Archive for September, 2025

Sidney Robinson Prize

by Rares Marinescu .

The annual Sidney Robinson Prize in Ancient Philosophy (awarded for the best paper written in the past academic year) goes this year to Cal Fried who is now pursuing a PhD at Yale. Congratulations, Cal!

Arthur Harris to Toronto

by Rares Marinescu .

Arthur Harris is joining us this term as a postdoc. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge where he has been the Lloyd-Dan David Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute and Darwin College. His research interests lie in ancient Greek and Chinese science. He has written on Hellenistic mechanics and medicine, as well as on Aristotle. He is currently preparing a new Loeb edition of the Mechanica and completing articles that compare Hippocratic medicine with early Chinese texts from the late Warring States to the Han. Welcome, Arthur!