• A E Taylor Lecture 2008

Alfred Edward Taylor, a renowned Plato scholar and moral philosopher, was Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh from 1924 to 1941. For further details of his life see the entry A. E. Taylor in the biographies of the Centre for the Study of Scottish Philosophy. Previous lectures have been given by:

 

2008-9 (14 lecture)

Gail Fine, Cornell and Oxford University

Sceptical Inquiry

2007-8 (13th lecture)

Christopher Rowe, Durham University

Plato the Socratic

2006-7 (12th Lecture)

Brad Inwood, University of Toronto

Why should the Stoic study physics?

2005-6 (11th Lecture)
Christopher Gill, University of Exeter

Holism in Stoic Psychology and Ethics

2004-5 (10th Lecture)
David Sedley, University of Cambridge

The atomists' critique of creationism

2003-4 (9th Lecture)
Christopher Taylor, University of Oxford
Socrates

2002-3 (8th Lecture)
Keimpe Algra, University of Utrecht
Epicurus and Gassendi on Astronomy and the Sun

2001-2 (7th Lecture)
Sarah Broadie, University of St Andrews
The Contents of the Receptacle

2000-1 (6th Lecture)
Michael Frede University of Oxford
Sextus Empiricus on the Origin of Philosophy

1999-2000 (5th Lecture)
Malcolm Schofield, University of Cambridge
The Noble Lie

1998-9 (4th Lecture)
Myles Burnyeat All Souls College, Oxford
Plato on why Mathematics is Good for the Soul

1997-8 (3rd Lecture)
R.W.Sharples, University College, London
Peripatetic Theology

1996-7 (2nd Lecture)
David Charles, Oriel College, Oxford
Aristotle's Essentialism

1995-6 (1st Lecture)
David Furley, Oxford
The Creation Story in Plato's Timaeus and Aristotle's Response

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