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  • Proseminar: Doug Campbell

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

    Work-in progress paper: ‘Plato on the Circulatory System, the Cosmos, and Elemental Motion’ Download Proseminar calendar for Fall 2022

  • Fiona Leigh in Toronto

    Fiona Leigh will be in Toronto as a Visitor in the Department of Philosophy and at CSAMP. Dr Leigh is Associate Professor at University College London, and Director of the Keeling Centre for Ancient Philosophy.

  • Fiona Leigh talk on Plato’s Sophist

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

    Dr Fiona Leigh (University College London) will give a talk on "Theory Building in the Sophist"  in the Philosophy Department seminar series.

  • Fiona Leigh talk on the Republic at CSAMP

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

    Fiona Leigh will be giving a talk at the CSMAP proseminar on "Mimesis, Art, and the Metaphysics of Appearances in Republic X".

  • 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 […]