Notes on Contributors
Pascale Bermon
Ph.D. (2000), is researcher at the Laboratoire d’Études sur les Monothéismes, CNRS – Université PSL. Her research focuses on late medieval theology at the time of early humanism. She has also published a collection of translated sources on the early history of the university of Paris La Fondation de l’Université de Paris (Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2017).
Magdalena Bieniak
Ph.D. (2008), is Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses mostly on early-scholastic philosophy and theology. Her major publications include The Soul-Body Problem at Paris ca. 1200–1250 (Leuven, 2010), three volumes of Stephen Langton’s Quaestiones theologiae (Oxford, 2014–2022, critically edited together with R. Quinto, W. Wciórka, and others), and articles on Gilbert of Poitiers’s metaphysics.
Michael W. Dunne
Ph.D. (1993), is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at Maynooth University with a research interest in Irish thinkers of the Middle Ages. He has edited the extant works of the early teacher of Thomas Aquinas, Peter of Ireland, Expositio et Quaestiones in De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae (Peeters, 1993), and Expositio et Quaestiones in librum De Interpretatione (Peeters, 1996). He continues his research interests with the Lectura on the Sentences of Richard FitzRalph. He has recently co-edited a volume Tolerance and Concepts of Otherness in Medieval Philosophy (with Susan Gottlöber, Brepols, 2022).
Riccardo Fedriga
is Professor of History of Ideas at the University of Bologna. He has published several articles and books on philosophy of mind and action in medieval thought, including Safeguarding Free Will: William Ockham, Walter Chatton, and Richard Kilvington on the Will (with Monika Michałowska, Księgarnia Akademicka, 2022).
Giacomo Fornasieri
Ph.D. (2019), is postdoctoral researcher at LUMSA University (Rome). His research interests include medieval theories of cognition and metaphysics in the 14th century, with specific regard to Peter Auriol’s ontology, theory of
Tobias Hoffmann
Ph.D. (2002), is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at Sorbonne Université in Paris. His work focuses on late medieval ethics, moral psychology, and metaphysics. He has edited or co-edited several volumes, including Angels in Medieval Philosophy (Brill, 2012) and Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics (with Jörn Müller and Matthias Perkams, Cambridge University Press, 2013). His most recent monograph is Free Will and the Rebel Angels in Medieval Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Severin V. Kitanov
Th.D. (2007), is Professor of Philosophy at Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts. His research focuses on medieval scholastic discussions of beatific enjoyment and the will. He has authored Beatific Enjoyment in Medieval Scholastic Debates: The Complex Legacy of Saint Augustine and Peter Lombard (Lexington Books, 2014).
Monika Michałowska
Ph.D. (2007), is Professor at the Medical University of Łódź. Her research focuses on late medieval ethics and theology. She has critically edited Richard Kilvington’s Quaestiones super libros Ethicorum (Brill, 2016) and Quaestiones super libros Sententiarum (Brill, 2021; 2023). Recently, she co-authored a book on late medieval concepts of the will Safeguarding Free Will: William Ockham, Walter Chatton, and Richard Kilvington on the Will (with Riccardo Fedriga, Księgarnia Akademicka, 2022).
Riccardo Saccenti
Ph.D. (2008), is Professor at the University of Bergamo. His research focuses on ethics, metaphysics, and theology in 12th and early 13th century. He recently published a critical edition of John of La Rochelle’s Quaestiones disputatae de legibus (Frati Editori Quaracchi, 2021). He also published La ragione e la norma: Dibattiti attorno alla legge naturale fra XII e XIII secolo (Brepols, 2019).
Sonja Schierbaum
Ph.D. (2012), is currently leader of the Emmy Noether research group “Practical Reasons Before Kant (1720–1780)” at the University of Würzburg. She has also research interests in late medieval philosophy. She is the author of Ockham’s
Michael Szlachta
Ph.D. (2019), is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. His research focuses on late medieval psychology, and in particular, debates about the freedom of the will and its relationship to the intellect. Recently, he has been investigating problems concerning voluntarism and the intelligibility of choice.
Łukasz Tomanek
MAs in Philosophy (2016) and Classics (2018), is affiliated with the University of Silesia in Katowice. His research focuses on the reception of Averroes in the late 13th and early 14th century, especially in such authors as Giles of Orléans, Fernand of Spain, John of Jandun, Maino de’ Maineri, and John Aurifaber. As his doctoral dissertation, he prepared a critical edition of Fernand of Spain’s commentary on Averroes’ De substantia orbis.
Francesco Omar Zamboni
Ph.D. (2021), is post-doctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä. His research interests concern medieval Islamic metaphysics and theology, with a specific focus on the theories of trans-categorical attributes. He has authored an Italian translation of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Išārāt wa-l-Tanbīhāt (Avicenna, Le Indicazioni e gli avvertimenti, Writeup, 2021).