Fifth Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy 2013 EMPEIRIA, PHANTASIA AND LOGOS: EXPLORING THE RATIONAL/NON-RATIONAL BOUNDARY
Friday March 15
3:15 – 5:00
Robbie Howton (University of Toronto): “Aristotle on the Epistemic Role of Perception”
Commentator: Thomas Tuozzo (University of Kansas)
5:30 – 7:15
Marc Gasser (Harvard University): “On Induction in Posterior Analytics II.19″
Commentator: Ben Morison (Princeton University)
Saturday March 16
9:15 – 11:00
Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia): “Doxa in Theaetetus 184A-187”
Commentator: Willie Costello (University of Toronto)
11:15 – 1:00
Ian McCready-Flora (Columbia University): “Aristotle on Pistis”
Commentator: Rachel Parsons (Princeton University)
1:00 – 3:00 lunch for participants
3:00 – 4:45
Clifford Roberts (Cornell University): “Sextus on Skeptical Phantasia”
Commentator: Sara Magrin (Université du Québec à Montréal)
5:15 – 7:00
G. Fay Edwards (Washington University, St. Louis): “The Puzzle of Porphyry’s Rational Animals”
Commentator: Gisela Striker (Harvard University)
Sunday March 17
10:00 – 11:45
Marta Jimenez (Emory University): “Two Kinds of Practical Empiricism in Aristotle’s Ethics”
Commentator: Jacob Stump (University of Toronto)
1:15 – 3:00
Karel Thein (Charles University, Prague): “Aristotle on Intellect and the Experience of Thinking”
Commentator: David Bronstein (Georgetown University)
All sessions take place in room 418 of the Jackman Humanities Building (Department of Philosophy).
Since the space is limited, registration is required: Please email to Jennifer Whiting.
Congratulations to our colleague Brad Inwood who just published (together with Raphael Woolf) a new translation of Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics!
Here’s an excerpt from the cover: “Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics has been unjustly neglected in comparison with its more famous counterpart the Nicomachean Ethics. This is in large part due to the fact that until recently no complete translation of the work has been available. But the Eudemian Ethics is a masterpiece in its own right, offering valuable insights into Aristotle’s ideas on virtue, happiness and the good life. This volume offers a translation by Brad Inwood and Raphael Woolf that is both fluent and exact, and an introduction in which they help the reader to gain a deeper understanding both of the Eudemian Ethics and of its relation to the Nicomachean Ethics and to Aristotle’s ethical thought as a whole.”
For more information check the publisher’s website.
The latest issue of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (OSAP) has just appeared in print! Contributors to vol. 41 comprise Devin Henry, Carl A. Huffman, Mark A. Johnstone, Alan Kim, Dominic Scott, Matthew S. Strohl, Naly Thaler, Franco V. Trivigno, and Michael V. Wedin. OSAP is edited by Brad Inwood.
A new book of CPAMP Alumnus Tom Angier is about to come out in November – already his third book! Congratulations. Ethics: The Key Thinkers “surveys the history of Western moral philosophy, guiding students through the work and ideas of the field’s most important figures, from Plato to MacIntyre.” The book contains 11 chapters written by various experts and it “explores the contribution of each thinker in turn, narrating how they have changed the shape of ethical theory as a whole. The book also includes guides to the latest reading on each thinker. An ideal resource for
all students of ethics.”
For more information see here.
To quote from the cover: “Thirteen new essays investigate the continuities between medieval and early modern thinking about the emotions, and open up a contemporary debate on the relationship between emotions, cognition, and reason, and the way emotions figure in our own cognitive lives. A team of leading philosophers of the medieval, renaissance, and early modern periods explore these ideas from the point of view of four key themes: the situation of emotions within the human mind; the intentionality of emotions and their role in cognition; emotions and action; the role of emotion in self-understanding and the social situation of individuals.”
The volume contains chapters by three CPAMP members: Peter King, Ian Drummond, and Martin Pickavé – and also a paper by this year’s CPAMP faculty visitor Dominik Perler! For more information see here.
CPAMP is very well presented at the upcoming International Plato Society Regional Meeting at the University of Michigan (4-7 October 2012). Lloyd Gerson, Robert Howton, Bryan Reece, Matthew Siebert, and Jacob Stump will all present papers, as will CPAMP alumni Emily Fletcher and Nicholas Riegel! See here for a detailed program and more information about the event.
The Collaborative Program is very happy to welcome to faculty visitors this term: Prof. George Boys-Stones (Durham University) and Prof. Dominik Perler (Humboldt University, Berlin). A warm welcome to both of them.
Prof. Boys-Stones is here for the whole Fall term. He will also co-teach a graduate seminar with Brad Inwood; Prof. Perler will be with us for six weeks until the middle of October. Both will give talks at the beginning of their stay and I hope everyone will all take up the occasion to meet them while they are here.
The University of Toronto Colloquium in Mediaeval Philosophy 2012
Friday, September 21
Session I (3:15 – 5:15) Chair: Gyongyi Hegedus (King’s University College, London, ON)
Speaker: Charles Manekin (University of Maryland): “Belief, Knowledge, and Scientia (‘True Knowledge’) in the Hebrew Aristotelian Tradition”
Commentator: Sarah Pessin (University of Denver)
Saturday, September 22
Session II (10:00 – 12:00) Chair: Carlos Bazán (University of Ottawa)
Speaker: Eileen Sweeney (Boston College): “Albert the Great, Aquinas, and Bonaventure on Science”
Commentator: Edward Houser (University of St. Thomas, Houston)
Session III (2:00 – 4:00) Chair: Brian Embry (University of Toronto)
Nate Bulthuis (Cornell University): “Walter Burley on the Language of Thought”
JT Paasch (Georgetown University): “Medieval Theories of Causal Powers”
Matthew Siebert (University of Toronto): “Second-Hand Knowledge”
Session IV (4:15 – 6:15) Chair: Dominik Perler (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Speaker: Stephen Dumont (University of Notre Dame): “Intension and Remission of Forms: The Debate between Thomas Wylton and Walter Burley”
Commentator: Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder)
All sessions will be held in Room 100 of the Jackman Humanities Building (170 St. George Street).
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
Plato and the Divided Self, a book that Rachel Barney co-edited with Tad Brennan and Charles Brittain, just came out. The volume, which also contains a chapter by Jennifer Whiting, originated from an exciting conference that took place at the University of Toronto in 2005.
The book is a must-read for everyone interested in Plato’s moral psychology and in the influence Plato’s account of the tripartite soul had on later authors such as Galen, Plutarch, and Plotinus. For more information about the volume check the publisher’s website.
Congratulations to our colleague Brad Inwood who just published (together with Raphael Woolf) a new translation of Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics!
A new book of CPAMP Alumnus Tom Angier is about to come out in November – already his third book! Congratulations.
To quote from the cover: “Thirteen new essays investigate the continuities between medieval and early modern thinking about the emotions, and open up a contemporary debate on the relationship between emotions, cognition, and reason, and the way emotions figure in our own cognitive lives. A team of leading philosophers of the medieval, renaissance, and early modern periods explore these ideas from the point of view of four key themes: the situation of emotions within the human mind; the intentionality of emotions and their role in cognition; emotions and action; the role of emotion in self-understanding and the social situation of individuals.”
Plato and the Divided Self, a book that Rachel Barney co-edited with Tad Brennan and Charles Brittain, just came out. The volume, which also contains a chapter by Jennifer Whiting, originated from an exciting conference that took place at the University of Toronto in 2005.