Events

Ulysse Chaintreuil (Philosophy, UTSC) will give a talk on 'Genus and Substance: The Ontological Status of Genus in Aristotle's Metaphysics Z and H'

Myrthe Bartels (Political Science) will talk on "The Benefits of Drunkenness in Plato's Laws"

The title of Christian Pfeiffer's presentation is: “Hylomorphic Composites are Defined like the Snub."

Rareș Ilie Marinescu (Classics) will give a paper on ''Laws X and the Formation of Platonist Theology''.

Emily Perry, visiting from Concordia University, will talk about 'Aristotle on Nature as a Generative Principle' .

Joseph Gerbasi (Classics, UofT) will talk about 'Leontius the Philosopher (Republic 439a-440a)'.

"Aristotle’s Strategy for a Defence of the Principle of Non-Contradiction"

Title: "Plato on Political Corruption".

Presentation title: "Peter Auriol on the Metaphysics of Political Power." (Note - this is a change from the previously advertised title.)

"Resemblance and the Role of Forms in Plato’s Timaeus."

Title: "Harmonizing the Areopagite: Reading and Reception of the Dionysian Corpus in Late Antique Christianity." Abstract: This paper explores how Maximus the Confessor deployed strategies from the Neoplatonic commentary tradition  to incorporate the shadowy figure of Dionysius the Areopagite into Christian intellectual vernacular.

A colloquium on John Philoponus organised by Tommaso De Robertis and John Magee. You can attend in person or by Zoom: please use this link to find out more and register

"Hupolêpsis and Hormê: The Stoic Theory of Motivation."

"Augustine on Pulling the Trigger." ABSTRACT. The main philosophical puzzle in Confessions 8 is how someone can want to do something but nevertheless fail to do it. This is, I argue, a problem about what we now call "commitment" and, as such, it is distinct from (but related to) classical problems of weakness of will. […]

Program Thursday, 6 March 2.00-3.15 Mary-Louise Gill (Brown): Craft and Causation in Aristotle’s Theory of Soul Response by Rareş I. Marinescu (Toronto) 3.15-4.30 Caleb Cohoe (Denver): An Internal Light, Not an External Sun: νοῦς ποιητικός in Aristotle’s De Anima III 5 Response by Cal Fried (Toronto) 4.30-4.45 Coffee break 5.00-6.00 Ulysse Chaintreuil (Toronto): Aristotle’s Ontology […]

"Conception and Assent in Post-Classical Arabic Philosophy."

Substantial Confusion: Why Stoic ousia is Not Matter Abstract. There is an underlying debate in the literature over how to understand and translate the term ousia for the Stoics. So far, this debate has taken place primarily in the margins and footnotes of debates about other matters. And yet the interpretive stakes are quite high — […]

Aristotle on Necessity “from an assumption”   Abstract: Aristotle thinks there are different ways to be necessary. One way, often called “hypothetical” or “conditional” necessity, is associated with his commitment to teleology: something is hypothetically necessary when it is needed for some end or purpose to be achieved. It is standard orthodoxy that Aristotle’s main […]

Prof. Barney will talk on Protagoras and the Measure Thesis.

Friday, 11 April 9:30-9:40: Welcome, Acknowledgements & Introduction Session 1 | Chair: Myrthe Bartels 9:40-11:00 Tae-Yeoun Keum (UC Santa Barbara): “Plato the Taboo-Breaker: Mythological Incest and Cannibalism in the Republic and Laws” 11:00-12:15 Ryan Balot (Toronto): “Platonic Protreptic and Athenian Democracy” 12:30-13:30: Lunch break (lunch served in Vipond room) Session 2 | Chair: Jason Singer 13:30-14:45 Rachel Wagner […]

Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia FRIDAY, APRIL 25 Session I (2:15 – 3:45pm) Chair: Christian Pfeiffer (Toronto) Klaus Corcilius (Tübingen) “The Soul Itself vs. Common to Body and Soul” Commentator: Brad Inwood (Yale)   Session II (4:15 – 5:45pm) Chair: Jim Lennox (Pittsburgh) Claire Bubb (New York University) “Water, Taste, and Nutrition: De sensu 4 and Aristotle’s […]

The third annual Toronto-Torino reading week will be hosted at the British School at Athens, timed to coincide with the Michael Frede Lecture, which this year will be given by Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson. The reading group is primarily for CSAMP students (along with graduate students from Turin University), for whom accommodation at the School is […]

The Peripatetic Mechanica and the Inquiry into Nature

Title: The Peripatetic Mechanica and the Inquiry into Nature

Following the first Proseminar of the year.

Title: "Ammonius: the soul's faculties and the introduction of the Rhetoric and Poetics in Aristotle's logical works"

University of Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy 2025 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Session I (4:30 – 6:30) Chair: Boris Hennig (Toronto Metropolitan University) Yoav Meyrav (University of Hamburg): “Hasdai Crescas and the Ex Uno Principle” Commentator: Davlat Dadikhuda (Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Session II (10:00 – 12:00) Chair: Giorgio Pini (Fordham University) Therese Cory […]

Title: 'What is De anima III.3 about?'

Title: Aristotle on Nutritive (and Generative) Functioning in Plants

Workshop on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Iota (October 2nd – 3rd, 2025) Thursday, Oct. 2: 14.15-14.30: Welcome Chair: Ulysse Chaintreuil 14:30-16:00 Chris Shields (UC San Diego): “Ways to be One“ Chair: Christian Pfeiffer 16:15-17:45 Stephen Menn (McGill / UofT): “Unity in Iota and unity in some other books of the Metaphysics” Friday, Oct. 3 Chair: Jessica Gelber […]