The University of Toronto Colloquium in Mediaeval Philosophy 2013
Friday, September 20
Session I (4:30 – 6:30) Chair: Stephen Dumont (University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Jon McGinnis (University of Missouri, St. Louis): “A Small Discovery: Avicenna’s Theory of Minima Naturalia”
Commentator: Alnoor Dhanani (Harvard University)
Saturday, September 21
Session II (10:00 – 12:00) Chair: Peter Eardley (University of Guelph)
Speaker: Christopher Martin (University of Auckland): “Abelard on Modality and its Logics”
Commentator: Kevin Guilfoy (Carroll University)
Session III (2:00 – 4:00) Chair: Ian Drummond (University of Toronto)
Joseph Stenberg (University of Colorado, Boulder): “Happiness in Aquinas: an Analysis of its Core”
Stephen Ogden (Yale University): “Averroes’s Argument from Universals for a Separate Material Intellect”
Simona Vucu (University of Toronto): “Henry of Ghent on Causal Powers”
Session IV (4:15 – 6:15) Chair: Henrik Lagerlund (Western University)
Speaker: Gloria Frost (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul): “Three Medieval Models of Primary and Secondary Causation: Aquinas, Scotus, and Auriol”
Commentator: Kara Richardson (Syracuse University)
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 Philosophy, and the Centre for Medieval Studies, the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Organizers: Deborah Black, Peter King, Martin Pickavé
Check out the episode 131, on “al-Farabi”, on the “History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps” podcast run by Peter Adamson (LMU München/King’s College London). The episode features an interview with our very own Deborah Black on al-Farabi’s innovations concerning knowledge and certainty!!
Among the older episodes there is also an interview on the Greek Church Fathers with last year’s CPAMP visitor George Boys-Stones.
We are very happy to announce that James Allen will join the faculty of the Department of Philosophy and CPAMP in July 2014. James Allen (PhD Princeton) moves to Toronto from Pittsburgh where he is a professor of philosophy and a fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He has held a visiting appointment at Yale, been a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a Stipendiat of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung at the Universität Hamburg. His principal interests are in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. He is the author of articles about ancient conceptions of expertise, ancient skepticism, ancient medicine, Aristotelian logic, Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Cicero and Inference from Signs: Ancient Debates about the Nature of Evidence (Oxford, 2001). Welcome to Toronto, James!!
We are happy to announce the publication of a new issue of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (OSAP)! Contributors to vol. 45 comprise Naly Thaler, Matthew Duncombe, Joshua Wilburn, Susanne Bobzien, Ben Morison, Mary Krizan, Devin Henry, John M. Cooper, Casey Perin, and Marko Malink. OSAP is edited by Brad Inwood.
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.
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.