Notes on Contributors
David Bennett
currently with the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, was a research associate with the “Representation and Reality” programme at the University of Gothenburg from 2014 to 2019. He specialises in Islamic philosophy and theology. He has published on atomism, concepts, dreams, heresiography, and spirit in the Arabic tradition. With Juhana Toivanen, he edited Philosophical Problems in Sense Perception (Springer, 2020).
Sten Ebbesen
(born 1946, Dr. phil. and prof. em., University of Copenhagen; Dr. h.c. University of Gothenburg and Università di Bologna) is the author of over 300 scholarly articles and books, most of them relating to late ancient and medieval Greek and Latin philosophy, and including numerous editions of hitherto unpublished philosophical texts from the Middle Ages.
Pavel Gregoric
is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb. After obtaining his BPhil and DPhil from Oxford, he had taught philosophy at the University of Zagreb until 2017. He held visiting positions in Budapest, Berlin, Berkeley, and Gothenburg. He is the author of Aristotle on the Common Sense (OUP, 2007), and the co-editor of Pseudo-Aristotle, De Mundo (On the Cosmos): A Commentary (CUP, 2020) and Encounters with Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind (Routledge, 2021).
Rotraud Hansberger
(D.Phil. in Oriental Studies, University of Oxford) is a Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, LMU Munich. Her main areas of research are the Graeco-Arabic transmission and medieval Arabic philosophy, with particular focus on philosophical psychology. She joined “Representation and Reality” as a visiting researcher for several months in spring 2017 and in summer 2019.
Jakob Leth Fink
earned his Ph.d. from the University of Copenhagen in 2009. His recent publications include Encounters with Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind, edited with Pavel Gregoric (Routledge, 2021), and Phantasia in Aristotle’s Ethics, edited by Jakob Leth Fink (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Filip Radovic
is a Senior lecturer in Philosophy at University of Gothenburg. His main research interests concern issues in philosophy of mind, from a historical as well as a contemporary perspective, with special attention to illusory states of mind and cognitive deficiencies. His publications in the history of philosophy have mainly been focused on ancient and medieval theories of mind. His work in contemporary philosophy mainly deals with anomalous cognition.
Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist
is Professor of Latin (University of Gothenburg) and specialises in the reception of Aristotle’s syllogistic theory and natural philosophy. Her publications include critical editions of Boethius’ monographs on the categorical syllogism and of the earliest known Latin commentary on the Prior Analytics (‘Anonymus Aurelianensis III’). She has led several international networks and major research projects on medieval natural philosophy as well as on medieval logic.
Juhana Toivanen
is Academy Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He has published widely on medieval philosophical psychology, medieval conceptions of animals, and political philosophy. His major publications include Perception and the Internal Senses (Brill, 2013) and The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy (Brill, 2021). Currently he is working on ethical and political philosophy from the middle ages to the early modern period.