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 David Langslow FBA

Latin, Greek and Indo-European languages and their descriptive, historical and social linguistics; ancient special and technical varieties, especially as reflected in the translation and transmission of ancient medical texts

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Professor Katherine Dunbabin FBA

Art and society in the Roman Empire: Roman mosaics as documents of social and cultural history; the art of the Roman banquet; the imagery of spectacular entertainments

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Professor Richard Pettigrew FBA

Richard Pettigrew explores foundations of probabilistic epistemology, formal social epistemology, and the epistemology of inquiry; risk, ambiguity, and changing preferences in rational choice theory; philosophy of mathematics.

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