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)
Reception Dinner for speakers, chairs, and commentators
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)
Chair: Michael Arsenault (Tübingen)
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)
Conference dinner (with all participants)
All sessions are free and open to the public and will be held in room 418 (Friday) and 100 (Saturday) of the Jackman Humanities Building (170 St. George Street). The colloquium is sponsored by the Faculty of Arts & Science, the Department of Philosophy, and the Collaborative Specialization in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy.