Thérèse-Anne Druart

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Thérèse-Anne Druart (* 1945 ) is a Belgian philosopher .

Life

After obtaining an MA in 1968 , she did her doctorate in philosophy at the Université catholique de Louvain in 1973 with a dissertation on Plato . She then took a B. Phil. In Oriental Studies, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Medieval Theology, at Oxford University in 1975 . From 1975 to 1976 she was a research fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University . From 1978 to 1987 she taught at Georgetown University as an assistant and associate professor. In 1987 she moved to the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America , where she became a full professor in 1997 . In 2019 she was honored by her university with the Shahan Medal and has retired after thirty years as a professor, fifteen of them also as university director.

In addition to teaching at the Catholic University of America, she was visiting professor for Andalusian-Arabic philosophy at the University of Navarra in the spring of 1993 . In the fall of 1995, she taught a weekly class on Arabic philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania . During the summer she was visiting professor twice at the Université Catholique de Madagascar. In May 2005 she gave a one-week intensive seminar on Avicenna's metaphysics at the Universidad de los Andes .

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  1. Passing the Baton. University Mace Bearer Retires. Catholic University of America , May 17, 2019, accessed January 11, 2020 .