Archive for September, 2018

UTCMP 2018

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University of Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy 2018

Friday, September 21 – Saturday, September 22, 2018

Conference Schedule

Friday, September 21

Session I (4:30 – 6:30)

Chair: Peter Eardley (University of Guelph)

Christopher Martin (University of Auckland): “Only God Can Make A Tree: Abaelard on Wholes and Parts and Some Evidence of His Later Thinking About Them.”

Commentator: Jeffrey Brower (Purdue University)

Saturday, September 22

Session II (10:00 – 12:00)

Chair: Kara Richardson (Syracuse University)

Riccardo Strobino (Tufts University): “Avicenna’s Account of Conditionals and the Logic of Scientific Discourse”

Commentator: Asad Q. Ahmed (University of California, Berkeley)

Session III (2:00 – 4:00)

Chair: Matthieu Remacle (University of Toronto)

Michael Fatigati (University of Toronto): “Avicenna on Uniquely Human Emotions”

Daniel Simpson (St. Louis University): “Naturally Apt For One Another: Ockham on the Nature of Causal Linkage”

Aline Medeiros Ramos (Université du Québéc à Montréal/Université du Québéc à Trois-Rivières): “The Status of Prudence in Buridan’s Ethics”

Session IV (4:15 – 6:15)

Chair: Claude Panaccio (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Irène Rosier-Catach (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris): “The ‘Linguistic Turn’ of Medieval Logic in the Early XIIth Century”

Commentator: Andrew Arlig (Brooklyn College)

 

All sessions are free and open to the public and will be held in Room 100 of the Jackman Humanities Building.

Organized by Martin Pickavé, Deborah Black, and Peter King.

CPAMP welcomes new faculty members & postdoc

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As the 2018 academic year begins, CPAMP is pleased to welcome two new members into the ranks of our faculty, Professors Jessica Gelber and Christian Pfeiffer, as well as a new post-doctoral fellow, Willie Costello.

Jessica Gelber, who takes up her position this fall, is a Berkeley Ph.D. (2010) with interests centring on Aristotle’s natural philosophy and metaphysics, about which she has published a wide range of articles. She joins us after serving as an Assistant Professor at the University of Syracuse and the University of Pittsburgh.

Christian Pfeiffer, who will be joining us in the spring term, earned his doctorate at the Humboldt Universität of Berlin. He comes to Toronto after serving as a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and as a visiting professor at the Humboldt Universität. His interests centre on Aristotle’s metaphysics and natural philosophy, about which he has published a wide range of articles and a monograph, Aristotle’s Theory of Bodies (Oxford 2018).

Willie Costello is a Toronto Ph.D. (2015) with interests centring on Plato and ancient metaphysics. He joins us following a stint as post-doctoral fellow at Stanford, in their Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities.

In addition, James Allen will be serving as CPAMP’s new director for the 2018 academic year. His contact information can be found on our “Contact Us” page.