Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy 2025
April 25, 2025 - April 26, 2025
Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia
FRIDAY, APRIL 25
Session I (2:15 – 3:45pm)
Chair: Christian Pfeiffer (Toronto)
Klaus Corcilius (Tübingen) “The Soul Itself vs. Common to Body and Soul”
Commentator: Brad Inwood (Yale)
Session II (4:15 – 5:45pm)
Chair: Jim Lennox (Pittsburgh)
Claire Bubb (New York University) “Water, Taste, and Nutrition: De sensu 4 and Aristotle’s Theory of Nutritive Juices”
Commentator: Léa Dérome (Toronto)
SATURDAY, APRIL 26
Session III (9:00 – 10:30am)
Chair: Caterina Pellò (Geneva)
Tim Clarke (Yale) “What is the Nature that Does Nothing in Vain?”
Commentator: Alex Stooshinoff (McGill)
Session IV (11:00am – 12:30pm)
Chair: Rachel Barney (Toronto)
Andrea Falcon (Venice) “The architecture of the science of living beings: Aristotle’s De juv. (Resp. included) as a case study”
Commentator: Devin Henry (Western University)
Lunch talk (12:45 – 1:45pm)
Justin Winzenrieth (Tübingen): “Editing Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia (With A New Branch)”
Session V (2:15 – 3:45pm)
Chair: Paolo Crivelli (Geneva)
Hendrik Lorenz (Princeton) “Remembering in Aristotle’s De Memoria et Reminiscentia”
Commentator: Mark Johnstone (McMaster)
Session VI (4:15 – 5:45pm)
Chair: James Allen (Toronto)
Katerina Ierodiakonou (Geneva) “Aristotle on Recollection”
Commentator: Rachel Parsons (Montreal)
All sessions are free and open to the public and will be held in Room 100 of the Jackman Humanities Building (170 St. George Street).