Ancient Women Philosophers: Recovered Ideas and New Perspectives
The first event in the Roundtable series, A Mind of Her Own, focused on recovering and promoting the work of women philosophers throughout history.
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Meet the Speakers
BRIAN BLACK
Brian Black received his MA and PhD from SOAS (University of London) and is now Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University. He is the author of The Character of the Self in Ancient India: Priests, Kings, and Women in the Early Upaniṣads (2007) and In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata (2021).
CATERINA PELLÒ
Caterina Pellò is a Teaching Associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. She completed her PhD in Classics at the University of Cambridge, and she worked at Humboldt University Berlin, St Andrews, and UCL. She also held visiting positions at the Foundation Hardt in Geneva, the University of Notre Dame, and the Harvard Centre for Hellenic Studies. Her primary research areas are Presocratic philosophy and the study of women in the history of philosophy.
ANNA B. CHRISTENSEN
Anna B. Christensen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Central College in Pella, Iowa. She earned her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. Her research interests include ancient accounts of death and suicide, which she balances with the cheerier topics of love and friendship.
ROSEMARY TWOMEY
Rosemary Twomey is an assistant professor at Queens College CUNY. Her work has appeared in several edited collections as well as journals including Australasian Journal of Philosophy and Journal of Ancient Philosophy. Her primary area of research is ancient philosophy of perception and its connection to epistemology.
KATHARINE R. O’REILLY
Katharine R. O’Reilly is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University specializing in ancient philosophy, particularly ancient moral psychology in the Greek and Roman traditions. She is the author of ‘The Jellyfish’s Pleasures in Philebus 20b-21d’ in Phronesis, ‘Cicero Reading the Cyrenaics on the Anticipation of Future Harms’ in Epoché, ‘Women Philosophers in Antiquity and the Reshaping of Philosophy’ in Women's Perspectives on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, and is co-editor (with Caterina Pellò) of Ancient Women Philosophers: Recovered Ideas and New Perspectives (Cambridge University Press).