Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

09/28/2026

Should the state promote particular, substantive conceptions of the good life?

Join us on Thursday, October 8, as Alexandre Lefebvre takes on “The Return of the Moral State: Philosophy and the Good Life,” at the Centre for Ethics!

🗓️ Thursday, October 8
🕐 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM
📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

09/24/2026

👀 What is the bare wrong of stalking? And why or what about stalking makes it hard to see it for what it is?

Maggie O’Brien will tackle those questions on Wednesday, October 7, at the Centre for ethics!

Join us!
🗓️ Wednesday, October 7
🕐 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

09/10/2026

It's a new term, and we're starting it off right! We're hosting 3 events in the next two weeks we'd love to have you at!

1️⃣ Sept 14 @ 3:30 PM: Dr. Juan-Pablo Bermudez on Poverty and Prospective Agency.

2️⃣ Sept 16 @ 2 PM: Leonard Harris on Necro-Being and the Limits of Reason: AI, et.al.

3️⃣ Sept 23 @ 12 PM: Erich Matthes on Sinister, Somber, Serene:
how the aesthetic character of places shapes the normative landscape.

📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200
ℹ️ Visit ethics.utoronto.ca for more!

07/03/2026

Welcome to the Centre for Ethics page! Learn more about us in the comments 👇

06/17/2026

New opportunity! We are looking for outstanding fourth-year undergraduate students at the University of Toronto with research interests that align with the Algorithm Bias Project, an interdisciplinary research initiative focused on understanding and addressing algorithmic bias in Canada.

🔗 Learn more: ethics.utoronto.ca
🗓️ Applications due July 15

06/17/2026

🆕 Check out these new opportunities with the Centre for Ethics for outstanding graduate and fourth-year undergraduate students at UofT!

🔗 Learn more: ethics.utoronto.ca
🗓️ Applications due July 15

12/09/2024

❗️Reminder: The December 15th deadline for 2025-2026 Visiting Faculty Fellowships at the Centre for Ethics is fast approaching – submit your application before the 15th to be considered. Visit our website for full details, including how to apply:
https://ethics.utoronto.ca/contact/visiting-faculty-fellowships/

📄 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Visiting Professor at the Centre for Ethics, 2025-2026

➡️ Apply by December 15, 2024.

See full details including how to apply, here:

https://ethics.utoronto.ca/.../visiting-faculty-fellowships/

12/02/2024

🌎 On December 9, 4-6 PM, the C4E welcomes Theresa Lee for “Toward a Livable World,” an excavation of the normative space of livability, re-developed in terms of the body and Confucian self-cultivation. This presentation will be in-person only - don't miss it!

11/20/2024

Reminder: Mynt Marsellus will be presenting today at 12 PM - see you soon!

📖Next Ethics @ Noon: on November 20, 12 PM, Mynt Marsellus gives a fresh conception of authorship study in "The Fear and Fantasy of Expressiveness: Roland Barthes "The Death of the Author" and Ordinary Language Philosophy." In-person and livestreamed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_7Gn7xdXZM

11/13/2024

📢 Just announced: on November 27, 4 PM, Andrew Sepielli presents, “Moral Polarism,” a theoretical tool for selecting relevant moral considerations. This event will be in-person at the C4E, and livestreamed on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twyEZTUzjTI