2025-2026 Speakers Series

The Philosophy Department’s Speakers Series presents public lectures – September through April annually – by visiting speakers and faculty on a wide variety of philosophical topics.

Fall 2025 Talks

September 12 - David Balcarras, University of Lethbridge, Seeing and Hallucinating

October 10-11 - BETWEEN FRIENDS; AMONGST PHILOSOPHERS: IN HONOUR OF DAVID DICK
October 10
3:00-5:00pm: Tim Sundell, University of Kentucky, Bullshit, Broadly Construed 
October 11
1:00-3:00pm: Sarah Buss, University of Michigan, Marketing, Or: What Selling Ideas as a Mode of Reasoning Is or Is Not
3:15-5:15pm: Elijah Millgram, University of Utah, A Hard Act to Follow

November 21 - Daniel Star (Boston University)

December 5 - Michael Travisano (University of Minnesota)

Winter 2026 Talks

January 23 - Manish Oza (Western University) 

February 6 - David Liebesman (University of Calgary) 

February 27 - Andrew Stark (University of Toronto) 

March 13 - Katie Plaisance (University of Waterloo) 

March 27 - Jessica Wilson  (University of Toronto)