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News

Dialogoi

Launch of new Ancient Philosophy journal: Dialogoi
Brasenose College

The 9th John Ackrill Memorial Lecture

Thursday 9 March, 5pm

Academics

Harry Alanen

Harry Alanen

Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy, Merton College | College Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy, Corpus Christi College
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Susanne Bobzien

Emeritus Faculty, All Souls
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Alexander Bown

Associate Professor
Fellow and Tutor in Ancient Philosophy, Balliol College
Lesley Brown

Lesley Brown

Emeritus Fellow, Somerville
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Luca Castagnoli

Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Clarendon Fellow and Tutor in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Oriel College
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Ursula Coope

Professor of Ancient Philosophy
Professorial Fellow, Keble College
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Roger Crisp

Professor of Moral Philosophy | Director
Uehiro Institute
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Marion Durand

Associate Professor
Tutorial Fellow in Ancient Philosophy, Corpus Christi College
Janine Gühler

Janine Gühler

Stipendiary Lecturer
Worcester College
Verity Harte

Verity Harte

Eastman Visiting Professor
Balliol College
Terry Irwin

Terence Irwin

Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Emeritus Fellow, Keble
Lindsay Judson

Lindsay Judson

Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy
Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, Christ Church
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Dirk Meyer

Professor of Chinese Philosophy
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Karen Margrethe Nielsen

Karen Margrethe Nielsen

Professor of Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, Somerville College
Michail Peramatzis

Michail Peramatzis

Associate Professor
Hinton Clarendon Fellow, Worcester College
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Tobias Reinhardt

Corpus Christi Professor of Latin
Faculty of Classics
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Dominic Scott

Professor of Philosophy
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Simon Shogry

Associate Professor
Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Brasenose College
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Stefan Sienkiewicz

Departmental Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy
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Jan Westerhoff

Associate Professor (Professor of Buddhist Philosophy)
Faculty of Theology and Religion

Graduate students

Harry Alanen

DPhil in Philosophy
New College

Conferences

6 May
Worcester College

Aristotle, Posterior Analytics II.1-7 Conference

Worcester College
6 Jul
The Joint Session

The 2018 Joint Session

University of Oxford

Events

9 Sep
Radcliffe Humanities

Aristotle Reading Party on Metaphysics Mu

Ryle Room, First Floor, Radcliffe Humanities
4 Sep
Lindsay Judson

Conference in honour of Professor Lindsay Judson on the occasion of his retirement

Christ Church
11 Sep
Statue at the Ashmolean Museum

Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy

Second Floor Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
9 Sep
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Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy 2019

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
15 Sep
2025 southern association for ancient philosophy meeting

Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy, 2025 meeting

Gillis Lecture Theatre, Balliol College, Oxford

Lectures

9 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

16th John Ackrill Memorial Lecture (Thursday - Week 3, TT24)

Professor James Allen (Toronto): ‘Aristotle, Dialectic, and Philosophy'
Amersi Lecture Theatre, Brasenose College
24 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Corpus Christi Classics Centre Lecture (Friday - Week 5, TT24)

George Boys-Stones (Toronto): ‘The Limits of Eudaimonism. Theories of Virtue in the Ancient Platonist Tradition'
Corpus Christi Auditorium
5 Jun
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, TT25)

Hendrik Lorenz (Princeton) : 'Aristotle on Despotic Rule – and the Question of Racism'
Amersi Lecture Theatre, Brasenose College
12 Jun
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 7, TT25)

Lindsay Judson (Oxford): 'Conclusions in the Euthyphro'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Seminars

24 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, HT22)

James Warren | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge | Aristotle on Political Persistence
Amersi Foundation Lecture Theatre, Brasenose College
8 Feb
Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Week 4, HT18)

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
6 Jun
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11th John Ackrill Memorial Lecture (Thursday - Week 6, TT19)

Katja Maria Vogt | Columbia | 'Three Euthyphro Problems'
(Lecture Room)
25 Feb
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12th John Ackrill Memorial Lecture (Tuesday - Week 6, HT20)

Tad Brennan | Cornell | Desire in Plato's Symposium
(Amersi Foundational Lecture Theatre, Brasenose College)
17 Jun
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13th John Ackrill Memorial Lecture

Susanne Bobzien | All Souls College | Quasi-propositions and Emotivism in Stoic Speech-Act Theory
Online
24 Feb
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14th John Ackrill Memorial Lecture

James Warren | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge | Aristotle on Political Persistence
Amersi Foundation Lecture Theatre, Brasenose College
18 May
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15th John Ackrill Memorial Lecture

Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell): 'Watch what you’re doing! Habituation and Law in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics'
Amersi Foundation Lecture Theatre, Brasenose College
31 Oct
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18th John Ackrill Memorial Lecture

Professor Rachel Barney (Toronto): 'Plato on the Normativity of Craft'
Amersi Foundation Lecture Theatre, Brasenose College
27 Apr
Ancient Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy Workshop Week 1 TT17

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
4 May
Ancient Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy Workshop Week 2 TT17

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
11 May
Ancient Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy Workshop Week 3 TT17

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
18 May
Ancient Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy Workshop Week 4 TT17

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
25 May
Ancient Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy Workshop Week 5 TT17

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
1 Jun
Ancient Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy Workshop Week 6 TT17

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
8 Jun
Ancient Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy Workshop Week 7 TT17

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
9 Mar
Ancient Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy Workshop Week 8 HT17

Lecture Room XI, Brasenose College
15 Jun
Ancient Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy Workshop Week 8 TT17

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
3 Jun
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Aristotle, Plotinus and Simplicius on Change and Activity (Monday & Tuesday - Week 6, TT19)

Various speakers
(Keble College)
6 Jun
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

CANCELLED - Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 7, TT24)

Fiona Leigh (UCL): ‘Elenchus, Dialectic, and Epistemic Virtue in the Republic'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
12 Mar
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

CANCELLED - Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, HT26)

CANCELLED - Setareh Rezazad (Trinity College, Oxford) : 'Title TBA'
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
2 Jun
Old Indian Institute

Uehiro Special Public Lecture TT17

Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School
17 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, HT19)

Ricardo Salles | UNAM | 'Stoic and Pythagorean Theories of Everlasting Recurrence'
(Ryle Room)
23 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, HT20)

Katerina Ierodiakonou | Geneva | Aristotle on Taste and Flavours
(Ryle Room)
21 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, HT21)

Simon Shogry | Oxford | Socratic medicine: the Stoics on the value of the elenchus
Online
20 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, HT22)

Tobias Reinhardt | Oxford | Navigating Cognitive Success (and Failure): Cicero Lucullus 65-6
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
18 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, HT24)

Samuel Meister (Tübingen): ‘What Does Aristotle Try to Show in Metaphysics Λ.6–7?'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
23 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, HT25)

CANCELLED Jenny Bryan (Manchester): 'Heraclitus’ Epistemic Pessimism'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
22 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, HT26)

Ronja Hildebrandt (Dortmund): 'Degrees of Knowledge in Aristotle'
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
17 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, MT19)

Michael Peramatzis | Oxford | Aristotle on How Essence Grounds Necessity
(Ryle Room)
15 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, MT20)

Frisbee Sheffield | Cambridge | Desire and Argument in Plato's Gorgias
Online
14 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, MT21)

Janine Guhler | Oxford | Plato on dragging the soul towards truth with mathematics
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
13 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, MT22)

Sean Kelsey | Notre Dame | 'Mind and World in Aristotle's De Anima'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
12 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, MT23)

Bridget Brasher (MIT): 'How Can Aristotle Prove Nonexistence? An Analysis of Physics IV 6-9'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
17 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, MT24)

Phillipp Brüllman (Heidelberg University): 'The look at nature: A Cynic tool and its Stoic use'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
2 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, TT19)

Nathaniel Stein | Florida State | 'Causation and Observation in Aristotle'
(Ryle Room)
30 Apr
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, TT20)

Frisbee Sheffield | Cambridge | Why Speech Matters: The Ethics of Communication in Plato’s Gorgias - CANCELLED
29 Apr
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, TT21)

Lea Cantor | Oxford | The Centred View: A New Epistemological Reading of Parmenides’ Sphere Analogy
Online
28 Apr
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, TT22)

Sylvain Delcomminette | ULB | 'Idealism and Greek Philosophy: What Natorp saw and Burnyeat missed'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
27 Apr
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, TT23)

Ugo Zilioli (Oxford): 'On things. On the origin and genealogy of Pyrrho's metaphysics'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
25 Apr
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, TT24)

Eric Brown (Washington University in St Louis): ‘Stoics on Uncertainty’
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
1 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 1, TT25)

Cole Phelps (Oxford): 'The Priority of Activities in Aristotle’s Biology'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
24 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, HT19)

Maria Michela Sassi | Pisa | 'Ancient Reflections on the Nature of Colour' 
(Ryle Room)
30 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, HT20)

Chiara Martini | Oxford | Geometrical Changes: Change and Motion in Aristotle’s Geometry
(Ryle Room)
28 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, HT21)

Mor Segev | South Florida | Aristotle’s response to pessimism
Online
27 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, HT22)

Stefan Sienkewicz | Oxford | A Pyrrhonian Interpretation of Arcesilaus
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
26 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, HT23)

Cristiana Sessini (University of Oxford): 'The pessimism of Plato’s Cave'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
25 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, HT24)

Francesco Ademollo (Florence): ‘Aristotle, De interpretatione 9: A Fresh Look’
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
30 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, HT25)

Isabelle Chouinard (Yale): 'Epictetus’ On Cynicism and the Stoic Debate on the Cynic Lifestyle'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
29 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, HT26)

Paolo Fait (New College, Oxford) : 'The Elements of Language and Thought: Reinterpreting De Interpretatione 1'
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
24 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, MT19)

Suzanne Obdrzalek | Claremont McKenna | Plato on Soul-Body Unity
(Ryle Room)
22 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, MT20)

Richard Bett | Johns Hopkins | Attitudes towards Common Sense in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Online
21 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, MT21)

Niels Christensen | Copenhagen | Being the Best: Heroic and Socratic Virtue in Aristotelian Megalopsychia
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
20 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, MT22)

Ilan Moradi | Beijing | 'The Evolution of Aristotle's Theory of Substance from the Categories to the Metaphysics: Ontology, Determinology and Epistemology'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
19 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, MT23)

Daniel Ferguson (KCL): 'Plato’s Civic Tripartition and Its Psychological Implications'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
23 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, MT25)

Chris Izgin (University of Oxford): 'Themistius on the Grasp of Axioms in the Posterior Analytics'
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
6 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, TT21)

Sybilla Pereira | Oxford CANCELLED
Online
2 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, TT24)

Wenjin Liu (Duke): ‘The Root of Political Degeneration'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
8 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, TT25)

Fiona Leigh (UCL): Elenchus, Dialectic, and Social Epistemology in the Republic'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
7 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, TT26)

Speaker TBA (): 'TBA' 
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
31 Jan
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 3, HT19)

Harry Alanen | Oxford | 'The Aporia of Physics III.3: Aristotle on the Sameness of Action and Affection' 
(Ryle Room)
28 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 3, MT21)

Jean-Baptiste Gourinat | CNRS, Paris | Prolepsis between Epicurus and the Stoa
Online
31 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 3, MT24)

Cancelled.
14 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 3, TT26)

Speaker TBA (): 'TBA' 
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
11 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, HT21)

Lindsay Judson | Oxford | Aristotle conception of nature in Physics II.1
Online
10 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, HT22)

Jenny Rallens | Oxford | The ‘sayable’ in Augustine’s theory of language and knowledge
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
9 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, HT23)

Ricardo Salles (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): 'Elements, sea and stars in Anaximander'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
8 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, HT24)

Masaru Yasuda (Kyoto): 'Academics' Error of Non-Assent and the Vice of Scepticism'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
13 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, HT25)

Mika Perälä (Helsinki): 'Epagōgē and archai in Aristotle’s ethics'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
12 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, HT26)

Verity Harte (Yale/Balliol College, Oxford) : 'Purity and Truth in Plato's Philebus'
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
1 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, MT18)

Katharine O'Reilly | Oxford | 'The Jellyfish's Pleasures'
(Ryle Room)
7 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, MT19)

Damian Caluori | Edinburgh | Relatives and Relations in Plotinus Ennead VI.1.6-9
(Ryle Room)
5 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, MT20)

Robin Brons | Oxford | How To Do Ancient Philosophy Comparatively - Examining the potential and pitfalls of juxtaposing Greek and non-Greek philosophy
Online
3 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, MT22)

Caterina Pellò (Nottingham): 'A Rehearsal for Death: Presocratic Philosophers on Sleeping and Dying'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
2 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, MT23)

Please note this workshop has been cancelled.
6 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, MT25)

Kassandra Dugi (Jesus College, Oxford): 'Epictetus on Moral Responsibility and What Is Up To Us'
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
23 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, TT19)

Rachana Kamtekar | Cornell | 'Platonic Pity: Why Compassion is Not a Platonic Virtue'
(Ryle Room)
20 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, TT21)

Caterina Baldini | Oxford | Aristotle’s Metaphysics K: beyond the dualistic approach
Online
19 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, TT22)

Marion Durand | Oxford | 'Why Must the Sage be a Dialectician?'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
18 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, TT23)

Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell): 'Watch what you’re doing! Habituation and Law in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics'
Amersi Foundation Lecture Theatre, Brasenose College
16 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, TT24)

Giulia Bonasio (Durham): ‘The virtues of theoretical thinking in the Eudemian Ethics'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
22 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, TT25)

Rami Kais (Oxford): 'Falsehood, Images, and Deception in Plato’s Sophist'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
21 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 4, TT26)

Speaker TBA (): 'TBA' 
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
14 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, HT19)

Tosca Lynch | Oxford | '‘The most beautiful harmony arises from conflicting elements’: Harmonia and the ‘Soul of the Whole’ in Plato’s Timaeus'
(Ryle Room)
20 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, HT20)

Klaus Corcilius | Tübingen | Practical Reasoning and Participation in Plato’s Timaeus
(Ryle Room)
18 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, HT21)

Inna Kupreeva | Edinburgh | The Empiricist apology in Galen's early work 'On Medical Experience'
Online
17 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, HT22)

Catherine Rowett | UEA | “It seems to me that our soul is a bit like a book”: getting things right and wrong in the Philebus, Sophist and Theaetetus.
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
16 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, HT23)

Annamaria Schiaparelli (Université de Genève): 'Parts and Whole in Aristotle's Categories'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
15 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, HT24)

Pierre-Marie Morel (Paris): 'Epicurean akribeia: heritage and innovation'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
20 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, HT25)

Jenny Bryan (Manchester): 'Heraclitus’ Epistemic Pessimism'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
8 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, MT18)

Paolo Fait | Oxford | 'Categories in Topics I.9'
(Ryle Room)
14 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, MT19)

Milos Arsenijevic and Sandra Scepanovic | Belgrade | The Origin of the Manifestly Heterogeneous World in Anaxagoras’ Physics
(Ryle Room)
12 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, MT20) Primary

Whitney Schwab | Maryland | Stoic Epistemology's Response to the Timaean Challenge
Online
11 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, MT21)

Merrick Anderson | UCL | Republic 2 and the 5th century debate about justice
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
10 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, MT22)

Roberto Granieri (KU Leuven): 'Plato on the Power of Dialectic'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
14 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, MT24)

David Ebrey (University of Barcelona): 'The initial division of the soul in Republic IV'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
13 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, MT25)

Malcolm Keating (Smith College): 'Selves and Sky-flowers: Kumārila Bhaṭṭa on Metaphor and Nonexistents'
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
30 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, TT19)

Marion Durand | Toronto | 'Stoic Semantic Completeness'
(Ryle Room)
28 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, TT20)

CANCELLED
27 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, TT21)

Alesia Preite | Oxford | What Does the Universe Think About? On Cosmic Cognition in the Timaeus
Online
25 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, TT23)

Demosthenes Patramanis (Oxford): 'Theaetetus 202d-206c: Does Socrates Employ a Bad Argument?'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
29 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, TT25)

Emily Daly (Oxford): 'Comedy, phthonos and laughter: Philebus 47d-50d'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
28 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 5, TT26)

Speaker TBA (): 'TBA' 
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
21 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, HT19)

Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi | UCL | 'Aristotle on self-improvement and self-annihilation' 
(Ryle Room)
25 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, HT21)

Carlotta Capuccino | Bologna | CANCELLED
Online
23 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, HT23)

Hermann Koerner (University of Oxford): 'Phronēsis as the Soul’s Original Nature in Plato’s Phaedo'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
22 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, HT24)

Guus Eelink (Tübingen) and Pieter Sjoerd Hasper (Hamburg): 'When Nous makes all the Difference: Aristotle's Account of Epistêmê and Doxa in Posterior Analytics 1.33'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
27 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, HT25)

Teddy Jennings (Oxford): 'Visible Kinds and 'True' Mathematics in Republic VI and VII'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
26 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, HT26)

Orna Harari (Tel Aviv) : 'Cognitive States as Relatives and Aristotle’s Rejection of Relativism'
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
21 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, MT19)

Susanne Bobzien | Oxford | Stoic indemonstrables and demonstration
(Ryle Room)
19 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, MT20) -CANCELLED

Inna Kupreeva | Edinburgh
Online
18 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, MT21)

Ian Hensley | East Tennessee State | The Pantheon of Stoic Physics
Online
17 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, MT22)

Andrea Buongiorno (Oxford): 'Ontological Multivocity and Ontological Primacy in Metaphysics Z4'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
21 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, MT24)

 Patricia Marechal (University of California San Diego): Plato on Women, Thumos, and Agency
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
20 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, MT25)

Kelli Rudolph (Kent University): 'Beyond Detachment: Political Love in Stoic Cosmopolitan Theory'
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
4 Jun
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, TT20)

Sara Magrin | UC Berkeley | CANCELLED
3 Jun
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, TT21)

Sara Magrin | Pittsburgh | Plotinus on the epistemic role of memory (Ennead 4.6)
Online
1 Jun
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, TT23)

Takashi Oki (Oxford): 'Aristotle on the infinite'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
30 May
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, TT24)

Hannah Laurens (Oxford): ‘Aristotle's Prime Mover: Paradigm of Life and Self-Love'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
4 Jun
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 6, TT26)

Speaker TBA (): 'TBA' 
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
28 Feb
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 7, HT19)

Thomas Benatouil | Cambridge / Lille | 'Speusippus and the Theaetetus'
(Ryle Room)
5 Mar
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 7, HT26)

Matthew Duncombe (Nottingham) : 'Eubulides, Aristotle, the Liar: A rational reconstruction'
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
22 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 7, MT18)

Paulina Remes | Uppsala | 'Wanting to be Determinate? Self-Perception and Self-Knowledge in Aristotle's EE 7,12'
(Ryle Room)
28 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 7, MT24)

Zena Hitz (St John's College, Annapolis, Maryland): 'Phronesis and Politics'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
27 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 7, MT25)

Francesca Masi (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia): 'The Physiology of the epibolē phantastikē tēs dianoias: Epicurus’ Letter to Herodotus 49–51'
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
13 Jun
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 7, TT19)

Karen Margrethe Nielsen | Oxford | 'Truth in Nicomachean Ethics VI'
(Ryle Room)
10 Jun
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 7, TT21)

Sybilla Pereira | Oxford | ‘Own it’: Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk – Plato on Doxastic Ownership and Epistemic Agency in the Meno and Gorgias
Online
9 Jun
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 7, TT22)

Gina White | Kansas
CANCELLED
11 Jun
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 7, TT26)

Speaker TBA (): 'TBA' 
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
12 Mar
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, HT20)

CANCELLED
(Ryle Room)
11 Mar
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, HT21)

Dimitri El Murr | Paris | Satyr-play in the Statesman: Socrates, Athens, and the apologetic function of Plato’s trilogy
Online
10 Mar
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, HT22)

Nicolas Zaks | KU Leuven | What is the relationship between genus and differentia in Aristotle? The case of Metaphysics Iota
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
9 Mar
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, HT23)

Laura Castelli (University of Cambridge): 'Aristotle on the Opposites and Plato’s Sophist'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
7 Mar
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, HT24)

Sosseh Assaturian (Washington-Seattle): 'What Are Stoic Cases (ptōseis)?'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
13 Mar
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, HT25)

Allison Piñeros-Glasscock (Georgia State University): 'Others and Oikeiōsis: A Platonic source for the Stoic theory'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
29 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, MT18)

Philipp Kurbel | Oxford | 'Aristotle on Metaphor'
(Ryle Room)
5 Dec
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, MT19)

Naoya Iwata | Oxford | Collection and Division in the Phaedrus
(Ryle Room)
3 Dec
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, MT20) -CANCELLED

Caterina Baldini | Oxford | Aristotle’s Metaphysics K: beyond the dualistic approach - CANCELLED
Online
2 Dec
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, MT21)

Margaret Hampson | St Andrews | The tyrant and the failure of philia
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
1 Dec
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, MT22)

Jula Wildberger (American University of Paris): 'Types of Stoic Ethics'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
30 Nov
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, MT23)

Please note that this event has been cancelled
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
5 Dec
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, MT24)

David Bronstein (University of Notre Dame, Australia): 'Scientific Propositions in Posterior Analytics 1.4–6'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
4 Dec
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, MT25)

Alesia Preite (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg): 'The Secret of Tripartition'
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
17 Jun
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 8, TT21)

Susanne Bobzien | All Souls College | Quasi-propositions and Emotivism in Stoic Speech-Act Theory
Online
11 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Week 1, MT18)

Dominic Scott | Oxford | 'Plato's Tyrant'
(Ryle Room)
25 Jan
Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Week 2 HT18)

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
18 Oct
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Week 2, MT18)

Marta Jimenez | Emory | 'Aristotle on Justice as Two Virtues'
(Ryle Room)
15 Feb
Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Week 5, HT18)

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
22 Feb
Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Week 6, HT18)

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
1 Mar
Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Week 7, HT18)

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
18 Jan
Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy Week 1 HT18

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
12 Oct
Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy Week 1 MT17

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
19 Oct
Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy Week 2 MT17

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
26 Oct
Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy Week 3 MT17

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
9 Nov
Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy Week 5 MT17

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
16 Nov
Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy Week 6 MT17

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
23 Nov
Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy Week 7 MT17

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
30 Nov
Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy Week 8 MT17

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Talks

7 Nov

Finding out better: How Could a Presocratic Know?

Ryle Room Radcliffe Humanities

Pages

An impressive library with book stacks to either side and large desk in the foreground

Philosophical Treasures