People
Academic staff working mainly in
Ancient Philosophy
Prof Alex Long
Classics
Early Greek philosophy, Plato and Hellenistic philosophy, especially political theory, death and immortality and (in Plato) dialogue and philosophy
Email: [email protected]
Academic staff with research interests in
Ancient Philosophy
Dr Jon Hesk
Classics
Ancient ethics (especially virtues and vices) and political thought
Email: [email protected]
Prof Stephen Halliwell
Classics
Ancient philosophical aesthetics and poetics, especially in Plato and Aristotle
Email: [email protected]
Visiting scholars
We welcome inquiries from academic staff and PhD students looking to visit St Andrews. Please send inquiries to Jason Carter, Margaret Hampson and Alex Long at the email addresses above. In recent years we have hosted Sophie-Grace Chappell (Open University), Jordi Pia Comella (Neuchâtel) and Mehmet Erginel (EMU).
Graduate students
Current
Darcey Merison (Philosophy): Persuasion and psychology in Plato and Aristotle
Stefano Parrinello (Classics): Middle Stoicism.
Annie Waters (Philosophy): Aristotle on Shame.
Recently graduated
Dr. Aistė Čelkytė (Classics): Hellenistic philosophical schools (especially Stoicism), Galen, ancient aesthetics, Plato and the Platonist tradition, ancient metaphysics and epistemology, ancient science. Currently Postdoc in the Galen Project of the Department for Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University.
Dr I Xuan Chong (Philosophy): The unity of the virtues in Plato and Aristotle
Dr Mary Dodd (International Relations): Ancient political theory, especially Greek constitutional thought in Plato and Aristotle
Dr Li Fan (Philosophy): Plato, Ancient Ethics, Ancient Metaphysics. Now teaching at the School of Humanities, Tongji University (China).
Dr Manlio Fossati (Classics): Plato’s myths; ethics and responsibility in Plato.
Dr. Janine Gühler (Philosophy): Aristotle’s and Plato’s philosophy of mathematics, Aristotle’s critique of Plato’s theory of Forms, Aristotle’s metaphysic and epistemology. Currently stipendiary lecturer in philosophy at Worcester College, University of Oxford.
Dr Andres Hernandez Villareal (Philosophy)
Dr Hannah Laurens (Philosophy): Aristotle’s metaphysics and psychology, especially Aristotle’s theory of the intellect, Spinoza. Currently lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Groningen.
Dr Lorenzo Lazzarini (Philosophy)
Dr Tosca Lynch (Classics): Ancient Greek music, Athenian mousiké, Plato’s musical aesthetics and its educational, psychological and ethical implications.
Dr Wolfgang Sattler (Philosophy): Aristotle’s ontology, in particular his essentialism and his notion of substance; contemporary essentialism and modality. Currently post-doc at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Dr Matthew Shelton (Classics): Socratic and Hellenistic philosophy, ancient psychology, especially madness. Now lecturer in Classics at the University of Cape Town.
Dr Matthijs Wibier (Classics): Hellenistic philosophy, doxography, causation and law, Roman legal scholarship, history of education. Now Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
