Distinguished Visitors

Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi is Associate Professor in Ancient Philosophy in the Department of Greek and Latin at UCL. Her research focuses on Aristotle’s ethics, psychology, and biology, with an eye to the relationship between the three disciplines. She has an interest in virtue ethics and moral psychology in other ancient authors and she enjoys exploring the relevance of ancient views for contemporary philosophy of mind and ethics. She’s the author of Ethics for Rational Animals, OUP 2024.

David Charles studied philosophy at Oxford University, where he earned B.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees. He was a Fellow in Philosophy at Oriel College for over thirty years, for the last eight as a Colin Prestige Research Professor. From 2014 until 2023 he was the Howard H. Newman Philosophy Professor at Yale University. Throughout this period, his research has focused mainly on ancient philosophy, especially on Aristotle’s philosophy, and on Philosophy of Mind. He is the author of Aristotle's Philosophy of Action (Cornell 1984), Aristotle on Meaning and Essence (OUP 2003), and The Undivided Self: Aristotle and the Mind-Body Problem (OUP 2021).

Klaus Corcilius teaches Ancient Philosophy at Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant TIDA (Text and Ideas of Aristotle’s Science of Living Beings), which is dedicated to the investigation of Aristotle’s account of mental phenomena and the division of labor between the De anima, the so-called biological works, and the Parva Naturalia. He is the author of several books and articles on Aristotle, including Streben und Bewegen. Aristoteles’ Theorie der animalischen Ortsbewegung (De Gruyter 2008), Aristoteles’ De anima/Über die Seele (Felix Meiner 2017) and, more recently, (together with Andrea Falcon and Robert Roreitner) Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought (Oxford University Press).

Mark Eli Kalderon is a Professor of Philosophy at UCL. He works on the philosophy of perception and its pre-modern history. His books include, Form Without Matter (OUP 2015), Sympathy in Perception (CUP 2018), Cosmos and Perception in Plato's Timaeus (Routledge 2023).

Christian Pfeiffer is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. He received an MA in Classics and Philosophy, and a Dr. Phil. (scl) in Philosophy from Humboldt University Berlin. Before joining the Department of Philosophy at UTSC, he has held positions at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich and at Humboldt University Berlin. Pfeiffer's work focuses on Aristotle’s theoretical philosophy. He has published Aristotle’s Theory of Bodies (OUP, 2018), a comprehensive study of Aristotle’s conception of body and related notions like surface, boundary, extension, contact, and continuity. Pfeiffer's current research projects include a monograph on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Book H, as well as a series of articles connected to his theory of hylomorphism.