Lodi Nauta

Lodi Nauta (2016)

Lodewijk Willem ( Lodi ) Nauta (* 1966 in Groningen ) is a Dutch historian of philosophy and professor at the University of Groningen .

Nauta studied biology, medieval studies and the history of philosophy in Groningen and York and received her doctorate cum laude in philosophy history at the University of Groningen in 1999 ( William of Conches and the Tradition of Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae ). In 2001 he received a VIDI grant from the Dutch research organization NWO for a research program on the comparative history of language criticism in the philosophy of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the 20th century. In 2009 he received a VICI grant for his research program Humanists as Philosophers: The Role of Renaissance Humanism in Intellectual History . In 2006 he became professor of medieval and renaissance philosophy in Groningen and in 2010 full professor of history of philosophy. In 2013 he became dean of the philosophy department.

He dealt among others with Boethius , Lorenzo Valla and Wilhelm von Conches (topic of his dissertation). He researched the Renaissance of the 12th century , the emergence of humanism in the 15th century and the emergence of modern philosophy in the 17th century and the Enlightenment.

In 2008 he was visiting professor at Villa I Tatti in Florence (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies).

Nauta's book In defense of common sense received the Book Prize of the Journal of the History of Philosophy in 2010 and the Research Prize Italian Studies of the Italian Cultural Institute in the Netherlands in 2011.

In 2016 he received the Spinoza Prize . In 2000 he received the Keetje Hodshon Prize for his dissertation and other work.

He was editor of Vivarium magazine from 2006 to 2013 . In 2005 he became a member of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and in 2011 a member of the KNAW.

Fonts (selection)

• Lorenzo Valla: Dialectical disputations . Edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver and Lodi Nauta. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2012. (2 parts) ISBN 978-0-674-05576-6 and ISBN 978-0-674-06140-8
• Lodi Nauta: In defense of common sense. Lorenzo Valla's humanist critique of scholastic philosophy . Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-674-03269-9
• Language and cultural change. Aspects of the study and use of language in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance . Ed. by Lodi Nauta. Leuven, Peeters, 2006. ISBN 978-90-429-1757-6
• Imagination in the later Middle Ages and Early Modern times . Ed. by Lodi Nauta and Detlev Pätzold. Leuven, Peeters, 2004. ISBN 90-429-1535-8
• Lodi Nauta: The pessimistic Hobbes? Continuity and development in Hobbes's thought between the elements of law and Leviathan . Groningen, Faculty of Philosophy, 2000. No ISBN
• Between demonstration and imagination. Essays in the history of science and philosophy presented to John D. North . Ed. by Lodi Nauta and Arjo Vanderjagt. Leiden, Brill, 1999. ISBN 90-04-11468-8
• Lodewijk Willem Nauta: William of Conches and the tradition of Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae. An edition of his Glosae super Boetium and studies of the Latin commentary tradition . Proefschrift Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 1999

Web links

• Website at the University of Groningen
• Biography at the University of Groningen
• Nauta on the Narcis