Ukraine Benefit Conference

‘What Good Is Philosophy? – A Benefit Conference for Ukraine’ aims to raise the funds required to establish a Centre for Civic Engagement at Kyiv Mohyla Academy. This Centre will provide support for academic and civic institutions in Ukraine to counteract the destabilizing impact that Russia’s invasion has had on Ukrainian higher education and civilian life. By assisting Ukrainian students and scholars today, this Centre will also help pave the way for a vibrant and engaged post-war Ukraine.

17–19 March 2023

https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/kma-conference

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Keynotes

Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor

Timothy Snyder

Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna

Mychailo Wynnyckyj

Associate Professor at the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Sociology Dep’t and Business School)

Volodymyr Yermolenko

Ukrainian philosopher & journalist, chief editor at Ukraine World, Internews Ukraine, President at PEN Ukraine

Speakers

Peter Adamson

Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich

Elizabeth Anderson

Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Seyla Benhabib

Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy Emerita at Yale University

Agnes Callard

'Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago

Quassim Cassam

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, a Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford

Tim Crane

Professor of Philosophy at the Central European University in Vienna

Simon Critchley

Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research

David Enoch

Rodney Blackman Chair in the Philosophy of Law, at the philosophy department and the faculty of law, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney

Sally Haslanger

Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at MIT

Angie Hobbs

Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield

Barry Lam

Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University

Melissa Lane

The Class of 1943 Professor of Politics and the Director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University

Dominic Lopes

University Killam Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Kate Manne

Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University

Jeff McMahan

The Sekyra and White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford

Jennifer Nagel

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto

Philip Pettit

L.S.Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra

Kieran Setiya

Professor of Philosophy at MIT

Jason Stanley

Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at Yale University

Timothy Williamson

Wykeham Professor of Logic at New College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy

Jonathan Wolff

Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and Governing Body Fellow, Wolfson College Oxford

Host

Aaron James Wendland

Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy at King's College, London and a Senior Research Fellow at Massey College, Toronto

Schedule

Day 1 – 17 March 2023

Session 1 – 13:00-15:30 ET (Toronto)

A.J. Wendland – ‘Introduction: On War and Philosophy’

Jennifer Nagel – ‘Philosophy, For Better, For Worse, and In Itself’

Quassim Cassam – ‘Liberation Philosophy’

Volodymyr Yermolenko – ‘Thinking in Dark Times’

Session 2 – 17:00-19:30 ET (Toronto)

Sally Haslanger – ‘Philosophy and Paradigm Shifts’

Philip Pettit – ‘From Philosophy to Politics’

Elizabeth Anderson – ‘Philosophy is for Everyone’

Jeff McMahan – ‘What Good Is Moral Philosophy?’

Day 2 – 18 March 2023

Session 1 – 09:00-11:30 ET (Toronto)

Kieran Setiya – ‘Public Philosophy, Amelioration, and Existential Value’

Agnes Callard – ‘The Paradise Paradox’

Dominic Lopes – ‘Beauty at the Barricades’

Margaret Atwood – ‘Crisis Literature’

Session 2 – 13:00-15:30 ET (Toronto)

Timothy Snyder – ‘Thinking About Freedom in Wartime Ukraine’

Jonathan Wolff – ‘Values and Public Policy’

Jason Stanley – ‘Discourses of Genocide’

Seyla Benhabib – ‘Philosopher’s Dreams of Perpetual Peace’

Session 3 – 17:00-19:30 ET (Toronto)

Kate Manne – ‘Philosophy and Gaslighting: It’s (Not) All in Your Mind’

Barry Lam – ‘Discretion: A Philosophical Analysis of the Power of Bureaucrats’

David Enoch – ‘What Good Is Political Philosophy in the Face of an Acute Political Crisis?’

Peter Godfrey-Smith – ‘Philosophy and the Events of the Day’

Day 3 – 19 March 2023

Session 1 – 09:00-11:30 ET (Toronto)

Peter Adamson – ‘What Good Is a History of Philosophy ‘Without Any Gaps’?’

Angie Hobbs – ‘Public Philosophy in an Age of Uncertainty’

Melissa Lane – ‘Philosophizing Our Way Out of the Cave’

Timothy Williamson – ‘Debating the Good’

Session 2 – 13:00-15:30 ET (Toronto)

Simon Critchley – ‘Question Everything’

Tim Crane – ‘Philosophy as Freedom of Thought’

Mychailo Wynnyckyj – ‘Grappling with Evil’

Amb. Yulia Kovaliv – ‘Conclusion: Defending Democracy’

17–19 March 2023

https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/kma-conference

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