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We are pleased to announce that Michael Arsenault has accepted a junior position in ancient philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, and comes to Toronto from August 1, 2025. Michael works on Aristotle, especially Aristotle’s theory of perception.
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Rareș Ilie Marinescu, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Classics, has just seen his monograph into print with CUP. Proclus on Aristotle on Plato: A Case Study on Motion is now available – and is open access as well. Congratulations, Rareș!
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We are very excited that Stephen Menn (FRSC) will be moving to Toronto from January 2026 as the inaugural holder of the Michael and Virginia Walsh Chair in the History of Philosophy. He will retain his link with the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he is an Honorary Professor. Stephen’s appointment will be in the Department of Philosophy, but he will also be a member of the Graduate Faculty in Classics. Welcome, Stephen!
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The annual Sidney Robinson Prize in Ancient Philosophy will be awarded for the best paper written in the past academic year (2024-2025) by a University of Toronto student registered for a graduate programme in the Departments of Classics or of Philosophy, or the Institute of Medieval Studies, on any topic in ancient Greek or Roman philosophy (up to 529 AD). The Prize comes with a cash award of $500. Applicants should anonymize their submission (the judgement will be made blind by an external expert), and send it as an email attachment to csamp@utoronto.ca by the end of Friday, 27th June 2025. Papers should be between 5,000 and 10,000 words, and sent as a pdf with the author’s student number as the filename.
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We are delighted to learn that Dr Léa Derome, who has been with us in Toronto as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, has accepted a position in ancient philosophy at the University of Ottawa, starting in the Fall. Congratulations, Léa!
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We have an extraordinary programme of local and visiting speakers for our Winter 2025 Proseminar series: see the ‘Events’ section of the website. You can import the details straight into your calendar with this .ics file. Note that there are several workshops on the horizon too: on Craft and Nature in Plato and Aristotle, on Ancient Political Philosophy, and on Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia, the subject of this year’s Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy
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The Department of Philosophy is advertising a tenure-track position in Ancient Philosophy – come and be part of CSAMP! The deadline is November 4.
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Congratulations to Ryan Balot on his new book Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato’s Laws!
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We are delighted to learn that Samuel Meister, who was a postdoctoral fellow at Toronto from 2021-2023, has been appointed to a permanent position in Geneva. Congratulations, Samuel! (He replaces Paolo Crivelli, who, as it happens, will be CSAMP Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Winter semester.)
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Details of the CSAMP Proseminar series for Fall 2024 are now available in the ‘Events‘ section of the website. We are looking forward to an inspiring range of talks, with visitors including Klaus Corcilius (Tübingen), Brooke Holmes (Princeton), and Emily Perry (Concordia). Here is an .ics file you can use to import them all straight into your own calendar!