Giulia Bonasio

Giulia Bonasio is Associate Professor in Ancient Philosophy. Dr Bonasio’s research focuses on ancient ethics and epistemology. She is a specialist in Aristotle’s ethics, in particular in the Eudemian Ethics. Dr Bonasio is interested in contemporary debates inspired by ancient philosophy for example in virtue ethics, and in the relation between ancient epistemology and AI. In addition to ancient philosophy, she has interests in ancient Greek literature, in particular in lyric poetry, tragedy, and in the history of emotions.

Dr Bonasio’s book The Unity of the Virtues in the Eudemian Ethics (Oxford University Press 2025) approaches the EE as a treatise in its own right and shows that understanding the philosophical proposal of the EE is fundamental for a full picture of Aristotle’s ethics. In her book, she develops a new approach to the unity of the virtues and to the interactions among the virtues. The book is based on the most recent Greek edition of the text (Rowe 2023).

In 2022, Dr Bonasio has been Guest Professor at the Zentrum Altertumswissenschaften of the University of Zürich and Senior Fellow of the Collegium Helveticum. During her time in Zürich, she developed an interdisciplinary project on wisdom in the history of philosophy that brings ancient Greek philosophy in dialogue with other philosophical traditions such as Buddhist philosophy, Old Chinese philosophy, Islamic philosophy, as well as neuroscinece. The project culminated in an edited volume entitled Perspectives on Wisdom. An exploration in the history of philosophy from West to East (De Gruyter).

Before coming to Durham, Dr Bonasio was a Faculty Fellow at the University of King’s College in Halifax (Canada) where she taught in the Foundation Year Program. She was also affiliated with the Department of Classics at Dalhousie University.

She was educated in Italy, where she completed a BA and a MA in Philosophy at the University of Padova. She received a MA, a MPhil and a PhD in Classical Studies/Ancient Philosophy from Columbia University.