Notes on Contributors
Yury Arzhanov is a member of the faculty at the Institute of Medieval Research, Byzantine Division, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and lecturer of Syriac literature at the University of Salzburg. He is the author of the monograph Syriac Sayings of Greek Philosophers: A Study in Syriac Gnomologia with Edition and Translation (Peeters 2019) and recently published a previously unknown work of Porphyry of Tyre preserved in Syriac with De Gruyter (Porphyry, “On Principles and Matter”: A Syriac Version of a Lost Greek Text with an English Translation, Introduction, and Glossaries, 2021).
Han Baltussen is the Walter W. Hughes Professor of Classics at the University of Adelaide and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He has held fellowships at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has published books on Theophrastus (2000), Simplicius (2008), the Peripatetics (2016), and edited or co-edited volumes on ancient commentaries (2004), ancient consolations (2012) and self-censorship (2013). Current projects include a monograph on consolation strategies in antiquity and a new translation of Eunapius’ Lives of Philosophers and Sophists (Loeb vol. 134).
Fedor Benevich is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He published multiple articles on the critical adaptation of ancient Greek philosophy in the intellectual tradition of the Islamic world, Islamic philosophical theology (kalām), and post-classical Islamic philosophy, and is currently working on the volume devoted to metaphysics in the forthcoming series Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East from the 12th to the 13th century, together with Peter Adamson (LMU Munich).
David Bennett is Teaching and Learning Coordinator (STEP) at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. He has published various chapters on Muʿtazilite thought, dreams and visions in the Arabic tradition, and early Islamic psychology and philosophy of nature. With Juhana Toivanen, he is the co-editor of Philosophical Problems in Sense Perception: Testing the Limits of Aristotelianism (Springer, 2020).
Max Bergamo is a postdoctoral researcher at the École Normale Supérieure (Centre Jean Pépin). He obtained a PhD in Philosophy and in Classics from LMU Munich (MUSAΦ) and from Sorbonne Université (Centre Léon Robin) and was research fellow at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies in Naples. He has authored various papers on the reception of Heraclitus in Antiquity, especially in Neoplatonism, and is preparing a monograph on the Stoic reception of Heraclitus. He is currently pursuing a project on the presence of Heraclitus in the philosophical and religious traditions of Late Antiquity, with reference to both the Greek and the Islamic tradition.
Christoph Helmig is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cologne. He is mainly working on the history of Platonism (Proclus, Simplicius) and theories of concept formation. His main publications include the monograph Forms and Concepts: Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition (De Gruyter 2012) and the volume World Soul—Anima Mundi: On the Origins and Fortunes of a Fundamental Idea (De Gruyter 2020) as well as two entries for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: “Proclus” (together with Carlos Steel) and “Simplicius.”
Mareike Jas is an independent researcher with a PhD from LMU Munich. She is the author of Nicolaus Rheginus als Übersetzer der pseudo-galenischen Schrift De historia philosopha: Ein Beitrag zur lateinischen Überlieferung des Corpus Galenicum (“Serta Graeca,” 2018) and continues to work on the text of Ps.-Galen’s De historia philosophorum. Moreover, she is also investigating Ps.-Plutarch’s Placita philosophorum and its transmission in the extant Greek manuscripts and in the Arabic translation of Qusṭā ibn Lūqā.
Andreas Lammer is Assistant Professor of History of Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen and the author of a monograph on the history of Greek and Arabic natural philosophy entitled The Elements of Avicenna’s Physics: Greek Sources and Arabic Innovations (De Gruyter 2018). He published various papers on the notions of time, creation, and nature in Ancient, Late Ancient, and Islamic philosophy. At the moment he is investigating the history of meteorology as a science from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe and translating Ps.-Aristotle’s De plantis from Arabic into English for the Loeb Classical Library (Harvard UP).
Jaap Mansfeld is Professor Emeritus of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Utrecht. He has published widely on ancient philosophy, with a concentration on Presocratic philosophy, Hellenistic philosophy, ancient doxography, and the history of scholarship. Together with David T. Runia he published in 2020 a new edition and commentary on the Placita of the doxographer Aëtius.
Christian Pfeiffer is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough. His work focuses on Aristotle’s physics and metaphysics. He published a monograph on Aristotle’s conception of body, entitled Aristotle’s Theory of Bodies (Oxford UP, 2018). His current research projects include a monograph on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Book H, and a series of articles connected to his theory of hylomorphism.
Ute Pietruschka is research associate at the project “Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts” of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She is lecturer at the University of Halle and the Free University Berlin. Her scientific interests focus on Christian-Arabic, Ethiopic, and Islamic studies, manuscript studies, and the transmission of Greek knowledge to the Islamicate world.
David T. Runia is Professorial Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at the Australian Catholic University. Together with Jaap Mansfeld he published in 2020 a new edition and commentary on the Placita of the doxographer Aëtius. He has also published widely on Greek, Hellenistic-Jewish, and Patristic philosophy.
Bethany Somma is a postdoctoral researcher at the LMU in Munich. Their research focuses on psychology and ethics in ancient Greek philosophy and philosophy of the Islamic world, on which they have written several articles. They are the author of a monograph on desire in Aristotelian and Neoplatonic philosophy entitled Models of Desire in Graeco-Arabic Philosophy: From Plotinus to Ibn Ṭufayl (Brill, 2021).
Teun Tieleman is Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Medicine at the University of Utrecht. He specializes in the work of the physician-cum-philosopher Galen of Pergamum and in ancient Stoicism. At Utrecht he directs the research project Human Nature: Medical and Philosophical Perspectives in the Work of Galen of Pergamum. He is also co-director of the Anchoring Innovation programme, an interdisciplinary project designed to study the phenomenon of innovation in classical antiquity.
Elvira Wakelnig is Assistant Professor of Arabic Philosophy at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Vienna. She obtained her doctorate from the university of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 2006 and then worked as a post-doctoral researcher in Bochum, London, Halle, Warwick, Pisa, Lausanne, and Vienna. Her research focuses on the transmission of Greek sciences into Arabic and on the intellectual history of the Islamicate World.