Past Keeling Memorial Colloquia
Together with the UCL Department of Greek and Latin, and through the generosity of a private donor, the Department organises a series of Keeling Memorial Colloquia in ancient philosophy.
1st colloquium: Aristotle and Moral Realism (1994)
The first colloquium was arranged by Bob Heinaman, and was held at The Warburg Institute in London.
Wednesday 6 February 1994 to Friday 18 February 1994
Bernard Williams (Berkeley): Acting as the virtuous person acts
Respondent: Rosalind Hursthouse (Open University)
Pierre Aubenque (Paris IV): The twofold natural foundation of justice according to Aristotle
Respondent: Troels Engberg-Pedersen (Copenhagen)
Jonathan Lear (Chicago): Testing the limits: the place of tragedy in Aristotle's ethics
Respondent: Stephen Halliwell (St Andrews)
Sabina Lovibond (Oxford): Aristotelian ethics and the "enlargement of thought"
Respondent: Troels Engberg-Pedersen (Copenhagen)
David Charles (Oxford): Aristotle and modern realism
Respondent: Stephen Everson (York)
John McDowell (Pittsburgh): Eudaimonism and realism in Aristotle's ethics
Respondent: David Wiggins (Oxford)
2nd colloquium: Whose Aristotle? Whose Aristotelianism? (1998)
The second colloquium was arranged by Bob Sharples.
Wednesday 11 November to Saturday 14 November 1998
William Charlton (Hexham, Northumberland): Aquinas on Aristotle on immortality
Respondent: Richard Sorabji (Wolfson College Oxford and King's College London)
Helen S. Lang (Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut): Philoponus' Aristotle: the extension of place
Respondent: Ben Morison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
Enrico Berti (Padua): Brentano and Aristotle's metaphysics
Respondent: Richard Sorabji (Wolfson College Oxford and King's College London)
Ahmed Hasnawi (Paris): La logique comme analyse: la tradition arabe
Respondent: Ben Morison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
Jonathan Barnes (Geneva): John Locke and the syllogism
Respondent: François de Gandt (Paris)
Monique Dixsaut (Paris): Y a-t-il un Aristote de Nietzsche?
Respondent: François de Gandt (Paris)
3rd colloquium: Descartes and Ancient Philosophy (1999)
The third colloquium was arranged by Gerard O'Daly and Martin Stone.
Wednesday 10 November to Saturday 13 November 1999
Gail Fine (Cornell University): Descartes and Ancient Scepticism
Respondent: Christopher Taylor (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin Madison): Knowledge, Volitional Agency and Causation: Cartesian and Aristotelian Intuitions
Respondent: Sarah Patterson (King’s College London)
Daniel Garber (University of Chicago): Descartes and the Archimedean Revival
Respondent: Tom Sorrell (University of Essex)
J-M. Beyssade (University of Paris-Sorbonne): La figure de Sosie chez Plaute et l'ego de Descartes
Respondent: Jan Opsomer (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Stephen Menn (McGill University): The Discourse on the Method and the Tradition of Intellectual Autobiography
Respondent: Vivian Nutton (The Wellcome Institute London)
John Cottingham (Reading University): The Virtues: Classical and Cartesian Virtue
Respondent: Martin Stone (King’s College London)
4th colloquium: Plato and Aristotle's Ethics (2001)
The fourth colloquium was arranged by Bob Heinaman.
Wednesday 7 November to Friday 9 November 2001
Christopher Taylor (Oxford): Pleasure: Aristotle's Response to Plato
Respondent: Sarah Broadie (St Andrews)
Terry Irwin (Cornell): Glaucon's Challenge: does Aristotle change his mind?
Respondent: Anthony Kenny (Oxford)
Anthony Price (Birkbeck): The Irreducibility of the Ethical in Plato and Aristotle
Respondent: Sarah Broadie (St Andrews)
Roger Crisp (Oxford): Socrates and Aristotle on Happiness and Virtue
Respondent: Christopher Rowe (Durham)
John Cooper (Princeton): Plato and Aristotle on "Finality" and "(Self-)Sufficiency"
Respondent: Anthony Kenny (Oxford)
Richard Kraut (Northwestern): Justice in Plato and Aristotle: Withdrawal versus Engagement
Respondent: Christopher Rowe (Durham)
5th colloquium: Philosophy and the Sciences in Antiquity (2003)
The fifth colloquium was arranged by Bob Sharples.
Wednesday 5 November to Friday 7 November 2003
André Laks (Université de Lille-Charles de Gaulle III): How does the distinction between philosophy and sciences help us in understanding the beginnings of Greek thought?
Respondent: Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Dominic O'Meara (University of Fribourg): The Music of Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Respondent: Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Jim Hankinson (University of Texas at Austin): Can One Science Employ the Axioms of Another? Aristotle on 'Kind-Crossing'
Respondent: Lindsay Judson (Christ Church, Oxford)
Jim Lennox (University of Pittsburgh): The Place of Zoology in Aristotle's Natural Philosophy
Respondent: Lindsay Judson (Christ Church, Oxford)
Philip van der Eijk (University of Newcastle): Between Hippocrates and the Alexandrians: Medicine, philosophy and science in the fourth century BCE
Respondent: Manuela Tecusan (Wellcome Trust/UCL)
Geoffrey Lloyd (University of Cambridge): Galen: Philosophy, Mathematics and Medicine
Respondent: Vivian Nutton (Wellcome Trust/UCL)
6th colloquium: Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics (2006)
The sixth colloquium was arranged by Bob Heinaman.
Wednesday 8 November to Friday 10 November 2006
Christopher Rowe (Durham): The Eudemian Ethics on Loving Things and People
Respondent: Julia Annas (Arizona)
Jennifer Whiting (Toronto): Friendship
Respondent: M.M. McCabe (King's College London)
M.M. McCabe (King's College London): With Mirrors or Without? Self-perception in Eudemian Ethics VII.12
Respondent: Julia Annas (Arizona)
Friedemann Buddensiek (Würzburg): Does Good Fortune Matter? Eudemian Ethics VIII.2 on eutuchia
Respondent: Sarah Broadie (St Andrews)
Stephen White (University of Texas at Austin): Eudaimonia in the Eudemian Ethics
Respondent: Sarah Broadie (St Andrews)
David Charles (Oxford) Title TBC
Respondent: Jennifer Whiting (Toronto)
7th colloquium: Particulars in Greek Philosophy (2007)
The seventh colloquium was arranged by Bob Sharples.
Wednesday 7 November to Friday 9 November 2007
Robert Wardy (Cambridge): Moral vision and legislating for the good in Aristotle
Respondent: Peter Adamson (King's College London)
Carlo Natali (Venice): Particular virtues in the NE of Aristotle
Respondent: Terry Irwin (Oxford)
Verity Harte (Yale): What’s a particular, and what makes it so? Some thoughts, mainly about Aristotle
Respondent: Peter Adamson (King's College London)
Christopher Gill (Exeter): Particulars, selves and individuals in Stoic philosophy
Respondent: Angie Hobbs (Warwick)
Marwan Rashed (Paris): Particulars in Alexander of Aphrodisias
Respondent: Peter Adamson (King's College London)
8th colloquium: Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy (2009)
The eighth colloquium was arranged by Bob Sharples and Fiona Leigh.
Wednesday 11 November to Friday 13 November 2009
M.M. McCabe (King’s College London): From the cradle to the cave: what happened to self-knowledge in the Republic?
Respondent: Amber Carpenter (York)
Aryeh Kosman (Haverford): Self-knowledge and self-control in the Charmides: the self as object and companion
Respondent: Amber Carpenter (York)
Melissa Lane (Princeton): Weakness of virtue, not will: Plato on self-knowledge and akrasia
Respondent: Miriam Leonard (University College London)
Tad Brennan (Cornell): Reading Plato's Mind
Respondent: Miriam Leonard (University College London)
Jean-Baptiste Gourinat (Paris): Self-perception and perception of one's body in Stoicism
Respondent: John Sellars (University of the West of England, Bristol)
Gwenaëlle Aubry (Paris): An alternative to Cartesianism? Plotinus's theory of the Self and its posterity in Ralph Cudworth
Respondent: Peter Adamson (King's College London)