Ancient Philosophy

Join a number of academics from across the School of Humanities for the Ancient Philosophy workshop. Taking place across two consecutive Thursdays, 16 June and 23 June 9am- 4.30pm.

Thursday 16 June

• 9-10am  Ian Kidd ‘Misanthropy and Misology in Ancient Greek Philosophy’
• 10.30-11.30am Riana Popat ‘Teaching Ancient Philosophy in school: incorporating ancient philosophy (and metaethics!) into pedagogy’
• 12.30-1.30pm Steve Barker ‘Nāgārjuna's Causation Argument’
• 2-3pm Edmund Stewart 'Techne: what an ancient concept can tell us about modern life'
• 3.30-4.30pm Jon Hover  ‘Ibn Taymiyya’s (d. 1328) arguments against an incorporeal god’

Thursday 23 June

• 9-10am Janset Cetinkaya ‘A Response to the Problem of Self-Knowledge in Aristotle: Prohairetic Agency in NE 1105a29–35.’
• 10.30-11.30pm Moritz Vogel ‘Determination of Number in Plato’s Parmenides’
• 12.30-1.30pm Caterina Pellò ‘A Rehearsal for Death: Early Greek Philosophers on Sleeping and Dying’
• 2-3pm Matt Duncombe ‘Euclides, Megaricism and Plato’s Theaetetus’
• 3.30-4.30pm Richard Bell TBA