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!
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.
We are delighted to announce that Ulysse Chantreuil will be coming to Toronto to work with Christian Pfeiffer as a Postdoctoral Fellow based at UTM. He will be with us for two years starting fall 2024. Welcome, Ulysse!
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!
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.
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!
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”
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.”