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Convenor: Prof. Michail Peramatzis

Venue: Worcester College
Time: Fridays, 11am-1pm
Text: Aristotle’s Physics III (starting from III.5)

 
While this Graduate and Faculty reading group is not listed in the Philosophy Faculty lecture or seminar lists, it has been taking place for several decades now. It is organised by Prof. Michail Peramatzis, whom you should contact if you would like to take part (michail.peramatzis@philosophy.ox.ac.uk).

 

We shall resume our discussion of the Physics (from III.5, 205b8) on Friday of week 1 (October 17) at 11am-1pm in Seminar Room A, Worcester College (in staircase 5 of the main quad). 

 

Convenors: Prof. Alexander Bown, Prof. Luca Castagnoli, Prof. Marion Durand, Prof. Simon Shogry, Dr. Stefan Sienkiewicz

Venue: Oriel College, MacGregor Room (third quad)
Time: Mondays, 2-3.30pm
Text: Sextus Empiricus, Against the Logicians II (M VIII) 1-139

In Michaelmas Term 2025 and Hilary Term 2026 we will read the opening part of book 2 of Sextus Empiricus’ Against the Logicians. After discussing criteria of truth in the final part of book 1, in this self-contained part of book 2 Sextus focuses on ‘the true’ (to alēthes), raising questions about the very existence, nature and locus of it. In the process, he engages with several ancient theories of truth, including those of Democritus, Plato, the Epicureans and the Stoics.

More information can be found here.