Margaret Scharle
Margaret 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 Theory and Practice in Aristotle's Natural Philosophy (2017), Aristotle's Physics, A Critical Guide (2015), and Aristotle’s Generation and Corruption II (translation and essay, 2022). Her work is reaching a wider audience through a forthcoming 24-lecture series on Ancient Greek philosophy for The Great Courses (2025) and contributions to Beyond the Ivory Tower (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.