Welcome to the Centre for Ethics Bluesky page — we’re the interdisciplinary centre at the University of Toronto where conversations about ethics happen. We facilitate discussions about topical ethical issues and advance research and teaching in the field of ethics! 🔗 Learn more: ethics.utoronto.ca

We're looking for fourth-year undergraduate students at UofT 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

📣 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! 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

Join us on June 26 for the Marion Moreland Memorial Symposium: A half-day philosophy conference on W. E. B. Du Bois! 🗓️ Friday, June 26 🕐 Starts @ 1 PM 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

Join us on Friday, April 10th, for Zach Barnett's talk on "Diffuse Impact and Fortuna's Wheel" 🗓 Friday, April 10 🕧 4:00–6:00 PM 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 Scan the QR Code to join online!

What do we owe to the places we come from? And what does it mean to have the right to leave? Join us for The Right to Emigrate and the Duty to Stay with Anna Milioni. 📅 Monday, April 20 ⏰ 4:00–6:00 PM 📍 Larkin 200, Centre for Ethics 🔗 Scan the QR code to join online

🚨HAPPENING TODAY IN LARKIN 200!🚨 🤖 Join us for the latest instalment of the Bias in Canada (ABC) Seminar series Today (March 25th) in Larkin 200, Tommy J. Curry presents the “Target Acquisition, Phallicism, and Technology” 📆 Wednesday, March 25th 🕒 3:00-5:00PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

What does it really mean to decide to trust? Join us for Ethics@Noon-ish: Trusting Overtures with Jason D’Cruz as we explore trust, vulnerability, and what it means to let our guard down in relationships. 🗓 Wednesday, April 1 🕧 12:30–2:30 PM 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

📣 New Event Alert! Join us this Friday in Larkin 200 for Sarah Bufkin’s talk “Frantz Fanon and Racism as a Social Pathology” 📆 Friday, March 13th 🕓 4:00-6:00PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

🤖 The Algorithm Bias in Canada (ABC) Seminar series continues! Join us this Wednesday (March 11th) in Larkin 200 for Yoelit Lipinsky’s talk "The Moral of the Story: Scaling Ethics from Syllabi to Systems" 📆 Wednesday, March 11th 🕒 3:00-5:00PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

Join us for the next Ethics@Noon-ish talk with Allison Jandura as she explores the theoretical challenges of accessory liability in private law. 📅 Wednesday, March 18 ⏰ 12:30–2:30 PM 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 🍕 Refreshments provided

🚨 Happening tomorrow at the Centre for Ethics! Join us tomorrow in Larkin 200 (March 2nd) for Johannes Himmelreich's talk “How Can Social Experiments Justify Normative Principles?” 📆 Tuesday, March 2nd 🕓 4:00-6:00PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

📣 Join us next Friday for Zara Anwarzai's talk on "Where does Labour fit into the philosophy of skill?" See you there! 🗓 Friday, March 6th 🕐 5:00–7:00 PM 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 Join in person or online here via QR code or link in bio.

Iddan Sonsino explores how modern work environments shape our autonomy and why the pressure to conform might be the real issue. 🗓 Wednesday, March 4 ⏰ 12:30–2:30 PM 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 🍕 Pizza provided Join in person or online — QR code on poster!

Join philosophers from Canada and Australia for a full-day workshop exploring parental rights, education systems, social expectations, and the real costs of raising the next generation. 🗓 Tuesday, March 10, 2026 📍 Larkin 200, Centre for Ethics 🕘 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Scan the QR code to register!

🤖 The Algorithm Bias in Canada (ABC) Seminar series continues! Join us next Wednesday in Larkin 200 for Elise Burton’s talk “Quantifying Race: Histories of Statistical Modeling in Human Population Genetics" 📆 Wednesday, February 25th 🕓 3:00-5:00PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

📣Join us on Tuesday for Miron Clay-Gilmore’s talk “The Technologization of Counterinsurgency: Presentation of the first data visualization published by the Clay-Gilmore Institute” 📆 Tuesday, February 10th 🕓 1:00-2:30PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 In person or online: youtube.com/live/s2okrHE...

📣 Another New Event Alert! Join us next Friday for Benjamin Davis’s talk “Pens Not Property: Edward Said and Sylvia Wynter on Forms of Life” 📆 Friday, February 27th 🕓 4:00-6:00PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 Join in person in Larkin 200 or online here: www.youtube.com/live/ci8UsCr...

What happens to public discourse when norms start to erode? Jennifer Saul discusses in “When Norm-Violations Come Out of the Shadows” 📆 Thursday, February 26th 🕔 3:30-5:30PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 Join in person in Larkin 200 or online here: youtube.com/live/CQqOVwH...

🤖 The Algorithm Bias in Canada (ABC) Seminar series continues! Join us next Wednesday for Elise Burton’s talk “Quantifying Race: Histories of Statistical Modeling in Human Population Genetics" 📆 Wednesday, February 25th 🕔 3:00-5:00PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

How do moral appeals actually motivate change?🤔 This Ethics@Noon-ish talk explores Fredrick Douglass’s abolitionist politics of shame and the motivational problem of recognition. 🗓️ Wednesday, February 4 🕕 12:30-2:30 PM 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 🍕 Pizza and refreshments provided!

📣 New Event Alert! Join us next Wednesday in Larkin 200 for Tobias Rosefeldt’s talk “Given as Free: A Grecian Account of Fichte’s Summons” 📆 Wednesday, February 11th 🕔 5:00-7:00PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

📣 Join us in person or online tomorrow for Chris Howard's talk on "Decentralizing the Digital Public Sphere", see you there!! 🗓 Thursday, January 29th 🕐 4:00–6:00 PM 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 ☕ Refreshments provided!

🤖 New Algorithm Bias in Canada (ABC) Seminar alert! Next Wednesday Gideon Christian presents “Algorithmic Racism: De-coding Racial Bias in AI Facial Recognition Technology" 📆 Wednesday, February 11th 🕓 3:00-5:00PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 Or watch online here: youtube.com/live/nSoJI3_...

🤖 Join us for another instalment in the Algorithm Bias in Canada (ABC) Seminar series! Next Wednesday L.K. Bertram presents the talk "Unplugging Hitler's Radio: Historical Solutions to Bias Acceleration in the AI Age" 📆 Wednesday, January 28th 🕓 3:00-5:00PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

Can AI Companions provide true friendship? Yiran Hua, Michael Inzlicht and Paul Bloom discuss this and more at “AI Companion Event” next Friday, January 23rd 📆 Friday, January 23rd 🕔 5:00-7:00PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 Please register here to attend: www.eventbrite.ca/e/ai-compani...

📣 The Algorithm Bias in Canada (ABC) Seminar series continues! Join us for next Wednesday for Steven Coyne’s talk "Probability Talk and the Wrongs of Discrimination" 📆 Wednesday, January 14th 🕒 3:00-5:00PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 Join us online here: youtube.com/live/p3UzLad...

Join us for this week's Ethics@Noon-ish! Jiewuh Song unpacks why climate change functions as a structural threat to human rights and what it means for future advocacy. 🗓️ Wednesday, December 3 🕐 12:30-2:30 PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 🍕 Pizza & refreshments provided!

Today's talk has been moved online. You are welcome still join us in-person at the Centre to view the virtual talk! Zoom link: utoronto.zoom.us/j/84811882496

📣 Join us next Thursday, December 4 for Nathan Hauthaler’s talk "Reactive Luck" 📆 Thursday, December 4 🕞 3:30-5:30PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 You can also join us online here: www.youtube.com/live/17S7rT0...