Professor Ursula Coope FBA

Ancient Greek philosophy (especially Plato, Aristotle and Neoplatonism); philosophy of action
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2020
Subjects
Classics, Philosophy

Current post

University of Oxford Professor of Ancient Philosophy

Keble College, University of Oxford Fellow

Past appointments

University of Oxford Professor of Ancient Philosophy

2008 - 2017

Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford Tutorial Fellow

2006 - 2017

University of Oxford University Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy

2006 - 2008

Birkbeck, University of London Lecturer

2001 - 2006

University College London Jacobsen Research Fellow

2000 - 2001

Publications

Freedom and Responsibility in Neoplatonist Thought

Ursula Coope - Published in 2020 by Oxford University Press

Time for Aristotle: Physics IV. 10-14

Ursula Coope - Published in 2008 by Oxford University Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah FBA

The philosophy of mind and language, of race and racism, and of literature and culture; ethics (including the role of experiment); honour; idealisation and ideals; social identity; African and African-American intellectual history.

Kwame Anthony Appiah FBA

Professor Gian Biagio Conte FBA

Latin literature and textual criticism, especially of Latin poetical texts; literary theory and interpretation of Classical texts; history of scholarship

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Professor Noam Chomsky FBA

Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Semantics, Philosophy of Language

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