Fresh from the press: a new issue of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (OSAP) has just appeared in print! Contributors to vol. 42 comprise Matt Evans, James Doyle, Suzanne Obdrzalek, Karel Thein, Timothy Clarke, Jacob Rosen and Marko Malink, Zena Hitz, Sean McConnell, and Jaap Mansfeld. OSAP is edited by Brad Inwood.

CPAMP is well represented at the First Canadian Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 3-5 May 2012. Rachel Barney, Lloyd Gerson, and Brad Inwood present papers at the meeting, and CPAMP student Willie Costello has a poster presentation. For more information go to the colloquium website.

Peter Hartman, who in October successfully defended his dissertation on “Durand of St.-Pourçain on Cognitive Acts: Their Cause, Ontological Status, and Intentional Character”, has accepted a tenure-track position in the Philosophy Department of Loyola University Chicago. He will start at Loyola in the Fall 2013 after spending next year as a postdoc at the Université du Québec à Montréal (with Claude Panaccio). Congratulations Peter!

Emily Fletcher has just accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She will start there in the Fall. Well done, Emily. Congratulations!! Emily is currently finishing her dissertation on “Plato’s Reevaluation of Pleasure: Hedonism, Cognition and the Human Good in the Philebus” under the supervision of Rachel Barney. She will defend in May.

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.

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).

We are happy to report that the University of Toronto did well in the recent issue of the Philosophical Gourmet report, a reputational ranking of Philosophy Graduate Departments in the English-Speaking world. While the Department of Philosophy is ranked 15th overall (1st in Canada) we have been ranked especially high in ancient and medieval philosophy!

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!!

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!!