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Interdisciplinary institute at #UofT advancing research, teaching, & public discourse on ethics

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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Join us for Practical Philosophy, Normativity, and Law, the First Annual Meeting of the University of Toronto–Hebrew University of Jerusalem Research and Training Alliance. 📅 October 5–6 📍 Larkin 200, Centre for Ethics 🕘 9:00 AM–5:30 PM
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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! 🗓️ October 8 🕐 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
👀 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
On Stalking: Objectification and Self-Concealment

Maggie O'Brien
Philosophy, York University

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

Pizza and refreshments provided!
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Join us today at 3 p.m. for Leonard Harris's talk on "Necro-Being and the Limits of Reason: AI,et.al." 🗓️ Wednesday, September 16 🕐 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 Scan the QR Code to join online!
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's a new term, and we're starting it off right! We're hosting 3 events in the next two weeks that we'd love to have you at! ℹ️ Visit ethics.utoronto.ca for more!
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:
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It's our last event before the start of the fall session: Join us Tuesday, August 18 for “Hacking Ourselves: From Life to Death” with Simona Chiodo! 🗓️ Tuesday, August 18 🕐 3:30 PM 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200
A poster that reads: Hacking Ourselves: From Life to Death with Simona Chiodo, Professor of Philosophy, Politecnico di Milano. On Tuesday, August 18 at 3:30 PM at the Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200.
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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
Welcome to the U of T Centre for Ethics.

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.
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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
Applications open: UofT Centre for Ethics Algorithm Bias Project Internship

Learn more: ethics.utoronto.ca
Applications due July 15
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
📣 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
Applications Open: UofT Centre for Ethics Undergraduate Fellowship

Learn more: ethics.utoronto.ca
Applications due July 15Applications Open: UofT Centre for Ethics Doctoral Fellowship

Learn more: ethics.utoronto.ca
Applications due July 15
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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
Marion Moreland Memorial Symposium
A half-day philosophy conference on W. E. B. Du Bois

June 26, 2026 at the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto (15 Devonshire Place)

1pm: Robert Gooding-Williams (Yale)

2pm: William Paris (Toronto)

3:30pm: Kwesi Thomas (Toronto/Simon Fraser)

4:30pm: Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie)
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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!
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🚨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
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
📣 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
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
🤖 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
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
🚨 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
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
📣 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.
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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!
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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!
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
🤖 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
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
📣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...
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
📣 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...
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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...
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🤖 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
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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!
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
📣 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
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
📣 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!
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🤖 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_...
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🤖 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
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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...
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
📣 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...
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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!
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📣 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...
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
📣 Join us for Dr. Sarah Shoker's talk on “Military-Age Males in Counterinsurgency and Drone Warfare” Can’t wait to see you! 🗓 Wednesday, November 26 🕐 3:00–5:00 PM 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 ☕ Refreshments provided! For more information, visit our website (link in bio)!
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
What is it ‘to value’ something? Join us next Friday, November 21 for Christine Tappolet’s talk "Valuings as Sentiments" 📆 Friday, November 21st 🕛 12:00-2:00PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 🥪 Lunch will be provided! Join us online here: www.youtube.com/live/usgDlOB...
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
📣 Join us this week for Ishtiaque Ahmed's talk on “Ethics in Translation: AI Across Borders” for our ABC Series. Can’t wait to see you in person and online! @torontosri.bsky.social 🗓 Wednesday, November 12 🕐 3:00–5:00 PM 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 ☕ Refreshments provided!
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Join us this Thursday as Meena Krishnamurthy discusses her new book: Emotions of Nonviolence: Revisiting Martin Luther King, Jr’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" 📆 Thursday, November 6th 🕓4:00-6:00PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 ↗️ Click here for more information: sites.google.com/view/uoftc4e...
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
What does it really mean to be equal in friendship? 💭 Ethics@Noon-ish is back! Join us for Yiran Hua's talk "Equal as Friends". 🗓 Wednesday, November 5 🕐 12:30–2:30 PM 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 🍕 Pizza & refreshments provided! For more information, visit our website!
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Come join us for the talk "Unwitting Yet Praiseworthy Rightdoing: On Posigence, Negligence’s Positive Counterpart" presented by Daniel Telech 📆 Monday, October 27th 🕓4:00-6:00 PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 📺 Join us online here: youtube.com/live/5ao0yE-...
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🎥 Join us this Friday for screening of the film IHAMBA, followed by a Q&A with Co-Director David Borish 📆 Friday, October 24th 🕓4:00-5:30PM 📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 ↗️ Click here for more information: sites.google.com/view/uoftc4e...
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
‼️Join us for Ethics@Noon-ish! This week, we’re excited to welcome Garrath Williams for a talk on “The Transnational Corporation as Neo-Colonial Boomerang.” See you there! 🗓 Wednesday, October 22 🕐 12:30–2:30 PM 📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200 For more information, visit our website.
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
⏰ 3 PM TOMORROW! Professor Catherine Stinson will give a talk on "Chatbots as Psychotherapist Proxies: Possibilities and Limitations?" for our Algorithm Bias in Canada Series. Join us in person at the Centre for Ethics or Join online (QR code) if you can't make it in person. See you then!
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Come join us next week on Monday, September 29, 2025 4:00-6:00 PM for a talk by Kyle Stroh: The Holism of Intersectionality Theory and the Problem of Fragmentation. We look forward to seeing you there! More info: sites.google.com/view/uoftc4e...
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Our first Ethics@Noon talk of the year is almost here! Join us September 24, 12-2PM for a talk by Alisabeth Ayars: Moral Worth and the Problem of Psychological Contingency. We hope to see you there! More info: sites.google.com/view/uoftc4e...
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Join us next week on Wednesday, September 17, 3-5pm for a talk by Dr. Benjamin Wald: First Nations Data Sovereignty and AI. We hope to see you there! Link to view online: youtube.com/live/fM7Gjo_... More info: sites.google.com/view/uoftc4e...
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Join us this Friday, July 25, 1-3PM for a talk by Reza Mosayebi: Gradated Racism: Moving between ‘Ends in Themselves’ and ‘Mere Means.’ We hope to see you there! More info: sites.google.com/view/uoftc4e...
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UofT Centre for Ethics @uoftethics.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
‼️Now Accepting Applications‼️ The Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto is accepting applications for the following opportunities: Doctoral and Undergraduate Fellowships; Algorithm Bias Project Internships. Apply here: sites.google.com/view/uoftc4e...
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Every year, the Centre for Ethics hosts a group of fellows who play a key role in the Centre’s intellectual life by conducting ethics-related research in the Centre’s interdisciplinary setting, and co...
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