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  

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"