As the 2020 academic year begins, CPAMP is pleased to welcome new postdoctoral fellow Máté Veres. Máté works mainly on Hellenistic philosophy, with a focus on epistemology and ethics. Prior to coming to Toronto, he held research and teaching fellowships at the University of Hamburg, at the University of Geneva, and at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. During his studies, he was a Fulbright scholar at Cornell University and a visiting student at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. His recent publications include ‘Sextus Empiricus on Religious Dogmatism’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 58 (2020), ‘Keep Calm and Carry On: Sextus Empiricus on the Origins of Pyrrhonism’, History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis 23 (2020), and ‘Theology, Innatism, and the Epicurean Self’, Ancient Philosophy 37 (2017). More information about his work may be found on his website and on his Academia.edu page.
The sudden arrival of the pandemic required the cancellation of most CPAMP events last term, including our long-planned and eagerly anticipated Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP).
We are now cautiously putting together a schedule of events for the coming academic year. Of necessity these will be, at first and for we do not know how long, on line.
Our first two talks will be:
28 September: Fiona Leigh (title TBA).
19 October: Andrea Falcon, ‘Aristotle and the Explanation of Longevity’.
We are also very pleased to announce that Máté Veres is joining us as our new ancient philosophy post-doctoral fellow.
Earlier today the University of Toronto issued a message announcing that they now “recommend cancellation or postponement of all discretionary events that are not required as part of courses and academic requirements”. As such, we cannot go forward as planned with this year’s Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, scheduled for next weekend. CPAMP is truly sorry to have to call off this event, and especially sorry to do so with such short notice.
As the 2019 academic year begins, CPAMP is pleased to welcome new faculty member Professor George Boys-Stones, who joins the University as Professor of Classics and Philosophy. A leading scholar of Ancient Philosophy with wide ranging interests, George has a special interest in the philosophical movements of the post-Hellenistic period. Before coming to Toronto he was Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. He is the author or co-author of five books, most recently L. Annaeus Cornutus: Greek Theology, Fragments, and Testimonia. (SBL Press). In addition, he has co-edited four volumes (2003-2013). He is author of a new source book for (and introduction to) ‘Middle Platonism’. (A free download of the original Greek and Latin texts, formatted to match the published volume, is available from the CUP website for the book – look under Resources.) A full list of publications is available on Professor Boys-Stones’ Academia page.
In addition, Deborah Black will be serving as CPAMP’s interim director for the 2019 academic year. Her contact information can be found on our “Contact Us” page.
We are happy to announce that next fall, CPAMP alum Marion Durand (PhD 2018) will be joining The Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford as Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at Corpus Christi College, and Associate Lecturer at St John’s College.
We are happy to announce that next fall, CPAMP alum Jacob Stump (PhD 2017) will be joining the Philosophy Department at Northeastern University (Boston, MA) as Assistant Teaching Professor. Congratulations, Jacob!
As the 2018 academic year begins, CPAMP is pleased to welcome two new members into the ranks of our faculty, Professors Jessica Gelber and Christian Pfeiffer, as well as a new post-doctoral fellow, Willie Costello.
Jessica Gelber, who takes up her position this fall, is a Berkeley Ph.D. (2010) with interests centring on Aristotle’s natural philosophy and metaphysics, about which she has published a wide range of articles. She joins us after serving as an Assistant Professor at the University of Syracuse and the University of Pittsburgh.
Christian Pfeiffer, who will be joining us in the spring term, earned his doctorate at the Humboldt Universität of Berlin. He comes to Toronto after serving as a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and as a visiting professor at the Humboldt Universität. His interests centre on Aristotle’s metaphysics and natural philosophy, about which he has published a wide range of articles and a monograph, Aristotle’s Theory of Bodies (Oxford 2018).
Willie Costello is a Toronto Ph.D. (2015) with interests centring on Plato and ancient metaphysics. He joins us following a stint as post-doctoral fellow at Stanford, in their Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities.
In addition, James Allen will be serving as CPAMP’s new director for the 2018 academic year. His contact information can be found on our “Contact Us” page.
Congratulations to Dr. Marion Durand for the successful defense (June 2018) of her PhD thesis, “Language and Reality: Stoic Semantics Reconstructed”, in the classics department. The members of her committee were Brad Inwood (supervisor), James Allen, Rachel Barney, and Gurpreet Rattan. Marion is currently a lecturer in the classics department at the University of Toronto. See her website for more information on her current research and teaching: https://marionodurand.wixsite.com/info
