Welcome back, everyone! To celebrate the start of a new year, Rachel Barney will be presenting on "Becoming Bad" in Aristotle's ethics. There will be a start-of-year reception in the Classics Dept. lounge immediately following the talk.
Prof. Peter Adamson (LMU Munich) will be presenting on "Nature in Giles of Rome's On Ecclesiastical Power", as the 2017 CPAMP distinguished visitor, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the program. Note the special date and location.
Prof. Peter Adamson (LMU Munich) will be presenting on "The Thought-Experimental Method: Avicenna's Flying Man Argument", as the 2017 CPAMP distinguished visitor, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the program. Note the special date and location.
Prof. Peter Adamson (LMU Munich) will be presenting on "Alexander and Averroes on the Uses of Dialectic", as the 2017 CPAMP distinguished visitor, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the program. Note the special date and location.
Christopher Gill (Exeter) will be presenting in the CPAMP Work in Progress seminar, on the provocative question "What's So Great about Virtue? Stoic Thinking on Virtue and Happiness". All are welcome.
Doug Hutchinson (Toronto) will be presenting in the CPAMP Work in Progress series on. The title of the presentation is "Rediscovering Protagoras: 28 new fragments from his famous book”. All are welcome!
Prof. Sean Kelsey (Notre Dame) will be presenting in CPAMP's Work in Progress seminar, on "Essence and Insight". All are welcome!
Christian Pfeiffer (LMU Munich) will give a presentation entitled, "Aristotle on the Definition of Hylomorphic Substances", as part of our visiting speaker series. Note that the presentation will be in JHB 418.
Justin Vlasits (University of Tübingen) is giving a presentation entitled, "Aristotle on the Hunt for Essence", as part of our visiting speaker series. Note that the talk will be in JHB 418.
Whitney Schwab (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) will be presenting this Thursday on "The Aristotelian Root of Stoic Epistemology", as part of our visiting speaker series. Note that the talk will be in JHB.
Prof. Devin Henry (Western University) will be speaking in the CPAMP Work in Progress seminar on Monday, January 29th (4-6pm Lillian Massey 205). The title of the presentation is "The Architectonic Model of Generation: The Influence of Plato on Aristotle's Generation of Animals”. All are welcome!
Jessica Gelber (Pittsburgh) will be presenting this Thursday on "Interspecies Teleology and Aristotle's Politics I.8", concluding our visiting speaker series. All welcome!
Prof. Tad Brennan (Cornell) will be presenting in the CPAMP Work in Progress seminar on "The Immortality Argument of Republic X". All welcome!
The Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy will take place this year on March 22 & 23, 2018, on the theme of "Aristotle's Hylomorphism".
This is the tenth Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP). The theme for this year's workshop is 'New Approaches to the Presocratics'. All sessions will be held in Room 100, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George St. Toronto Here is a draft of the workshop schedule: Friday Coffee 10:00-12:00: André Laks (Universidad Panamericana) and […]
We are pleased to announce a presentation by CPAMP Distinguished Visitor Prof. George Boys-Stones (University of Durham): ‘“Becoming” as an End: A Forgotten Debate Over the Self in the Background to Plotinus’ Tues. June 12 4:00-6:00 Lillian Massey 220 If you would like to sign up for lunch or dinner with Prof. Boys-Stones during his visit, or to meet […]
We are pleased to announce another presentation by CPAMP Distinguished Visitor Prof. George Boys–Stones (University of Durham): ‘Alcibiades’ Error: Moral Beauty in Plato’s Symposium’ Thurs. June 14 3:15-5:00 Lillian Massey 205 If you would like to sign up for lunch or dinner with Prof. Boys–Stones during his visit, or to meet with him for discussion, please let me know, indicating […]
We'll kick off the new year with a work-in-progress talk from new CPAMP postdoc Willie Costello. His talk is titled "Shame as guide to the good life: A new reading of Socrates' argumentative method in Plato's Gorgias". The talk will be followed by a welcome back reception in the Classics lounge next door.
Please join us for the 2018 University of Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, organized by Martin Pickavé, Deborah Black, and Peter King. All sessions are free and open to the public and will be held in Room 100 of the Jackman Humanities Building. Conference Schedule Friday, September 21 Session I (4:30 – 6:30) Chair: Peter Eardley (University […]
We are pleased to welcome CPAMP Distinguished Visitor Terence Irwin, emeritus professor of ancient philosophy at Keble College, University of Oxford, who will be presenting on "The place of habituation in Aristotelian virtue of character".