Rareș Ilie Marinescu

Postdoctoral Fellow
LI210
r.marinescu@utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Name of Postdoctoral Fellowship

Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics (Ancient Philosophy)

Biography

Rareș is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Classics where he investigates the Platonist reception of Plato's Laws X. After completing his PhD on Proclus' reception of Aristotle in Cambridge (2023), he was employed as a postdoc at KU Leuven (Belgium). Rareș is mainly interested in Plato, Aristotle and the Platonist tradition with a focus on topics in metaphysics, psychology, and philosophy of nature. 

His most recent publications are:

  • 'Only Half the Truth. Proclus on Aristotle's Deficient Metaphysics', forthcoming in Phronesis, 1–29.
  • 'Nature as an Instrumental Cause in Proclus', forthcoming in Apeiron, 1–20.
  • 'Plato on Self-Motion in Laws X', Rhizomata 9 (1), 96–122.

Education

PhD, University of Cambridge, 2023; MPhil, University of Cambridge, 2019; BA, University of Heidelberg, 2018