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Philosophy Meeting

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.41.7.0009c

The 18th annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry will be held in Toronto on Saturday and Sunday, May 20 and 21, at the Toronto Hilton in Toronto II on the Convention Level. The theme of the meeting, which begins each day at 9 a.m., is “Psychiatry and the Moral Emotions.”

The keynote address, “Will a Stroke of Neuroscience Abolish Good and Evil?,” will be given by Prof. Ronald de Sousa of the University of Toronto Department of Philosophy on Saturday, May 20, at 10:30 a.m.. Professor de Sousa is the author of The Rationality of Emotions and recent winner of the Canadian Philosophical Association Broadview Press Book Prize.

Attendance is free and open to all. More information is available by sending an e-mail to or .