Proseminar: Victoria Wohl
Lillian Massey Building, Room 205 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, CanadaThe Presocratics. Download Proseminar calendar for Fall 2022
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Proseminar: Jessica Gelber and Sophia Connell
Lillian Massey Building, Room 205 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, CanadaAristotle's biology. 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, CanadaCome 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, CanadaOn Francisco Suárez. Download Proseminar calendar for Fall 2022
Proseminar: George Boys-Stones
Lillian Massey Building, Room 205 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, CanadaWhy 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, CanadaA 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, CanadaReza 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: André Lanoue on the Orphic influences on Plato’s metaphysics
Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, CanadaProseminar talk: Sosseh Assaturian
Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, CanadaSosseh Assaturian (UTM) will speak to the question: "What are Stoic Cases?"
Proseminar talk: Christian Pfeiffer, “Are Quantities Subjects in the Categories?”
Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, CanadaNote: This presentation is part of a series on Aristotle's Organon in preparation for this year's ATWAP conference in March.
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, CanadaWe 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, CanadaChristof 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, CanadaJames 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.)
Proseminar talk: Alfonso Quartucci, “Origins of the Notion of the ‘First Subject’ of Science”
Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, CanadaNote: 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, CanadaATWAP 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, CanadaWe 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, CanadaProf. 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, CanadaChristopher 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, CanadaChristopher 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, CanadaChristopher 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, CanadaPeter 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 […]
Proseminar: Rareş Marinescu
Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, CanadaRareş 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 Causes"
Fall Welcome Back Party
Duke of York 39 Prince Arthur Ave., Toronto, OntarioFollowing the first Proseminar of the year.
Proseminar: Christian Pfeiffer
Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, CanadaJoin us for a talk by Christian Pfeiffer on "Categories in H.2".
University of Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy 2023
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 Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, Book V” Commentator: Martin Pickavé (University of Toronto) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Session II (10:00 – 12:00) Chair: Thérèse-Anne Druart (Catholic University […]