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 […]

Jon McGinnis (Philosophy / CMS) will talk on "Just Justification: Justifying Religious Beliefs in Classical Islam". This talk will be followed by our annual Welcome Back party in the Duke […]

Klaus Corcilius will be visiting us from Tübingen to talk on "Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought"

Professor Klaus Corcilius will hold a masterclass on “Hylomorphism and the Causal Role of the Soul in Aristotle". Graduate students are particularly invited! The class will involve a discussion of […]

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Session I (4:30 – 6:30) Chair: Giorgio Pini (Fordham University) Can Laurens Löwe (Saint Louis University): “William Crathorn on the Relation between a Power and Its Manifestation” […]

Tommaso De Robertis will give a presentation on "Aristotle on topos."

Alison Keith (Classics / JHI) will talk on 'Philodemos and the Roman Elegists'.

We are delighted to welcome Brooke Holmes, visiting from Princeton University, who will talk on "Aristotle’s Oecology".

Ismael will address "Alexander of Aphrodisias on Dialectic and the Principles of Science".

Ulysse Chaintreuil (Philosophy, UTSC) will give a talk on 'Genus and Substance: The Ontological Status of Genus in Aristotle's Metaphysics Z and H'

Myrthe Bartels (Political Science) will talk on "The Benefits of Drunkenness in Plato's Laws"

The title of Christian Pfeiffer's presentation is: “Hylomorphic Composites are Defined like the Snub."

Rareș Ilie Marinescu (Classics) will give a paper on ''Laws X and the Formation of Platonist Theology''.

Emily Perry, visiting from Concordia University, will talk about 'Aristotle on Nature as a Generative Principle' .

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, […]