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Professor Anna Marmodoro


Biography

Anna is Full Professor of Philosophy and holds in the department the Chair of Metaphysics (previously E. J. Lowe's). She is concomitantly an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Oxford.

She took her current position in 2016; previously she worked for a decade at the University of Oxford, after earning her Ph.D. at Edinburgh University in 2006, and her MA (Laurea) at the University of Pisa in 2000. At Oxford she held different academic positions: she was a Departmental Lecturer in Philosophy (2007-08); a Junior Research Fellow (funded by a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2008-11); and an Official Fellow in Philosophy in Corpus Christi College (2011-17). Anna has held visiting positions internationally, in Europe, the U.S. and Australia; during the current academic year she is a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, in Germany.

Anna specializes in two main research areas: on the one hand, metaphysics, and on the other, ancient, late antiquity and medieval philosophy. She has also strong research interests in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of religion. In metaphysics she is particularly interested in questions concerning the nature of properties, dispositions, relations; causation; the metaphysics of substance; composition and structure. In the history of philosophy, she has worked on an eclectic collection of topics, on Anaxagoras, Aristotle, Plato, Plotinus, the Stoics, Gregory of Nyssa, and Thomas Aquinas among others. Anna has published monographs, edited books and journal articles in all these areas. Her latest monograph is Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2021). She is currently working on a new one, on Properties in Ancient Metaphysics, under contract with Cambridge University Press. 

She has been directing a large-scale multidisciplinary research group, with funding (in successive stages) from the European Research Council, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the AHRC.

Anna is also the co-founder and co-editor with Erasmus Mayr of the peer-reviewed journal Dialogoi. Ancient Philosophy Today, published by Edinburgh University Press (2019-), whose distinctive mission is to provide a forum for publication of work in ancient philosophy that bears on contemporary philosophical discussions or vice versa. 

CV:  http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/profiles/15318/MarmodoroCV_20-10-22.pdf

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Research interests

  • Metaphysics
  • Ancient, late antiquity and medieval philosophy
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Religion

Publications

Authored book

Book review

  • Glutty and simple?
    Marmodoro, A. (2024). Glutty and simple?. Religious Studies, 60(4), 695-698. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412524000040

Chapter in book

  • Collective Powers
    Guo, X.-Y., & Tugby, M. (2023). Collective Powers. In C. J. Austin, A. Marmodoro, & A. Roselli (Eds.), Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers (pp. 142-166). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003298830-11
  • What's dynamic about causal powers? A black box!
    Marmodoro, A. (2022). What’s dynamic about causal powers? A black box!. In Powers, Time and Free Will (pp. 1-15). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92486-7_1
  • Causal Powers in Aristotle and his Predecessors
    Marmodoro, A. (2021). Causal Powers in Aristotle and his Predecessors. In J. Jorati (Ed.), Powers: A History (pp. 10-27). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190925512.003.0002
  • Hylomorphic Unity
    Marmodoro, A. (2020). Hylomorphic Unity. In R. Bliss & J. Miller (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics (pp. 284-299). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315112596
  • Plotinus on Perception
    Marmodoro, A. (2019). Plotinus on Perception. In G. B & S. J.f. (Eds.), The senses and the history of perception.. Routledge.
  • Structure versus whole versus one
    Marmodoro, A. (2019). Structure versus whole versus one. In L. Bellotti (Ed.), Logic, Language and Metaphysics. Pisa: ETS.
  • Whole, but not one
    Marmodoro, A. (2018). Whole, but not one. In J. Heil, S. Gibb, & A. Carruth (Eds.), Ontology, modality, mind : themes from the metaphysics of E. J. Lowe. (pp. 60-72). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796299.003.0005
  • Gregory of Nyssa on the Trinity (with focus on his Letter ad Ablabius)
    Marmodoro, A. (2018). Gregory of Nyssa on the Trinity (with focus on his Letter ad Ablabius). In A. Marmodoro & N. McLynn (Eds.), Exploring Gregory of Nyssa : philosophical, theological and historical studies. (pp. 220-234). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826422.003.0012
  • Potentiality in Aristotle's Metaphysics
    Marmodoro, A. (2018). Potentiality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics. In K. Engelhard & M. Quante (Eds.), Handbook of Potentiality. Springer Verlag.
  • Power Mereology: Structural Powers versus Substantial Powers
    Marmodoro, A. (2017). Power Mereology: Structural Powers versus Substantial Powers. In M. Paoletti & F. Orilia (Eds.), Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation (pp. 110-127). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315638577-7
  • Structural Powers and the Homeodynamic Unity of Organisms
    Marmodoro, A., & Austin, C. (2017). Structural Powers and the Homeodynamic Unity of Organisms. In R. Koons, N. Teh, & W. Simpson (Eds.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Modern Science. Routledge.
  • Aristotelian Powers at Work: Reciprocity Without Symmetry in Causation
    Marmodoro, A. (2017). Aristotelian Powers at Work: Reciprocity Without Symmetry in Causation. In J. Jacobs (Ed.), Causal Powers (pp. 57-76). Oxford University Press.
  • Gregory of Nyssa on the Creation of the World
    Marmodoro, A. (2015). Gregory of Nyssa on the Creation of the World. In A. Marmodoro & B. Prince (Eds.), Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity (pp. 94-111). Cambridge University Press.
  • Causation without glue: Aristotle on causal powers
    Marmodoro, A. (2013). Causation without glue: Aristotle on causal powers. In C. Natali, C. Viano, & M. Zingano (Eds.), Les Quatre Causes d’Aristote. Origins et Interpretations (pp. 221-246). Peeters, Louvain.
  • The metaphysics of the extended mind in ontological entanglements
    Marmodoro, A. (2011). The metaphysics of the extended mind in ontological entanglements. In A. Marmodoro & J. Hill (Eds.), The Metaphysics of the Incarnation (pp. 206-228). Oxford University Press.

Edited book

Journal Article