2025 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy

Please join us for the 2025 edition of the Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy.

Program

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 (University of Notre Dame): “The Problem of the Substrate of Thought in Some Greek – Arabic – Latin Treatises De Intellectu”

Commentator: Richard Taylor (Marquette University)

Session III (2:00 – 4:00)

Chair: Léo Melançon-Thibault (University of Toronto)

Matthew Wennemann (University of Colorado, Boulder): “Being and Being This: Haecceity and Scotus’s Univocal Concept of Being”

Emma Emrich (Fordham University): “Richard of Mediavilla on the Relationship between Forms”

Diego Espinoza Bustamante (University of Toronto): “Ockham and Deference to Authority”

Session IV (4:15 – 6:15)

Chair: Peter Hartman (Loyola University Chicago)

Christophe Grellard (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris): “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Heroic Virtues and Bestiality in John Buridan’s Ethics”

Commentator: Aline Medeiros Ramos (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières/Université du Québec à Montréal)

All sessions are free and open to the public and 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 Specialization in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, the Centre for Medieval Studies, the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.

Organizers: Deborah Black, Reza Hadisi, Peter King, Jon McGinnis, and Martin Pickavé