Sydney Greek Philosophy Society

Mateo Duque (Binghamton) will visit and present his research on Tuesday Oct. 13, 11AM-12:30PM, USyd Philosophy Seminar Room (Quad N494). Title and abstract: The Return of the Repressed: Family Drama of Republic in Books 8 and…

On Thursday Oct 29, 4PM–6PM, we will have a launch event for Plato, Techne, and Philosophy as a Profession by Emily Hulme. Tatiana Bur (ANU) and Rick Benitez (Sydney) will be presenting comments on…

On Wednesday the 20th of January 2027 we will have a workshop on “Unfinished Business”–i.e., “White Whale” papers in ancient philosophy that we *think* have great promise but we haven’t quite completed. Presenters and…

Ancient faith for the modern world: Dr. Tyler Paytas on Stoic piety If one school of philosophy can be said to have captured the popular imagination of the contemporary world, it is Stoicism. Something…

In June 2025, Julia Annas (Arizona, emerita) joined us in Sydney to deliver two papers: “Virtuous Right Action” and “Did Plato Ever Hold ‘Socratic Intellectualism?’”. Alyssa Meli (current MPhil, Sydney) caught up with Julia…

Many in the Sydney Philosophy community will know Mary Sutton: her infectious enthusiasm for philosophy has been a very welcome addition to our classes, workshops, and seminar series in recent years. I became curious…

Laura Kotevska (USyd) has organized a second annual history of philosophy roundtable this Dec, which will feature presenters across all domains of history of philosophy. Further details/rego here.

Professor Karyn Lai is organizing a History of Philosophy workshop on June 9th at the University of New South Wales. The program is here. Registration is here. For more details, please get in touch…

Exciting news: Kathryn MacKay (USyd) has published her first book, Public Health Virtue Ethics with Routledge. It is a great read for those interested in how Aristotelian virtue ethics plays out in contemporary issues–particular…