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Paolo Crivelli, Distinguished Visiting Fellow 2025

by George Boys-Stones .

Paolo Crivelli, who retired this year from the University of Geneva, will be coming to Toronto in the 2025 Winter semester (January to April) as CSAMP Distinguished Visiting Fellow. We very much look forward to having him with us!

Jon McGinnis moves to Toronto

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Congratulations to Jon McGinnis, who has been appointed Professor of Classical Islamic Philosophy, and joins us in the fall. We are very much looking forward to having him as part of CSAMP! Read more about the appointment here.

 

Roberto Granieri from Leuven to Rome

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We are delighted to hear that Roberto Granieri (PhD Toronto 2021) has been appointed to a permanent position in the Philosophy Department at Roma Tre University. Roberto wrote his thesis at Toronto under the supervision of Lloyd Gerson, on Plato’s Sophist. He currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at KU Leuven. Congratulations, Roberto!

Wim Nijs wins Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at Toronto

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We are delighted to announce that Dr Wim Nijs (currently working in Leuven, Belgium) has won a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, and will join the Department of Classics and CSAMP for two years in the fall. He will be working on the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, especially his thoughts on flattery, a subject to which Philodemus devoted a book of his work On Virtues and Vices.

Congratulations to Rachel Barney

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Rachel Barney is a winner of the Dean’s Research Excellence Award. Rachel is “internationally recognized as one of the world’s most innovative and creative researchers on ancient Greek philosophy” as the citation rightly says – read more about the award here!

Talk by Prof. Porro on Dec. 8 at 4pm

by Rares Marinescu .

Prof. Pasquale Porro (Turin) who is currently a visiting scholar at University of Toronto will give a talk this Friday (Dec. 8) at 4pm on “Do We Really Have a Natural Desire to Know God? Philosophy, Theology, and Faith, 1270–1320”

Further details can be found here:  https://pims.ca/event/lecture-pasquale-porro/

Please note that booking is required.

Francisco Suárez: Philosopher at the Crossroads

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Join the Philosophy Department for a two-day workshop on the 16th-century Spanish priest, philosopher, and theologian Francisco Suárez (1548-1617). It will examine various aspects of Suárez’s philosophy, a scholastic philosopher working at the crossroads of late medieval and early modern philosophy.

  • Jean-Pascal Anfray (École normale supérieure, Paris), “Suárez on matter, quantity and three kinds of extension.”
  • Shane Duarte (University of Notre Dame), “Suárez, Extrinsic Denomination, and the Explicatio entis.”
  • Sydney Penner (Ashbury University), “Suárez on the Origin of Falsity.”
  • Kara Richardson (Syracuse University), “Suárez on Final Causality and Human Action.”
  • Tad Schmaltz (University of Michigan), “Was Suárez an Essentialist in Metaphysics?”
  • Cecilia Trifogli (Oxford University), “Suárez on Time.”

Find up-to-date details here.