KEELING WORKSHOPS
The Keeling Centre runs various workshops, some in collaboration with other institutions, some independently, on a range of topics in ancient philosophy. You can find out about previous workshops here:
PLATO'S METAPHYSICS, 2023
Thursday 18th May
David Ebrey (Barcelona), ‘Causation and Teleology in Socrates’ Autobiography’
Gábor Betegh (Cambridge), ‘The Functions of the Receptacle’
Fiona Leigh (UCL), ‘A Metaphysical Argument for Forms in Plato’s Sophist?’
Friday 19th May
Béatrice Lienemann (Fribourg), ‘Self-predication and Self-participation in Plato’
Roberto Granieri (KU Leuven), ‘Plato on Not-Being as a Part of Difference’
Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell), ‘Measurement and Commensuration in Plato’
Matthew Duncombe (Nottingham), ‘Of Cabbages and Things: Stilpo of Megara’s Critique of the Forms’
NEW APPROACHES TO ANCIENT GREEK MORALISM AND IMMORALISM, 2023
Saturday 4th February, 2023
Karen Margrethe Nielsen (Oxford), ‘What the Lions said to the Hares: Callicles and Thrasymachus on Justice and Proportionate Equality'
Dominic Scott (Oxford), 'Aristotle's Defence of Moralism in the Politics'
Kinch Hoekstra (Berkeley), 'Moralism and Amoralism in Thucydides'
Sunday, 5th February, 2023
Simon Shogry (Oxford) 'Seneca on the Hedonist Critique of Immoralism'
Merrick Anderson (UCL) 'The Dorian Rogue in Context: On the Intellectual History of Glaucon and Adeimantus' Challenge'
Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh) 'Doing Wrong in Secret in Euripides' Hippolytus'
PLATO AND THE SOPHISTS WORKSHOP, 2020
Thursday 20th February 2020
Timothy Clarke (Berkeley), ‘Polyxenus and the Third Man’
Merrick Anderson (UCL), ‘Sophistic Dialectic in Republic 2?’
Rachel Barney (Toronto), ‘Protagoras the Pluralist’
Friday 21st February
Fiona Leigh (UCL), ‘A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing? Socrates and Sophistry in the Sophist and the Euthydemus’
Saloni de Souza (UCL), ‘We Don't Need No Education: Sophistry in the Euthydemus’
2.15-3.45 Evan Rodriguez (Idaho), ‘Mapping Methodological Connections Among Plato and the Sophists’
4-5.30 Luca Castagnoli (Oxford), ‘Plato on Fallacies as Appearances’
UCL-YALE VIRTUE AND VALUE IN PLATO AND ARISTOTLE
Monday 22nd May 2017
Verity Harte (Yale) 'Plato's Philebus and some 'Value of Knowledge' Problems'
Allison Glassock (Yale) 'The Discipline of Virtue Learning and Knowldge in the Protagoras
Fiona Leigh (UCL) 'Mimesis and Appearances in the Sophist and Laws'
Amanda Greene (UCL) 'Freedom and Obedience in Plato's Laws'
MM McCabe (UCL, KCL, Cambridge) 'Re-reading Glaucon's Challenge: Plato's Distinction in Goodness'
Tuesday 23rd May, 2017
Joachim Aufderheide (KCL) 'Do We Have to be Philosophers to be Happy?Issues for the Best Lives in EN X'
Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi (UCL, Geneva) 'Aristotle in Wishes, Decisions and the Fundamental Structure of Akratic Action'
Margaret Hampson (UCL) 'Virtue and Action in NE III 4'
David Charles (Yale) 'Some Queries about the Fine in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
