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Proseminar: Christian Pfeiffer

Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

Join us for a talk by Christian Pfeiffer on "Categories in H.2".

University of Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy 2023

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 Session I (4:30 – 6:30) Chair: Jennifer Hart Weed (University of New Brunswick) Pasquale Porro (University of Turin): “How does God’s Knowledge Differ from Tiresias’ Oracles? Revisiting Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, Book V” Commentator: Martin Pickavé (University of Toronto) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Session II (10:00 – 12:00) Chair: Thérèse-Anne Druart (Catholic University […]

Proseminar: Peter King

Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

Peter King (Philosophy/CMS) will discuss "Abelard on Naming, Saying, and Truthmaking". If possible, please have a look at these texts beforehand

Proseminar: Rachel Barney

Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

Rachel Barney will lead discussion on 'Protagoras and the History of Dialectic' . Optional preparatory reading: Plato’s Parmenides up to 130a and/or Diogenes Laertius IX.50-56  

Francisco Suárez: Philosopher at the Crossroads

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

Join the Philosophy Department for a two-day workshop on the 16th-century Spanish priest, philosopher, and theologian Francisco Suárez (1548-1617). It will examine various aspects of Suárez’s philosophy, a scholastic philosopher working at the crossroads of late medieval and early modern philosophy. Jean-Pascal Anfray (École normale supérieure, Paris), "Suárez on matter, quantity and three kinds of […]

Proseminar: Simon Trepanier

Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

We welcome Simon Trépanier (Edinburgh University; PhD Toronto) back to give a talk on: The Unity of Empedocles' Thought: Re-Editing Section d of the Strasbourg Papyrus.  Abstract. In this talk I will propose a new edition of section d of the Strasbourg papyrus of Empedocles’ poem On Nature, lines d 1-10 in particular. As was recognized […]

Proseminar: Mark Johnstone

Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

Join us for a talk by Mark Johnstone (McMaster University): "The Epicurean Division of Desires"

Proseminar: James Allen

Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

James Allen (Philosophy) talks about "Aristotle, Dialectic and Philosophy"

Proseminar: Pasquale Porro

Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

Professor Pasquale Porro (visiting us from the University of Turin) will give a presentation entitled: Souls on Fire. A brief philosophical history of hellfire.

Proseminar: George Boys-Stones

Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

George Boys-Stones will present work in progress on the 'chariot' image of the soul in Plato's Phaedrus. (This session replaces one by Tommaso De Robertis which unfortunately has had to be cancelled - we hope to reschedule it later in the year!)

Proseminar: Boris Hennig

Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

We welcome Boris Hennig (TMU) to speak to us on "Aristotle on Ownership"

Theory and Practice in Roman Mediterranean Philosophy

The second in our workshop series Philosophy in the Roman Mediterranean will address the challenge of coordinating evidence for philosophical activity which is historically located but theoretically conservative with evidence for theoretical activity that is innovative but hard to locate historically. Speakers include: Bram Demulder (Leiden University) Tiziano Dorandi (CNRS, Paris) Paul Du Plessis (University […]

Jon McGinnis (University of Missouri, St. Louis), No’ing That You Don’t Know: Ibn Sīnā on Meno’s Paradox and Its implications for the Sciences

Lillian Massey Building, Great Hall (3rd floor) 125 Queens Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This is an upcoming job talk for the open position in Classical Islamic Philosophy. For more information about the speaker see: https://works.bepress.com/jon-mcginnis/. The talk will also be accessible via Zoom: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83468869556.

Riccardo Strobino (Tufts University), Recalibrating the Scale of Logic: Avicenna on the Canon of Scientific Reasoning

Lillian Massey Building, Great Hall (3rd floor) 125 Queens Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This is an upcoming job talk for the open position in Classical Islamic Philosophy. For more information about the speaker see: https://as.tufts.edu/classicalstudies/people/faculty/riccardo-strobino. The talk will also be accessible via Zoom: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83468869556.

Philosophy in Early Christian Texts (ATWAP 2024)

Lillian Massey Building, Great Hall (3rd floor) 125 Queens Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Programme (updated) Friday, March 8 Chair: Joseph Gerbasi 9:30  Anna Marmodoro (Durham), Augustine on Creation 11:00 Gretchen Reydams-Schils (Notre Dame), Augustine’s De Ordine -- lunch -- Chair: Lloyd Gerson 3:00 Stephen Menn (McGill / Berlin), Plotinus, Victorinus, Augustine 4:30 Sarah Byers (Boston College), Trinitarian metaphysics in the Confessions: Marius Victorinus and the Neoplatonic triad ‘being, […]

Olga Lizzini (Université Aix-Marseille), Being and Non-being: Motifs of Avicenna’s Ontology

Lillian Massey Building, Great Hall (3rd floor) 125 Queens Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This is an upcoming job talk for the open position in Classical Islamic Philosophy. For more information about the speaker see: https://univ-amu.academia.edu/olgaluciaLizzini. The talk will also be accessible via Zoom: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83468869556.

Masterclass on Epictetus with Wolfgang Mann (Columbia)

NF113 Northrop Frye Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

All welcome! Prof. Mann will discuss Arrian's prefatory letter to his edition of Epictetus, and Discourses 1.1. Materials are available here (UofT users only: others who expect to attend and would like access, please contact csamp@utoronto.ca).

Recent Work on Aristotle’s De Anima

Saturday, April 20 9:30-11:30 Léa Derome, “The Perceptual Mean of DA II 11” With comments by Alexander de Guzman 11:45-1:15 Mark A. Johnstone, “Aristotle and the Primary/Secondary Quality Distinction” 2:30-4:30 Ashley Attwood, “Mapping Out the Philosophical Landscape: The Task of De anima 1.2” With comments by Faisal Bhabha 4:45-6:15 Jessica Gelber and Emily Kress, “Living, […]

Athens Summer Reading Group in Greek Philosophy

We are running another residential Greek philosophy reading group in Athens this summer, along with our friends from Turin. Current CSAMP PhD students have priority for places. Our text will be Aristotle, De Caelo 1. As last year, we will be based in the British School at Athens, from 27th May - 1st June 2024 […]