Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (TT 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 (TT 2026)

30 April

Verity Harte (Yale/Oxford): 'Outside In: Theorizing Pleasure'

Week 2 (TT 2026)

07 May

Giuseppe Cumella (University of Oxford): 'The Aim and Argument of Politics 3.4.'

Week 4 (TT 2026)

21 May

Samuel Baker (University of South Alabama): 'Aristotle, Hesiod, and the Human Ergon: On the ‘Original Public Meaning’ of NE I 7, 1097b28-33'

Week 5 (TT 2026)

28 May

Bradford Kim (University of Southampton): 'Aristotle’s Politics on Self-Love'

Week 6 (TT 2026)

04 June

Patricio Fernandez (University of Texas at Austin): 'Aristotle on crafts and epistemic community'