CSAMP Proseminar: Jacob Klein (Colgate)
Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, Canada"Hupolêpsis and Hormê: The Stoic Theory of Motivation."
"Hupolêpsis and Hormê: The Stoic Theory of Motivation."
"Augustine on Pulling the Trigger." ABSTRACT. The main philosophical puzzle in Confessions 8 is how someone can want to do something but nevertheless fail to do it. This is, I argue, a problem about what we now call "commitment" and, as such, it is distinct from (but related to) classical problems of weakness of will. […]
Program Thursday, 6 March 2.00-3.15 Mary L. Gill (Brown): Craft and Causation in Aristotle’s Theory of Soul Response by Rareş I. Marinescu (Toronto) 3.15-4.30 Caleb Cohoe (Denver): An Internal Light, Not an External Sun: νοῦς ποιητικός in Aristotle’s De Anima III 5 Response by Cal Fried (Toronto) 4.30-5.00 Coffee break 5.00-6.15 Ulysse Chaintreuil (Toronto): Aristotle’s […]
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This interdisciplinary workshop brings together faculty, postdocs and graduate students working on themes in ancient political philosophy from the Departments of Political Science, Philosophy and Classics to share work-in-progress. Speakers are Ryan Balot, Rachel Barney, Myrthe Bartels, Kat Furtado, Joseph Gerbasi, Max Morris, Stephen Peprah, and Rachel Wagner. They will be joined by Merrick Anderson […]
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 […]
The third annual Toronto-Torino reading week will be hosted at the British School at Athens, timed to coincide with the Michael Frede Lecture, which this year will be given by Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson. The reading group is primarily for CSAMP students (along with graduate students from Turin University), for whom accommodation at the School is […]