Eleonore Stump

Eleonore Stump (* 1947 ) is an American and Catholic philosopher and historian of philosophy. a. is known for her work on the philosophy of religion and metaphysics , on Thomas Aquinas , Boethius and various topics of systematic philosophy. He has written further writings especially on Christian authors in the history of philosophy.

Life

Eleonore Stump earned a bachelor's degree in classical philology from Grinnell College ( Iowa ) in 1969 and a master's degree in New Testament biblical studies from Harvard University in 1971, and received her PhD in Medieval Studies and Medieval Philosophy from Cornell University in 1975 and then taught at Oberlin College , Virginia Tech and the University of Notre Dame . Since 1992 she has held the Robert J. Henle Professorship in Philosophy at Saint Louis University . In 2008 she was a Merton Fellow at Columbia University , and in 2009 a Stewart Fellow at Princeton University .

She is the chief editor of the Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy , was the section editor for the Philosophy of Religion of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and has received numerous awards and research grants. She was president of the Society of Christian Philosophers and the American Catholic Philosophical Association , vice president of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association from 2004 to 2005, and president of the same from 2005 to 2006. In 2003 she held the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen , and in the academic year 2005–2006 the Wilde Lectures at the University of Oxford . Since 1999 she has been an external member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences . In 2012 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . She has published numerous text collections and specialist books, authored several monographs and a large number of specialist articles.

Works (selection)

• Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• "Religion, philosophy of", in: E. Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy . London: Routledge. [1]
• Oxford Handbook on Thomas Aquinas , ed. with Brian Davies, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010.
• Boethius's De topicis differentiis , Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1978 / 2nd A. 1989.
• Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy , ed. with Norman Kretzmann , Anthony Kenny , Jan Pinborg, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1982.
• Co -Ed .: Hamartia: The Concept of Error in the Western Tradition: Essays in Honor of John Crosset , Edwin Mellen Press 1983.
• Co -editor: Simon of Faversham's Quaestiones super librum elenchorum , Pontifical Institute Press 1984.
• Boethius's In Ciceronis Topica , Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1988.
• The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts , Vol. 1, ed. with Norman Kretzmann, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1988.
• Dialectic and Its Place in the Development of Medieval Logic , Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1989.
• Hermes and Athena: Biblical Exegesis and Philosophical Theology , ed. with Thomas Flint, South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press 1993.
• The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas , ed. with Norman Kretzmann, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993.
• Ed .: Reasoned Faith , Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1993.
• Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions , ed. with Michael Murray , Blackwell 1999.
• Aquinas's Moral Theory: Essays in Honor of Norman Kretzmann , ed. with Scott MacDonald, Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1999.
• The Cambridge Companion to Augustine , ed. with Norman Kretzmann, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001 / 2nd A. 2002.

Web links

• Homepage with a more detailed curriculum vitae, bibliography and several downloadable articles
• Literature by and about Eleonore Stump in the bibliographic database WorldCat