Every other year, staff and students from London, Oxford, and Yale meet in one of the three locations to present and discuss work in progress.
LOXY Ancient Philosophy conference
2nd-3rd May 2023 at the Department of Philosophy, UCL
Philosophy seminar room, 102, 19 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AW
Tuesday May 2nd
10: morning coffee
10.30-12: Saloni de Souza (UCL, London), ‘Everything in its Right Place: Zeno's Paradox of Place in Plato's Parmenides’
Response: Paolo Fait (New College, Oxford)
Chair: Sophia Connell (Birkbeck, London)
12-2: lunch break
2-3.30: Mark Kalderon (UCL, London), ‘Weaving and the Soul-Body Union in the Timaeus’
Chair: Raphael Woolf (KCL, London)
3.30-4: afternoon coffee
4-5.30: Jake Rohde (Yale), ‘Purpose and Process in Aristotle’s de Anima II.5’
Response: Elena Cagnoli (UCL, London)
Chair: John Sellars (Royal Holloway, London)
6.00 LOXY dinner
Wednesday May 3rd
10: morning coffee
10.30-12: Karen Margrethe Nielsen (Somerville College, Oxford), ‘The Magna Moralia on Prohairesis’
Chair: David Charles (Yale)
12-2: lunch break
2-3.30: Andrea Buongiorno (Wadham College, Oxford), ‘Ontological multivocity and ontological primacy in Metaphysics Z4’
Response: Simona Aimar (UCL, London)
Chair: Luca Castagnoli (Oriel College, Oxford)
3.30-4 afternoon coffee
4-5.30 Brad Inwood (Yale), ‘Chrysippus and the Embodied Mind’
Chair: MM McCabe (KCL, London)
Knowledge, Value and Modality in Ancient Philosophy
May 13th-14th 2019 at Oxford University
May 13th (Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College)
10.30-12: Simon Shogry (Oxford) Vicious character traits as rational mistakes: the early Stoic account of the diversity of wrongdoing
Response: Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi (UCL)
Chair: Ursula Coope (Oxford)
12.15-1.30: Sandwich lunch
1.30-3pm: Dan Ferguson (Yale), 'The ‘belonging to a kind’ reading of the Eudemian ergon argument'
Response: Karen Margrethe Nielsen (Oxford)
Chair: Sophia Connell (Birkbeck)
3 Tea/coffee
3.30-5pm: Mike Coxhead (KCL), 'Motivating Aristotle’s account of ἐπίστασθαι ἁπλῶς (APo 1.2: 71b9-13): ideal ἐπιστήμη and the value of stability'
Response: Michail Peramatzis (Oxford)
Chair: Udit Bery (Yale)
6pm: Dinner (Al Shami)
May 14th (Harris Room, Oriel College)
10.30-12: Alesia Preite (Oxford), Cognitive Hula Hoop: 'The Role of Sameness and Difference for the World Soul and for Human Souls in the Timaeus'
Response: Mark Kalderon (UCL)
Chair: Verity Harte (Yale)
12.15-1.30: Sandwich lunch
1.30-3: Lea Schroeder (Yale), 'Epictetus on ethical prolēpseis'
Response: Alex Bown (Oxford)
Chair: Fiona Leigh (UCL)
3: Tea/coffee
3.30-5: Simona Aimar (UCL), 'Modality in Aristotle' (tbc)
Response: David Charles (Yale)
Chair: Harry Alanen (Oxford)
