Notes on Contributors
Fabienne Baghdassarian
is Associate Professor in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Rennes. She is also associate member of the Centre Léon-Robin (CNRS UMR 8061). Her main area of research concerns Aristotelian metaphysics and cosmology. She has published several articles and books on these themes, including La Question du divin chez Aristote. Discours sur les dieux et science du principe (Peeters 2016), Réceptions de la théologie aristotélicienne, D’Aristote à Michel d’Ephèse (coedited with G. Guyomarc’h, Peeters 2017), Relectures néoplatoniciennes de la théologie d’Aristote (coedited with I. Papachristou and S. Toulouse, Academia Verlag 2020), and a new French translation, with introduction and commentary, of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Book Lambda (Vrin 2019).
Mai-Lan Boureau
is conducting her research at KU Leuven, in the De Wulf Mansion Centre, as a FWO postdoctoral fellow. She defended her PhD in 2019 at Sorbonne Université on Aristotle’s On the Heavens (“Aristote: Du ciel III et IV. Introduction générale, édition critique, traduction et commentaire”). She is also an associate member of the ERC project “Plato via Aristotle.” Her research focuses on the Aristotelian scientific tradition and the history of its transmission. She is currently editing an unpublished corpus of Late Platonic scholia on On the Heavens.
Andrea Libero Carbone
is an independent researcher. His research work focuses on ancient philosophy and science, in particular Aristotle’s biology, and comparative science and philosophy. He investigates the diversity of logics and argumentative strategies in science and philosophy, and visual thought, visual culture and scopic regimes in the history of ideas. He has translated several ancient philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes of Sinope, Theophrastus) and published a monograph exploring the importance of visual thinking in Aristotle’s biology (Aristote illustré. Représentations du corps et schématisation dans la biologie aristotélicienne, Classiques Garnier 2011). He contributed to the debate on Aristotle’s lost anatomical atlas (the Anatomai) by showing that Aristotle’s anatomical representation plays not only a subsidiary or a heuristic role, but also an explanatory one, thanks to diagrams representing animal body plans as oriented along the axes of symmetry (“The Axes of Symmetry. Morphology in Aristotle’s Biology,” Apeiron 2016).
Sophia M. Connell
is Senior Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, at Birkbeck College, University of London. She previously taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia and is a former Fellow of St John’s and Selwyn Colleges in Cambridge. She has written Aristotle on Female Animals: A Study of the Generation of Animals (Cambridge University Press 2016) and Aristotle on Women (Cambridge University Press 2021); she is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Biology (Cambridge University Press 2021). She has published essays and articles on Aristotle’s biology and Aristotle and Galen on sex difference. She is currently preparing a detailed philosophical commentary on Aristotle’s Generation of Animals Books for Oxford University Press.
Klaus Corcilius
professor and holder of the Chair of Ancient Philosophy (Lehrstuhl für antike Philosophie) at University of Tübingen. His primary interest is ancient philosophy, theoretical and practical, and especially Aristotle. His publications include: Streben und Bewegen. Aristoteles’ Theorie der animalischen Ortsbewegung (De Gruyter 2008); with Christof Rapp: Beiträge zur Aristotelischen Handlungstheorie (Franz Steiner Verlag 2008) and Handbuch Aristoteles (Metzler 2011), with Oliver Primavesi: Aristoteles. De motu animalium, Philologische Einführung, neuer griechischer Text von Oliver Primavesi, philosophische Einführung, Übersetzung und Kommentar von Klaus Corcilius (Meiner 2018). He has edited with Dominik Perler Partitioning of the Soul in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy (De Gruyter 2014). He has made a new translation with a commentary of Aristotle’s De Anima (Meiner 2017). In 2022, he received an Advanced ERC grant for a project entitled Text and Idea of Aristotle’s Science of Living Things, devoted to a new overall interpretation of Aristotle’s philosophy of mind.
Andrea Falcon
is currently teaching at the University of Milan (Italy). He is the author of Corpi e Movimenti. La fortuna del De Caelo nel mondo antico (Bibliopolis 2001); Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity without Uniformity (Cambridge University Press 2005); Aristotelianism in the First Century BCE: Xenarchus of Seleucia (Cambridge University Press, 2012); Aristotelismo (Einaudi 2017). He is the editor of the Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity (Brill 2016); and co-editor, together with David Lefebvre, of Aristotle’s Generation of Animals: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press 2017); with Pierdaniele Giaretta, of Ancient Logic, Language, and Metaphysics: Selected Essays by Mario Mignucci (Routledge 2019); with Stasinos Stavrianeas, of Aristotle On how Animals Move: The De incessu animalium: Text, Translations, and Interpretative Essays (Cambridge University Press 2021). His most recent edited book is Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption Book II, Introduction, Translation, and Interpretative Essays, with Panos Dimas and Sean Kelsey (Cambridge University Press 2022) and The Architecture of the Science of Living Beings. Aristotle and Theophrastus on Animals and Plants (Cambridge University Press 2024).
Sean Kelsey
is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He has been at Notre Dame since 2009, having taught before that at UCLA (1998–2009), the University of Michigan (Fall 2008), and Iowa State University (1997–98). His recent publications include “Empty words” (in David Ebrey ed. Theory and Practice in Aristotle’s Natural Science, Cambridge University Press 2015), “Aristotle on interpreting nature” (in Mariska Leunissen ed., Aristotle’s Physics: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press, 2015), “Color, transparency, and light in Aristotle” (Phronesis 63, 2018: 209–10), and Mind and World in Aristotle’s De Anima (Cambridge University Press 2021).
David Lefebvre
is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Sorbonne University and member of the Centre Léon-Robin (CNRS UMR 8061). His work focuses mainly on Aristotle’s biology and the Aristotelian tradition, with an interest in the early Peripatos. His publications include a new translation of Aristotle’s Generation of Animals (Flammarion 2014). With Michel Crubellier, Annick Jaulin, and Pierre-Marie Morel, he has co-edited Dunamis. Autour de la puissance chez Aristote (Peeters 2008); with Annick Jaulin, La Métaphysique de Théophraste. Principes et Apories (Peeters 2015); with Andrea Falcon, Aristotle’s Generation of Animals. A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press 2017); with Claire Crignon, Médecins et philosophes, Une Histoire (CNRS Editions 2019); with Kristell Trego, Les Usages du possible, L’Héritage aristotélicien (Peeters 2024). He is the author of Dynamis. Sens et Genèse de la notion aristotélicienne de puissance (Vrin 2018). He is currently preparing a running commentary of the five Books of the Generation of Animals.
Claire Louguet
is Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy (Lille University, CNRS UMR 8163 “Savoirs, Textes, Langage”). She works on the Presocratics and their reception in Aristotle and his ancient commentators. She has been working on Aristotle’s embryology on which she has published one paper (“Aristote et les théories pangénétiques du Ve siècle: enjeux métaphysiques d’un débat biologique,” 2015). As a member of the ANR project Didaskalos (Alexander of Aphrodisias and Aristotelian metaphysics: Contexts, Issues, Reception), she is preparing with Annick Jaulin a translation of Alexander’s commentary to Aristotle’s Metaphysics Γ and has published one paper (“Les Présocratiques dans le commentaire d’Alexandre d’Aphrodise à la Métaphysique d’Aristote”, 2017). She co-edited with Gweltaz Guyomarc’h and Charlotte Murgier Aristote et l’âme humaine. Lectures de De Anima III offertes à Michel Crubellier (2020). She is also a member of the ANR project Peripatos.
Robert Mayhew
is Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University (in New Jersey). He is the editor and translator of the Problemata Physica for the Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press 2011), and editor of The Aristotelian Problemata Physica. Philosophical and Scientific Investigations (Brill 2015). His most recent books are Theophrastus of Eresus, On Winds (Brill 2018), Aristotle’s Lost Homeric Problems, Textual Studies (Oxford University Press 2019), and a volume he co-edited: Clearchus of Soli, Text, Translation, and Discussion (Routledge 2022).
Pierre-Marie Morel
is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University Paris 1-Panthéon- Sorbonne. He is the author of several books and articles on Aristotle (biology, psychology, practical philosophy and metaphysics), on Democritus and the Epicurean tradition. He has translated into French Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia, De Motu Animalium and De Incessu Animalium (GF-Flammarion). He has also published a book on Aristotle’s conceptions of life and living beings: De la matière à l’action. Aristote et le problème du vivant (Vrin 2007, 2013). His most recent publications include La nature et le bien. L’éthique d’Aristote et la question naturaliste (Peeters 2021).
Pierre Pellegrin
is Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS, Paris (UMR 7219: SPHERE/ CHSPAM). He is the author of La Classification des animaux chez Aristote. Statut de la biologie et unité de l’aristotélisme (Les Belles Lettres 1982. English translation by Anthony Preus: Aristotle’s Classification of Animals: Biology and the Conceptual Unity of the Aristotelian Corpus, University of California Press 1986); L’Excellence menacée, Sur la philosophie politique d’Aristote (Classiques Garnier 2017); Des animaux dans le monde. Cinq questions sur la biologie d’Aristote (CNRS Éditions 2022. English translation by Anthony Preus: Animals in the World. Five Essays on Aristotle’s Biology, State University of New York Press 2023). He is the editor, together with Michel Crubellier, of Aristote. Le philosophe et les savoirs (Seuil 2002); together with Daniel Devereux, of Biologie, logique et métaphysique chez Aristote (Éditions du CNRS 1990) and, together with Monique Canto-Sperber, of Le style de la pensée. Hommage à Jacques Brunschwig (Les Belles Lettres 2002). He has translated several works of Aristotle into French, including the Physics (Flammarion 2000), Posterior Analytics (Flammarion 2005), Parts of Animals (Flammarion 2011), and History of Animals (Flammarion 2014).
Diana Quarantotto
is Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome. She is the editor of Aristotle’s Physics Book I. A Systematic Exploration (Cambridge University Press 2018) and the author of L’Universo senza spazio. Aristotele e la teoria del luogo (Bibliopolis 2017), Causa finale, sostanza ed essenza in Aristotele (Bibliopolis 2005). Other recent publications include: “Aristotle’s Account of the Immobility of Place: A Cold Case” (Phronesis, 67, 2022); “Aristotle on the order of embryonic development and the homonymy principle” (Generation of Animals. A comprehensive approach, edited by Sabine Föllinger, De Gruyter 2022); “Aristotle on science as problem solving” (Topoi 2018); “The role, structure and status of Aristotle’s Physics I” (in Diana Quarantotto ed. Aristotle’s Physics Book I. A Systematic Exploration, Cambridge University Press 2018); “A Dynamic Ontology: On How Aristotle Arrived at the Conclusion that Eternal Change Accomplishes Ousia” (in Mariska Leunissen ed. Aristotle’s Physics. A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press 2015).
Luciana Repici
formerly Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Turin, Department of Philosophy, focuses her researches on Aristotle and his school, particularly on themes of philosophy of nature from biology to teleology, psychology, botany and zoology. Besides numerous essays and papers, she has published the volumes La natura e l’anima. Saggi su Stratione di Lampsaco (1988); Uomini capovolti. Le piante nel pensiero dei Greci (2000); Nature silenziose. Le piante nel pensiero ellenistico e romano (2015), and edited with an introduction and commentary Aristotele e i sogni: Il sonno e la veglia, I sogni, La divinazione durante il sonno (2003); Teofrasto, Metafisica (2013); Aristotele, La fiamma nel cuore: Lunghezza e brevità della vita; Gioventù e vecchiaia; La respirazione; La vita e la morte (2017). Her most recent book is Predire il futuro. I filosofi antichi e la divinazione (2022).