New article on Metaph. Z by Sam Meister
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Congratulations to Sam Meister on the publication in Phronesis of his article ‘Aristotle’s, Metaphysics Z as First Philosophy’.
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Congratulations to Sam Meister on the publication in Phronesis of his article ‘Aristotle’s, Metaphysics Z as First Philosophy’.
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As part of the 2020-21 UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series, Sarah Iles-Johnston (Ohio State University) will give a seminar on ‘Theory of Mind and Ancient Greek Religious Experience’, 1-4 pm on Friday, February 5, 2021. For all inquiries, please contact Martin Revermann (m.revermann@utoronto.ca)
Further details about the seminar series:
https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/historical-studies/learn-more-about-what-we-offer/classical-civilization/2020-21-utm-annual-classics-seminar-series
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The Collaborative Specialization in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy is pleased to announce that we plan to resume holding events in our series, the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, this October with the workshop “Inheriting Plato: Then and Now”.
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On Monday, 19th October, Prof. Andrea Falcon (Concordia University) will be giving a masterclass as part of this term’s graduate seminar on Aristotelianism next Monday, as well as a presentation to the CPAMP Work-in-Progress Seminar.
The title for the Masterclass ( 10 a.m. – 12 Noon) is “Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition are Not the Same Thing”, and he will be focusing on Alexander of Aphrodisias‘ discussion of two questions in particular: the nature of the intellect, and cardiocentrism. Recommended advance reading: Alexander, On the Soul pp. 80.16-92.11 and 94.7-100.7 (Bruns); Mantissa 2 (De Intellectu).
The title for the Work-in-Progress Seminar presentation (4 p.m – 6 p.m) is “Aristotle and the Explanation of Longevity”.
All U of T people are welcome to join in!
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2:00–2:30 Welcome
2:30–4:00 Mary Louise Gill, “Food and Self-Maintenance in Aristotle’s De Anima II.4″
Comments: Doug Campbell / Chair: David Sedley (Cambridge)
4:30–6:00 Katy Meadows, “Aristotle’s Priorities in the Metaphysics”
Comments: Susan Sauvé Meyer / Chair: Mark Johnstone (McMaster)
10:00–11:30 David Charles, “Enmattered Forms and Efficient Causation”
Comments: Bryan Reece / Chair: Sean Kelsey (Notre Dame)
12:00–1:30 Emily Katz, “Hylomorphism in Mathematical Objects”
Comments: Phil Corkum / Chair: Rachel MacKinnon (Toronto)
3:00–4:30 Marko Malink, “Antisthenes on Definition: Metaphysics H 3″
Comments: Anne Siebels Peterson / Chair: Christopher Noble (Syracuse)
5:00–6:30 Mary Krizan, “The structure of Aristotle’s material elements”
Comments: Jacob Rosen / Chair: Devin Henry (Western)
Conference organizers: Jessica Gelber & Christian Pfeiffer.
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Chair: Peter Eardley (University of Guelph)
Christopher Martin (University of Auckland): “Only God Can Make A Tree: Abaelard on Wholes and Parts and Some Evidence of His Later Thinking About Them.”
Commentator: Jeffrey Brower (Purdue University)
Chair: Kara Richardson (Syracuse University)
Riccardo Strobino (Tufts University): “Avicenna’s Account of Conditionals and the Logic of Scientific Discourse”
Commentator: Asad Q. Ahmed (University of California, Berkeley)
Chair: Matthieu Remacle (University of Toronto)
Michael Fatigati (University of Toronto): “Avicenna on Uniquely Human Emotions”
Daniel Simpson (St. Louis University): “Naturally Apt For One Another: Ockham on the Nature of Causal Linkage”
Aline Medeiros Ramos (Université du Québéc à Montréal/Université du Québéc à Trois-Rivières): “The Status of Prudence in Buridan’s Ethics”
Chair: Claude Panaccio (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Irène Rosier-Catach (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris): “The ‘Linguistic Turn’ of Medieval Logic in the Early XIIth Century”
Commentator: Andrew Arlig (Brooklyn College)
All sessions are free and open to the public and will be held in Room 100 of the Jackman Humanities Building.
Organized by Martin Pickavé, Deborah Black, and Peter King.
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Coffee
10:00-12:00: André Laks (Universidad Panamericana) and Glenn Most (Chicago/Pisa): “Editing the Early Greek Philosophers: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”
Lunch break
2:00-3:45: Tom Mackenzie (University College London): “Empedoclean Problems of the Self and the Function of the Daimonology”
Comments: Victoria Wohl (Toronto)
Coffee and timbits
4:00-5:45: Claire Louguet (Université de Lille III): “Tragedy and Philosophy: The Prometheus Bound and Parmenides”
Comments: Matthew Watton (Toronto)
Conference dinner
Coffee
9:30-11:15 Mirjam Kotwick (The New School): “Allegoresis and Analogy in the Derveni Papyrus and the Hippocratic Text On Dreams (Vict. 4)”
Comments: Marion Durand (Toronto)
Coffee break
11:30-1:15 André Laks (Universidad Panamericana): “How Preplatonic Worlds Became Ensouled”
Comments: Brad Inwood (Yale)
Lunch break
2:15-4:00 Patricia Curd (Purdue University): “What Can Parmenides Know?”
Comments: Boris Hennig (Ryerson)
Coffee break
4:15-6:00 David Sider (NYU): “Repetitions in Empedocles”
Comments: Stephen Menn (McGill)
Conference dinner
Participation in the conference is free, but preregistration is required: contact Rachel Barney at rachel.barney@utoronto.ca or Roberto Granieri roberto.granieri@mail.utoronto.ca.
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Session I (4:30 – 6:30)
Chair: Charles Brittain (University of Toronto)
Speaker: Jorge Gracia (SUNY Buffalo): “Individuation and the Realism/Nominalism Dilemma: The Case of the Middle Ages”
Commentator: Richard Cross (University of Notre Dame)
Session II (10:00 – 12:00)
Chair: Jeannie Miller (University of Toronto)
Speaker: Richard Taylor (Marquette University): “Averroes on the Attainment of Happiness”
Commentator: Stephen Ogden (The Catholic University of America)
Session III (2:00 – 4:00)
Chair: Simona Vucu (University of Toronto)
Nicholas Oschman (Marquette University): “Two Philosophical Critiques of Prophecy: Abū Bakr al-Rāzī and Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī on the Pre-Eminence of Natural Reason”
Francesco Pica (University of Toronto): “Getting at Reality: John Duns Scotus on Mind and the World”
Deni Gamboa (UNAM Mexico City): “William of Ockham on Introspective Cognition of Intuitive Acts’ Content and Likeness”
Session IV (4:15 – 6:15)
Chair: Stephen Dumont (University of Notre Dame)
Thomas Williams (University of South Florida): “Can Anselm Have Everything He Wants?”
Commentator: Giorgio Pini (Fordham University)
All sessions will be held in the Jackman Humanities Building (170 St. George St.), Room 100.
All sessions are free and open to the public.
Registration and inquiries: medieval.philosophy@utoronto.ca.
Organizers: Deborah Black, Peter King, Martin Pickave
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Congratulations to the two winners of the first annual Sidney Robinson Essay Prize in Ancient Philosophy: Bryan Reece, for ‘Aristotle’s Four Causes of Action’, and Matthieu Remacle, for ’The Stoics on Cases’!
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Here is a preliminary schedule, soon to be updated with times and places, for the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, 2017. All are welcome; if you are coming from outside the University of Toronto, please ‘register’ (no fee except for dinner) with James Allen (jv.allen@utoronto).
Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy 2017
(ATWAP)
Friday March 3 – Saturday March 4
University of Toronto
HELLENISTIC ETHICS
Speakers:
Tim O’Keefe: ‘The Normativity of Nature in Epicurean Ethics’, with comments by Charles Brittain
Brad Inwood: ‘The Pitfalls of Perfection: Stoicism for Non-Sages’, with comments by Julia Annas
Rachana Kamtekar: ‘Epicurus’ Refutation of Determinism’, with comments by Marion Durand
Susan Sauvé Meyer: ‘Passions & Other Actions in Stoicism’ with comments by Tad Brennan
John Wynne: ‘Stoic Beauty’, with comments by Margaret Graver
Jacob Klein: ‘On the Guise of the Good (and the Bad) in Stoicism’, with comments by James Allen
Sponsored by the Collaborative Programme in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (CPAMP). For more information contact James Allen (jv.allen@utoronto.ca)