The Front Range Ancient Philosophy (FRAP) Workshop is an annual gathering featuring research in progress from faculty and graduate students in the Front Range area who work on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. It is open to all interested scholars. Scholars on the mailing list also share local talks and events relevant to ancient philosophy. Participating faculty and students come from a number of institutions in the area including the University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Denver, Colorado State University, Colorado College, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs,Community College of Denver, University of Colorado at Denver, Arapahoe Community College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and the University of Wyoming. Organizers include myself, Mitzi Lee, and Naomi Reshotko. Please contact me if you would like to be added to the group’s mailing list.
11th FRAP Workshop, March 2025, CU Boulder:
Dominic Bailey (CU Boulder), [on Plato’s Phaedo]
Sarale Ben Asher (University of New Mexico),
Caleb Cohoe (MSU Denver), “Augustine’s Christian Eudaimonism and the Goal of Human Life: Why Loving God Makes You Happier than Loving Yourself”
10th FRAP Workshop, April 2024, CU Boulder:
Caleb Cohoe (MSU Denver), “The Hierarchy of Living and Being in Aristotle”
Dawn Jacobs (CU Boulder), “Democritus’ Ethics”
Dominic Bailey (CU Boulder), “Naming and Sufficiency”
9th FRAP Workshop, May 2023, MSU Denver:
Thomas Bonn (CU Boulder), “Platonic Causation and the Nature of Platonic Harm”
Marco Nathan (University of Denver), “The Tragic Worldview: A Contemporary Philosophical Perspective”
Alex Priou (CU Boulder), “Reading Plato’s Republic with Thucydides”
8th FRAP Workshop, May 2020, Virtual:
Jackson Colter (CU Denver), “Moral Evaluation in Stoic Cosmopolitanism”
Christopher Moore (Penn State),”Sophrosunē and agency in Plato’s Republic and Charmides”
7th FRAP Workshop, May 2018, MSU Denver:
Robert Metcalf (CU Denver), “Plato’s Thinking on ‘Life-Structuring Practices [epitādeumata]”
Gagan Sapkota (CU Boulder), “Plato’s Distinction between Voluntary and Premeditated Action in Laws IX”
Sonja Tanner (CU Colorado Springs), “The Comic Form of Plato’s Lachēs
6th FRAP Workshop, May 2017, MSU Denver:
Robert S. Colter (University of Wyoming), “Self and Nature in Stoicism”
Vijay Mascarenhas (MSU Denver), “A Limited Defense of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics 1.2.1094a18-22″
David Ebrey (Institute for Research in the Humanities at University of Wisconsin Madison, Solmsen Fellow), “Plato’s Unfolding Account of Forms in the Phaedo“
5th FRAP Workshop, April 2016, University of Denver:
Sarah Pessin (University of Denver), “Neoplatonism: Things to Know”
Robert Pasnau (CU Boulder), “Aristotle’s Sometimes-Relational Theory of Perception”
4th FRAP Workshop, May 2015, University of Colorado at Boulder:
Tyler Huismann (CU Boulder), “Aristotle on Accidental Causation”
Sergio Gallegos (MSU Denver), “Vulnerability, Misology and Virtue in Plato’s Phaedo”
Naomi Reshotko (DU), “Between Knowledge and Ignorance: Belief and True Belief in Symposium 202-212″
3rd FRAP Workshop, May 2014, University of Colorado at Boulder:
Robert Metcalf (CU Denver), “The Situation of Epistemology in Plato’s Theaetetus“
Dominic Bailey (CU Boulder), “Stoicism and the Continuum”
2nd FRAP Workshop, May 2013, University of Colorado at Denver:
Naomi Reshotko (DU), “Recollection and Reference in Plato’s Meno and Phaedo“
Sonja Tanner (CU Colorado Springs), “Tumbling Back Down to Earth: Laughter, Limitation, and Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Charmides”
Shane Ewegen (Stonehill College, Massachusetts), “Cloaks in the Morning Light: Concealment and Virtue in Plato’s Protagoras“
1st FRAP Workshop, March 2012, University of Denver:
Caleb Cohoe (MSU Denver), “Aristotle on the Truth of Perception and Understanding”
Mitzi Lee (CU Boulder), “Two Kinds of Justice: Aristotle’s Critique of Plato”
