Faculty Member, Philosophy
SNSF Professor of Medieval Philosophy
About
I currently hold a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Professorship at the University of Lausanne and I lead the SNSF research project “The Problem of Relations in Late Ancient and Early Medieval Philosophy”.
Education:
* 2006 PhD. in philosophy, University of Lausanne – Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
“The genesis of ontological realism during the early Middle Ages: a doctrinal study of realist theories of substance in the context of the Latin reception of Aristotle’s Categories and Porphyry’s Isagoge (850-1110)”
Previous Fellowships and Academic Positions:
* 2009-10 University researcher at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
* 2006-09 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge
* 2006 Frances A. Yates Research Fellow of the Warburg Institute, University of London
* 2004-05 Junior Research Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation
* 2003-04 Member of the Swiss Institute at Rome
Talks:
I have given over forty talks on various aspects of the problems of universals, individuation, essence, reference and the natural world, and on a number of authors ranging from Antiquity to the twelfth century (e.g. Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, John Philoponus, John of Damascus, John Scottus Eriugena, Roscelin of Compiègne, Anselm of Canterbury, William of Champeaux). They took place in international conferences in Tvärminne, Oxford, Cologne, Bordeaux, Cornell, Segovia, New York, Freiburg-in-Br., Tübingen, Cambridge, Tokyo, Palermo, Helsinki, Paris, Pisa, Fribourg, Rome, Basel and Porto and in research seminars at universities in Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Paris, Freiburg-in-Br., Cambridge, London, Tours, Lausanne and Salerno.
Teaching:
I have given sets of lectures on the history of philosophy at the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne and Cambridge, and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.
Contact Information
| Address: | Section de Philosophie |
