Margaret Scharle
Rosemary Weitkamp Professor of Philosophy and Humanities
Philosophy Department
Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics
Margaret Scharle (PhD, UCLA) specializes in ancient Greek philosophy, with a focus on Aristotelian natural philosophy, ethics, and politics. Her research appears in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Phronesis, and Apeiron, as well as several edited Cambridge University Press volumes, including (2017), (2015), and (translation and essay, 2022). Her work is reaching a wider audience through a forthcoming 24-lecture series on Ancient Greek philosophy for (2025) and contributions to (2025). Her current projects include an entry on physics for the new Oxford History of the Classical Greek World and a monograph exploring Hesiod’s influence on early Greek philosophers and Plato's Timaeus.