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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."

Rareș Ilie Marinescu (Classics) will give a paper on ''Laws X and the Formation of Platonist Theology''.

Emily Perry, visiting from Concordia University, will talk about 'Aristotle on Nature as a Generative Principle' .

Joseph Gerbasi (Classics, UofT) will talk about 'Leontius the Philosopher (Republic 439a-440a)'.

"Aristotle’s Strategy for a Defence of the Principle of Non-Contradiction"

Title: "Plato on Political Corruption".

Presentation title: "Peter Auriol on the Metaphysics of Political Power." (Note - this is a change from the previously advertised title.)

"Resemblance and the Role of Forms in Plato’s Timaeus."

Title: "Harmonizing the Areopagite: Reading and Reception of the Dionysian Corpus in Late Antique Christianity." Abstract: This paper explores how Maximus the Confessor deployed strategies from the Neoplatonic commentary tradition  to incorporate the shadowy figure of Dionysius the Areopagite into Christian intellectual vernacular.

A colloquium on John Philoponus organised by Tommaso De Robertis and John Magee. You can attend in person or by Zoom: please use this link to find out more and register

"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-Louise 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) 4.30-4.45 Coffee break 5.00-6.00 Ulysse Chaintreuil (Toronto): Aristotle’s Ontology […]

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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 […]