Recent events

Recent talks

2010–11
Aristotle and Epictetus on the capacity for alternative actions
Ricardo Salles, UNAM Mexico, May 4, 2011
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Aquinas on Reason, Self-determination and the Will
Ursula Coope (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), 21 April 2011
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
Refuting Callicles: the Dénouement of Plato's Gorgias
Malcolm Schofield (St. John's College, Cambridge), 31 March 2011
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Philosophy
Hermeneutic Cross-Fertilization of Ancient Math and Ancient Logic: A Case Study
Susanne Bobzien (Yale), 20 January 2011
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
'Socrates' Avowal of Knowledge at Apology 29ab / 37b: A Kierkegaardian Approach'
David Possen (Yale), 29 November 2010
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Cicero's Sceptical Methods in the De finibus
Charles Brittain (Cornell University), 11 November 2010
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Philosophy
Plato, Speusippus and Aristotle in Metaphysics MN
Stephen Menn (McGill University), 23 September 2010
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Modes of Being and Structure at Sophist 255cd
Fiona Leigh (University College London), 7 September 2010
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy

2009–10
Conspiracy as Allegory in Callicles' Great Speech in Plato's Gorgias
Jimmy Doyle (Bristol, UK), April 21 2010
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Desiring the Good: A Socratic Reading of Aristotle
Katja Vogt (Columbia) January 29, 2010
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy and the Moral Philosophy Working Group
Aristotle's Two Worlds: Knowledge and Belief in Posterior Analytics I.33
Gail Fine (Cornell/Oxford), October 30, 2009
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy and the Department of Philosophy

2008–9
Justice and the Laws in Aristotle’s Moral and Political Theory
Mi-Kyoung Lee, University of Colorado, Boulder, Friday April 24th 2009
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Ancient Greek Verbs of Knowing
Myles Burnyeat, Robinson College, Cambridge, Friday April 17, 2009
Justice Writ Large and Small in Republic IV
Myles Burnyeat, Robinson College, Cambridge, Thursday, April 16, 2009
Other Minds, Other Faces: Philosophy and Physiognomy in the Ancient World
Myles Burnyeat, Robinson College, Cambridge, Tuesday April 14, 2009
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Plato on Pretending
Gabriel Richardson Lear, Chicago, Friday, January 30, 2009
The Theaetetus in the Context of Plato’s Later Dialogues
Charles Kahn, University of Pennsylvania, Monday, December 8, 2008
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Philology and Philosophy: The Greek and Arabic Evidence for the Heraclitus Fragment in Theophrastus (DK 124)
Dimitri Gutas, Yale, Monday, October 27, 2008
Sponsored by the Working Groups in Ancient and Arabic Philosophy
Aristotle on the Distinction between Rational and Nonrational Desire
Ursula Coope, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Thursday, September 18, 2008

2007–8
Platonic Pleasures in Epicurus and Abu-Bakr al-Razi
Peter Adamson, King's College London, 11 April 2008
Sponsored by the Working Groups in Ancient and Arabic Philosophy
Socrates on Trial: A Dramatic Performance of Plato’s Apology
Steve Wexler, University of British Columbia, 20 February 2008
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Intensive Seminar on Rationality in Ancient Philosophy
A. A. Long, University of California, Berkeley, 17 — 20 January 2008
Sponsored by the Workinig Group in Ancient Philosophy
Aristotle on Simultaneously Perceiving More Things than One
Hendrik Lorenz, Princeton, November 12, 2007 C104
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Aristotle on Slavery
Adam Beresford, University of Mass., Boston, September 25, 2007
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy

2009–10
Aristotle on the voluntary, prohairesis and responsibility (EN III.1-5, EE II.6-11) (Greek reading) — Bobzien & Harte
Stoic Logic (readings in translation) — Bobzien
Ancient Relativism — Matthew Evans (NYU, visiting for spring semester 2010)

2008–9
Plato Parmenides (Greek reading) — Harte & Sattler
Pleasure in Plato and Aristotle (readings in translation) — Harte
Philosophy of Mathematics in Ancient Greece (readings in translation) — Sattler

2007–8
Time and Space/Place in Plato and Aristotle (readings in translation) — Sattler
Aristotle’s Psychology (Parva Naturalia, esp. On Memory) (Greek reading) — Bobzien & Harte