Let’s welcome our new CPAMP students: in the philosophy department, Mark Hallap and Pia Morar; in classics, Jacob Dvorak and Ksenia Romashova; and in medieval studies, Rui Xu.

On August 13, 2020, Doug Campbell successfully defended his dissertation Circles and Rivets: Cosmology and Teleology in Plato’s Theory of the Soul. He was examined by Professors Rachel Barney, James Allen, Lloyd Gerson, George Boys-Stones, and Gábor Betegh (Cambridge).

He is now a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy here at U of T!

As the 2020 academic year begins, CPAMP is pleased to welcome new postdoctoral fellow Máté Veres. Máté works mainly on Hellenistic philosophy, with a focus on epistemology and ethics. Prior to coming to Toronto, he held research and teaching fellowships at the University of Hamburg, at the University of Geneva, and at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. During his studies, he was a Fulbright scholar at Cornell University and a visiting student at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. His recent publications include ‘Sextus Empiricus on Religious Dogmatism’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 58 (2020), ‘Keep Calm and Carry On: Sextus Empiricus on the Origins of Pyrrhonism’, History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis 23 (2020), and ‘Theology, Innatism, and the Epicurean Self’, Ancient Philosophy 37 (2017). More information about his work may be found on his website and on his Academia.edu page.

The sudden arrival of the pandemic required the cancellation of most CPAMP events last term, including our long-planned and eagerly anticipated Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP).

We are now cautiously putting together a schedule of events for the coming academic year. Of necessity these will be, at first and for we do not know how long, on line.

Our first two talks will be:

28 September:  Fiona Leigh (title TBA).

19 October:  Andrea Falcon, ‘Aristotle and the Explanation of Longevity’.

We are also very pleased to announce that Máté Veres is joining us as our new ancient philosophy post-doctoral fellow.

Details and more news to follow.

Earlier today the University of Toronto issued a message announcing that they now “recommend cancellation or postponement of all discretionary events that are not required as part of courses and academic requirements”. As such, we cannot go forward as planned with this year’s Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, scheduled for next weekend. CPAMP is truly sorry to have to call off this event, and especially sorry to do so with such short notice.

We are pleased to announce that the twelfth Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy will take place this year on March 20 & 21, 2020, on the theme of “Platonic Metaphysics”. Our speakers will be Gábor Betegh, Emily Fletcher, Francesco Fronterotta, Verity Harte, Tushar Irani, and Gabriel Richardson Lear; with comments from our very own George Boys-Stones and Roberto Granieri, as well as Fiona Leigh, Jessica Moss, Georgia Mouroutsou, and Christine Thomas. For the latest updates on the workshop, please check the event page here.

We are happy to announce that next fall, CPAMP alum Marion Durand (PhD 2018) will be joining The Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford as Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at Corpus Christi College, and Associate Lecturer at St John’s College.

We are happy to announce that next fall, CPAMP alum Jacob Stump (PhD 2017) will be joining the Philosophy Department at Northeastern University (Boston, MA) as Assistant Teaching Professor. Congratulations, Jacob!