School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Alfred Edward Taylor Lectures

Alfred Edward Taylor, a renowned Plato scholar and moral philosopher, was Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh from 1924 to 1941. Wikipedia biography of Alfred Edward Taylor. Previous lectures have been given by:

2011-2012 (Lecture 17)
Professor Richard Sorabji, CBE, FBA, King's College London & Wolfson College, Oxford
Moral Conscience: Ancient Origins of the Idea and Its Historical Aftermath
2010-2011 (Lecture 16)
Stephen Makin, University of Sheffield
Amusing Gorgias
2009-2010 (Lecture 15)
Edward Hussey, All Souls College, Oxford
TBA
2008-2009 (Lecture 14)
Gail Fine, Cornell and Oxford University
Sceptical Inquiry (pdf)
2007-2008 (Lecture 13)
Christopher Rowe, Durham University
Plato the Socratic (pdf)
2006-2007 (Lecture 12)
Brad Inwood, University of Toronto
Why should the Stoic study physics? (pdf)
2005-2006 (Lecture 11)
Christopher Gill, University of Exeter
Holism in Stoic Psychology and Ethics
2004-2005 (Lecture 10)
David Sedley, University of Cambridge
The atomists' critique of creationism
2003-2004 (Lecture 9)
Christopher Taylor, University of Oxford
Socrates
2002-2003 (Lecture 8)
Keimpe Algra, University of Utrecht
Epicurus and Gassendi on Astronomy and the Sun
2001-2002 (Lecture 7)
Sarah Broadie, University of St Andrews
The Contents of the Receptacle
2000-2001 (Lecture 6)
Michael Frede, University of Oxford
Sextus Empiricus on the Origin of Philosophy
1999-2000 (Lecture 5)
Malcolm Schofield, University of Cambridge
The Noble Lie
1998-1999 (Lecture 4)
Myles Burnyeat, All Souls College, Oxford
Plato on why Mathematics is Good for the Soul
1997-1998 (Lecture 3)
R.W.Sharples, University College, London
Peripatetic Theology
1996-1997 (Lecture 2)
David Charles, Oriel College, Oxford
Aristotle's Essentialism
1995-1996 (Lecture 1)
David Furley, Oxford
The Creation Story in Plato's Timaeus and Aristotle's Response