Events

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  […]

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 […]

"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 […]

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 […]

"Conception and Assent in Post-Classical Arabic Philosophy."

Substantial Confusion: Why Stoic ousia is Not Matter Abstract. There is an underlying debate in the literature over how to understand and translate the term ousia for the Stoics. So far, […]

Aristotle on Necessity “from an assumption”   Abstract: Aristotle thinks there are different ways to be necessary. One way, often called “hypothetical” or “conditional” necessity, is associated with his commitment […]

Prof. Barney will talk on Protagoras and the Measure Thesis.

Friday, 11 April 9:30-9:40: Welcome, Acknowledgements & Introduction Session 1 | Chair: Myrthe Bartels 9:40-11:00 Tae-Yeoun Keum (UC Santa Barbara): “Plato the Taboo-Breaker: Mythological Incest and Cannibalism in the Republic and […]

Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia FRIDAY, APRIL 25 Session I (2:15 – 3:45pm) Chair: Christian Pfeiffer (Toronto) Klaus Corcilius (Tübingen) “The Soul Itself vs. Common to Body and Soul” Commentator: Brad Inwood […]

The third annual Toronto-Torino reading week will be hosted at the British School at Athens, timed to coincide with the Michael Frede Lecture, which this year will be given by […]

The Peripatetic Mechanica and the Inquiry into Nature

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]