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"

James Allen (Philosophy) talks about "Aristotle, Dialectic and Philosophy"

Professor Pasquale Porro (visiting us from the University of Turin) will give a presentation entitled: Souls on Fire. A brief philosophical history of hellfire.

George Boys-Stones will present work in progress on the 'chariot' image of the soul in Plato's Phaedrus. (This session replaces one by Tommaso De Robertis which unfortunately has had to […]

We welcome Boris Hennig (TMU) to speak to us on "Aristotle on Ownership"

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 […]

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: […]

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: […]

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 […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]