Lloyd Gerson elected to the RSC

by Rachel Barney .

Longtime CPAMP faculty member Lloyd Gerson has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Congratulations Lloyd! The Royal Society now counts two CPAMP members among its fellows (the other one is Brad Inwood).

Nicholas Riegel wins post-doctoral fellowship in Brazil

by Rachel Barney .

Nicholas Riegel, who defended his dissertation “Beauty, τò καλóν, and its relationship to the Good in the works of Plato” this Fall (supervisor: Lloyd Gerson), has won a three-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. Congratulations, Nicholas!!

Brad Inwood’s new translation of Seneca

by Rachel Barney .

senecaFresh from the press: Brad Inwood’s translation of Seneca’s On Benefits (with M. Griffith). The volume is part of Chicago University Press’ Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca series. For more information go to here.

 

 

A new Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity edited by Lloyd Gerson

by Rachel Barney .

9780521876421jkt.qxd.qxd“The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity comprises over forty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of the period 200–800 CE. Designed as a successor to The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (ed. A. H. Armstrong), it takes into account some forty years of scholarship since the publication of that volume. The contributors examine philosophy as it entered literature, science and religion, and offer new and extensive assessments of philosophers who until recently have been mostly ignored. The volume also includes a complete digest of all philosophical works known to have been written during this period. It will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in this rich and still emerging field.”

A new Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity edited by Lloyd Gerson

by Rachel Barney .

9780521876421jkt.qxd.qxd“The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity comprises over forty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of the period 200–800 CE. Designed as a successor to The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (ed. A. H. Armstrong), it takes into account some forty years of scholarship since the publication of that volume. The contributors examine philosophy as it entered literature, science and religion, and offer new and extensive assessments of philosophers who until recently have been mostly ignored. The volume also includes a complete digest of all philosophical works known to have been written during this period. It will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in this rich and still emerging field.”

UTCMP 2011

by Rachel Barney .

The University of Toronto Colloquium in Mediaeval Philosophy 2011

Friday, September 23

Session I (4:30 – 6:30)
Chair:  Scott MacDonald (Cornell University)
Speaker:  Jennifer Ashworth (University of Waterloo): “Aquinas, Scotus and Others on Naming, Knowing, and the Origin of Language”
Commentator:  Giorgio Pini (Fordham University)

Saturday, September 24

Session II (10:00 – 12:00)
Chair:  Bob Sweetman (Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto)
Speaker:  Susan Brower-Toland (St. Louis University): “Medieval Approaches to Consciousness: Ockham and Chatton”
Commentator:  Richard Cross (University of Notre Dame)

Session III (2:00 – 4:00)
Chair: Matthew Siebert (University of Toronto)
Eric Hagedorn (University of Notre Dame): “Ockham’s Mental Language and the Dispute over the Subject of Scientia”
Jennifer Pelletier (Université du Québec à Montréal): “Metaphysics and the Categories in Ockham”
Rachel Bauder (University of Toronto): “Naming Caesar: Siger of Brabant on Proper Names”

Session IV (4:15 – 6:15)
Chair:  David Piché (Université de Montréal)
Speaker:  Jack Zupko (University of Winnipeg): “Contextualizing the Self-Knowledge Question in Later Medieval Philosophy”
Commentator:  Neil Lewis (Georgetown University)

All sessions will be held in room 100 of the Jackman Humanities Building (170 St. George Street).
All sessions are free and open to the public.
Registration and inquiries: medieval_dot_philosophy_at_utoronto_dot_ca

The colloquium is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Studies, and the Centre for Medieval Studies

Organizers: Deborah Black, Peter King, Martin Pickavé

Events 2011-2012

by Rachel Barney .

Events 2011-2012

Tuesday, September 20
David Sedley (Cambridge University): “Sphericity”; UC 179, 4-6pm (This event will be followed by a beginning-of-the-year reception.)
Wednesday, September 21
David Sedley (Cambridge University): “Socrates’ ‘Second Voyage’ at Plato, Phaedo 99d-102a”; LI 220, 4-6pm
Thursday, September 22
David Sedley (Cambridge University): “The unity of virtue in Plato after the Protagoras”; JHB 418, 3-5pm
Friday/Saturday, September 23/24
Friday, October 28
Paul Woodruff (University of Texas): “Eros at the Core of Philosophy”; JHB 418, 3-5pm
Friday, November 25
Philipp Brüllmann (Humboldt University Berlin): “Stoic Ethics and Accordance with Nature”; JHB 418, 3-5pm
Friday, December 2
Kara Richardson (Syracuse University): “Avicenna on Final Causation and Cognition”; JHB 401, 10-12pm
(This talk is organized by the Modern Philosophy Research Group and co-sponsored by the Collaborative Program.)
Wednesday, March 7
Jim Lennox (University of Pittsburgh): “Accentuate the Negative: A Puzzle about the Structure of Darwin’s Origin Solved”; IHPST, 5-7pm
(This talk is organized by the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and co-sponsored by the Collaborative Program.)
Thursday, March 8
Jim Lennox (University of Pittsburgh): “Why do we breathe? Aristotle on the hunt for final causes”; JHB 418, 5-7pm
(This talk is co-sponsored by the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.)
Friday, March 9
Iakovos Vasiliou (Graduate Center, CUNY): “Nous and its Objects in Aristotle”; LI 220, 2-4pm
Friday/Saturday/Sunday, March 16/17/18
Fourth Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy “Agency Amidst Natural Teleology”
Thursday, April 5
Rusty Jones (Harvard University): “Felix Socrates?”; JHB 418, 3-5pm
Friday, April 27
Mary Louise Gill (Brown University): “Knowledge as Expertise in Plato’s Theaetetus”; JHB 418, 4-6pm
Wednesday, May 30

Francesco Ademollo (University of Florence): “Plato’s Conception of Change: Some Remarks”; JHB 401, 1-3pm

News

by Rachel Barney .

Lloyd Gerson elected to the RSC

Longtime CPAMP faculty member Lloyd Gerson has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Congratulations Lloyd! The Royal Society now counts two CPAMP members among its fellows (the other one is Brad Inwood).

 

Ancient Philosophy and Science Network

Ancient Philosophy at UofT is now part of the Ancient Science and Philosophy Network coordinated by the Graduate School of Ancient Philosophy at the Humboldt University Berlin. More information to come.

 

Brad Inwood’s new translation of Seneca
senecaFresh from the press: Brad Inwood’s translation of Seneca’s On Benefits (with M. Griffith). The volume is part of Chicago University Press’ Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca series. For more information go to: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo3773596.html

 

 

 

 

 

Two Books by Former CPAMP Students

Brian Dobell’s “Augustine’s Intellectual Conversion: The Journey from Platonism to Christianity” has come out with Cambridge University Press and Tom Angier’s “Techne in Aristotle’s Ethics: Crafting the Moral Life” was published by Continuum Press. Congratulations!!
9780521513395                                      techne

 

9780521876421jkt.qxd.qxdA new Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity edited by Lloyd Gerson 

“The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity comprises over forty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of the period 200–800 CE. Designed as a successor to The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (ed. A. H. Armstrong), it takes into account some forty years of scholarship since the publication of that volume. The contributors examine philosophy as it entered literature, science and religion, and offer new and extensive assessments of philosophers who until recently have been mostly ignored. The volume also includes a complete digest of all philosophical works known to have been written during this period. It will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in this rich and still emerging field.”