The 16th Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP)

Join us for the 2025 edition of the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP). This year will focus on Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia.

Schedule

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 Theory of Nutritive Juices”

Commentator: Léa Dérome (Toronto)

SATURDAY, APRIL 26

Session III (9:00 – 10:30am)

Chair: Caterina Pellò (Geneva)

Tim Clarke (Yale) “What Is the Nature That Does Nothing in Vain?”

Commentator: Alex Stooshinoff (McGill)

Session IV (11:00am – 12:30pm)

Chair: Rachel Barney (Toronto)

Andrea Falcon (Venice) “The Architecture of the Science of Living Beings: Aristotle’s De juv. (Resp. included) as a Case Study”

Commentator: Devin Henry (Western University)

Lunch talk (12:45 – 1:45pm)

Justin Winzenrieth (Tübingen): “Editing Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia (with A New Branch)”

Session V (2:15 – 3:45pm)

Chair: Paolo Crivelli (Geneva)

Hendrik Lorenz (Princeton) “Remembering in Aristotle’s De Memoria et Reminiscentia”

Commentator: Mark Johnstone (McMaster)

Session VI (4:15 – 5:45pm)

Chair: James Allen (Toronto)

Katerina Ierodiakonou (Geneva) “Aristotle on Recollection”

Commentator: Rachel Parsons (Montreal)