Who We Are
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Position: Honorary President
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Position: Director Emeritus
Institutional Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin – Department of Classics
Email: dillonj@tcd.ie
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Position: Director (2005-2016)
Institutional Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin – Department of Philosophy
Email: vpolitis@tcd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: Irish Centre for Platonic Studies
Email: davidphoran@gmail.com
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Institutional Affiliation: University College Dublin – School of Classics
Email: andrew.smith@ucd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin – Department of Philosophy
Email: begleyk@tcd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: Dublin City University – School of Theology, Philosophy and Music
Email: larsenp@tcd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: UAB, Barcelona – Department of Philosophy (PROTEUS Project)
Email: svazqueh@gmail.com
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Position: IRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Institutional Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin – Department of Classics
Project title: Accounts of the Ascent: Cosmology, Embodiment, and Narratives of Cosmic Journeying in Ancient Platonism
Mentor: Professor John Dillon
Email: nicholasbanner@gmail.com
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Position: IRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Institutional Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin – Department of Philosophy
Project title: Practical Wisdom, Natural Virtue, and Habituation in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics
Mentor: Professor Vasilis Politis
Email: dibasilg@tcd.ie
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Position: IRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Institutional Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin – Department of Philosophy
Project title: Aristotle on Moral Development and Sensitivity to the Fine
Mentor: Professor Vasilis Politis
Email: hampsonm@tcd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin – Department of Philosophy
Project Title: The relation between the what-it-is and the why-it-is in Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, On the Parts of Animals, and Metaphysics
Supervisor: Professor Vasilis Politis
Research Award: Ussher Postgraduate Fellowship
Email: geti@tcd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin – Department of Philosophy
Project Title: Plato's theory of knowledge - A reliabilist and teleological approach based on Republic and Timaeus
Supervisor: Professor Vasilis Politis
Email: jiaol@tcd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin – Department of Classics
Project Title: Plato and the Legacy of Aristophanes - on Philosophy's Confrontations with the Laughable
Supervisor: Dr Ashley Clements
Email: w_strigel@hotmail.com
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Institutional Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin – Department of Philosophy
Project Title: The relation among forms in Plato's metaphysics
Supervisor: Professor Vasilis Politis
Research Award: Provost's Postgraduate Award
Email: tothr@tcd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin – Department of Philosophy
Project Title: Aristotle's Theory of Simple Bodies
Supervisor: Professor Vasilis Politis
Research Award: China Scholarship Council Fellowship
Email: zhangj7@tcd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: University College London – Department of Greek and Latin
Email: n.benzi@ucl.ac.uk
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Institutional Affiliation: Durham University – Department of Classics and Ancient History
Email: ugo_zilioli@yahoo.co.uk
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Institutional Affiliation: University College Dublin – School of Classics
Email: almqviso@tcd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: China University of Political Science and Law
Email: suju@tcd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: University College Dublin – School of Philosophy
Email: dragos.calma@ucd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: University College Dublin – School of Philosophy
Email: tim.crowley@ucd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: NUI Maynooth – Department of Ancient Classics
Email: william.desmond@nuim.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: University College Dublin – School of Philosophy
Email: fran.orourke@ucd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: All Hallows College – Department of Philosophy
Email: pquinn@allhallows.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: University of Edinburgh – Department of Philosophy
Email: dcaluori@ed.ac.uk
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Institutional Affiliation: University of Cyprus – Department of Philosophy
Email: kaklamae@tcd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: University of Vienna – Department of Philosophy
Email: gkaramanolis@univie.ac.at
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Institutional Affiliation: Universität Bern – Institut für Philosophie
Email: richard.king@philo.unibe.ch
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Institutional Affiliation: Paris–Sorbonne (emeritus) & l'Universidad Panamericana, Mexico
Email: laks.andre@gmail.com
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Email: obyrnebr@tcd.ie
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Institutional Affiliation: University of East Anglia – Department of Philosophy
Email: c.osborne@uea.ac.uk
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Institutional Affiliation: Oxford university – Faculty of Philosophy