LOXY Ancient Philosophy Conference
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)
