KEELING COLLOQUIA
Colloquia on a theme or text in ancient philosophy are held every 3-4 years and organised in conjunction with the Department of Greek and Latin at UCL.
KEELING VOLUMES
Psychology and Value in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy: The Ninth Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, edited by Fiona Leigh and Margaret Hampson (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022)
Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy: The Eighth Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, edited by Fiona Leigh (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020)
The Eudemian Ethics on the Voluntary, Friendship, and Luck: The Sixth Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, edited by Fiona Leigh (Brill, 2012)
Particulars in Greek Philosophy: The Seventh S.V. Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, edited by Robert Sharples (Brill, 2009)
Philosophy and the Sciences in Antiquity, edited by Robert Sharples (Aldershot and Burlington, Ashgate, 2005; republished London, Routledge 2010)
Plato and Aristotle's Ethics, edited by Robert Heinaman (Aldershot and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2003)
Whose Aristotle? Whose Aristotelianism? edited by Robert Sharples (Aldershot and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2001)
Aristotle and Moral Realism, edited by Robert Heinaman (London, Routledge, 1998)
UPCOMING
The Eleventh Keeling Colloquium: Plato on Learning to be Good 1: Early Dialogues & the Republic
Organised by Fiona Leigh (UCL), Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi (UCL), Margaret Hampson (St. Andrews)
7th-10th September 2026 (Room 106, Gordon House, 29 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PP)
Monday 7th September
10.30 coffee
11-11.45 Opening remarks
11.45-1.15 Marta Jimenez (Complutense University of Madrid), 'Active Ignorance, Epistemic Humility, and the Transformational Value of Socratic Refutation in Plato’s Apology'
1.15-2.30 lunch
2.30-4 Pauliina Remes (Uppsala University), 'Alcibiades I on What I Need to Know to be Just'
4.30-6 Patricia Marechal (UNC Chapel Hill), 'Self and Others in Alcibiades I'
Tuesday 8th September
9.30 coffee
10-11.30 Alex Long (St. Andrews), 'Philosophical Conversation as Moral Test in the Laches & other aporetic dialogues'
11.45-1.15 James Wilberding (Humboldt University), 'Odyssean Endurance and Platonic Courage'
1.15-2.30 lunch
2.30-4 Ellisif Wasmuth (University of Essex), 'echeis moi eipein: Telling, Talking, and Moral Education in the Meno'
4.30-6 Joachim Aufderheide (King’s College London), 'Moral Education in Plato’s Gorgias: An Analysis of Absence'
Wednesday 9th September
9.30 coffee
10-11.30 Wenjin Liu (Duke University), 'Moral (Mis)Education in Plato’s Protagoras'
11.45-1.15 MM McCabe (King’s College London), 'Imperfect Learning'
1.15-2.30 lunch
2.30-4 Emily Fletcher (University of Wisconsin Madison), 'Two Forms of Education in Plato’s Republic'
4.30-6 Merrick Anderson (University of Southern California), 'Rethinking Akrasia, Education, and More, Or: The Importance of Republic 412e-414b'
Thursday 10th September
9.30 coffee
10-11.30 Rachel Singpurwalla (University of Maryland), 'The Role of the Communal Family in Inculcating Virtue'
11.45-1.15 Raphael Woolf (King’s College London, University College London), 'Corrupting the Young and its Causes in Plato’s Republic'
1.15-2.30 lunch
2.30-4 Gabriel Richardson Lear (University of Chicago), 'Turning to See the Forms: Education for Wisdom in Plato’s Republic'
4-4.30 Closing remarks
Attendance is free & open to all, but please register by emailing india.griffiths.18@ucl.ac.uk
PAST KEELING COLLOQUIA
The Tenth Keeling Colloquium: Method in Ancient Philosophy (04/11/2013-06/11/2013)
Organised by Jenny Bryan
David Sedley (University of Cambridge) 'Epicurus on Dialectic'
Respondent: Fiona Leigh (UCL)
Hugh Benson (Oklahoma) 'Dialectic in the Cave'
Respondent: David Lee (Oxford)
Joachim Aufderheide (KCL) 'Dreaming and skepticism in Plato'
Respondent: David Sedley (Cambridge)
Valentina Di Lascio (Paris) 'Sophistical vs merely apparent arguments. An analysis of Sophistical Refutations 8 and 10'
Respondent: Paolo Crivelli (Geneva) and discussion time
Jamie Dow (Leeds) 'Socrates' challenge: why dialogue is better than speechmaking'
Respondent: Nicholas Denyer (Cambridge) and discussion time
Myrto Hatzimichali (Cambridge) 'Posidonius' "Aristotelising" method'
Respondent: Christopher Gill (Exeter) and discussion time
The Ninth Keeling Colloquium: Moral Psychology in Ancient Philosophy (07/11/2011-09/11/2011)
Organised by Fiona Leigh
Jessica Moss (Oxford): 'Bare Urges and Good-Independent Desires: Appetites in Republic IV'
Respondent: M.M. McCabe (King's College London)
Matthew Evans (Michigan): 'The Blind Desires of Republic IV'
Respondent: M.M. McCabe (King's College London)
Rachel Barney (Toronto): 'Virtue, Intellectualism, and the Method of Hypothesis'
Respondent: Terry Irwin (Oxford)
James Warren (Cambridge): 'Memory, Anticipation, Pleasure'
Respondent: Anthony Price (Birkbeck)
Raphael Woolf (King's College London), 'Courage and Pleasure in Aristotle's Ethics'
Respondent: Sarah Broadie (St. Andrews)
Daniel Russell (Arizona): 'Two Mistakes about Stoic Ethics'
Respondent: David Sedley (Cambridge)
The Eighth Keeling Colloquium: Self-knowledge in Ancient Philosophy (11/11/2009-13/11/2009)
Organised by Fiona Leigh and Bob Sharples
M.M. McCabe (King's College London): 'From the cradle to the cave: what happened to
self-knowledge in the Republic?'
Respondent: Amber Carpenter (York)
Aryeh Kosman (Haverford): 'Self-knowledge and self-control in the Charmides: the self as
object and companion'
Respondent: Amber Carpenter (York)
Melissa Lane (Princeton): 'Weakness of virtue, not will: Plato on self-knowledge and akrasia'
Respondent: Miriam Leonard (University College London)
Tad Brennan (Cornell): 'Reading Plato's Mind'
Respondent: Miriam Leonard (University College London)
Jean-Baptiste Gourinat (Paris): 'Self-perception and perception of one's body in Stoicism'
Respondent: John Sellars (University of the West of England, Bristol)
Gwenaëlle Aubry (Paris): 'An alternative to Cartesianism? Plotinus's theory of the Self
and its posterity in Ralph Cudworth'
Respondent: Peter Adamson (King's College London)
The Seventh Keeling Colloquium (07/11/2007-09/11/2007)
Organised by Bob Sharples
Robert Wardy (Cambridge): 'Moral vision and legislating for the good in Aristotle'
Respondent: Peter Adamson (King's College London)
Carlo Natali (Venice): 'Particular virtues in the NE of Aristotle'
Respondent: Terry Irwin (Oxford)
Verity Harte (Yale): 'What's a particular, and what makes it so? Some thoughts, mainly about Aristotle'
Respondent: Peter Adamson (King's College London)
Christopher Gill (Exeter): 'Particulars, selves and individuals in Stoic philosophy'
Respondent: Angie Hobbs (Warwick)
Marwan Rashed (Paris): 'Particulars in Alexander of Aphrodisias'
Respondent: Peter Adamson (King's College London)
The Sixth Keeling Colloquium (08/11/2006-10/11/2006)
Organised by Bob Heinaman
Christopher Rowe (Durham): 'The Eudemian Ethics on Loving Things and People'
Respondent: Julia Annas (Arizona)
Jennifer Whiting (Toronto): Friendship
Respondent: M.M. McCabe (King's College London)
M.M. McCabe (King's College London): 'With Mirrors or Without? Self-perception in Eudemian Ethics VII.12'
Respondent: Julia Annas (Arizona)
Friedemann Buddensiek (Würzburg): Does Good Fortune Matter? Eudemian Ethics VIII.2 on eutuchia
Respondent: Sarah Broadie (St Andrews)
Stephen White (University of Texas at Austin): Eudaimonia in the Eudemian Ethics
Respondent: Sarah Broadie (St Andrews)
David Charles (Oxford) Eudemian Ethics on the Voluntary
Respondent: Jennifer Whiting (Toronto)
The Fifth Keeling Colloquium: Philosophy and the Sciences in Antiquity (05/11/2003-07/11/2003)
Organised by Bob Sharples
André Laks (Université de Lille-Charles de Gaulle III): 'How does the distinction between philosophy and sciences help us in understanding the beginnings of Greek thought?'
Respondent: Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway)
Dominic O'Meara (University of Fribourg): 'The Music of Philosophy in Late Antiquity'
Respondent: Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Jim Hankinson (University of Texas at Austin): 'Can One Science Employ the Axioms of Another? Aristotle on 'Kind-Crossing''
Respondent: Lindsay Judson (Christ Church, Oxford)
Jim Lennox (University of Pittsburgh): 'The Place of Zoology in Aristotle's Natural Philosophy'
Respondent: Lindsay Judson (Christ Church, Oxford)
Philip van der Eijk (University of Newcastle): 'Between Hippocrates and the Alexandrians: Medicine, philosophy and science in the fourth century BCE'
Respondent: Manuela Tecusan (Wellcome Trust/UCL)
Geoffrey Lloyd (University of Cambridge): 'Galen: Philosophy, Mathematics and Medicine'
Respondent: Vivian Nutton (Wellcome Trust/UCL)
The Fourth Keeling Colloquium: Plato and Aristotle's Ethics (07/11/2001-09/11/2001)
Organised by Bob Heinaman
Christopher Taylor (Oxford): Pleasure: Aristotle's Response to Plato
Respondent: Sarah Broadie (St Andrews)
Terry Irwin (Cornell): Glaucon's Challenge: does Aristotle change his mind?
Respondent: Anthony Kenny (Oxford)
Anthony Price (Birkbeck): The Irreducibility of the Ethical in Plato and Aristotle
Respondent: Sarah Broadie (St Andrews)
Roger Crisp (Oxford): Socrates and Aristotle on Happiness and Virtue
Respondent: Christopher Rowe (Durham)
John Cooper (Princeton): Plato and Aristotle on "Finality" and "(Self-)Sufficiency"
Respondent: Anthony Kenny (Oxford)
Richard Kraut (Northwestern): Justice in Plato and Aristotle: Withdrawal versus Engagement
Respondent: Christopher Rowe (Durham)
The Third Keeling Colloquium: Descartes and Ancient Philosophy (10/11/1999-13/11/1999)
Organised by Gerard O'Daly and Martin Stone
Gail Fine (Cornell University): 'Descartes and Ancient Scepticism'
Respondent: Christopher Taylor (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin Madison): 'Knowledge, Volitional Agency and Causation: Cartesian and Aristotelian Intuitions'
Respondent: Sarah Patterson (King's College London)
Daniel Garber (University of Chicago): 'Descartes and the Archimedean Revival'
Respondent: Tom Sorrell (University of Essex)
J-M. Beyssade (University of Paris-Sorbonne): 'La figure de Sosie chez Plaute et l'ego de Descartes'
Respondent: Jan Opsomer (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Stephen Menn (McGill University): 'The Discourse on the Method and the Tradition of Intellectual Autobiography'
Respondent: Vivian Nutton (The Wellcome Institute London)
John Cottingham (Reading University): 'The Virtues: Classical and Cartesian Virtue'
Respondent: Martin Stone (King's College London)
The Second Keeling Colloquium: Whose Aristotle? Whose Aristotelianism? (11/11/1998-14/11/1998)
Organised by Bob Sharples
William Charlton (Hexham, Northumberland): 'Aquinas on Aristotle on immortality'
Respondent: Richard Sorabji (Wolfson College Oxford and King's College London)
Helen S. Lang (Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut): 'Philoponus' Aristotle: the extension of place'
Respondent: Ben Morison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
Enrico Berti (Padua): 'Brentano and Aristotle's metaphysics'
Respondent: Richard Sorabji (Wolfson College Oxford and King's College London)
Ahmed Hasnawi (Paris): 'La logique comme analyse: la tradition arabe'
Respondent: Ben Morison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
Jonathan Barnes (Geneva): John Locke and the syllogism
Respondent: François de Gandt (Paris)
Monique Dixsaut (Paris): Y a-t-il un Aristote de Nietzsche?
Respondent: François de Gandt (Paris)
The First Keeling Colloquium: Aristotle and Moral Realism (06/02/1994-08/02/1994)
Organised by Bob Heinaman
Bernard Williams (Berkeley): 'Acting as the virtuous person acts'
Respondent: Rosalind Hursthouse (Open University)
Pierre Aubenque (Paris IV): 'The twofold natural foundation of justice according to Aristotle'
Respondent: Troels Engberg-Pedersen (Copenhagen)
Jonathan Lear (Chicago): 'Testing the limits: the place of tragedy in Aristotle's ethics'
Respondent: Stephen Halliwell (St Andrews)
Sabina Lovibond (Oxford): 'Aristotelian ethics and the "enlargement of thought"'
Respondent: Troels Engberg-Pedersen (Copenhagen)
David Charles (Oxford): 'Aristotle and modern realism'
Respondent: Stephen Everson (York)
John McDowell (Pittsburgh): 'Eudaimonism and realism in Aristotle's ethics'
Respondent: David Wiggins (Oxford)