Ursula Coope

Since 2017, Coope has been the Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and 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; she has also held positions at University College London, Birkbeck College London, and Princeton.^[2] She is joint editor of the ancient philosophy journal Phronesis.^[3]

Coope's first book, Time for Aristotle: Physics IV. 10-14 (2005), which analyses Aristotle's conception of time and the importance of this for understanding the Physics as a whole, has been described as "a beautifully concise and clear study of an exceedingly difficult section of the Physics" and an "important, insightful, forcefully characterized interpretation of Aristotle's discussion of time".^[4] Her second book, Freedom and Responsibility in Neoplatonist Thought (2020), discusses Neoplatonist philosophers' views of freedom, responsibility, and the relationship between them.^[5]

Coope was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020.^[6][7]

• 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.

• '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).