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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sosseh Assaturian (UTM) will speak to the question: "What are Stoic Cases?"
Note: This presentation is part of a series on Aristotle's Organon in preparation for this year's ATWAP conference in March.
"Logic as an Oragnon" - a talk by CSAMP student Ismael Kettani about discussions of the instrumental status of logic in the Aristotelian commentators.
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 […]
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.
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.)
Note: this presentation is part of a series on Aristotle's Organon in preparation for this year's ATWAP conference in March.
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 […]
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.
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 (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 […]
Christopher Rowe (Durham University) will talk at the Proseminar on "Plato's Sophist, Sophists and Socrates".
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, […]
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, […]
Peter Osorio (Loeb Classical Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics) will talk on: "A Roman Plato in Cicero's Cato".
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 […]
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 […]
Following the first Proseminar of the year.
Join us for a talk by Christian Pfeiffer on "Categories in H.2".
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 […]
Peter King (Philosophy/CMS) will discuss "Abelard on Naming, Saying, and Truthmaking". If possible, please have a look at these texts beforehand
Rachel Barney will lead discussion on 'Protagoras and the History of Dialectic' . Optional preparatory reading: Plato’s Parmenides up to 130a and/or Diogenes Laertius IX.50-56
Join the Philosophy Department for a two-day workshop on the 16th-century Spanish priest, philosopher, and theologian Francisco Suárez (1548-1617). It will examine various aspects of Suárez’s philosophy, a scholastic philosopher […]
We welcome Simon Trépanier (Edinburgh University; PhD Toronto) back to give a talk on: The Unity of Empedocles' Thought: Re-Editing Section d of the Strasbourg Papyrus. Abstract. In this talk I […]
Join us for a talk by Mark Johnstone (McMaster University): "The Epicurean Division of Desires"