Sergio Tenenbaum
Philosophy Professor and Director of the Centre for Ethics at University of Toronto
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- I was assigned a summer course during the 1994 World Cup and I told the students their grade would suffer if Brazil did not win it all. It worked. Just saying it.
- For World Logic Day, the ontological proof of God's non-existence (I think I heard it first from my late friend Aldo Antonelli): God is a being such that there could none more awesome It is pretty awesome to be all-powerful, all-knowing etc. ...
- It would be even more awesome to have all these awesome properties without even existing Therefore, God does not exist.
- Good to see Kantians out there driving in Toronto.
- So relieved to learn that Texas A&M is not banning Plato altogether, but merely redacting his work to ensure it conforms to accepted state ideology
- Reposted by Sergio TenenbaumCollege Campus Tour Ends Inside Unmarked ICE Vehicle theonion.com/college-campus-tour…
- Perhaps we are learning that many people's enthusiastic advocacy for teaching the canon was predicated on having never read any of it.
- Can we imagine what would happen if American conservatives were not so strongly committed to free speech?
- Word trend for 2026: "Kidnap" is out; "capture" is in.
- The applications for our Visiting Fellowships at the University of Toronto Centre for Ethics for 2026-7 are now open. They are non-stipendiary fellowships. but they do come with a modest research budget, nice offices, library access, etc. Please share widely! sites.google.com/view/uoftc4e...
- Happy to see that so many of my friends and colleagues have signed this document www.academia.edu/129505708/Bl...
- Trump's most promising anti-immigration policy seems to be his efforts to turn the US into a place no one will want to live in.
- I am already dreading the cartoon in which my visits to the dentist are also exposed to the whole world.
- Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. Fellini's 17 For an Average Amount of Dollars More Donas Flores and their Four Husbands Huge Medium-Sized Lies (ok it's a TV series but I think it's a legit candidate for tariffs)
- Stephen White was a really insightful philosophers and a real mensch; his early death was immensely sad and tragic. So happy that the APA is honouring him in this way. dailynous.com/2025/04/24/n...
- Someone has to produce a redacted version of this piece, so one can have the good ideas without being distracted by the complete misunderstanding of the Prisoner Dilemma choice structure: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
- Reposted by Sergio TenenbaumNote to Columbia University: This is how you do it. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
- Looking forward to our undergraduate conference, and can't wait to hear Alice MacLachlan's Keynote address. The Keynote address is open to the public (Monday, April 7 at 3:30PM).
- Apparently, Princeton is not caving in, at least not yet. So, give or take some market fluctuation, the price of freedom in American academia right now seems to be around $4M per student.
- The anticipatory obedience of (some) American universities has been really scary: www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
- Reposted by Sergio TenenbaumWhen are we complicit in the wrongful actions of others? From climate change to war, explore ethical topics at the Moral Complicity: Theory and Context Conference on May 9–10, 2025 at the Centre for Ethics! More details here: sites.google.com/view/moral-c...
- The Centre for Ethics has a call for applications for a second post-doctoral fellowship to help us launch a new project on Algorithm Bias. If you already applied for the other post-doc fellowship, and want to be considered for this one, just let us know! ethics.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
- Dr. Liu offered to remove some of her slides but apparently this wasn't enough to calm the fears that NYU would not be fully capitulating to the regime.
- Very happy to have Jason Stanley join our department (well, 25% of him at least). Having him and Timothy Snyder join the Munk Centre is really great news for U of T. Hopefully Trump will keep sending us these amazing scholars
- (I know, I know... It's not that great overall that Trump is trying to destroy every single American university )
- A rare moment in contemporary history in which my age group is a force for good.
- I am not at a US university, so I can't sign this. But Jewish colleagues in the US, not matter what your views are on the Gaza war, Israel, etc., you might want to consider signing this letter. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Friend saw this in the wild. Short of having Tesla control being forcibly transferred to an NGO, I'm not sure this is still possible.
- Very excited about this upcoming event at the @uoftethics.bsky.social
- This is ridiculous! My next paper will cite all and only those papers that do not cite themselves.
- "Paper self-citation: An unexplored phenomenon." Yes, there are 44,000 papers that purportedly cite themselves in the Web of Science dataset. These authors had the opportunity to do the funniest thing but alas. arxiv.org/pdf/2503.04324
- Reposted by Sergio Tenenbaum🌟 Exempt or excused? How should we rethink mental disorder in the responsibility context? Join us this coming Wednesday, March 12, at 12 PM for Ethics@Noon-ish with Emily Baron at the Centre for Ethics! See you then!
- Reposted by Sergio Tenenbaum🔹 How can the Two Row Wampum guide us today in building peace and mutual respect? Join us this Friday, March 14, 5-7PM, for Towards a Decolonial Phenomenology of the Lifeworld, a talk by Lisa Guenther. 📍 In-person only | Part of the Race, Ethics, & Power Project
- When I first saw Martin's deranged letter to Dean Treanor I thought it was fake. Apparently, it is not. Hopefully other schools will be at least as forceful in their response to these attacks on academic freedom.
- Reposted by Sergio TenenbaumFriends & Fellow Colleagues: I am very excited to release the latest episode of The Young Idealist Series. A Special Book Presentation featuring Dr. Owen Ware (U of T). on his new book: Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy & Literature. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT4l...
- Posting this here because I like it, but also because I want to find it next time I teach the trolley problem: www.tiktok.com/@nbcsnl/vide...
- Really interesting piece by my colleague Joe Heath: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...
- The level of sycophantic abasement required to be part of this administration is wild.
- Reposted by Sergio Tenenbaumi am physically nauseated by this exchange
- Looking forward to this talk!
- Here is the abstract:
- Post-doc opportunity at our Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto. Please share widely!
- ‼️Now Accepting Applications‼️ The Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto is accepting applications for one Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year. 📅 Application Deadline: April 30, 2025 🔗 More Info & How to Apply: ethics.utoronto.ca/contact/post-doctoral-fellowships/
- Wow, wow, people, let's not jump to conclusions here.
- Americans worry Musk's campaign to slash government could hurt services, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...
- What you get when you combine First Past the Post and a broad political alliance vs a divided opposition. NDP, Liberals, and Greens are ideologically very close centre-left parties, andthey represent the majority of the voters. And yet we'll get a conservative supermajority
