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Proseminar: Victoria Wohl

Lillian Massey Building, Room 205 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

The Presocratics. Download Proseminar calendar for Fall 2022

Proseminar: Riccardo Strobino

Lillian Massey Building, Room 205 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

"Impossible! Avicenna on reductio Proofs and the Nature of Conditionals" Download Proseminar calendar for Fall 2022

Agnes Callard (Chicago) gives the World Philosophy Day Lecture

George Ignatieff Theatre, Trinity College 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Come and hear Dr Agnes Callard, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago,  lecture on "The City of Idiots" for the 2022 UNESCO World Philosophy Day!

Proseminar: Marleen Rozemond

Lillian Massey Building, Room 205 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

On Francisco Suárez. Download Proseminar calendar for Fall 2022

Proseminar: George Boys-Stones

Lillian Massey Building, Room 205 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

Why a workshop on "Philosophy in the Roman Mediterranean"? Why "Towards a History"? Download Proseminar calendar for Fall 2022

Philosophy in the Roman Mediterranean: Towards a History

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

A workshop on the historiography of Roman-era philosophical activity will be held in the Philosophy Department. Participants include Andreas Bendlin, René Brouwer, Leo Catana, Madalina Dana, Bjorn Ewald, Nathan Gilbert, Matthias Haake, Myrto Hatzimichali, and Reviel Netz. Click here for more details. This workshop is the first step in a larger project co-organized by Matthias […]

John Magee: “The First Philosophical Impulses in the Medieval West”

Prof. John Magee is presenting on The First Philosophical Impulses in the Medieval West" online to the Practices of Commentary Group. Please contact Prof. Walid Saleh (walid.saleh@utoronto.ca) if you would like a link to join. Materials are attached below. Abstract: The texts comprising the “Old Logic” – Porphyry’s Isagoge and Aristotle’s Categories and De interpretatione […]

Welcome Back talk: Reza Hadisi, “Towards an Ishrāqī theory of imagination”

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

Reza Hadisi‘s talk, which kicks off our Proseminar programme for the new semester, will focus on Suhrawardī (1154–1191) and his view on the epistemic function of imagination. Please note the default location for Proseminar events in the Winter – LI301 in CMS (one floor up from Classics).

Proseminar talk: Sosseh Assaturian

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

Sosseh Assaturian (UTM) will speak to the question: "What are Stoic Cases?"

Proseminar Talk: Ismael Kettani

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

"Logic as an Oragnon" - a talk by CSAMP student Ismael Kettani about discussions of the instrumental status of logic in the Aristotelian commentators.

CSAMP Visiting Speaker: Christof Rapp (LMU)

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

We are delighted to welcome Christof Rapp to the Promseminar from the LMU in Munich. Prof. Rapp will be in Toronto as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at UTSC. He will be speaking "On Turning Rhetoric Into an Art. About the General Orientation and Purpose of Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric". Abstract: In Art of Rhetoric, Aristotle has […]

UTSC Distinguished Lecture in Ancient Philosophy 

The Catalyst Centre (EV-151/152), UTSC Military Trail, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

Christof Rapp will be giving a talk as the first UTSC Distinguished Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy: “I’ve Got the Flow”: The Positive Psychology of Ancient Philosophers.  

Proseminar talk: James Allen

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

James Allen will talk on "Topics I 9 and categories". (This presentation is part of a series on Aristotle's Organon in preparation for this year's ATWAP conference in March.)

Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

ATWAP 2023: Aristotle's Organon DOWNLOAD POSTER   Schedule Friday 10 March 11:00 Welcome 11:15 - 12:45 Presentation I:   Paolo Fait: ‘The elements of language and thought: re-interpreting De Interpretatione 1’; Comments: James Allen; Chair: John Magee. 12:45 - 2:15 Lunch 2:15 - 3:45    Presentation II: Carrie Swanson: ‘Aristotle on the resolution of disagreement in the diagnosis of […]

CSAMP Visiting Speaker: Iakovos Vasiliou

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

We are very pleased to have Prof. Vasiliou with us on this occasion from CUNY! His topic is: The Stoics on Types of Appropriate Action.

Proseminar talk: Lloyd Gerson

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

Prof. Gerson's talk will look forward to his new book, Plato's Moral Realism, which is due out with CUP in spring 2023.

Christopher Rowe in Toronto as CSAMP Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Christopher Rowe (Professor Emeritus, Durham University) will be with us as Distinguished Visiting Fellow from March 25 to April 5. Look out for further information on opportunities to engage with him and his ongoing research on Plato and Aristotle.

CSAMP Visiting Speaker: Christopher Rowe

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

Christopher Rowe (Durham University) will talk at the Proseminar on "Plato's Sophist, Sophists and Socrates".

Christopher Rowe masterclass on the Eudemian Ethics (1)

NF113 Northrop Frye Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Christopher Rowe is editor of the forthcoming new OCT of the Eudemian Ethics and author of a volume of accompanying studies due in the summer. Attendance is open and free, but if you would like to go, drop a line to the organizer email (below) for a link to discussion materials.

Christopher Rowe masterclass on the Eudemian Ethics (2)

NF113 Northrop Frye Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Christopher Rowe is editor of the forthcoming new OCT of the Eudemian Ethics and author of a volume of accompanying studies due in the summer. Attendance is open and free, but if you would like to go, drop a line to the organizer email (below) for a link to discussion materials.

Proseminar talk: Peter Osorio

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

Peter Osorio (Loeb Classical Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics) will talk on: "A Roman Plato in Cicero's Cato".

Plato in Roman Philosophy (workshop)

Download poster In the hands of Roman authors, Platonic philosophy is not a set of literal translations of Plato’s dialogues; they are works of interpretation, transformation, and genuine philosophy. Our workshop—Plato in Roman Philosophy—explores the dynamic relationship between the two: how do the conceptual, linguistic, social and institutional paradigms of our Roman authors ‘translate’ Plato […]

Proseminar: Rareş Marinescu

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

Rareş Marinescu joins us this year from Leuven as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Classics. He starts our Proseminar season with a talk on "Aristotle on Platonic Efficient Causes"

Fall Welcome Back Party

Duke of York 39 Prince Arthur Ave., Toronto, Ontario

Following the first Proseminar of the year.

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 […]