Sidney Robinson Prize
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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!
News
Arthur Harris to Toronto
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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!
Michael Arsenault to Toronto
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We are pleased to announce that Michael Arsenault has accepted a junior position in ancient philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, and comes to Toronto from August 1, 2025. Michael works on Aristotle, especially Aristotle’s theory of perception.
Rareș Marinescu on Proclus
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Rareș Ilie Marinescu, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Classics, has just seen his monograph into print with CUP. Proclus on Aristotle on Plato: A Case Study on Motion is now available – and is open access as well. Congratulations, Rareș!
Stephen Menn moves to Toronto
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We are very excited that Stephen Menn (FRSC) will be moving to Toronto from January 2026 as the inaugural holder of the Michael and Virginia Walsh Chair in the History of Philosophy. He will retain his link with the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he is an Honorary Professor. Stephen’s appointment will be in the Department of Philosophy, but he will also be a member of the Graduate Faculty in Classics. Welcome, Stephen!
Sidney Robinson Prize in Ancient Philosophy – Call for Submissions
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The annual Sidney Robinson Prize in Ancient Philosophy will be awarded for the best paper written in the past academic year (2024-2025) by a University of Toronto student registered for a graduate programme in the Departments of Classics or of Philosophy, or the Institute of Medieval Studies, on any topic in ancient Greek or Roman philosophy (up to 529 AD). The Prize comes with a cash award of $500. Applicants should anonymize their submission (the judgement will be made blind by an external expert), and send it as an email attachment to csamp@utoronto.ca by the end of Friday, 27th June 2025. Papers should be between 5,000 and 10,000 words, and sent as a pdf with the author’s student number as the filename.
Congratulations to Léa Derome!
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We are delighted to learn that Dr Léa Derome, who has been with us in Toronto as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, has accepted a position in ancient philosophy at the University of Ottawa, starting in the Fall. Congratulations, Léa!
CSAMP Winter seminar programme
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We have an extraordinary programme of local and visiting speakers for our Winter 2025 Proseminar series: see the ‘Events’ section of the website. You can import the details straight into your calendar with this .ics file. Note that there are several workshops on the horizon too: on Craft and Nature in Plato and Aristotle, on Ancient Political Philosophy, and on Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia, the subject of this year’s Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy
Ancient Philosophy post
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The Department of Philosophy is advertising a tenure-track position in Ancient Philosophy – come and be part of CSAMP! The deadline is November 4.
New book on Plato’s Laws
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Congratulations to Ryan Balot on his new book Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato’s Laws!