Events

Title: The Peripatetic Mechanica and the Inquiry into Nature

Following the first Proseminar of the year.

Title: "Ammonius: the soul's faculties and the introduction of the Rhetoric and Poetics in Aristotle's logical works"

University of Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy 2025 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Session I (4:30 – 6:30) Chair: Boris Hennig (Toronto Metropolitan University) Yoav Meyrav (University of Hamburg): “Hasdai Crescas and the Ex Uno Principle” Commentator: Davlat Dadikhuda (Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Session II (10:00 – 12:00) Chair: Giorgio Pini (Fordham University) Therese Cory […]

Title: 'What is De anima III.3 about?'

Title: Aristotle on Nutritive (and Generative) Functioning in Plants

Workshop on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Iota (October 2nd – 3rd, 2025) Thursday, Oct. 2: 14.15-14.30: Welcome Chair: Ulysse Chaintreuil 14:30-16:00 Chris Shields (UC San Diego): “Ways to be One“ Chair: Christian Pfeiffer 16:15-17:45 Stephen Menn (McGill / UofT): “Unity in Iota and unity in some other books of the Metaphysics” Friday, Oct. 3 Chair: Jessica Gelber […]

Title: "Natural normativity in Aristotle’s Ethics: a modest ontology?"

Pierre-Marie Morel (Paris 1) will lead a masterclass on "Aristotle’s conception of the right measure and its critics".

Title: Ptolemy's Concept of Simplicity and his Adaptation of Nature Does Nothing in Vain

Title: 'Pointing at Appearances: Plato’s Receptacle and the Problem of Deixis'

Program   9:00–9:15          Arrival & coffee 9:15–10:35        Keynote: Melissa Lane (Princeton): “The archē of nomothesia: contextualizing the      emergence of lawgivers in Plato’s Laws” 10:35–10:50     coffee break 10:50–12:05     Myrthe Bartels (Toronto): “Is the Slave Doctor Right? Rival Conceptions of Legislation in   Plato’s Laws” 12:15–1:30         lunch break 1:30–2:45          John Proios (Chicago): “Learning from Your Environment: […]

Title: Analogical Concepts: Some Scholastic Background to Kant

Martin Pickavé: Welcome Carl Séan O’Brien (Irish Dominican House of Studies, Dublin): “Lloyd Gerson's Contribution to the Study of Ancient Philosophy” Sarah Klitenic Wear (Franciscan University, Steubenville): “The Skopos of Platonic Principles: Essays in Honor of Lloyd Gerson and Giuseppe Blasotta’s Hen Kai Polla” John Finamore (Iowa): “The constitution of the soul and of the […]

Title: 'The Philosopher in Prison'

Title: "Augustine: The Truth about Lies"

Title: "Plutarch on the Dangers and Benefits of Flattery in Private and Public Contexts"

Title: "Modes in Suárez, Descartes, and Leibniz"

title: The Stoics on Time: A Developmental Story

Workshop: Learning from Within: The Inner Teacher from Socrates to Augustine Speakers: Sarah Byers (Boston College) Eyjólfur Emilsson (University of Oslo) Paige Hochschild (Mount St. Mary's University) Thomas Slabon (University of South Florida) Fr. Andrew Summerson (University of Toronto) January 24th, 9am-6pm. Great Hall, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park For Workshop flyer see: Learning […]

title: "Indivisible and measure in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Iota"

Title: Powers and Objects in Timaeus’ Argument for Forms (51d–52a)

Sessions 1-2: room 213, Department for the Study of Religion, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street. Sessions 3-8: room LI220, Department of Classics, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park.   Feb. 13 (Friday) 9.30                 Welcome & Coffee 9.45-11.15       Session 1: M 6 (Ksenia Romashova) 11.15-30          Coffee 11.30-1            […]

Title: "Evil Techne?"

Title: Dionysius the Areopagite on Evil: Platonic Answers from his Earliest Christian Readers

Title: “The Middle Platonists on Certainty of Belief.”

Title: “Argumentative Courage in Plato’s Euthydemus”

Title: "Does the Brain Speak Mentalese? Revisiting Fodor Through Ockham’s Lens"

The Origins of Propositional Logic Theophrastus on Hypothetical Syllogisms March 2026 Title: "The Origins of Propositional Logic: Theophrastus on Hypothetical Syllogisms" Abstract: Theophrastus, Aristotle’s pupil and eventual successor as head of the Peripatos, developed a theory of hypothetical syllogisms in which he sought to reduce various modes of propositional reasoning to categorical syllogisms. Jonathan Barnes […]

title: "Why Socrates Cheats"