Sergio Tenenbaum
@sergioten.bsky.social
Philosophy Professor and Director of the Centre for Ethics at University of Toronto
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Opinions expressed here are actually knowledge.
he/him/his except within US jurisdiction or anywhere else where such pronouns are void.
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.
It worked. Just saying it.
January 19, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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.
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. ...
God is a being such that there could none more awesome
It is pretty awesome to be all-powerful, all-knowing etc. ...
January 15, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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. ...
God is a being such that there could none more awesome
It is pretty awesome to be all-powerful, all-knowing etc. ...
Good to see Kantians out there driving in Toronto.
January 15, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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
January 13, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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
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College Campus Tour Ends Inside Unmarked ICE Vehicle https://theonion.com/college-campus-tour-ends-inside-unmarked-ice-vehicle/
January 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
College Campus Tour Ends Inside Unmarked ICE Vehicle https://theonion.com/college-campus-tour-ends-inside-unmarked-ice-vehicle/
Perhaps we are learning that many people's enthusiastic advocacy for teaching the canon was predicated on having never read any of it.
January 7, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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?
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 7, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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.
January 3, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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...
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The Centre for Ethics - Visiting Professors
Update: 2026-2027 Applications are now open.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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...
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...
www.academia.edu/129505708/Bl...
Black Flag Action Group Urgent Call to the Heads of Academia in Israel (May 25, 2025 Signatures)
To the Association of University Heads in Israel, the Board of Academic Public Colleges, and Academics for Israeli Democracy, We, members of the academic and administrative staff in institutions of hi...
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May 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Happy to see that so many of my friends and colleagues have signed this document
www.academia.edu/129505708/Bl...
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.
May 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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.
May 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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)
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)
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie.
Monty Python's Half-life of Brian.
From Dusk til Midnight.
Mr Smith Leaves for Washington.
Blake Edwards' "5".
Monty Python's Half-life of Brian.
From Dusk til Midnight.
Mr Smith Leaves for Washington.
Blake Edwards' "5".
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie.
4 Fast 4 Furious
4 Fast 4 Furious
May 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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)
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...
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New: The Stephen J. White Prize - Daily Nous
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the creation of a new prize in honor of the late philosopher Stephen J. White. White died in 2021 at the age of 38. The White Prize will be a...
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April 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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...
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
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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).
April 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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.
April 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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...
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 31, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The anticipatory obedience of (some) American universities has been really scary:
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
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When 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...
March 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
When 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...
ethics.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
Postdoctoral Fellowship In Algorithm Bias | Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
ethics.utoronto.ca
March 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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...
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.
My friend Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Doctors Without Borders, was cancelled at NYU. The vice-president in education asked to see her powerpoint, prior to her lecture. One slide showed the number of humanitarian workers who died in Gaza. NYU cancelled the event.
March 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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
March 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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