Events
Colloquium Series
Leading researchers in ancient philosophy come each term to Michigan to present their most recent work and confer with faculty and students. They typically give two colloquia, over several days, with ample opportunity for meetings and meals in between.
Upcoming colloquia
Klaus Corcilius, Universität Tübingen
- 17 March 2023
- Aristotle on Practical Truth
Past colloquia
Gail Fine, Cornell & Oxford
- 17 October 2019
- Seminar: Knowledge & truth in the Greatest Difficulty argument: Plato, Parmenides 133a8–134b5
- 18 October 2019
- Plato on Truth
Mariska Leunissen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- 28 March 2019
- Seminar: The functions of the city–soul analogy in Aristotle's Politics
- 29 March 2019
- Credence, circumstantial evidence & (alternative) facts in Aristotle’s natural sciences
Cynthia Freeland, University of Houston
- 29 November 2018
- Seminar: Aristotle on the science of perception
- 30 November 2018
- Aristotle on shame & moral education: Pleasure, Pain, and Art
Ricardo Salles, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
- 22 March 2018
- Seminar: Why is the cosmos intelligent? (2) Stoic cosmology and Plato, Timaeus 30a2–c1
- 22 March 2018
- A classic problem in the Stoic theory of time
David Charles, Yale University
- 06 April 2017
- Aristotle on Bitter Tastes & Sweet Smells
- 07 April 2017
- Aristotle’ Hylomorphism
David Halperin, University of Michigan
- 01 November 2016
- What is Sex For?
- 15 November 2016
- Appetite & Desire in Plato
Julia Annas, University of Arizona
- 27 October 2016
- Virtue & Heroism
- 28 October 2016
- Virtue, Vice & Evil
Mi-Kyoung Lee, University of Colorado at Boulder
- 12 November 2015
- Aristotle on Virtue & Justice
- 13 November 2015
- Why Aristotle is not an Egoist
James Lennox, University of Pittsburgh
- 16 April 2015
- Induction, Experience & Inquiry
- 17 April 2015
- Aristotle on Inquiry
Russell Jones, Harvard University
- 01 November 2013
- Wisdom & Other Crafts in Plato, Euthydemus 288–292
Pieter Hasper, Indiana University
- 10 October 2013
- Physics and mathematics in Aristotle's account of infinity
Verity Harte, Yale University
- 13 October 2011
- Desire, Memory, and the Authority of Soul: Plato Philebus 35cd
- 14 October 2011
- Ignorance, Vice, and Lies in Plato’s Republic
David Sedley, Cambridge University
- 31 March
- Epicurus’ Kuriai Doxai
- 01 April 2011
- Socrates’ “Second Voyage” (Plato, Phaedo 99d–102a)
Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago
- 01 November 2010
- The Damage of Death: Incomplete Arguments & False Consolations
- 02 November 2010
- Equality & Love at the End of The Marriage of Figaro: Forging Democratic Emotions
Robert Bolton, Rutgers University
- 09 April 2010
- Epistemology & Psychology in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics II 19
Frank Lewis, University of Southern California
- 13 November 2009
- Predication, Kinds & Things in Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Matthew Evans, New York University
- 12 March 2009
- Mental Causes in Plato’s Phædo
- 13 March 2009
- Lessons of the Euthyphro Argument
Dominic Scott, University of Virginia
- 30 October 2008
- Rational Madness in Plato’s Phaædrus
- 31 October 2008
- Aristotle on the Virtues of Slaves and Women:Politics I 13
Richard Kraut, Northwestern University
- 27 March 2008
- Ordinary Virtue in Plato: From the Republic to the Laws
- 28 March 2008
- Politics & the Good: Reflections on Rawls
Katja Vogt, Columbia University
- 04 October 2007
- Stoic Cosmopolitanism
- 05 October 2007
- The Corporeal Soul
Myles Burnyeat, Oxford University Nelson Philosopher in Residence, 2007
- 13 March 2007
- Weakness of Belief
- 14 March 2007
- Other Minds, Other Faces
- 16 March 2007
- Aristotle’s Divine Intellect
Rachel Barney, University of Toronto
- 28 September 2006
- Socrates, Virtue, and the Method of Hypothesis
- 29 September 2006
- Socratic Ethics in Plato’s Republic
Stephen Menn, McGill University
- 09 March 2006
- Wisdom as the Science of Four Causes?
- 10 March 2006
- Aristotle and the “Sophists”
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