Congratulations to Prof. Rachel Barney
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Prof. Rachel Barney has just been appointed Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy, and received a nice letter from Justin Trudeau!
Archive for 2016
Congratulations to Robert Howton!
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Congratulations to Dr. Robert Howton on the successful defense of his PhD thesis (accepted Nov. 9 2016), “Aristotle’s Case for Perceptual Knowledge”, in the Philosophy Department, and to his Committee: Jennifer Whiting (supervisor), Brad Inwood, and Lloyd Gerson. Robbie is at present Visiting Lecturer in the Philosophy Dept. at the University of Pittsburgh.
Congratulations to Bryan Reece!
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Congratulations to Dr. Bryan Reece, whose PhD thesis, “The Ontology, Etiology, and Moral Psychology of Action: Aristotle and Today”, was successfully defended in August this year. Bryan’s supervisor was Prof. Lloyd Gerson; other committee members were Brad Inwood and Philip Clark. This year Bryan is a Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Toronto, teaching courses on Aristotle, human nature, and early modern philosophy.
UTCMP 2016
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Conference Schedule
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
Session I (4:30 – 6:30)
Chair: Antoine Côté (University of Ottawa)
Speaker: Stephen Dumont (University of Notre Dame): “The Condemnation of Giles of Rome Revisited”
Commentator: Peter Eardley (University of Guelph)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
Session II (10:00 – 12:00)
Chair: Christina Van Dyke (Calvin College)
Speaker: Dag Hasse (Julius-Maximillian-Universität Würzburg): “Averroës on Knowing God”
Commentator: Luis Xavier López-Farjeat (Universidad Panamericana)
Session III (2:00 – 4:00)
Chair: Michael Fatigati (University of Toronto)
Kendall Fisher (Syracuse University): “Thomas Aquinas on Hylomorphism and the In-Act Principle”
Philip Choi (University of Colorado at Boulder): “Skepticism, Reliabilism, and Evidentia in William of Ockham”
André Martin (McGill University): “Terminative Causation and the Object of Cognition in Peter John Olivi”
Session IV (4:15 – 6:15)
Chair: Andrew Arlig (Brooklyn College)
Cecilia Trifogli (Oxford University): “Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, and Thomas Wylton on the Subject of Thought and the Intellectual Soul”
Commentator: Therese Scarpelli Cory (University of Notre Dame)
Congratulations to Nathan Gilbert
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Congratulations to recent CPAMP graduate Nathan Gilbert, who will be a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Durham, U.K., starting in fall 2016! Nathan received his PhD from the Classics Department in 2015, for his dissertation, “Among Friends: Cicero and the Epicureans”.
ATWAP 2016
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Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy
March 11-12, 2016
Program
Friday, March 11
2.30 – 2.45 Introductions
2.45-4.15 Frank Gonzalez (Ottawa): “Plato’s Perspectivism”
Interlocutor: Marina McCoy (Boston College). Chair: Tom Robinson (Toronto)
4.15-4.30 Break
4.30-6.00 Constance Meinwald (U. Illinois at Chicago): “What Do We Think We’re Doing?”
Interlocutor: Allan Silverman (Ohio State). Chair: Brooks Sommerville (Colgate)
Saturday, March 12
9.00-10.30 Kenneth Sayre (Notre Dame): “Dialectic in Plato’s Later Dialogues”
Interlocutor: Mark Johnstone (McMaster). Chair: Lloyd Gerson (Toronto)
10.30-10.45 Break
10.45-12.15 Melissa Lane (Princeton): “Antiarchia: Interpreting Plato’s Political Thought”
Interlocutor: David Ebrey (Northwestern). Chair: Martin Pickavé (Toronto)
12.15-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 Michael Erler (Würzburg): “Elenctic Aporia and Performative Euporia: Literary Form and Philosophical Message” Interlocutor: Rachel Singpurwalla (Maryland). Chair: Rachel Barney (Toronto)
3.30-3.45 Break
3.45-5.15 François Renaud (Université de Moncton): “Drama and Argument in Plato” Interlocutor: Debra Nails (Michigan State). Chair: James Allen (Toronto)
5.15-6.00 Concluding Survey and General Discussion led by Tom Robinson (Toronto).