Anna Marmodoro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1042643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Marmodoro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Marmodoro |
| SIGNATURE | MARMODORO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7113-1954 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Oxford Handbook of Omnipresence
That something may be ‘present’ or ‘located’ at or in every place is a view that many thinkers, past and present, have held. Typically omnipresence is thought to be a divine attribute, but the question as to how some thing can be omnipresent has not been historically confined to the status of a divine being. This book offers an insight into historical accounts of omnipresence and its developments in ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary tho…
Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being
It is indicative of a common perception that in the conclusion of his beautiful (and certainly not wild!) monograph, Casati characterizes Heidegger’s work as a ‘wild place’ (p. 181). This is becaus
Glutty and simple
Beall's original understanding of the nature of the divine allows for contradictory statements to be true of God, by assuming that parts of reality, such as the Trinity, are ‘glutty’ (namely, what we can say about them is both true and false). Is the divine is the only glutty part of reality, and if so, why? Furthermore, does the glutty nature of the divine undermine its simplicity? Beall argues that God is not mereologically complex, but on his …
Properties in Ancient Metaphysics
This Element provides an overview of how the ancient thinkers (Anaxagoras, Plato and Aristotle) theorised about properties; such overview puts in relief the inquiries, problems and solutions they were pursuing while engaged in dialogue with each other. It examines alternative philosophical perspectives existing in antiquity concerning the explanation of property qualification, qualitative similarity, compositeness, and oneness. It further argues …
The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, including historians, classicists, philosophers and theologians, this original collection of essays offers the first authoritative analysis of the multifaceted reception of Greek ethics in late antiquity and Byzantium (ca. 3rd-14th c.), opening up a hitherto under-explored topic in the history of Greek philosophy. The essays discuss the sophisticated ways in which moral themes and controversies fr…
Introduction to the special issue on form, structure and hylomorphism
Whole, but not One
A number of contemporary metaphysicians find Aristotle’s hylomorphism a promising and yet wanting account of what there is, and have engaged in ‘reconditioning’ it into a sound metaphysics (e.g. Jaworski 2016, Koons 2014, Rea 2011, among others). Jonathan Lowe’s four-category ontology aligns with this way of thinking, notwithstanding its explicit rejection of the notion of matter that is typically attributed to Aristotle. This chapter offers a ta…
Potentiality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics
A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity
The mind-body relation was at the forefront of philosophy and theology in late antiquity, a time of great intellectual innovation. This volume, the first integrated history of this important topic, explores ideas about mind and body during this period, considering both pagan and Christian thought about issues such as resurrection, incarnation and asceticism. A series of chapters presents cutting-edge research from multiple perspectives, including…
Exploring Gregory of Nyssa
Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Studies' brings together an interdisciplinary team of historians, classicists, philosophers, and theologians to offer a holistic exploration of the thought of Gregory of Nyssa. The volume considers Gregory's role in the main philosophical and religious controversies of his era, such as his ecclesiastical involvement in the Neo-Nicene apologetical movement. It looks at his comp…
Divine Powers in Late Antiquity
What are divine powers? What is their relation to divine nature? Is power the essence of divinity, or are divine powers distinct from divine essence? Are they divine hypostases or are they divine attributes? How are they manifested? In what do their differ from the physical powers we find instantiated in nature? In which way, if at all, can they be apprehended by our limited cognitive capacities? The twelve chapters in this volume examine the way…
Everything in Everything
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (fifth century BCE) is best known for his stance that there is a share of everything in everything. He puts forward this theory of extreme mixture as a solution to the problem of change that he and his contemporaries inherited from Parmenides: that what is cannot come from what is not (and vice versa). For Anaxagoras the fundamental elements of reality are the opposites (hot, cold, wet, dry, etc.), which are instances of …
The Metaphysics of Relations
1. Introduction: The Metaphysics of Relations 2. Relations as Plural Predications in Plato 3. Aristotelian vs. Contemporary Perspectives on Relations 4. Why Do Medieval Philosophers Reject Polyadic Accidents? 5. Positionalism Revisited 6. There Are (Probably) No Relations 7. External Relations, Causal Coincidence, and Contingency 8. Causal Relations 9. Is Powerful Causation an Internal Relation? 10. What a Structuralist Theory of Properties Could…
Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity
Written by a group of leading scholars, this unique collection of essays investigates the views of both pagan and Christian philosophers on causation and the creation of the cosmos. Structured in two parts, the volume first looks at divine agency and how late antique thinkers, including the Stoics, Plotinus, Porphyry, Simplicius, Philoponus and Gregory of Nyssa, tackled questions such as: is the cosmos eternal? Did it come from nothing or from so…
Anaxagoras’s Qualitative Gunk
Are there atoms in the constitution of things? Or is everything made of atomless 'gunk' whose proper parts have proper parts? Anaxagoras (fifth-century BC) is the first gunk lover in the history of metaphysics. For him gunk is not only a theoretical possibility that cannot be ruled out in principle (as it is for modern gunk lovers). Rather, it is a view that follows cogently from his metaphysical analysis of the physical world of our experience. …
External Relations, Causal Coincidence, and Contingency
This volume presents thirteen original essays which explore both traditional and contemporary aspects of the metaphysics of relations. It is uncontroversial that there are true relational predications-'Abelard loves Eloise', 'Simmias is taller than Socrates', 'smoking causes cancer', and so forth. More controversial is whether any true relational predications have irreducibly relational truthmakers. Do any of the statements above involve their su…
Aristotle on Perceiving Objects
"How can we explain the structure of perceptual experience? What is it that we perceive? How is it that we perceive objects and not disjoint arrays of properties? By which sense or senses do we perceive objects? Are our five senses sufficient for the perception of objects? Aristotle investigated these questions by means of the metaphysical modeling of the unity of the perceptual faculty and the unity of experiential content. His account remains f…
Aristotle's hylomorphism without reconditioning
The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity
What significance does the voice or projected persona in which a text is written have for our understanding of the meaning of that text? This volume explores the persona of the author in antiquity, from Homer to late antiquity, taking into account both Latin and Greek authors from a range of disciplines. It contains chapters on pseudepigraphy and fictional letters, as well as the use of texts as authoritative in philosophical schools, and the anc…
Aristotle, psychology
Aristotle (384–322 BCE ), born in Stagira, in the northeast of Greece, was for twenty years a member of plato's Academy in Athens (367–347).
The metaphysics of the incarnation
This is a collection of original essays by leading philosophers of religion and philosophical theologians addressing the metaphysics of incarnation. The book covers all the major elements to the contemporary debate, and examines the strengths and weaknesses of the different viewpoints.
Composition models of the incarnation
In this paper we investigate composition models of incarnation, according to which Christ is a compound of qualitatively and numerically different constituents. We focus on three-part models, according to which Christ is composed of a divine mind, a human mind, and a human body. We consider four possible relational structures that the three components could form. We argue that a ‘hierarchy of natures’ model, in which the human mind and body are u…
The ‘common sense’ in Aristotle’s theory of perception
The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity
What significance does the voice or projected persona in which a text is written have for our understanding of the meaning of that text? This volume explores the persona of the author in antiquity, from Homer to late antiquity, taking into account both Latin and Greek authors from a range of disciplines. It contains chapters on pseudepigraphy and fictional letters, as well as the use of texts as authoritative in philosophical schools, and the anc…
External Relations, Causal Coincidence, and Contingency
This volume presents thirteen original essays which explore both traditional and contemporary aspects of the metaphysics of relations. It is uncontroversial that there are true relational predications-'Abelard loves Eloise', 'Simmias is taller than Socrates', 'smoking causes cancer', and so forth. More controversial is whether any true relational predications have irreducibly relational truthmakers. Do any of the statements above involve their su…
Introduction to the special issue on form, structure and hylomorphism
Composition models of the incarnation
In this paper we investigate composition models of incarnation, according to which Christ is a compound of qualitatively and numerically different constituents. We focus on three-part models, according to which Christ is composed of a divine mind, a human mind, and a human body. We consider four possible relational structures that the three components could form. We argue that a ‘hierarchy of natures’ model, in which the human mind and body are u…
The ‘common sense’ in Aristotle’s theory of perception
The metaphysics of the incarnation
This is a collection of original essays by leading philosophers of religion and philosophical theologians addressing the metaphysics of incarnation. The book covers all the major elements to the contemporary debate, and examines the strengths and weaknesses of the different viewpoints.
Aristotle, psychology
Aristotle (384–322 BCE ), born in Stagira, in the northeast of Greece, was for twenty years a member of plato's Academy in Athens (367–347).
Aristotle's hylomorphism without reconditioning
The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity
What significance does the voice or projected persona in which a text is written have for our understanding of the meaning of that text? This volume explores the persona of the author in antiquity, from Homer to late antiquity, taking into account both Latin and Greek authors from a range of disciplines. It contains chapters on pseudepigraphy and fictional letters, as well as the use of texts as authoritative in philosophical schools, and the anc…
Aristotle on Perceiving Objects
"How can we explain the structure of perceptual experience? What is it that we perceive? How is it that we perceive objects and not disjoint arrays of properties? By which sense or senses do we perceive objects? Are our five senses sufficient for the perception of objects? Aristotle investigated these questions by means of the metaphysical modeling of the unity of the perceptual faculty and the unity of experiential content. His account remains f…
Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity
Written by a group of leading scholars, this unique collection of essays investigates the views of both pagan and Christian philosophers on causation and the creation of the cosmos. Structured in two parts, the volume first looks at divine agency and how late antique thinkers, including the Stoics, Plotinus, Porphyry, Simplicius, Philoponus and Gregory of Nyssa, tackled questions such as: is the cosmos eternal? Did it come from nothing or from so…
Anaxagoras’s Qualitative Gunk
Are there atoms in the constitution of things? Or is everything made of atomless 'gunk' whose proper parts have proper parts? Anaxagoras (fifth-century BC) is the first gunk lover in the history of metaphysics. For him gunk is not only a theoretical possibility that cannot be ruled out in principle (as it is for modern gunk lovers). Rather, it is a view that follows cogently from his metaphysical analysis of the physical world of our experience. …
External Relations, Causal Coincidence, and Contingency
This volume presents thirteen original essays which explore both traditional and contemporary aspects of the metaphysics of relations. It is uncontroversial that there are true relational predications-'Abelard loves Eloise', 'Simmias is taller than Socrates', 'smoking causes cancer', and so forth. More controversial is whether any true relational predications have irreducibly relational truthmakers. Do any of the statements above involve their su…
The Metaphysics of Relations
1. Introduction: The Metaphysics of Relations 2. Relations as Plural Predications in Plato 3. Aristotelian vs. Contemporary Perspectives on Relations 4. Why Do Medieval Philosophers Reject Polyadic Accidents? 5. Positionalism Revisited 6. There Are (Probably) No Relations 7. External Relations, Causal Coincidence, and Contingency 8. Causal Relations 9. Is Powerful Causation an Internal Relation? 10. What a Structuralist Theory of Properties Could…
Divine Powers in Late Antiquity
What are divine powers? What is their relation to divine nature? Is power the essence of divinity, or are divine powers distinct from divine essence? Are they divine hypostases or are they divine attributes? How are they manifested? In what do their differ from the physical powers we find instantiated in nature? In which way, if at all, can they be apprehended by our limited cognitive capacities? The twelve chapters in this volume examine the way…
Everything in Everything
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (fifth century BCE) is best known for his stance that there is a share of everything in everything. He puts forward this theory of extreme mixture as a solution to the problem of change that he and his contemporaries inherited from Parmenides: that what is cannot come from what is not (and vice versa). For Anaxagoras the fundamental elements of reality are the opposites (hot, cold, wet, dry, etc.), which are instances of …
Whole, but not One
A number of contemporary metaphysicians find Aristotle’s hylomorphism a promising and yet wanting account of what there is, and have engaged in ‘reconditioning’ it into a sound metaphysics (e.g. Jaworski 2016, Koons 2014, Rea 2011, among others). Jonathan Lowe’s four-category ontology aligns with this way of thinking, notwithstanding its explicit rejection of the notion of matter that is typically attributed to Aristotle. This chapter offers a ta…
Potentiality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics
A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity
The mind-body relation was at the forefront of philosophy and theology in late antiquity, a time of great intellectual innovation. This volume, the first integrated history of this important topic, explores ideas about mind and body during this period, considering both pagan and Christian thought about issues such as resurrection, incarnation and asceticism. A series of chapters presents cutting-edge research from multiple perspectives, including…
Exploring Gregory of Nyssa
Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Studies' brings together an interdisciplinary team of historians, classicists, philosophers, and theologians to offer a holistic exploration of the thought of Gregory of Nyssa. The volume considers Gregory's role in the main philosophical and religious controversies of his era, such as his ecclesiastical involvement in the Neo-Nicene apologetical movement. It looks at his comp…
The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, including historians, classicists, philosophers and theologians, this original collection of essays offers the first authoritative analysis of the multifaceted reception of Greek ethics in late antiquity and Byzantium (ca. 3rd-14th c.), opening up a hitherto under-explored topic in the history of Greek philosophy. The essays discuss the sophisticated ways in which moral themes and controversies fr…
Introduction to the special issue on form, structure and hylomorphism
Properties in Ancient Metaphysics
This Element provides an overview of how the ancient thinkers (Anaxagoras, Plato and Aristotle) theorised about properties; such overview puts in relief the inquiries, problems and solutions they were pursuing while engaged in dialogue with each other. It examines alternative philosophical perspectives existing in antiquity concerning the explanation of property qualification, qualitative similarity, compositeness, and oneness. It further argues …
Glutty and simple
Beall's original understanding of the nature of the divine allows for contradictory statements to be true of God, by assuming that parts of reality, such as the Trinity, are ‘glutty’ (namely, what we can say about them is both true and false). Is the divine is the only glutty part of reality, and if so, why? Furthermore, does the glutty nature of the divine undermine its simplicity? Beall argues that God is not mereologically complex, but on his …
The Oxford Handbook of Omnipresence
That something may be ‘present’ or ‘located’ at or in every place is a view that many thinkers, past and present, have held. Typically omnipresence is thought to be a divine attribute, but the question as to how some thing can be omnipresent has not been historically confined to the status of a divine being. This book offers an insight into historical accounts of omnipresence and its developments in ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary tho…
Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being
It is indicative of a common perception that in the conclusion of his beautiful (and certainly not wild!) monograph, Casati characterizes Heidegger’s work as a ‘wild place’ (p. 181). This is becaus
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