Assistant Professor
(Starting from Fall 2025)
Ph.D., Yale University
Areas of Interest: Ancient Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics
Personal Homepage: https://d-ferguson.github.io/
Email: daniel.ferguson@kcl.ac.uk
Phone: tbd
Office: tbd
About
Daniel Ferguson is currently a British Academy Newton International Fellow at King’s College London. Before joining KCL, he held positions as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and as a Lecturer at Yale University. Ferguson completed his PhD in Classics and Philosophy at Yale University. Dr. Ferguson specializes in ancient Greek philosophy with a focus on Plato and Aristotle’s ethics. He is especially interested in making sense of their theories of happiness, virtue, agency, and value. What on their views is good and why? How do they think one should live? According to them, what does it take to be an excellent human being? His articles have been published in prominent journals such as Phronesis and Ancient Philosophy. Currently, Dr. Ferguson is writing a book about Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics, a fascinating but somewhat neglected work of his, as well as some papers on various issues in Plato’s Republic.
Sample publications
Ferguson, D. (2022). “The Best is the Telos: An Argument in Eudemian Ethics 1.8.” Phronesis, 67: 338–369.
Ferguson, D. (2022). “The ‘Belonging to a Kind’ Reading of the Eudemian Ergon Argument.” Ancient Philosophy, 42: 471–492.
Ferguson, D. (2019). “Self-Knowledge in the Eye-Soul Analogy of the Alcibiades.” Phronesis, 64: 369–391.