Fifth Annual Stanford Ancient Philosophy Conference: Ancient and Contemporary Metaethics
Sponsored by the Towards Citizenship Fund, the Purtill fund and the Stanford Philosophy Department.
The guiding idea
Although contemporary metaethics has flourished in recent years, it seems that ancient Greek metaethics has been neglected. This conference is designed to bring together philosophers working on contemporary metaethics and ancient philosophers working in ancient value theory in the hope that we can start a cross-discipline discussion and promote future research on this topic. This Stanford based conference will be paired with a sister conference in Berlin on the same topic taking place in June 2024.
The Speakers
David Plunkett, co-organiser
David Plunkett is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Dartmouth College. His core areas of current research include ethics (especially metaethics), philosophy of law, philosophy of language, philosophical methodology, epistemology, and social/political philosophy. He is currently a research fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) in Berlin for the academic year of 2023-2024.
With comments provided by Russell McIntosh (Berkeley)
Christopher Bobonich, co-organiser
Christopher Bobonich is the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He works on topics in Greek ethics, political theory, psychology and related issues in epistemology and metaphysics.
With comments provided by Armando Perez-Gea (Stanford)
Tristram McPherson
Tristram McPherson is a professor and Placement Director at the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University. The heart of his research concerns foundational philosophical questions about ethics such as whether it can be an objective fact that an action is right (or wrong).
Stephanie Leary
Stephanie Leary is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. They work primarily in metaethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. Most of Stephanie’s research is either about whether normative properties like goodness, badness, rightness and wrongness are ultimately reducible to the stuff of science (and what that means), or it’s about whether ethical considerations, and not just the evidence, are relevant to what we ought to believe (and how so).
With comments provided by Russell McIntosh (Berkeley)
With comments provided by Hannah DeBrine (Berkeley)
Zoë A. Johnson King
Zoë A. Johnson King primarily does Ethics, Metaethics, and Epistemology. Since Fall 2022, they have been an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy department at Harvard. During the academic year 2023-24, they will be a Fellow-in-Residence at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics.
With comments provided by Josh Petersen (Stanford)
Terence Irwin
Ancient Philosophy
Terence Irwin is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Oxford.
With comments provided by Landon Hobbs (Stanford)
Geoffery Sayre-McCord
Geoffery Sayre-McCord is Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor in the UNC Philosophy Department and Director of the UNC Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program. Within philosophy, his interests include metaethics, moral theory, political philosophy, epistemology and metaphysics.
With comments provided by Milan Mossé (Berkeley)
Rachana Kamtekar
Rachana Kamtekar is a Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Cornell University. She studies ancient philosophy, primarily ethics, politics, and moral psychology, but also has substantial interests in Aristotle and Stoicism, and in contemporary moral psychology.
With comments provided by Sevcan Gugumcu (UCLA)
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Rupert Sparling
Ancient Philosophy
Rupert Sparling is a PhD Candidate at Stanford University working on the varieties of normativity in Plato.
With comments from Professor Allison Piñeros Glasscock (Georgia)
Wed, Jun 26BerlinJun 26, 2024, 9:00 AM GMT+2 – Jun 28, 2024, 6:00 PM GMT+2Berlin, Wallotstraße 19, 14193 Berlin, GermanyJun 26, 2024, 9:00 AM GMT+2 – Jun 28, 2024, 6:00 PM GMT+2Berlin, Wallotstraße 19, 14193 Berlin, GermanyAlthough contemporary metaethics has flourished in recent years, it seems that ancient Greek metaethics has been neglected. This workshop is designed to bring together philosophers working on contemporary metaethics and ancient philosophers working in ancient value theory.