CSAMP Proseminar: Diego García Rincón
Title: 'Pointing at Appearances: Plato’s Receptacle and the Problem of Deixis'
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
title: "Why Socrates Cheats"
The program for the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy is now live on the Philosophy Department’s website: https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/annual-toronto-workshop-in-ancient-philosophy-2026-ancient-political-thought/. Theme: Ancient Political Thought Speakers: Cinzia Arruzza (Boston U) Eric Brown […]