Ancient Philosophy Workshop

The Joint Classics-Philosophy Graduate Program in Ancient Philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to present the 49th Annual Ancient Philosophy Workshop, which will take place on March 27, 2026 in the David L. Miller Conference Room, Waggener Hall 316 and March 28, 2026 in Waggener Hall 116.

Schedule

FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2026 – David L. Miller Conference Room, Waggener Hall 316

10:15-10:30 – Opening Remarks 

10:30-12:00 – Diego García Rincón (Toronto) – The Proof of the Existence of Forms in Plato’s Timaeus (51d–52a)
––Respondent: Van Tu (San Bernardino)

1:30-3:00 – Jiyao Tang (Santa Barbara) – Strict-Energeia in Aristotle’s Metaphysics 1048b18-35
––Respondent: Landon Hobbs (Berkeley)

3:30-5:30 – Keynote – Christopher Frey (Tulsa) – On Death’s Cause

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2026 – Waggener Hall 116

9:30-11:00 – Frank Li (Harvard) – Self as a User of Tools: Teleology in Alcibiades 129b–130d
––Respondent: Melle van Duijn (Oklahoma)

11:15-12:45 – Soham Shiva (Stanford) – Indeterminate Motion and the Limits of Phantasia: Aristotle on Incomplete Animals in De Anima III.11
––Respondent: Glenn Zhou (Texas A&M)

2:15-3:45 – Leonardo Chiocchetti (Munich) – Something is Nothing: The Stoics on the Supreme Genus of Reality
––Respondent: Zhonghua Zheng (UT Austin)

4:00-5:30 – Vikram Kumar (Purdue) – Essence and Modality in Porphyry’s Isagoge
––Respondent: Ross Preuss-Greene (UT Austin)

 

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