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MR. LAWRENCE EVANS

Keeling Research Assistant, PhD Student, Department of Philosophy

Lawrence Evans received his MPhil. Stud. from UCL at the end of 2019, with a thesis on Aristotle’s function argument in the Nicomachean Ethics. He started his PhD at UCL in 2020, with a thesis on Aristotle’s conception of happiness (eudaimonia) in the Nicomachean Ethics, jointly supervised by Dr Fiona Leigh and Dr Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi. Before coming to UCL, he completed an MSc in Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Besides Aristotle’s ethics, he has research interests in Plato and in happiness and the good life in Ancient Greek philosophy. He has taught a number of modules in the philosophy department at UCL, including Introduction to Ancient Philosophy, Plato, and Applied Ethics, and a module titled ‘Evolution, Science and Morality’ at Birkbeck, University of London. He has also taught at the UCL Summer School in Ancient Philosophy for the past three years. In May 2023, he was appointed Keeling Research Assistant in the Keeling Centre for Ancient Philosophy at UCL.

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