Lefebvre David

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David Lefebvre is a former student of the École Normale supérieure (1987); in 1990, he passed the French “agrégation de philosophie”. He started studying ancient philosophy with professor Jacques Brunschwig at the University Paris I (working on Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s treatise on time and on Epictetus). David Lefebvre defended his PhD. in 2000 with professor Rémi Brague and, in 2012, he got his “Habilitation à diriger des recherches”. He has taught as assistant professor in the department of philosophy of the École normale supérieure (2000-2006) and at the Sorbonne (2006-2014). After his “Habilitation”, he has been elected as full professor at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (2015-2018); since 2018, he is professor of the history of ancient philosophy at the department of philosophy of Sorbonne University, and member of the centre Léon Robin.

His research interests focus on Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition, with three main topics: (1) Aristotle’s Metaphysics and especially book Theta (his publications on this issue include notably Dynamis, Sens et genèse de la notion aristotélicienne de puissance, Vrin); (2) Aristotle’s biology, particularly the Generation of Animals: he made a new French translation of this treatise in the Complete Works of Aristotle published by Flammarion; on the same subject, he is the editor with Andrea Falcon of Aristotle's Generation of Animals, A Critical Guide, published by Cambridge University Press; (3) the Peripatetic tradition, including Theophrastus, Strato, and Eudemus (he has published various papers and he has edited with Annick Jaulin: La Métaphysique de Théophraste, Principes et apories, Peeters).

He is currently working on two new books: a running commentary of the five books of Aristotle’s Generation of Animals with a revised translation (to be published by Les Belles Lettres, in the collection “Anagôgè”); a new translation with notes and commentary of Metaphysics book Theta, to be published by Vrin. Marwan Rashed and David Lefebvre are General editors of a series published by Vrin devoted to the translation and commentary of the 14 books of Aristotle’s Metaphysics (up to now, 4 books have been published: Delta, Epsilon, Eta, and Lambda).

David Lefebvre is editor of the French journal Les Études Philosophiques published by the Presses Universitaires de France.

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Viano Cristina

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Born in Turin (Italy) in 1959, Cristina Viano has been student in the local University, where she obtained the laurea in philosophy in 1983. In 1986, she obtained the PhD. at La Sorbonne with a dissertation on Heraclitus in Aristotle, directed by Pierre Aubenque. In 2004, in the same university, she obtained the Habilitation à diriger des recherches, with a dissertation directed by Jonathan Barnes and entitled Etudes de philosophie grecque: Doxographie. Théories philosophiques et alchimiques de la matière. Les passions chez Aristote. Since 1992 she is researcher at the CNRS, in the Centre "Léon Robin" http://centreleonrobin.fr. Since 2009 she is Senior researcher. She has frequently sojourned in foreign institutions, in particular in Cambridge, Edinburgh and Oxford. She has been visiting professor in Venice, São Paulo, Santiago (Chili), México, Jinan (Shandong, China). She is member of the European Society for Ancient Philosophy (ESAP). She belongs to scientific board of the Revista de Filosofia Antiga (São Paulo), of the journal Dialogoi. Ancient Philosophy Today and of the series Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry: Sir Robert Mond Studies in the History of Early Chemistry, Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC).

She is associated research director at the École Doctorale 433 (Concepts et langages) of Sorbonne Université, member of the Council of the Doctoral School in Philosophy at the University Ca' Foscari Venice. She directed an interrnational project (GDRI) (France, Italy, Brazil, UK and Portugal), entitled: AITIA/AITIAI. The causal link in the ancient thought: origins, forms and transformations (2014-2017) (http://aitia.hypotheses.org/) and two Franco-Brazilian cooperation projects (SPRINT CNRS-FAPESP) with USP, São Paulo, respectively entitled "Pathos. The Aristotelian doctrine of emotions " (2018-2019) and "The individual and the city: human and political relationships in Aristotle and in his time" (2020-2021). She currently directs a CNRS International Research Project (IRP) (France, Brazil, UK), entitled PATHOS. Passions, actions et réactions dans le monde antique/ PATHOS. Passions, Actions and Reactions in ancient World (2022-2026).

She directs a certain number of PhD and is responsible of a research seminar at Sorbonne Université. She also taught history of ancient philosophy in University of Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne. Her main research fields concern the history of philosophy and ancient science. Her main topics are: (a) The ancient doctrines of causation. (b) Aristotle: natural philosophy, ethics, rhetoric and the theory of passions. In particular, she published the Italian translation, with introduction and notes of Aristotle's Rhetoric (Laterza publishing house, Bari); (c) Ancient theories of matter from the Presocratics to the Neoplatonists. She has published the book La matière des choses. Le livre IV des Météorologiques d'Aristote, et son interprétation par Olympiodore, with the Greek text and a translation of Olympiodorus' commentary to book IV (Vrin 2006, this work obtained the "Azogue Book Of The Year Award for the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into history of alchemy and related fields"); (d) Alexandrian alchemy and the relationship with Greek philosophy; (e) Doxography (Heraclitus, Socrates, Stoics). Her bibliographical production includes, in addition to the works mentioned above, eleven directions of collective works and a hundred articles.

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VIANO Biblio LR 2021 .pdf

VIANO CV LR 2022.pdf

Michalewski Alexandra

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Born in Poissy in 1977, Alexandra Michalewski holds the Agrégation of Philosophy (2000), and is a former student of the École Normale Supérieure (Paris-Ulm 1998). After completing her PhD in philosophy, entitled The Causality of Forms in the Philosophy of Plotinus, she became a postdoctoral researcher at the CNRS. In 2011, she was in residence at the University of Cologne as postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. From 2012 to 2015, she was a postdoctoral researcher (FRS-FNRS) at the University of Liège (Belgium), where she taught regularly. She has been Research Fellow (CR1) at the CNRS since 2015.

Her work focuses on the cosmology and metaphysics of the Platonic tradition, from the imperial era to late Antiquity. Since 2009, her research has been conducted in close collaboration with several Belgian universities, especially with the researchers at the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at KU Leuven, where she is an associate member. She has also organized workshops and conferences in Paris, Leuven and Liège, concerning the  so-called ‘theory’ of Forms and the reception of the Platonic theory of cosmological principles (La puissance de l’intelligible. La théorie plotinienne des Formes au miroir de l’héritage médioplatonicien, Leuven, University Press, 2014, Prix Desrousseaux de l'Association des Études Grecques. Co-edited with P. d'Hoine : Les Formes platoniciennes dans l’Antiquité tardive, Études Platoniciennes VIII, Paris, Belles Lettres, 2011).

One of the main themes of Alexandra Michalewski’s research is the interplay between Aristotelianism and Platonism, from the beginnings of the imperial era to late Antiquity especially regarding (1) the question of the nature and causality of intelligible Forms and (2) the receptions of Aristotelianism in the context of the emergence of Platonic commentarism.

She is currently preparing a new edition and translation of the fragments of the Middle Platonist Atticus.

Co-Director with Pieter d'Hoine (DWMC-KU Leuven) of a funded research project (PICS, 2018-2021) : The theory of intelligible Forms in late Neoplatonism: translation and commentary of books Alpha to Gamma of Asclepius of Tralles’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics.

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CV-Michalewski-18.pdf

Capasso Giada

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Titre de la thèse : "La lettre et l’esprit. Simplicius et les conceptions néoplatoniciennes de l’harmonie entre Platon et Aristote."

Co-direction : M^me Anca Vasiliu (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Centre Léon Robin) et M^me Arianna Fermani (Université de Macerata)

Résumé du projet de thèse :

Simplicius, en introduisant les concepts de symphônia et de diaphônia pour décrire la relation entre la philosophie aristotélicienne et platonicienne, articule la liaison entre les deux philosophes et les deux philosophies selon différents niveaux d’interprétation. En effet, selon Simplicius, lorsqu’Aristote conteste Platon, il faudrait aller au-delà de la lettre du texte (lexis) – qui conduirait inévitablement à affirmer la discorde entre les deux – vers son esprit (nous), et essayer de retrouver leur harmonie sur la plupart des questions. On comprend alors que la mise en relation, l’harmonisation ou l’insistance sur les différences entre les systèmes platonicien et aristotélicien ne doivent pas être comprises de manière unilatérale, mais doivent au contraire être définies en faisant attention à leurs articulations possibles – possibilités dont des auteurs comme Simplicius nous montrent la profondeur philosophique. En nous focalisant sur les différents sujets traités par Simplicius – tels que, par exemple, la théorie du langage, l’analyse du monde physique et la doctrine des Idées – l’objectif de notre recherche est de souligner la complexité constitutive de l’exégèse de Simplicius. Après une introduction sur l’analyse historique des concepts d’harmonie et de disharmonie dans la philosophie grecque, l’attention sera portée sur la méthode de l’exégèse néoplatonicienne, afin de mieux comprendre les éléments de continuité ou de discontinuité par rapport à la tradition philosophique et historiographique à laquelle Simplicius était lié. Cette première partie servira pour aborder correctement la deuxième, qui constitue le véritable noyau philosophique de la thèse. Après avoir énuméré et analysé les sources de Simplicius, nous nous pencherons sur les différentes stratégies exégétiques utilisées par l’auteur en fonction des différents sujets d’investigation et des domaines philosophiques divers auxquels il s’applique. Parallèlement aux commentaires de Simplicius, les principaux textes abordés seront la Physique, la Métaphysique et l’Organon d’Aristote, ainsi que le Sophiste, le Parménide et le Timée de Platon. Dans la troisième et dernière partie de la thèse, nous consacrerons notre étude à la réception de Simplicius – et notamment de sa conception de l’‘harmonie’, tant au niveau exégétique qu’ontologique – à la Renaissance, en nous focalisant en particulier sur la polémique entre Pic de la Mirandole et Marsile Ficin autour du thème de la prisca theologia.

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Curriculum_ GC.pdf