The Department of Philosophy is delighted to welcome Stephen Menn, the inaugural Michael & Virginia Walsh Chair in History of Philosophy.
His main areas of research are in ancient Greek philosophy (with current special interests in Aristotle and in neo-Platonism), in medieval Arabic and Latin philosophy, and in the history and philosophy of mathematics. He also forms part of the graduate program in the Department of Classics at U of T and maintains links to Humboldt University in Berlin, where he is an honorary professor of Philosophy, a member of the faculty of the Graduate Program in Ancient Philosophy, and where he held a regular chair between 2011 and 2015.
Before coming to the University of Toronto, Dr. Menn taught at Princeton University from 1989 to 1992 and at McGill University from 1992 to 2025. He first studied mathematics, earning an MA in 1982 and a PhD in 1985, both from the Johns Hopkins University, and then philosophy, earning an MA in 1984 and a PhD in 1989, both from the University of Chicago. Along the way he also took courses in classics, Arabic, and Sanskrit.
Dr. Menn is currently revising a book manuscript titled The Aim and the Argument of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, working on a series of essays on medieval Arabic and Latin philosophers on the logical syntax of being and unity, and (with Rachel Barney) revising a translation with introduction and notes of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics I.1-2, for the series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle.
The Michael & Virginia Walsh Chair in History of Philosophy, the Department of Philosophy’s first endowed chair, came into existence through a generous donation from Michael F. and Virginia Walsh, longtime philosophy enthusiasts and friends of the department, which was matched by the Faculty of Arts & Science.
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