List of Contributors
Jan A. Aertsen † was Director Emeritus of the Thomas-Institute at the University of Cologne. His extensive research and writing on medieval philosophy were focused on Thomas Aquinas and on the doctrine of the transcendentals, most notably in his book Medieval Philosophy and the Transcendentals: The Case of Thomas Aquinas (1996). For his magisterial study Medieval Philosophy as Transcendental Thought from Philip the Chancellor (ca. 1225) to Francisco Suárez (2012) he was awarded the Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize 2013.
Bernardo Carlos Bazán † was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada. He was an expert in the field of thirteenth-century philosophical anthropology. His many publications include critical editions of works on the soul by Siger of Brabant, Thomas Aquinas, anonymous Masters of Arts, and he was a co-editor of John Duns Scotus, Quaestiones de anima (2006). He has published numerous articles on thirteenth-century psychological doctrines.
Stephen F. Brown is Professor Emeritus at Boston College. He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from St. Bonaventure University and his Doctoral degree from the University of Louvain. He was honored with a Doctoral degree honoris causa from the University of Helsinki. He has taught philosophy at Siena College, St. Bonaventure University, the University of the South and for thirty-nine years at Boston College in the Department of Theology. His publications include the critical edition of many of William of Ockham’s works and numerous articles and editions of fourteenth-century philosophers and theologians, especially Peter Aureoli and Peter of Candia.
William J. Courtenay FMAA, FAAAS, FRHistS, FBA, is the C.H. Haskins and Hilldale Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Wisconsin. He has contributed numerous books and articles in medieval intellectual history, especially for the fourteenth century, and on the history of universities, especially the University of Paris. He is past president of the American Society of Church History, a senior editor of the Brill series on Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and director of the Project on Sentences Commentaries for the Société Internationale pour l’ Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale.
Alfredo Santiago Culleton is Full Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Unisinos, a Brasilian Jesuit University. He has written and edited books and articles on medieval practical philosophy. He coordinates, with professor Roberto Hofmeister Pich, the Project Scholastica colonialis and is the president of the SBEFM (Brasilian Society for the Studies of Medieval Philosophy).
Silvia Donati is Researcher at the Albertus Magnus Institut in Bonn. She has published extensively on the medieval Latin reception of Aristotle’s natural philosophy. Recently she was editor of Albert the Great, De nutrimento et nutrito et De sensu et sensato (2017) and co-editor of Geoffrey of Aspall, Questions on the Physics (2017). She is currently working on an edition of Albert’s works De somno et vigilia and De intellectu et intelligibili.
Stephen Gersh is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Studies at the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame. A former Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, he was Solomon Katz Professor of the Humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle in 2001. He is concerned with the long history of Platonism in Late Antiquity, in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In his numerous books he elaborates a doxographic approach as well as systematic questions within the Platonic tradition such as the medieval understanding of participation.
Bernd Goehring is a member of the Scotistic Commission of America at the University of Notre Dame. Together with Kent Emery and others he is completing a critical edition of John Duns Scotus’s Reportatio Parisiensis. He is the editor, with Gordon Wilson and Girard Etzkorn, of Henry of Ghent, Summa, Articles 60–62 (Leuven, 2018) and Articles 56–59 (Leuven, forthcoming). He has published essays on Anselm of Canterbury, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, Henry of Ghent, Giles of Rome and other medieval thinkers.
Guy Guldentops is a researcher at the Thomas-Institut of the University of Cologne. His publications focus on late-medieval philosophy and theology (especially on less well-known authors like Henry Bate, Durand of St. Pourçain, and Nicolaus Ellenbog). He is the managing editor of the journal Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales.
Daniel Hobbins is Associate Professor of History and Fellow of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely on Jean Gerson, whom he uses as a window into the cultural and intellectual shifts of the late medieval world. He is currently at work on a book-length project on authorial colophons.
Roberto Hofmeister Pich is Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre / RS, Brazil. He has written and edited books about the philosophy of John Duns Scotus and the reception of the Scotist and other medieval “schools” in Baroque and Modern Scholasticism. He has extensively published on medieval and second-scholastic philosophy and theology, in the areas of epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. He conceived and directs, together with Alfredo Santiago Culleton, the research project “Scholastica colonialis: Reception and Development of Baroque Scholasticism in Latin America, 16th–18th Centuries”.
Georgi Kapriev is Professor in Philosophy at the St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has written books and many articles in the fields of medieval—Byzantine and Latin—philosophy, metaphysics, philosophical theology and philosophy of culture and arts. He is the editor of the volume Byzantine Philosophy in the Ueberwegs Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie (Basel: Schwabe), the general editor of philosophia-bg.com and co-editor of Archive for Medieval Philosophy and Culture, Bibliotheca christiana (both—Sofia: Iztok-Zapad) and Christianity and Culture (Sofia: Communitas).
Steven P. Marrone is Professor of History at Tufts University. He has written extensively on philosophy in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, most specifically epistemology and theories of science as well as human knowledge of God, and more recently on medieval learned magic, especially the relation between magic and natural philosophy. His last two books reflect both of these interests: The Light of thy Countenance: Science and Knowledge of God in the Thirteenth Century and A History of Science, Magic and Belief from Medieval to Early Modern Europe.
Stephen M. Metzger is a member of the Scotistic Commission of America at the University of Notre Dame. He is a Candidate for the Post-Doctoral Licentiate in Mediaeval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, as well as a Collaborator in the critical edition of the Reportationes Parisienses by John Duns Scotus. He has published books and articles on monastic, Scholastic, and mystical theologies and philosophy of the High and Late Middle Ages, especially on the work of Gerard of Abbeville and Ioannes de Indagine.
Timothy B. Noone is Ordinary Professor in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. A co-editor and general editor of the Opera philosophica of Duns Scotus and co-editor of the forthcoming edition of Scotus’s Reportata Parisiensia, Noone is also the co-author, along with Jorge Gracia, of A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages published by Blackwell, as well as the author of over 50 articles and book chapters. During the 2008–2009 academic year, he was a Fulbright Scholar researching and teaching at the University of Cologne’s Thomas-Institut. Past-President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association and past-President of the Society for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy in North America, Noone has most recently served as one of the three Vice-Presidents of the Société pour l’ Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale.
Mikołaj Olszewski is Professor in the Department of the History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He also lectures on the history of medieval theology at the Dominican Studium Generale in Cracow. He has published many studies and editions concerning late medieval theology: among others Dominican Theology at the Crossroads. A Critical Edition and Study of the Prologues to the Commentaries on Peter Lombard’s Sentences by James of Metz and Hervaeus Natalis (Münster, 2010), Quaestiones de productione rerum, de imagine, de anima e schola bonaventuriana (Roma, 2014), and Matthaeus de Cracovia, Rationale divinorum operum (Warsaw, 2016).
Alessandro Palazzo is Professor in History of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Trento. He has written numerous articles on medieval philosophy and theology and has been editor of several medieval texts. He co-directs a research project on medieval geomancy (Foreseeing Events and Dominating Nature: Models of Operative Rationality and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Arab, Hebrew and Latin Middle Ages). He is assessor of the Bureau of the SIEPM (Société Internationale pur l’ Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale) and member of the Board of the SISPM (Società italiana per lo studio del pensiero medievale).
Chris Schabel is Professor of Medieval History and, for the moment, Dean of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Cyprus. His publications include editions and studies related to later medieval intellectual history and the Latin East. He is co-editor (with William O. Duba) of the journal Vivarium and (with Michalis Olympios) the new journal Frankokratia, both with E.J. Brill in Leiden.
Garrett R. Smith is an Akademischer Rat at the Institute of Philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. He has interests in John Duns Scotus and early Scotism and has published on the reception of Scotus’ theories of univocity of being and the divine ideas. He is the editor of the Petri Thomae opera and a collaborator on the edition of Duns Scotus’ Reportatio Parisiensis.
Andreas Speer is Professor in Philosophy and Director of the Thomas-Institut at the University of Cologne. He has written and edited many books and articles concerning the history of medieval philosophy and theology, on natural philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology and aesthetics. He directs major research projects (the Meister Eckhart archive, the Averroes edition, the edition of the commentary on Sentences by Durandus a S. Porciano, etc.). He conducts the Kölner Mediaevistentagungen and is the General Editor of the book series Miscellanea Mediaevalia (Berlin: W. DeGruyter) and Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters (Leiden: E.J. Brill).
Carlos Steel is emeritus professor of ancient and medieval philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven). He is director of the Aristoteles latinus project. He has published extensively on the Platonic tradition from late antiquity to Ficino and is author of critical editions and translations of Proclus, ps.Simplicius, Maximus Confessor, Eriugena, Albertus Magnus, Henricus Bate and Ptolemy.
Loris Sturlese is professor of history of medieval philosophy at the University of Salento, Lecce. He graduated at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome. He published several works in the field of German medieval philosophy and co-ordinates international editorial projects, such as the Corpus Philosophorum Teutonicorum Medii Aevi, the historico-critical edition of Meister Eckhart’s Latin works and the Italian section of the Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi (enterprise #9 of the Union Académique Internationale).
Christian Trottmann is a research director at CNRS. His field of research is history of philosophy and theology in the medieval and Renaissance period. He was a member of the École Française de Rome and of the Collège International de Philosophie. The Book La vision béatifique taken from his thesis obtained the Prix Bordin de l’ Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. He also won the Price of the Académie de Dijon for his essay La voix enchantée. He wrote a dozen of books, directed another dozen and wrote 130 articles on history of philosophy and theology.
Gordon A. Wilson is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He serves as the current general coordinator of Leuven University’s series, Henrici de Gandavo Opera omnia, and has edited a number of volumes in this series. He has written on aspects of Henry of Ghent’s thought and the manuscripts of his works.