: Donald Ainslie (UofT) 

4:30 – 5:00 PM

Coffee Break

5:00 – 6:30 PM

Zeyad El Nabolsy (York University)
Participation as an Epistemic Achievement in African Philosophy

Chair: Marleen Rozemond (UofT)

7:00 PM

Conference Dinner*  [at PLANTA, 1221 Bay St., Toronto, ON M5R 3P5]

Day 3: Sunday, May 4

8:30 

Light breakfast and coffee

9:00 – 10:30 AM

Yitzhak Melamed (Hopkins)
The Apikorsut of the Void: A Heresy beyond All Heresies

Chair: Reza Hadisi (UofT)

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Jorge H. Sanchez-Perez (Alberta)
The Harmony of Reality and the Duties of Knowledge: Epistemic Humility and Moral Obligations

Chair: Sara Aronowitz (UofT)

12:00 – 1:00 PM

Lunch 

1:00 – 2:30 PM

Jing Iris Hu (Concordia)
What Does Standing in Comparison to Moral Exemplars Tell Us About Ourselves?

Chair: Nilanjan Das (UofT)

Discussants-at-large: Donald Ainslie, Sara Aronowitz, Nilanjan Das, Elisa Freschi, Jessica Gelber, Vincent Z. Y. Lee, Jon McGinnis, Michael Milona,  Julia Minarik, Gurpreet Rattan, Michael Rosenthal, Marleen Rozemond 

Organizers: Pirachula Chulanon & Reza Hadisi

Collaborators: Sara Aronowitz & Zeyad el Nabolsy

* Speakers, discussants-at-large, and chairs are invited to the official conference dinner.