Why a workshop on "Philosophy in the Roman Mediterranean"? Why "Towards a History"? Download Proseminar calendar for Fall 2022

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 […]

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 […]

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).

Sosseh Assaturian (UTM) will speak to the question: "What are Stoic Cases?"

Note: This presentation is part of a series on Aristotle's Organon in preparation for this year's ATWAP conference in March.

"Logic as an Oragnon" - a talk by CSAMP student Ismael Kettani about discussions of the instrumental status of logic in the Aristotelian commentators.

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 […]

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.  

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.)

Note: this presentation is part of a series on Aristotle's Organon in preparation for this year's ATWAP conference in March.

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 […]

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.

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 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.

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 […]

Rareş 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"

Following the first Proseminar of the year.

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 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 […]

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 working at the crossroads of late medieval and early modern philosophy. Jean-Pascal Anfray (École normale supérieure, Paris), "Suárez on matter, quantity and three kinds of […]

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 will propose a new edition of section d of the Strasbourg papyrus of Empedocles’ poem On Nature, lines d 1-10 in particular. As was recognized […]

Join us for a talk by Mark Johnstone (McMaster University): "The Epicurean Division of Desires"