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Anna Marmodoro, Ph.D.

Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Chair; Professor
Philosophy

Education

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UK, 2006

Laurea in Philosophy (M.A. equivalent), summa cum laude, Università di Pisa, Italy, 2000

Research Interests

Anna specializes in two main research areas: on the one hand, metaphysics, and on the other, ancient, late antiquity and medieval philosophy. She has also strong research interests in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of religion. In metaphysics she is particularly interested in questions concerning the nature of properties, dispositions, relations; causation; the metaphysics of objects; composition and structure; and more recently essentialism. In the history of philosophy, she has worked on an eclectic collection of topics, on Anaxagoras, Aristotle, Plato, the Stoics, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas among others. She is currently writing a new monograph under contract with OUP titled Parmenidean Essentialism.

Publications and Media Placements

  • Properties in Ancient Metaphysics, CUP, December 2023, pp. 70
  • Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics, OUP, December 2021, pp. vii + 232
  • Metaphysics: An introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History, co-authored with Erasmus Mayr, OUP, March 2019, pp. xii + 221
  • Everything in Everything. Anaxagoras’s Metaphysics, OUP, March 2017, pp. xi + 224
  • Aristotle on Perceiving Objects, OUP, June 2014, pp. ix + 304

Honors and Awards

Anna previously held the Chair of Metaphysics in the Philosophy Department of Durham University (UK), from 2016 to 2024, she has remains a Honorary Professor of Philosophy there. Before that, she worked for a decade at the University of Oxford (UK) where she held junior and later senior research positions, always affiliated with Corpus Christi, from 2007 to 2020. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Edinburgh (UK) in 2006.

She has held visiting positions internationally, in Europe, in North and South America, and in Australia.

During the AY 2027/28 she has been elected Chaire Cardinal Mercier at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve.
 
She directed a large-scale multidisciplinary research group at the Universities of Oxford and later Durham, with funding (in successive stages) from the European Research Council, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the AHRC.
 
She is the co-founder and co-editor with Erasmus Mayr of the peer-reviewed journal Dialogoi. Ancient Philosophy Today, published by Edinburgh University Press (2019-), whose distinctive mission is to provide a forum for publication of work in ancient philosophy that bears on contemporary philosophical discussions or vice versa.