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 […]

CSAMP Proseminar Talk

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.

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.

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, […]

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.

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).

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, […]

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 […]

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Since at least Plato dualism – the idea that there are two distinct types of reality that possibly have different origins – is a central topic of philosophy where it is addressed from a wide range of perspectives: metaphysics, psychology, epistemology, and ethics. In the Imperial Age (27 BC – AD 284) this issue is […]

Jon McGinnis (Philosophy / CMS) will talk on "Just Justification: Justifying Religious Beliefs in Classical Islam". This talk will be followed by our annual Welcome Back party in the Duke of York, to which all members of CSAMP and everyone attending the paper is invited!

Klaus Corcilius will be visiting us from Tübingen to talk on "Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought"

Professor Klaus Corcilius will hold a masterclass on “Hylomorphism and the Causal Role of the Soul in Aristotle". Graduate students are particularly invited! The class will involve a discussion of the following texts: De anima 2.1-3 De somno 2 De motu animalium, especially chapter 11 Physics 7.2, 8.6

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Session I (4:30 – 6:30) Chair: Giorgio Pini (Fordham University) Can Laurens Löwe (Saint Louis University): “William Crathorn on the Relation between a Power and Its Manifestation” Commentator: Susan Brower-Toland (Saint Louis University) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Session II (10:00 – 12:00) Chair: Jon McGinnis (University of Toronto) Cristina Cerami (CNRS, Paris): “Al-Fārābī […]

Tommaso De Robertis will give a presentation on "Aristotle on topos."

Alison Keith (Classics / JHI) will talk on 'Philodemos and the Roman Elegists'.

We are delighted to welcome Brooke Holmes, visiting from Princeton University, who will talk on "Aristotle’s Oecology".

Ismael will address "Alexander of Aphrodisias on Dialectic and the Principles of Science".

Ulysse Chaintreuil (Philosophy, UTSC) will give a talk on 'Genus and Substance: The Ontological Status of Genus in Aristotle's Metaphysics Z and H'

Myrthe Bartels (Political Science) will talk on "The Benefits of Drunkenness in Plato's Laws"

The title of Christian Pfeiffer's presentation is: “Hylomorphic Composites are Defined like the Snub."