Fiona Leigh, an associate professor of Philosophy at University College London, currently focuses her research on Plato’s metaphysics, in particular his later period dialogue, the “Sophist.”
The theme for the 2022 ATWAP conference is “The Reception of Plato: Then and Now.” This year’s conference will offer occasion to celebrate the work of Professor Harold Tarrant, on his 75th birthday and retirement from the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Doug Campbell on Plato.
Professor Sedley’s research is in 1st century BC philosophy and Plato’s Phaedo. His publications include Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity, 2007 (Berkeley) and The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato’s Theaetetus, 2004 (Oxford).
The Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy welcomes George Boys-Stones, Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. Professor Boys-Stones will lead a seminar on “Alcibiades’ Error: Moral Beauty in Plato’s Symposium”.
