Join us for the 2023 edition of the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP).
The period 100 BCE to 200 CE saw some of the most far-reaching innovations in Western philosophical history, including a striking efflorescence of philosophy in the Mediterranean, especially in the east; old systems were revitalized through discussion and debate with new (including Christianity).
Agnes Callard is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and that department’s director of undergraduate studies. Dr. Callard’s primary areas of specialization lie in ancient philosophy and ethics., and she is also noted for her work in and on public philosophy.
Fiona Leigh, an associate professor of Philosophy at University College London, currently focuses her research on Plato’s metaphysics, in particular his later period dialogue, the “Sophist.”
Join us for a two-day colloquium comprising talks and workshops in ancient and medieval philosophy. The colloquium is organized by Martin Pickavé, Deborah Black, and Peter King.
The theme for the 2022 ATWAP conference is “The Reception of Plato: Then and Now.” This year’s conference will offer occasion to celebrate the work of Professor Harold Tarrant, on his 75th birthday and retirement from the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Sean Kelsey is Rev. John A. O’Brien Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He specializes in ancient philosophy, particularly the work of Plato and Aristotle.
The 12th Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy explores Platonic metaphysics with 12 international speakers and commentators.
Julia Staffel specializes in formal epistemology and traditional epistemology, and her work also relates to issues in philosophical logic, philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science. In this talk she will argue that there is a large class of rationality judgments we routinely endorse that fall neither into the category of doxastic nor the category of propositional rationality.
New work on the concept of hylomorphism in Aristotle, featuring talks by Mary Louise Gill, David Charles, and others.
Professor Sedley’s research is in 1st century BC philosophy and Plato’s Phaedo. His publications include Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity, 2007 (Berkeley) and The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato’s Theaetetus, 2004 (Oxford).
Professor Fine’s research interests include ancient philosophy, the rationalists and empiricists, epistemology, and metaphysics. She will deliver a talk on “Knowledge and Truth in the Greatest Difficulty Argument: Parmenides 133b4-134c3”.
