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Dr Anna Marmodoro

College Lecturer and University Lecturer in Philosophy
Corpus Christi College

anna.marmodoro@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Corpus Christi College
Oxford OX1 4JF

Research Interests

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Metaphysics
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of religion 

Anna Marmodoro

Career & Education

PhD in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh

MA (Laurea) in Philosophy from the University of Pisa, with Distinction

Visiting Fellow of the RSSS program at ANU, Canberra (Summer 2009)

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Ancient Philosophy

  1. ‘Is Being One Only One?' – The Argument for the Uniqueness of Platonic Forms’ . Apeiron vol. XLI number 4, pp. 211-227, Dec 2008 [Abstract]

  2. ‘The Union of Cause and Effect in Aristotle: Physics III 3’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 32, pp. 205-232, May 2007. [Abstract]

  3. 'Potentiality in Aristotle's Metaphysics', forthcoming in the Handbook of Potentiality (Eds. K Engelhard and M Quante) Springer, 2011

  • Contemporary Metaphysics

  1. ‘Do powers need powers to make them powerful?’ From Pandispositionalism to Aristotle,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2009. [Abstract]

  • Contemporary Philosophy of Mind

  1. ‘It’s a Colorful World’, American Philosophical Quarterly, 43:1, pp. 71-80, 2006. [Abstract]

  • Medieval Philosophy

  1. On Paul of Venice’s Doctrine of Being in his Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics: ‘Metaphysica V 7: diverse soluzioni esegetiche a confronto’, Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale , vol. XII, pp. 1-61, 2001. [Abstract]

  2. On Being Per Se in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics: ‘La nozione aristotelica di ‘per se’: una nuova proposta interpretativa’, Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale , vol. XI, pp. 1-35, 2000. [Abstract]

  • Philosophy of Religion

  1. ‘The Incarnation and the Extended Mind hypothesis’, forthcoming in The Metaphysics of the Incarnation, (eds. Marmodoro and Hill) OUP, 2011

  2. 'Modeling the Metaphysics of the Incarnation' (forthcoming in Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 20, 2009, co-authored with J Hill)

  3. ‘Composition models of the incarnation: unity and unifying relations’ (forthcoming in Religious Studies, co-authored with J Hill)

Edited Books

  1. Powers: Their Grounding and Their Manifestations, Routledge, forthcoming

  2. The Metaphysics of the Incarnation, Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2011 (co-edited with Jonathan Hill)

Book Reviews

  1. Review of P Gregoric’s Aristotle on the Common Sense OUP 2007, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

  2. Review of MM Sassi’s Memories as Traces in the Mind from Plato to the Contemporaries, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2008

  3. Review of M Bonelli’s Alexander of Aphrodisias’ Conception of Metaphysics as a Demonstrative Science, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2003.

Work in Progress

Book in Progress

  1. Causal Powers in Aristotle’s Philosophy of Mind (monograph) [Abstract]

Papers in Progress

  1. ‘Self-awareness and the Unity of Consciousness in Aristotle’ (full draft).  [Abstract]

  2. ‘Does Justice Conflict with Virtue? Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics V 1’ (in progress). [Abstract]

Research Projects

Causal Powers in Aristotle’s Philosophy of Mind
(A 3 year British Academy funded project, 2008/11)

Incarnation by Embodiment: Christ as the ‘external vehicle’ of God’s mental contents
(A 1 year Leverhulme funded project, 2008/09)