Sergio Tenenbaum
@sergioten.bsky.social
Philosophy Professor and Director of the Centre for Ethics at University of Toronto
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he/him/his except within US jurisdiction or anywhere else where such pronouns are void.
Opinions expressed here are actually knowledge.
he/him/his except within US jurisdiction or anywhere else where such pronouns are void.
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...
www.academia.edu
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...
dailynous.com/2025/04/24/n...
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...
dailynous.com
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
A rare moment in contemporary history in which my age group is a force for good.
March 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open letter in response to federal funding cuts at Columbia
10 March 2025 Open letter in response to federal funding cuts at Columbia On March 7th, the Trump administration announced the immediate cancellation of approximately $400 million in federal grants a...
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March 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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...
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.
March 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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
March 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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
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
March 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This is ridiculous! My next paper will cite all and only those papers that do not cite themselves.
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🌟 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!
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!
March 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🌟 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!
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!
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🔹 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
📍 In-person only | Part of the Race, Ethics, & Power Project
March 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🔹 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
📍 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.
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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.
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Friends & 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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT4l...
March 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Friends & 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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT4l...