Summer and Winter

Research Group in Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy

Two online workshops in August 2023, with presentations by a guest speaker and several presentations by PhD students. For details please see below.

Friday August 18 EST Zoom

8:45-9:45: Taylor Pincin, “Aristotle’s Mereologies and the Indivisibility of Form” with comments by Wooseok Kim

9:45-10:30: Tahlia Pajaczkowska-Russell, “On the Moral Psychology and Epistemology of Self-Deception” with comments by Ruby Smith

10:35-11:20: Molly Gurdon Pinkoski, “Answering Peter Geach: Aristotelian Virtue Ethics and Hard Cases” with comments by Aaron Xiaolong Wang

11:20-12:05: Luke Lea, “Physis, Function, and the Division of Goods in Republic II” with comments by Natalie Hannan (Duke University)

12:10-12:55: Abigail Breuker, “The Dialectical Requirement in Plato’s Meno” with comments by Sebastiano Belleggia

Thursday August 31 EST Zoom

9-10: Avery Archer (George Washington University), “Agnosticism” with comments by Helen Han Wei Luo

10-10:45: Anthony Hejduk, “The Stoic Theory of Imperatives” with comments by Noah Betz-Richman

11-11:45: Margaret Corn, “The Mathematics of the Divided Line” with comments by Taylor Pincin

11:45-12:30: Qian Cao, “Different Audience of Imitative Poetry: A Tale About Human Psychology in Republic 3 and 10” with comments by James Clay

12:45-1:30: Jake Haagenson, “Self-knowledge in the Platonic Alcibiades” with comments by Mariana Beatriz Noé (Harvard University)


These activities are co-funded by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Classical Studies Graduate Program, and Philosophy Department.