Ursula Coope

Ursula Coope FBA is a British professor of ancient philosophy.[1] Since 2017, she has been the Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and is a professorial fellow of Keble College, Oxford. Previously, she was a tutorial fellow and professor of ancient philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and global distinguished professor at New York University.[2]

In 1992, Coope graduated with a B.A. in philosophy, politics and economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1999, she was awarded a PhD in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.[2] She is an expert on Aristotle.

Coope was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020.[3]

Publications

Books

• Freedom and Responsibility in Neoplatonist Thought, Oxford University Press 2020. ISBN 9780198824831.
• Time for Aristotle: Physics IV. 10-14, Oxford University Press 2005. ISBN 0-19-924790-0.

Book chapters and journal articles

• ‘Rational assent and self-reversion: a Neoplatonist Response to the Stoics, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (2016).
• ‘Self-motion as other-motion in Aristotle’s Physics’ in Aristotle’s Physics: a critical guide ed M. Leunissen, Cambridge University Press (2015).
• ‘Aquinas on judgment and the active power of reason’ Philosophers Imprint (2013).
• ‘Why does Aristotle think that Ethical Virtue is Required for Practical Wisdom?’ Phronesis, 57, (2012).
• ‘Aristotle’s Physics VII.3. 246a10-246b3’ in Reading Aristotle Physics VII.3: ‘What is alteration?’ Proceedings of the European Society for Ancient Philosophy, ed. S. Maso and C. Natali (2012).
• ‘Aristotle on the infinite’ in Oxford Handbook of Aristotle, ed. C Shields (2012).
• ‘Aristotle on voluntariness and choice’ in Blackwell Companion to Action, ed. C Sandis (2010).
• 'Change and its relation to actuality and potentiality'  in Blackwell Companion to Aristotle, ed. G. Anagnostopoulos (2009).
• ‘Aristotle: time and change’ in Routledge Companion to Metaphysics ed. R. Le Poidevin, P Simons, A McGonigal, R Cameron (2009).
• ‘Aristotle on action’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume CVI (2007).
• ‘Aristotle's account of agency in Physics III.3'  Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, (2004).
• ‘Why does Aristotle say that there is no time without change?’  Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2001).

References

1. "Coope, Ursula". worldcat.org. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
   - "Book review". ND.edu. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
2. "Ursula Coope". Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
3. ""The 2020s will be the decade of the humanities and social sciences", says new British Academy President". The British Academy. Retrieved 2020-07-24.