Please join us as Anna Corrias (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto) gives a presentation to the CPAMP Work-in-Progress seminar, titled: "Potential to What? Marsilio Ficino, Theophrastus, and the Platonic Aristotle" Abstract: The humanist philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) is well known for being the translator of the entire Platonic corpus, Plotinus’s Enneads, and some other late […]

Please join us as Sukaina Hirji (University of Pennsylvania) gives a presentation to the CPAMP Work-in-Progress seminar, titled "How Virtue is a Means to Contemplation". Abstract: In a number of passages in the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle seems to suggest that ethical virtue is an instrumental means to contemplation. But, as many scholars have worried, this […]

Please join us as Joseph Gerbasi (CPAMP graduate student, Classics) gives a presentation to the CPAMP Work-in-Progress seminar.

Please join us as Dimitri El Murr (École Normale Supérieure) gives a presentation to the CPAMP Work-in-Progress seminar, titled "Plato, Aristotle, or both? The division of practical philosophy in Alexandrian Platonism".

Please join us as Dimitri El Murr (École Normale Supérieure) leads a graduate seminar for CPAMP students on "Platonic Zoology: Plt. 264a-266e and Tim. 90e-92c".

***Event cancelled*** The twelfth Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy will take place on March 20 & 21, 2020. For the latest details, please check our ATWAP page.

***Event cancelled*** Please join us as Roberto Granieri (CPAMP graduate student, Philosophy) gives a presentation to the CPAMP Work-in-Progress seminar.

***Event cancelled*** Please join us as Victor Caston (University of Michigan) gives a presentation to the CPAMP Work-in-Progress seminar.

Please join us as Juan Piñeros Glasscock (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto Mississauga) gives a presentation to the CPAMP Work-in-Progress seminar.

Please join us as Fiona Leigh (UCL) gives a presentation to the CPAMP Work-in-Progress seminar. Her talk is entitled "Between a Wolf and a Dog: Socrates and Sophistry in the Sophist."

Please join us as Andrea Falcon (Concordia University) gives a presentation to the CPAMP Work-in-Progress seminar on "Aristotle and the Explanation of Longevity".

Please join us as one of our favourite graduate students, Roberto Granieri, gives his work-in-progress talk in the CPAMP seminar. Title: "Being, Causality, and Existence in Plato's Sophist".

Please join us as Irene Binini (Scuola Normale Superiore) gives a work-in-progress talk to the CPAMP seminar. Title: "Medieval Strategies on Logical Determinism and the Contingency of the Future."  

Join us for our first CPAMP work-in-progress talk of the semester as Victor Caston (Michigan) gives his talk, "Aristotle and the Cartesian Theatre," on January 11, 4-6 pm.

Máté Veres gives his work-in-progress talk, 'Pyrrhonism, Expertise, and the Good Life', on February 22, 4-6 pm, in the CPAMP pro-seminar.

Kamil Majcherek gives his work-in-progress talk, 'Medieval Nominalism about Artifacts', on March 8, 4-6 pm, to the CPAMP pro-seminar.

Mark Gatten gives his work-in-progress talk, "The Art of Wage-Earning in Plato's Republic", to the CPAMP pro-seminar on April 5, 4-6 pm.

Peter Osorio gives his work-in-progress talk, “Trust and Persuasion: Testimony in Demodocus”, on 20 September, 2021, 4-6 pm. Venue: back patio of the Duke of York.

On Monday, 25 October, 4-6 pm, Michael Griffin (University of British Columbia) will give his talk on “Plato’s Glaucon: The priority of internal justice in the Republic”? (on Zoom).

Taylor Barinka gives his work-in-progress talk, 'Truth as Perfection in Plato's Republic', to the CSAMP Proseminar on November 15, 4-6 pm. Venue: Lilian Massey 301 as well as via Zoom.

On Friday (December 3, 3-5pm) Sean Kelsey (Notre Dame) will give a talk entitled “Mind and World in Aristotle’s De anima”. For more information see here: https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-sean-kelsey-notre-dame/

On Monday, December 6 we are delighted to welcome Paolo Fait (New College Oxford), who will be delivering a talk at our weekly CPAMP Seminar, titled "Being particular about particulars: a new assessment of the debate on individual properties in the Categories". The talk will take place on Zoom.

On 9-11 December, 2021, CSAMP will host a workshop devoted to Apuleius' De Mundo, organised by George Boys-Stones. The workshop will be open to all. For further details, including information on how to register, please consult the event's continuously updated website: www.Apuleius.ca  

On Monday, January 17, 2022, we are delighted to welcome Katharine O'Reilly (X University, formerly Ryerson University) who will be delivering her talk at our weekly work-in-progress seminar, titled "Arete of Cyrene and the Role of Women in Philosophical Lineage". The talk will take place on Zoom.

John Jalsevac gives his work-in-progress talk, "Aquinas on Memory and Recollection", to the CSAMP Proseminar on February 7, 4-6 pm. Venue: Zoom.

Samuel Meister gives his work-in-progress talk, “What Does Metaphysics Z Contribute to Aristotle's First Philosophy?”, to the CSAMP Proseminar on February 28, 4-6 pm.

The next Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy will take place on March 18-19, 2022. If, during the conference, you need help with Zoom, etc., please contact Rachel O’Keefe: rachel.mackinnon@mail.utoronto.ca. She will be monitoring Zoom, and the Zoom room belongs to her.   ATWAP 2022 Receiving Plato: Then and Now A Conference in Honour of […]

Prof. Federico Petrucci (Turin University) will be leading a masterclass on Plato’s Phaedrus, primarily intended for CSAMP graduate students, on Tuesday, March 22, 4-6 p.m. in LI 205. All CSAMP graduates and postdocs are welcome / encouraged to take part (others by request to george.boys.stones@utoronto.ca). The class will focus on close reading of 237a-241d (Socrates’ […]

Join Christian Pfeiffer and Samuel Meister for this online workshop on first philosophy in ZH. To register, please email Christian Pfeiffer. In this workshop, we want ask to what extent ZH is a metaphysical treatise. On the one hand, metaphysics studies fundamental beings, substance, and the task of ZH is defining substance and seeking its […]

June 20, 1-6 pm Byron Stoyles (Trent): Ways of life, animal kinds, and explanation in Aristotle’s biology Devin Henry (Western): Natural kinds, taxonomic relations and classificatory systems June 21, 10-3 pm Discussion facilitator: Mark Johnstone (McMaster) Nathanael Stein (FSU): Introduction to the issues: causality and causal explanation Jacob Dvorak (Toronto): Aristotle’s critiques of his predecessors […]