We are delighted to announce that Jon McGinnis, Professor of classical and medieval philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Medieval Studies, has been appointed Director of the Collaborative Specialization in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (CSAMP), beginning July 1, 2025. Professor McGinnis, a world expert in the early history of natural philosophy and physics done in the Greek-, Arabic-, Judeo-Arabic- and Latin-speaking ancient and medieval worlds, and an accomplished philosopher, classicist and Islamicist, joined the University of Toronto last summer, and was featured in the September MMXXIV Chronica.
Jon was also recently interviewed on CBC Radio's Ideas with Nahlah Ayed episode, How Latin translation made Western philosophers famous.