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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!
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The program for the 2024 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy is now available here. It is open to all – come along!
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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!
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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.
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The program for the 2024 Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy is now available here. 
Come and join us in March!
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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!
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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.
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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.
Find up-to-date details here.
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Congratulations to Lloyd Gerson on the publication of his new book Plato’s Moral Realism!
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Congratulations to Yi-Cheng Lin, who has won this year’s Sidney Robinson Prize for his essay “Aristotle on the Connection between Capacity and Possibility”. The citation described the essay as showing “originality in developing novel arguments . . . and independence of thought in challenging the views of established scholars. The paper is professionally presented, easy to follow, and enjoyable to read.”
The Sidney Robinson Prize in Ancient Philosophy is awarded annually for the best paper written in the past academic year by a University of Toronto graduate student in Classics, Medieval Studies, or Philosophy, on any topic in ancient Greek or Roman philosophy (up to 529 AD). The prize comes with a cash award of $500.