Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (MT 2026)

The Workshop in Ancient Philosophy is a series devoted to discussing work in progress by speakers within and outside Oxford pertaining to the field. Members of the Faculty, students and visitors are welcome.

If you do not hold a university card, please contact admin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk at least two working days before a seminar to register your attendance.

If you would like to go out to dinner with the speaker, then please contact the chair of the meeting before Tuesday of that week. The meals of the chair and the speaker are covered by the faculty; others attend at their own expense.

Seminars will take place on Thursdays at 4pm - 6pm, in the Ryle Room (20.339) in the Schwarzman Centre.

Week 1 (MT 2026)

15 October

Ian Campbell (Heidelberg University): 'Aristotle's Defense of the Excluded Middle'

Week 2 (MT 2026)

22 October

Alex Long (University of St Andrews): 'Platonic protreptic and the unity of the Phaedrus'

Week 6 (MT 2026)

19 November

Michele Pecorari (University of Oxford): 'Why do sceptics have beliefs?'

Week 7 (MT 2026)

26 November

Carlotta Capuccino (University of Bologna): '"A Strange Dream”, “A Strange Image”: The Philosophical Function of Atopia in the Platonic Corpus'

Week 8 (MT 2026)

03 December

Arianna Piazzalunga (University of Geneva / KU Leuven): 'Was Aristotle impious? Plato, Aristotle and the early Academy on soul, motion and teleology'