Cristina D'Ancona Costa

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Cristina D'Ancona Costa (born March 21, 1956 ) is an Italian historian of philosophy .

After graduating from the University of Pisa with a laurea in the history of medieval philosophy , D'Ancona Costa received a doctorate in the history of ancient philosophy from the University of Padua . They then carried out various research stays at the De Wulf-Mansion Center of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , at the UPR 76 ( Histoire des Doctrines de l'Antiquité Tardive et du Haut Moyen Age ) of the CNRS and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris . From 1994 to 2003 she was a research assistant at the University of Padua, where she founded the Plotinus Colloquia as well as the editing, translation and commentary project of the Plotino greco-arabo . Since 2004 she has been a research assistant and lecturer in Arabic philosophy of the Middle Ages at the University of Pisa. In addition to participating in other science projects , she has been principal investigator in the Greek into Arabic project since 2010 . Philosophical Concepts and Linguistic Bridges of the European Research Council .

D'Ancona Costa is a member of the editorial boards of various professional journals and publication series as well as the scientific advisory board of the École Pratique des Hautes Études and is a founding member of the Academia Platonica Septima Monasteriensis .

D'Ancona Costa deals mainly with the reception of Aristotle and Neoplatonism in Arabic philosophy and their transmission into the Latin Middle Ages . She paid particular attention to the Liber de causis , its Greek and Arabic sources, and Thomas Aquinas' commentary on this anonymous work. She is currently working primarily on the falsely so-called theology of Aristotle , a translation from the Enneades IV-VI of Plotinus into Arabic.

In 2016 she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed.): Tommaso d'Aquino, Commento al Libro delle cause. Rusconi, Milano, 1986 (I classici del pensiero. Sezione II. Medioevo e Rinascimento).
  • Recherches sur le Liber de causis , Vrin, Paris 1995. ISBN 2-7116-1225-2 .
  • La casa della sapienza. La trasmissione della metafisica greca e la formazione della filosofia araba. Guerini e Associati, Milan 1996.
  • (Ed., With Giuseppe Serra): Aristotele e Alessandro di Afrodisia nella tradizione araba: atti del Colloquio "La ricezione araba ed ebraica della filosofia e della scienza greche", Padova, 14-15 maggio 1999. Padova 2002.
  • with Richard C. Taylor : Le Liber de causis , in: Richard Goulet u. a. (Ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques , supplementary volume, CNRS, Paris 2003, pp. 599–647
  • (Ed.): Plotino, La discesa dell'anima nei corpi (Enn. IV 8 [6]). Plotiniana Arabica (Pseudo-Teologia di Aristotele, capitoli 1 e 7; “Detti del sapiente greco”). Il Poligrafo, Padova 2003.
  • (Ed., With Vincenza Celluprica): Aristotele ei suoi esegeti neoplatonici. Logica e ontologia nelle interpretazioni greche e arabe. Atti del convegno internazionale Roma 19-20 ottobre 2001. Bibliopolis, Rome 2004. Review by: Lloyd P. Gerson, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.10.14
  • Storia della filosofia nell'Islam medievale. Einaudi, Torino 2005.
  • (Ed.): The Libraries of the Neoplatonists. Proceedings of the Meeting of the European Science Foundation Network "Late Antiquity and Arabic Thought: Patterns in the Constitution of European Culture", Strasbourg, March 12-14, 2004 . Brill, Leiden / Boston 2007 (Philosophia antiqua, vol. 107). Review by: Christophe F. Erismann, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.01.31
  • Greek Sources in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy. In: Edward N. Zalta (Ed.): Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Template: SEP / Maintenance / Parameter 1 and Parameter 2 and not Parameter 3(2009/2011)

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