Chiara Ferella
Biographic Data
| ID | 5717131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chiara Ferella |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chiara |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferella |
| SIGNATURE | FERELLA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-7525-6660 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Anaximander’s ‘Apeiron’ from a Cognitive Perspective
This article examines Anaximander’s concept of apeiron – traditionally rendered as ‘the boundless’ or ‘the infinite’ – by tracing its conceptual and semantic roots beyond standard cosmological interpretations. Given the fragmentary and often mediated nature of ancient sources, this study shifts the focus toward the pre-philosophical cognitive structures that inform Anaximander’s use of apeiron. Drawing on insights from cognitive linguistics and s…
Living Bodies, Dead Bodies, and the Cosmos
This volume presents a collection of essays exploring transculturally and historically recurring conceptions of the human body and the natural world. Sixteen case studies from a range of disciplines, including psychology and history, delve into concepts related to the living body, the dead body, and the cosmos found in the cultural traditions of different eras and world regions, from ancient times to the present. The contributions highlight the m…
Reconstructing Empedocles' Thought
To understand Empedocles' thought, one must view his work as a unified whole of religion and physics. Only a few interpreters, however, recognise rebirth as a positive doctrine within Empedocles' physics and attempt to reconcile its details with the cosmological account. This study shows how rebirth underlies Empedocles' cosmic system, being a structuring principle of his physics. It reconstructs the proem to his physical poem and then shows that…
Cosmic Emotions; or, Why Is the Universe Joyful according to Plato’s Timaeus and Empedocles
Plato and Empedocles depict a universe that manifests beauty, goodness, reason, and bliss. This article aims to investigate why both philosophers felt it important to describe a cosmos that participates in a human emotion such as happiness. First, it will be shown how both Plato and Empedocles could not dispense with embodied human experience, including emotional experience, in the formation of cosmological concepts. Indeed, their respective cosm…
The Byzantine Scholia to Aristotle and Empedocles’ Cosmic Cycle
Some Byzantine scholia to Aristotle offer numerical indications on the time-length of some phases of Empedocles’ cosmic cycle. In recent years an interpretation has become established, according to which the scholia pro-vide evidence for a cycle with three periods: the Sphairos and two opposite phases of Love’s and Strife’s unfolding. This paper emphasizes, in contrast, that the picture of the cycle we can draw from the scholia is not as clear-cu…
Empedocles and the Birth of Trees
The reconstruction of ensemble d–f of the Akhmîm Papyrus, better known as the Strasbourg Papyrus, which attests approximately eighteen of the over seventy new lines of Empedocles’ physical poem, has drawn the attention of scholars over recent years. Thanks to the good condition of the papyrus and the coincidence with two Empedoclean lines, already known from the indirect tradition, ensemble d–f 1–10a presents a well-restored text and an intelligi…
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Empedocles and the Birth of Trees
The reconstruction of ensemble d–f of the Akhmîm Papyrus, better known as the Strasbourg Papyrus, which attests approximately eighteen of the over seventy new lines of Empedocles’ physical poem, has drawn the attention of scholars over recent years. Thanks to the good condition of the papyrus and the coincidence with two Empedoclean lines, already known from the indirect tradition, ensemble d–f 1–10a presents a well-restored text and an intelligi…
The Byzantine Scholia to Aristotle and Empedocles’ Cosmic Cycle
Some Byzantine scholia to Aristotle offer numerical indications on the time-length of some phases of Empedocles’ cosmic cycle. In recent years an interpretation has become established, according to which the scholia pro-vide evidence for a cycle with three periods: the Sphairos and two opposite phases of Love’s and Strife’s unfolding. This paper emphasizes, in contrast, that the picture of the cycle we can draw from the scholia is not as clear-cu…
Living Bodies, Dead Bodies, and the Cosmos
This volume presents a collection of essays exploring transculturally and historically recurring conceptions of the human body and the natural world. Sixteen case studies from a range of disciplines, including psychology and history, delve into concepts related to the living body, the dead body, and the cosmos found in the cultural traditions of different eras and world regions, from ancient times to the present. The contributions highlight the m…
Reconstructing Empedocles' Thought
To understand Empedocles' thought, one must view his work as a unified whole of religion and physics. Only a few interpreters, however, recognise rebirth as a positive doctrine within Empedocles' physics and attempt to reconcile its details with the cosmological account. This study shows how rebirth underlies Empedocles' cosmic system, being a structuring principle of his physics. It reconstructs the proem to his physical poem and then shows that…
Cosmic Emotions; or, Why Is the Universe Joyful according to Plato’s Timaeus and Empedocles
Plato and Empedocles depict a universe that manifests beauty, goodness, reason, and bliss. This article aims to investigate why both philosophers felt it important to describe a cosmos that participates in a human emotion such as happiness. First, it will be shown how both Plato and Empedocles could not dispense with embodied human experience, including emotional experience, in the formation of cosmological concepts. Indeed, their respective cosm…
Anaximander’s ‘Apeiron’ from a Cognitive Perspective
This article examines Anaximander’s concept of apeiron – traditionally rendered as ‘the boundless’ or ‘the infinite’ – by tracing its conceptual and semantic roots beyond standard cosmological interpretations. Given the fragmentary and often mediated nature of ancient sources, this study shifts the focus toward the pre-philosophical cognitive structures that inform Anaximander’s use of apeiron. Drawing on insights from cognitive linguistics and s…
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