Ancient Philosophy Today Dialogoi
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Ancient Philosophy Today: DIALOGOI is a double-blind peer reviewed journal whose aim is to provides a forum for mutual engagement between ancient and contemporary philosophy. The journal aims to fruitfully connect interpretive work in ancient philosophy to current discussions in metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, and to assess the continuing relevance of ancient theories to current philosophical interests and debates. It publishes original articles as well as book reviews. The first issue will be in press in April 2019. There will be two issues per year.
The relationship between ethics and epistemology in ancient philosophy. Are we ever justified in holding a position that goes beyond rational (i.e. epistemic) support, according to philosopher X? If so, under what conditions?
Gonzalo Gamarra Jordn, doctoral candidate in Notre Dame's Department of Philosophy and graduate fellow at the History of Philosophy Forum, and Chiara Martini, research fellow in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, have co-edited the most recent issue of Ancient Philosophy Today: DIALOGOI.
The journal was launched in 2019 to provide a forum for the mutual engagement between ancient and contemporary philosophy. The special issue edited by Gamarra Jordan and Martini is dedicated to the "Ancient Philosophy of Mathematics and Its Tradition," containing articles on relevant topics in Thales, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Archimedes (see the contents of the issue here).
Keith Begley is a philosopher living in Dublin, Ireland. He has written articles on Heraclitus, Katz, medical epistemology and artificial intelligence. He is currently a graduate student in computer science at University College Dublin, and was previously an Adjunct Assistant Professor in philosophy at Trinity College Dublin.
Ancient Philosophy Today: DIALOGOI provides a forum for the mutual engagement between ancient and contemporary philosophy. The journal connects interpretative work in ancient philosophy to current discussions in metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, and assesses the continuing relevance of ancient theories to current philosophical interests and debates. Find out how to subscribe, or recommend to your library.
A forum for top-quality work in ancient philosophy that engages with issues in contemporary philosophy
Ancient Philosophy Today both highlights the continuing importance of ancient philosophy and gives the field a greater sense of identity and direction. The journal publishes original research articles, book reviews and overview articles on key ongoing discussions.
Anna Marmodoro is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and concomitantly an Associate Faculty Member at the University of Oxford, where she is a Research Fellow of Corpus Christi College. She has published widely in ancient, medieval and late antiquity philosophy; metaphysics; the philosophy of religion; and the philosophy of perception. She has been the recipient of research funding from the European Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust and the Templeton World Charity Foundation, among other institutions, and with their support, has created and directs a research group working since 2011 on the metaphysics of powers. She is also the editor of a new journal, Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi, which is coming out with its initial issue this year and is now open to submissions.
Anna Marmodoro is full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham, author of several books on ancient Greek philosophy with a special focus on metaphysics. She is co-editor (with Erasmus Mayr) of the journal Dialogoi. Ancient Philosophy Today, published by Edinburgh University Press.
Erasmus Mayr is Professor of Philosophy at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nrnberg. His focus has been especially on moral philosophy and philosophy of action. He is co-editor (with Anna Marmodoro) of the journal Dialogoi. Ancient Philosophy Today, published by Edinburgh University Press.
My main research interest lies in Ancient physics and philosophy of mathematics. My work on Aristotle is part of a broader research project on ancient philosophies of space: during my BPhil, I worked on Epicurus' notion of void, and I hope to soon be able to extend this line of inquiry to cover Stoic physics, too. I am particularly fascinated by non-standard accounts of space and place, and interested in the various ways in which mathematics can be used to model, understand and change the physical world. I believe that focusing on ancient theories of physics and mathematics is not merely of historical interest, and I try to connect my work in ancient philosophy to open issues in contemporary philosophy of mathematics.
Anna Marmodoro holds the Chair of Metaphysics in the Philosophy Department of Durham University since 2016, and she is concomitantly an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Oxford. Before taking up the Chair at Durham, Anna was professionally based in Oxford (where she still lives) for a decade, during which she held different positions: she was initially a Departmental Lecturer in Philosophy (2007-08); a Junior Research Fellow (funded by a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2008-11); and an Official Fellow in Philosophy in Corpus Christi College (2011-17).
She has been directing since 2008 a large-scale multidisciplinary research group based in Oxford, with funding (in successive stages) from the European Research Council, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the AHRC.
Anna specializes in two research areas: on the one hand, ancient, late antiquity and medieval philosophy, and on the other, analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science, In the history of philosophy, she has worked on an eclectic collection of topics, on Anaxagoras, Aristotle, Plato, Plotinus, the Stoics, Gregory of Nyssa, and Thomas Aquinas. In metaphysics she is particularly interested in questions concerning fundamentality; composition and structure; the nature of properties, dispositions, relations; the metaphysics of substance; and causation.
Anna Marmodoro is Full Professor of Philosophy and holds the Chair of Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy of Durham University. She is concomitantly an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Oxford.
She has been directing a large-scale multidisciplinary research group, with funding (in successive stages) from the European Research Council, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the AHRC.
She is also the co-founder and co-editor with Erasmus Mayr of the peer-reviewed journal Dialogoi. Ancient Philosophy Today, published by Edinburgh University Press (2019-), whose distinctive mission is to provide a forum for publication of work in ancient philosophy that bears on contemporary philosophical discussions or vice versa.
I work on Chinese Philosophy with special focus on close philological analysis. My research explores argumentative strategies in early Chinese thought production and the interplay of material conditions and ideas. By studying the impact media change has on the systematisation of thinking, I engage with genre and argument construction in philosophical discourse, manuscript and text cultures, and transition periods in philosophy. As a historian of Chinese thought my goal is to conceptualise Chinese thinking on its own terms.
The Panorama of Silence in Early Chinese Philosophy (co-written with Avital Rom, Cambridge, and Yuan Ai, Tsinghua University). This book (and an attached conference) will discuss early Chinese conceptualisations of silence in Chinese philosophy from three complementary angles, 'verbal silence' (Yuan Ai), 'structural silence' (Dirk Meyer), 'aural silence' (Avital Rom). With this book we seek to develop a comprehensive picture of the rhetorical function of silence in early Chinese argumentative texts. (In progress.)
The Production of Knowledge in China, Past and Present acknowledges that knowledge is shaped, sustained, and framed by material conditions. This is a wider project that takes China, past and present, as a case study for conceptualising the ways material factors enable society to generate information, facts, argumentation and meaning. By focusing on breakthrough moments of systematic philosophical reasoning from the Classical period to contemporary China, it enables comparative analysis of the shaping of ideas in a society throughout time and space. The project was national contender for the Leverhulme Prize in Philosophy.
My planned monograph, Written Thinking in China, will synthesise close textual analysis with macro observations about the interrelation of material change and new forms of philosophical enquiry. Building on my research on meaning construction in Chinese discourse, it constructs a comparative account of the material forces behind thought production across millennia, thus casting light on reduplicative patterns in philosophical endeavour from the ancient to the contemporary.
Literary Forms of Argument in Manuscript Cultures: A Cross-cultural Perspective and A History of Written Thinking in China are long-term projects that will address trends in Chinese written philosophical discourse.
I am Founding Director of the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at Oxford, which examines material aspects of writing and text production, as well as transmission and the interface between the oral and the written, across pre-modern literate societies. Central to the Centre's activities are the termly lectures, termly colloquia, and yearly conferences. At lectures, leading international scholars present a research paper, followed by long and intense discussions. The colloquia are meant to give academics working on any aspect of manuscript and text cultures the opportunity to present their work to an academic audience outside their usual department, and to receive critical yet supportive comments by specialists working on related questions but in different fields.
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