Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Professor of Philosophy, Saint Louis University, US (2025 – )
Visiting Professorial Fellow, Istituto di Studi Filosofici, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland (2017 – )
Full Professor of Philosophy, Chair of Metaphysics, Durham University, UK (2016-2024; in 2016-17 split appointment: 80% Durham and 20% Oxford)
Official Fellow in Philosophy, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK (2011-2017; in 2016-17, split appointment: 20% Oxford and 80% Durham)
British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy and
Junior Research Fellow in Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK (2008-2011)
Departmental Lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy and Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK (2007-2008)
Honorary Professor of Philosophy, Durham University, UK (2024 – )
Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK (2017-2024)
Member of the Senior Common Room, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK (2007 – )
PhD in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UK, 2006
Master of Arts (degree by resolution), University of Oxford, UK, 2011
Laurea in Philosophy (MA equivalent), summa cum laude, Università di Pisa, Italy, 2000
Co-Founder and Co-Editor of the academic journal Dialogoi. Ancient Philosophy Today, published by Edinburgh University Press, whose mission is to promote mutual engagement between ancient and current philosophy (2019 – )
Co-Founder and Co-Editor of the book series Early Christian Philosophy Library, Oxford University Press (2022 – )
Associate Editor of the book series Epistemic Studies: Philosophy of Science, Cognition and Mind, De Gruyter (2019 – )
Associate Editor of the book series Trends in Classics: Key Perspectives on Classical Research, De Gruyter (2018 – )
Monographs
Properties in Ancient Metaphysics, CUP, December 2023, pp. 70
Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics, OUP, December 2021, pp. vii + 232
Reviewed in Mind, the Notre Dame Philosophical Review, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis
Metaphysics: An Introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History, co-authored with Erasmus Mayr, OUP, March 2019, pp. xii + 221 (This is an expanded and revised version in English of Metafisica. Una Breve Introduzione, see below)
Metafisica. Una Breve Introduzione, co-authored with Erasmus Mayr, Carocci Editore, July 2017, pp. ii + 148
Everything in Everything. Anaxagoras’s Metaphysics, OUP, March 2017, pp. xi + 224
Reviewed in the Notre Dame Philosophical Review, Journal of Hellenic Studies, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, The Review of Metaphysics, Philosophy in Review. Book Discussion at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/everything-everything-anaxagorass-metaphysics
Aristotle on Perceiving Objects, OUP, June 2014, pp. ix + 304
Reviewed in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, The Times Literary Supplement, the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Metascience, Philosophy in Review; Ancient Philosophy, L’Antiquité Classique, the Heythrop Journal. Book Discussion at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC5DKB3vxN0
Oxford Handbook of Omnipresence, OUP, forthcoming in June 2025, co-edited with Damiano Migliorini and Ben Page
Gregory of Nyssa: On the Hexaëmeron, OUP, forthcoming in April 2025, co-edited with Johannes Zachhuber
Artificial Dispositions. Metaphysical and Ethical Issues, Bloomsbury, January 2024, pp. i-viii + 261, co-edited with William Bauer
Powers, Parts and Wholes. Essays on the Mereology of Powers, Routledge, August 2023, pp. i-ix + 260, co-edited with Christopher Austin and Andrea Roselli
Reviewed in The Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Powers, Time and Free Will, Springer, March 2022, pp. i-xvi + 272, co-edited with Christopher Austin and Andrea Roselli
The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, CUP, June 2021, pp. xi + 289, co-edited with Sofia Xenofontos, reprinted in paperback in 2024
Reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review
The Foundations of Reality: Fundamentality, Space and Time, OUP, May 2020, pp. xii + 273, co-edited with David Glick and George Darby
Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: philosophical, theological and historical studies, OUP, October 2018, pp. xi + 263, co-edited with Neil McLynn
Reviewed in Studia Graeco-Arabica
A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity, CUP, July 2018, pp. xi + 428, co-edited with Sophie Cartwright, reprinted in paperback in 2020
Reviewed in Classics for All, Studia Graeco-Arabica, The Journal of Theological Studies, Vigiliae Christianae
Divine Powers in Late Antiquity, OUP, February 2017, pp. xi + 304, co-edited with Irini Fotini Viltanioti
Reviewed in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, The American Academy of Religion, The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, The Journal of Ancient Christianity, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Reading Religion
The Metaphysics of Relations, OUP, January 2016, pp. xi + 304, co-edited with David Yates
Reviewed in The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Disputatio, The Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Philosophy, The Philosophical Quarterly
Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity, CUP, February 2015, pp. xi + 312, co-edited with Brian Prince, reprinted in paperback in 2018
Reviewed in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review
The Author’s Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity, OUP, October 2013, pp. xiii + 448, co-edited with Jonathan Hill
Reviewed in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review
The Metaphysics of the Incarnation, OUP, January 2011, pp. xix + 262, co-edited with Jonathan Hill
Reviewed in the Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy in Review, Religious Studies, Journal of Religious Studies,Sophia
The Metaphysics of Powers: Their Grounding and Their Manifestations, Routledge, April 2010, pp. vii + 204, reprinted in paperback in 2013
Reviewed in the Notre Dame Philosophical Review and Philosophy in Review; recommended reading in the Oxford Bibliographies entry on dispositions
‘Mereological Causation’ in A. Seagal and N. Stang (eds.), Systematic Metaphysics, OUP, forthcoming in 2026
‘Successors of Aristotle’s Stripping Away Argument in the IV century’, in N. Polloni (ed.), A Philosophical History of Prime Matter. Vol. 1: Ancient and Pre-Scholastic Conceptions, CUP, forthcoming in 2026
‘Themistius’ De Virtute; Socrates’ virtue ethics ‘reconditioned’’ in E. Coda (ed.), Themistius and the Power of Words. Philosophy and Rhetoric on the Crossroad of Ages and Languages, De Gruyter, forthcoming in June 2025
‘Gregory of Nyssa’s “Stripping Away” thought experiment in the in Hexaemeron,’ in J. Zachhuber and A. Marmodoro (eds.), Gregory of Nyssa: On the Hexaëmeron, OUP, forthcoming in April 2025
‘What's dynamic about causal powers? A black box!’ in C. Austin, A. Marmodoro and A. Roselli (eds.) Powers, Time and Free Will, Springer, March 2022, pp. 1-15
‘Why studying the history of philosophy matters’, Think. A Journal of the Royal Institute for Philosophy, issue 60, Spring 2022, pp. 5-20
‘Instantiation’, Metaphysics 4 (1), January 2022, pp. 32-46
‘Causal Powers in Aristotle and his Predecessors’, in J. Jorati (ed.) Powers. A History, Oxford Philosophical Concepts, OUP, April 2021, pp. 10-27
‘Power gunk, or unlimitedly divided powers’, co-authored with Andrea Roselli, in U. Zilioli (ed.), Atomism in Philosophy. A History from Antiquity to the Present, Bloomsbury Academic, December 2020, pp. 420-9
‘Gioacchino da Fiore sulla Trinità (e la sua ricezione da parte di Tommaso d’Aquino)’, in M. Bruni and A. Gatto (eds.) Disegnare con il pensiero: La filosofia dell’immagine di Gioacchino da Fiore, Mimesis, November 2020, pp. 37-74
‘Hylomorphic Unity’, in R. Bliss and J. Miller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, July 2020, pp. 284-299
‘Aesthetic Cognitivism’, The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, June 2020, pp. 33-44
‘Powers, Activity and Interaction’, in A. S. Meincke (ed.) Dispositionalism: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science, Springer, April 2020, pp. 55-66
‘The power of color’, co-authored with M. Grasso, American Philosophical Quarterly, 57:1, January 2020, pp. 65-77
‘Structure versus whole versus one’, in L. Bellotti, L. Gili, E. Moriconi, G. Turbanti (eds.) Third Pisa Colloquium in Logic, Language and Epistemology. Pisa: ETS, May 2019, pp. 239-50
‘Plotinus on Perception’, in B. Glenney and J. F. Silva (eds.), The Senses and the History of Perception, Routledge, March 2019, pp. 81-95
‘Gregory of Nyssa on the Trinity (with focus on his Letter ad Ablabium)’, in A. Marmodoro and N. McLynn (eds.), Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: philosophical, theological and historical studies, OUP, October 2018, pp. 220-234
‘Whole, but not one’, in J. Heil, S. Gibb and A. Carruth (eds.) Ontology, Modality, Mind: Themes from the Metaphysics of E. J. Lowe, OUP, October 2018, pp. 60-69
'Potentiality in Aristotle's metaphysics', in K. Engelhard and M. Quante (eds.) The Handbook of Potentiality, Springer, April 2018, pp. 15-43
‘Structural powers and the homeodynamic unity of organisms’, co-authored with C. Austin, in R. Koons, N. Teh, W. Simpson (eds.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Modern Science, Routledge, October 2017, pp. 169-183
‘Stoic blends’, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 32, August 2017, pp. 1-24
‘Aristotelian powers at work: reciprocity without symmetry in causation’, J. Jacobs (ed.), Causal Powers, OUP, April 2017, pp. 57-76
‘Power mereology: structural versus substantial powers', in M.P. Paoletti and F. Orilia (eds.) Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation, Routledge, February 2017 pp. 110-127 (reprinted in paperback in 2019)
‘Dispositional modality vis-à-vis conditional necessity’, Philosophical Investigations, Vol 39, No 3, July 2016, pp. 205-214
‘Aquinas on Forms, Substances and Artifacts’, co-authored with B. Page, Vivarium, Volume 54, Issue 1, January 2016, pp. 1-21
‘Anaxagoras’s Qualitative Gunk’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 23, issue 3, March 2015, pp. 402-422
‘Gregory of Nyssa on the Creation of the World’, in A. Marmodoro and B. Prince (eds.) Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity, CUP, February 2015, pp. 94-111
‘Aristotle’s hylomorphism without reconditioning', Philosophical Inquiry, Volume 37, Issue 1/2, winter/spring 2013, pp. 5-22
‘Moral Character versus Situations: an Aristotelian contribution to the debate', Journal of Ancient Philosophy, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2011, pp. 1-24
‘The Metaphysics of Extended Mind in ontological entanglements’, in A. Marmodoro and J. Hill (eds.) The Metaphysics of the Incarnation, OUP, January 2011, pp. 206-228
‘Peter Abelard's metaphysics of the incarnation', co-authored with J. Hill, Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 22, numbers 1&2, 2010, pp. 27-48
‘Composition models of the incarnation: unity and unifying relations’, co-authored with J. Hill, Religious Studies, Vol. 46, issue 4, 2010, pp. 469-488
‘Do powers need powers to make them powerful? From Pandispositionalism to Aristotle’, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 4, 2009, pp. 337-352
‘Is Being One Only One?' – The Argument for the Uniqueness of Platonic Forms’, Apeiron, Volume XLI 4, December 2008, pp. 211-227
‘Modeling the Metaphysics of the Incarnation', co-authored with J. Hill, Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 20, 2008, pp. 99-128
‘The Union of Cause and Effect in Aristotle: Physics III 3’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 32, 2007, pp. 205-232
‘It’s a Colorful World’, American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 1, 2006, pp. 71-80
Published in: the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (2022), Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2011), the British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2014 and 2019), the Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2003, 2008, 2016, 2021, 2023, 2025), the Classical Review (2012 and 2021), Faith and Philosophy (2018), The International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2025), the International Journal of the Platonic Tradition (2011), Metascience (2013 and 2018), Mind (2011), the Notre Dame Philosophical Review (2014, 2018, 2020), Philosophie Antique (2016, 2025), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2011), Religious Studies (2024), Studia Graeco-Arabica (2020), the Times Literary Supplement (2010), The Thomist (2024)
‘Epistemology’ in H. Beck, C. Constantakopoulou, J. McInerney (eds.), Oxford History of the Classical Greek World, Vol. 6, co-authored with D. Scaltsas, forthcoming
‘Anaxagore’, in M. Kristanek (éditeur-en-chef), L'Encyclopédie Philosophique, https://encyclo-philo.fr/item/1647, March 2021
‘Greek and Roman Metaphysics' in D. Clayman (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Classics, Oxford University Press, 2017 (DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195389661-0232)
‘Aristotle, psychology’ in S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C.B. Champion, A. Erskine and S.R. Huebner (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Wiley-Blackwell, October 2012 (DOI:10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah21045)
‘A New Mind-Body Solution From Antiquity?’, The Philosopher’s Magazine, June 2017
‘Powers, Aristotle and the incarnation’, an interview with Richard Marshal on 3:AM Magazine, July 2014
Philosophical and Theological Issues in Joachim of Fiore and the Joachimite tradition. Special issue of the journal Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales, Volume 89, issue 2, February 2023
Powers in the world of science, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, co-edited with Andrea Rosselli, published online 2021-22 https://link.springer.com/collections/bhcgjaggac
Aristotelian Biology and Christian Theology in Late Antiquity. Special thematic section of the Journal of Ancient Philosophy, co-edited with Christopher Austin and Vito Limone, Vol. 15 No. 2, October 2021
Form, Structure and Hylomorphism. Special issue of the journal Synthese, co-edited with Michele Paolini Paoletti, Volume 198, supplement issue 11, June 2021
Mental Powers. Special issue of the journal TOPOI International Review of Philosophy, co-edited with Matteo Grasso, Volume 39, issue 5, November 2020
The Metaphysics of the Trinity. New Directions. Special issue of the journal Religious Studies, co-edited with Martin Pickup and Daniel Kodaj, vol. 54, issue 3, September 2018
Stoic Metaphysics. Special issue of the journal Rhizomata. A journal for ancient philosophy and science, co-edited with Ricardo Salles, 6: 1, August 2018
Powers, Abilities and Skills in Early Modern Philosophy. Special issue of the journal British Journal for the History of Philosophy, co-edited with Federico Boccacini, 25:3, June 2017
Empedocles’ Metaphysics. Special issue of the journal Rhizomata. A journal for ancient philosophy and science, 4:1, Summer 2016
Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in classical and late antiquity. Special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 22:5, January 2015
The Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics. Special issue of the journal TOPOI International Review of Philosophy, vol. 34, issue 2, October 2015
Aristotelian and Contemporary Perspectives on the Mind. Special issue of the journal Res Philosophica, 91:2, 2014
Powers of the Mind: Contemporary Problems and Ancient Answers. Special issue of the journal TOPOI International Review of Philosophy, 31:2, 2012
Matter. A History, Oxford Philosophical Concepts, edited volume, OUP (proposal submitted January 2025)
‘Failing to keep order in one’s life. Why does it matter, according to Augustine’s De Ordine?', book chapter in A.-I. Bouton-Touboulic and G. Reydams-Schils (eds.), Augustine’s De Ordine, OUP (submitted August 2024)
‘Faut-il destiner l’histoire de la philosophie à la brocante?’, journal article, Annales de l'Institut de Philosophie, Vrin (submitted July 2024)
‘The emergence of emergence’, book chapter in A. Bryant and D. Yates (eds.), Rethinking Emergence, OUP (submitted August 2023, revised and resubmitted June 2024)
‘Les pouvoirs dans la nature’, co-authored with Ben Page, book chapter in G. Kevorkian (ed.), La Métaphysique. Nouvelles Perspectives, Vrin (submitted August 2023)
i) Research funding
Part-whole relations within the fundamental potentialities in nature (2018-21)
Leverhulme Trust project grant. Value: £297,361. Principal investigator.
W: https://www.power-parts.website
The Reception of Aristotle in Byzantium (2017-18)
Arts and Humanities Research Council project grant. Value: £199,827. Co-Investigator, with Dr Sofia Xenofontos.
W: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP008887%2F1
Double Hylomorphism in Late Antique Metaphysics (2016-17)
John Fell Fund project grant. Value: £7,186. Principal Investigator.
The Metaphysics of Quantum Entanglement (2014-17)
Templeton World Charity Foundation project grant. Value: £839,000. Principal Investigator.
W: http://www.metaphysics-of-entanglement.ox.ac.uk/
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies (2011-16)
European Research Council project grant (ERC StG). Value: €1,3 million. Principal Investigator.
W: http://www.power-structuralism.ox.ac.uk
Causal Powers in Aristotle’s Philosophy of Mind (2008-11)
British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship Grant. Value: £235,000.
Christ as the ‘external vehicle’ of God’s mental contents (2008-09)
Leverhulme Trust project grant. Value: £33,000. Co-Investigator, with Prof Tim Bayne.
ii) Research Staff
ii.i) Senior researchers working in my research group, who received a buy-out from their institution to work on my projects
2014-17 Professor Chris Hughes, Department of Philosophy, King’s College London
2014-17 Professor Brian Leftow, Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford (now at Rutgers)
2014-17 Professor Andrew Steane, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
ii.ii) Post-doctoral Fellows (17 in total) appointed in my research group with my own funding, and their subsequent placement (all in Philosophy Departments unless specified; ‘starred’ names are also co-authors of published research)
2019-21 *Dr Christopher Austin, now a high school teacher in London, UK
2018-21 *Dr Andrea Roselli, now Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Namur, Beligium
2018-19 Dr Crystal Addey, now Lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland
2017 *Dr Matteo Grasso, now Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, US
2016-17 *Dr Sophie Cartwright; she has taken up a non-academic job in London, UK
2016-17 *Dr David Glick, now Lecturer at the University of California Davis, US
2016-17 *Dr Christopher Austin, reappointed to a different project in 2019-21, see above
2015 Dr Naoya Iwata, now permanent Lecturer at Nagoya University, Japan
2014-17 *Dr Martin Pickup, now Senior Lecturer at Birmingham University, UK
2014-17 *Dr Daniel Kodaj; he has taken up a non-academic job in Budapest, Hungary
2014-17 *Dr George Darby, now permanent Teaching Fellow at Oxford Brookes University
2014-15 *Prof Dr Erasmus Mayr, now Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany. Recipient of the 2021 German Prize for Philosophy and Social Ethics for his outstanding contributions to practical philosophy, awarded by the Max Uwe Redler Foundation in Hamburg.
2013-15 Dr Tamer Nawar, now ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and winner of an ERC StG in 2021
2011-15 *Dr Irini Fotini Viltanioti, now Assistant Professor at the University of Crete
2012-14 *Dr David Yates, now Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon, Portugal
2011-14 *Dr Brian Prince, now teaching at Houston Community College, US
2011-12 Dr Kelly Rudolph, now Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent, UK
2008-09 *Dr Jonathan Hill, now Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter, UK
ii.iii) Post-doctoral Fellows (7 in total) externally funded, under my direct supervision, and their subsequent placement
2020-21 Dr Jaqueline Tusi, supported by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (postponed due to Covid-19, and then cancelled for family reasons)
2020-21 Dr Cristian Lopez, supported by a grant from the The National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium (postponed due to Covid-19, and then cancelled)
2018 Dr Irene Binini, supported by a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), now a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Univeristy of Parma, Italy.
2018 Dr Vito Limone, supported by a grant from the Academia dei Lincei and a grant from the Foundation “Banca del Monte di Lombardia”, now tenured Assistant Professor at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Faculty of Philosophy, Milan, Italy.
2016-18 Dr Salim Hireche, supported by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, now a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Geneve, Switzerland.
2013-14 Dr Alexei Pleshkov, supported by the Higher School of Economics, Moscow; before 2022 Director of the Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow; now Post-doctoral fellow at ULB/Support Fund, Bruxelles, Belgium
2011-12 Dr Baptiste Gille, supported by the Centre for Anthropology and Mind, University of Oxford, now Adjunct Professor at Science Po in Paris, France
Visiting Professor, Università di Messina, Italy (2025, 1 month)
Visiting Researcher, lnstituto de lnvestigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City (2024, 4 months)
Researcher in Residence, Fondation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, Paris (2024, 2 months)
Fellow of the Instituto di Studi Avanzati, Università di Bologna, Italy (2024, 1 month)
Distinguished Visitor, History of Philosophy Forum, University of Notre Dame, US (2023, 1 month)
Visiting Researcher, Università di Torino, Italy, 2022 (1 month)
Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany (2021-22, 10 months)
Directeur d’Etudes Associés, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France (2021, 1 month)
Research Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, US (2013, 1 month)
Research Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Centre, Italy (2012, 1 month)
Research Fellow, Australian National University, Research School of the Social Sciences, Canberra (2009, 1 month)
Visiting Researcher, Institüt für Klassische Philologie, University of Würzburg, Germany, supported by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD (2006-7, 6 months)
2012 - Co-founder with Prof John Marenbon (Cambridge) of the Medieval Philosophy Network in the UK
2020 - Research collaborator in Le Groupe d’Études en Métaphysique directed by Prof Claudine Tiercelin, Collège de France
2016-17 Research collaborator in the international interdisciplinary network CauseHealth, funded by the Norwegian Research Council
2012-15 Research collaborator in the international interdisciplinary network Lignes causales dans la pensée antique, funded by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
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Henle conference (on essentialism) + Wade memorial lecture, Saint Louis
Matter. An Oxford Philosophical Concept workshop (online)
Augustine’s De Ordine, Padova, Italy (with G. Catapano)
Augustine on Relations, Oxford (with R. Ballon-Villanueva)
Collective Agency, Oxford (with V. Rodriguez-Blanco)
Henology: Ancient, Medieval, and Contemporary Accounts of Oneness, Oxford (with R. Ballon-Villanueva)
Philosophising with the Greats, Oxford (with J. Pemberton)
John Heil @ 80, Durham
The Number of Things, Milano, Italy (with E. Paganini and J. Pemberton)
The Metaphysics of Relations. Ancient and medieval perspectives, international summer school & conference, Lugano, Switzerland (with J. Marenbon)
Colloquium on Late Antique Christian Philosophy (Gregory of Nyssa), Oxford (with J. Zachhuber)
Philosophising with the Greats, Oxford (with J. Pemberton)
The Mereology of Potentiality II (online) (with C. Austin and A. Roselli)
Change and Changemakers in Ancient Philosophy (online) (with J. Pemberton)
The Mereology of Potentiality I (online) (with C. Austin and A. Roselli)
Time, Laws and Free Will, Oxford (with C. Austin and A. Roselli)
Aristotelian Biology and Christian Philosophy in the Early Empire, Oxford (with C. Austin and V. Limone)
The View from Above: Structure, Emergence and Causation, Oxford (with C. Austin and A. Roselli)
The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Continuities & Transformations, Oxford (with S. Xenophontos)
Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy, Oxford
Stoic Mereology: ancient and contemporary perspectives, Oxford
The Foundation of Reality: fundamentality, space and time, Oxford (with D. Glick and G. Darby)
The Soul-Body Relation in Gregory of Nyssa, Oxford
Neo-Aristotelian approaches to the philosophy of mind, Naples (with E. Mayr)
The Metaphysics of the Trinity, Oxford (with M. Pickup and D. Kodaj)
Stoic Metaphysics: Causes, Principles and Mereology, Oxford
Powers, Perception and Agency, international summer school & conference, Rome (with E. Mayr)
Essence, Power and Activity in Classical and Late Antiquity, Oxford
Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy meeting, Oxford
The Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics, Oxford (with D. Glick and G. Darby)
Powers, Perception and Agency, international summer school & conference, Rome (with E. Mayr)
Divine Powers in Late Antiquity, Brussels (with I. Viltanioti)
Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy, Oxford
Aristotelian and contemporary perspectives in the philosophy of mind, Oxford
Empedocles’ Metaphysics, Oxford
Neo-Aristotelian Philosophy of Science, Cambridge (with Nic Teh)
The Metaphysics of Relations, Institute for Philosophy, London (with D. Yates)
Causing Health and Disease: medical powers in classical and late antiquity, Oxford
Powerful Qualities, Oxford (with D. Yates)
Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy meeting, Oxford
Emotions, Passions, and Formation of Character in Antiquity, Oxford
Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy meeting, Oxford
Incarnation: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Mind, Oxford
Powers: their Grounding and their Realization, Oxford
Conference grants received to fund the above conferences
(in addition to Department, Faculty and College internal grants):
The Aristotelian Society (2009, 2015); the Analysis Trust (2008, 2009, 2012, 2015; twice in 2016, 2018, 2019, twice in 2020, 2023); the British Academy (2008); the British Society for the History of Philosophy (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018); the British Society for Philosophy of Science (2014); the Daiwa Foundation (2017); the John Fell Fund (2008, 2009); the Hellenic Society (2009, 2018); the Mind Association (2008, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2021); the Oxford Centre for the Study of Late Antiquity (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Executive Committee Member and Trustee of the Association (2019 - )
(Publication officer for the Mind Association series, OUP; Research fellowships selection panel; Mind Editor(s) appointment panel)
The Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK
Member of the Strategic Peer Review College (2017-21)
Member of the inaugural Humanities panel of the post-Brexit AHRC - DFG (UK - Germany) joint research scheme (2020)
Member of the Peer Review College (2014-17)
Evaluation of research programs and projects, philosophical prizes
2025 APA Alvin Plantinga Prize selection committee
APA Book Prize selection committee
The Swiss National Science Foundation. Postdoctoral fellowships evaluator
The European Research Council. External expert reviewer of Advanced Grants applications, SH5
2024 The Swiss National Science Foundation. Projects evaluator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal. Research Units quinquennial evaluation, panel member
National Science Centre Poland (NCN). Panel member
Fondazione Cariplo, Italy. Projects evaluator
2023 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal. Panel Chair for the Philosophy,Ethics and Religion Panel
The Swiss National Science Foundation. Projects evaluator
Fondazione Cariplo, Italy. Projects evaluator
Programma per Giovani Ricercatori "Rita Levi Montalcini", Italy. Projects evaluator
2022 Comitato di selezione progetti PRIN (CDV SH5_11), Italy. Panel member
World Templeton Charity Foundation. Projects evaluator
Programma per Giovani Ricercatori "Rita Levi Montalcini", Italy. Projects evaluator
2021- The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) Review College, Belgium. Panel member
2021 European Research Council. External expert reviewer of Advanced Grants applications, SH5
Valutazione Qualità della Ricerca (2015-2019), Italy. Projects evaluator
Programma per Giovani Ricercatori "Rita Levi Montalcini", Italy. Projects evaluator
Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Projects evaluator
National Science Centre Poland (NCN). Panel member
The Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist 2021. Jury member
Comitato di selezione progetti PRIN (CDV SH5_11), Italy. Panel member
2020 European Research Council. External expert reviewer of Advanced Grants applications, SH5
The Swiss National Science Foundation. Projects evaluator
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Projects evaluator
Programma per Giovani Ricercatori "Rita Levi Montalcini", Italy. Projects evaluator
Academy of Finland. Panel member
2019 Academy of Finland. Panel member
Evaluation of all Arts & Humanities Research Units, Portugal. Panel member
Agència per la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya, Spain. Projects evaluator
2018 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Projects evaluator
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Projects evaluator
The Templeton World Charity Foundation. Projects evaluator
Gutenberg Chair Program, France. Projects evaluator
Comitato di selezione progetti PRIN, Italy. Panel member
2017 AHRC Doctoral Training Partnerships Scheme (DTP2). Panel member
The Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden. Projects evaluator
The Swiss National Science Foundation. Projects evaluator
National Science Centre, Poland (NCN). Projects evaluator
The National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes, Italy. Panel member
The Rockefeller Bellagio Center academic residency program. Projects evaluator
2016 The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) Belgium. Projects evaluator
The National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes, Italy. Panel member
The Rockefeller Bellagio Center academic residency program, US. Projects evaluator
Referee for the Valutazione Qualità della Ricerca (2011-2014), Italy. Panel member
2015 The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium. Projects evaluator
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Projects evaluator
Comitato di selezione progetti PRIN, Italy. Panel member
2014 The Royal Society Newton International Fellowships program, UK. Projects evaluator
The Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France. Projects evaluator
The Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden. Projects evaluator
PISCOPIA Fellowships Program, Italy. Projects evaluator
2011-3 National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes, Italy. Member of the National Humanities Panel (GEV, area 11)
Peer-reviewed journals
Analysys, Ancient Philosophy, Apeiron, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Dialectica, Erkenntnis, European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, European Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, History of Philosophy Quarterly, International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Journal of Hellenic Studies, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Metaphysica, Mind, Monist, Nous, Philosophers’ Imprint, Philosophia, Philosophical Inquiry, Philosophical Papers, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Philosophie Antique, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Phoenix, Res Philosophica, Rhizomata, Studia Neo-Aristotelica, Synthese, TheoLogica, Theoria.
International presses
Oxford University Press (Philosophy, Theology), Cambridge University Press (Philosophy, Classics), Routledge (Philosophy, Classics), Ashgate (Philosophy, Theology), Bloomsbury (Philosophy, Classics), Brill (Philosophy), Palgrave Macmillan (Philosophy), Catholic University of America Press (Philosophy).
(at different international institutions)
UG lectures and tutorials
At the University of Oxford, lectures and tutorials taught during the period 2007-2017 (for BA joint honours students, 8 hours each course)
· Early Greek Philosophy
· Plato’s Euthyphro and Meno
· Plato’s Republic
· Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
At the university di Durham, lectures and tutorials taught during the period 2017-2024 (for BA single and joints honours and MA students, 22 hours each full course)
· Introduction to Philosophy
· Contemporary Analytic Metaphysics
· Philosophical Issues in Contemporary Science
· Philosophy of Religion
At the Istituto di Studi Filosofici, Università della Svizzera Italiana, lectures series taught during the period 2007-2024 as Visiting Professorial Fellow (in English for the Master (MAP), 28 hours each course) and in Italian for the BA joint honours, 24 hours each course)
· Anaxagoras’s metaphysics (for BA students)
· The Early Greek thinkers (for BA students)
· Forms and participation in Plato's metaphysics (for BA students)
· The problem of instantiation in Aristotle and his predecessors Plato and Anaxagoras (for BA students)
· The metaphysics of causal powers (for BA students)
· Themes in contemporean analytical metaphysics (for BA students)
· Anaxagoras’s ontology and its fundamental principles (for MAP students)
· Plato’s theory of Forms and its models of participation (for MAP students)
· The metaphysics of properties in ancient Greek thought (for MAP students)
· Plato's Anaxagoreanism (for MAP students)
All’Università di Pavia, IUSS, 2019, advanced seminar (masterclass) taught as Visiting Professor, 8 hours
· Towards a new metaphysics, beyond David Armstrong and David Lewis: Power Structuralism
At the Università Vita e Salute San Raffaele, 2020, advanced seminar (masterclass) taught as Visiting Professor, 12 hours
· Towards a new metaphysics, beyond David Armstrong and David Lewis: Power Structuralism
At the Università Statale di Milano, 2021, lectures course, for BA + MA students, taught as Visiting Professor, 20 hours, in italiano
· Le ontologie di Platone e Anassagora: Forme, oggetti e la relazione di partecipazione
At the Università di Torino, 2022, lectures course for BA students, taught as Visiting Professor, 36 hours, in italiano
· Questioni di metafisica analitica
At the Università di Bergamo, 2024, lectures course for MA students, 18 hours
· The metaphysics of powers and their applications
At the National Autonomous University of Mexico, 2024, advanced seminar taught as Visiting Professor, 16 hours, for PhD and Postdocs.
· Properties in ancient metaphysics
UG and MA Theses
At the Università di Oxford, I have supervised term-papers e di theses for the BPhil (equivalent to a 2-year Master in Philosophy), during the perod 2007-2016, with on average 4 students per year
At the Università di Durham each faculty member supervisors 10-12 MA thesis in philosophy per year, which I did during the perod 2017-2024
All’Istituto di Studi Filosofici, Università della Svizzera Italiana, I have supervised 2 BA theses, and 1 MA thesis during the period 2007-2024
Graduate teaching
Research seminars and reading groups
In ancient philosophy:
· Aristotle’s metaphysics
· Plato’s metaphysics
· Representative topics in later periods: Creation and Causation, Body and Soul, Marcus Aurelius and the Roman Stoics, Gregory of Nyssa.
In contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science:
· Representative topics: the metaphysics of substance, causation, emergence, dispositions.
Graduate research supervision (primary supervisor unless otherwise specified)
Ongoing PhD Students:
Rodrigo Ballon Villanueva (2022 - )
Matilde Berti (secondary supervisor, 2021 - )
Timothy Eshing (2025 - )
Completed PhDs and placement:
Martin Rushton (2025, now an independent researcher)
John Pemberton (2023, now an independent researcher)
Taylor Pincin (2023, now a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University)
Peter Jones (2021, now in the Church of England)
Andrew Thomas (2021, now a secondary school teacher in the UK)
Giacomo Giannini (2020, now a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow in Dusseldorf (Germany)
Ben Page (2019, now teaching at Eton College, UK)
Damiano Migliorini (2019, now a secondary school teacher in Italy)
Graduate examining: Ph.D. and Research Master programs
(external examiner, except where specified)
2025 Jordan Steffaniak, Philosophy, Birmingham
2025 Gregorio Fracchia, Geography, IUSS, Pavia Italy
2024 Henry Bowles, Classics, Oxford
2023 Suf Amichay, Divinity, Cambridge
2022 Rodrigo Ballon Villanueva, Philosophy (Master by Research), U. della Svizzera Italiana
2022 Arthur Dony, Philosophy, Liège, Belgium
2021 Luca Dondoni, Philosophy, King’s College London (MPhilStud)
2021 Antonio Catalano, Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Italy
2020 George Stamets, Philosophy, Leeds University
2020 Julie Godfrey, Philosophy, Durham University (internal)
2020 Marco Marabello, Philosophy (Master by Research), Università della Svizzera Italiana
2020 Irene Sacco, Philosophy, Università di Cagliari, Italy
2020 Damien Spillane, The University of Notre Dame Australia
2019 Tiziano Ferrando, Philosophy, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2019 Gilles Kevorkian, Philosophy, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
2019 Marc Cole, Philosophy, Leeds University
2019 Erman Kar, Philosophy, Bristol University
2018 Matthew Keith Owen, Philosophy, University of Birmingham
2018 Emily Paul, Philosophy, Leeds University
2017 Matteo Grasso, Philosophy, Università di Roma Tre, Italy
2017 Ashley Coates, Philosophy, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 Melinda Letts, Classics, University of Oxford (internal)
2016 Selina Beaugrand, Philosophy, Edinburgh University
2016 Salim Hireche, Philosophy, University of Geneve, Switzerland
2015 Antony Smith, Classics, University of Oxford (internal)
2013 Thomas Gaston, Theology, University of Oxford (internal)
Masterclasses/Summer schools (for graduate students & early career researchers)
2025 Augustine’s De Ordine, Innsbruck
2025 Essentialism in Ancient and Contemporary Metaphysics, Munich, Germany
2022 The Metaphysics of Relations. Ancient and Medieval Perspectives, with J. Marenbon, Lugano, Switzerland
2019 The Nature of Entropy: From Thermodynamics to Black Holes, Saig, Germany (organiser: M Esfeld)
2018 Aristotle’s Metaphysics Yesterday and Today, Falconara, Italy (organisers: K. Mulligan and G. Ventimiglia)
2016 Neo-Aristotelian Approaches in the Philosophy of Mind, with E. Mayr, Naples, Italy
2015 Powers, Perception and Agency, with E. Mayr, at the British School in Rome, Italy
2015 The Ontology of Physics, Saig, Germany (primary organiser: M. Esfeld)
2014 Powers, Perception and Agency, with E. Mayr, at the British School in Rome, Italy
2007 Aristotelian Hylomorphism. Humboldt University of Berlin (primary organiser: C. Rapp)
Durham University
Main responsibilities: research leadership and support, in the following roles:
Within the Department of Philosophy
· Director of Research (2022-24)
· Senior management team member (2021-24)
· Search committee for professorial positions (2021)
· Academic progression and promotion committee member (2017-24)
· Director of Post-Graduate Research (2017-22)
Within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
· Faculty Research Board member (2022-24)
· Faculty Ethics Committee member (2022-24)
University of Oxford
Main responsibilities: governance, in the following roles:
Within the University
· Pro-Proctor (2016-17)
The Proctor and their team are senior academic officers of the University who oversee student matters, and uphold the University's statutes and policies throughout its governance and administration.
Within Corpus Christi College
· Member of Governing Body and Trustee of College (2008-16)
· Master of the Senior Common Room (2011-17)
Other miscellaneous responsibilities
· Service on appointing committees for the College and the University (2011, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Activities concerning students’ support
· Chair of the College Welfare Group (2012-13)
· Tutor for Women (2011-13)
· Dean of Degrees (2012-17)
Beyond my institutions, within academia at large
· Tenure and promotion assessment service in the US (Universities of Florida, Fordham, Massachusetts Amherst, Notre Dame, Virginia)
· Tenure track appointments (RDTs tipo B) in Italy (Universities of Genova, Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Bergamo)
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