John Alexander Marenbon FBA (born 26 August 1955) is a British philosopher and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] His principal area of specialization is medieval philosophy.
Career edit
He obtained BA, MA, PhD, and DLitt degrees from the University of Cambridge.[2] Since 1978 he has been a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a senior research fellow there since 2005. In 2010 he became an honorary professor of medieval philosophy at Cambridge,[3] delivering an inaugural lecture entitled 'When was medieval philosophy?'.[4] He has also taught at Paris-Sorbonne University, been a visiting fellow at both the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto, and held a visiting appointment at Peking University.
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009.[5]
Since 2020 Marenbon has been a visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.[6]
Selected bibliography edit
Authored books
- Medieval Philosophy : an historical and philosophical Introduction, London and New York; Routledge, 2007
- The Cambridge Companion to Boethius (ed.), Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2009
- The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy (editor), New York; Oxford University Press 2012
- The Hellenistic Schools and Thinking about Pagan Philosophy in the Middle Ages. A study of second-order influence [booklet], Basel; Schwabe, 2012
- Continuity and Innovation in Medieval and Modern Philosophy. Knowledge, mind, and language (editor), Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2013 = Proceedings of the British Academy 189
- Abelard in Four Dimensions. A twelfth-century philosopher in his context and ours, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013
- Pagans and Philosophers. The problem of paganism from Augustine to Leibniz, Princeton and Woodbridge; Princeton University Press 2015
References edit
- ^ "Prof John Marenbon". Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ^ "Curriculum vitae (2005)" (PDF). Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ^ "MARENBON, John Alexander". Who's Who 2016. A & C Black. 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ^ Marenbon, John (December 2011). "When was Medieval Philosophy? [Inaugural lecture]". Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ^ "Fellows of the British Academy". Archived from the original on 11 April 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ^ "Professors". usi.ch - Master in Philosophy. 2020. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
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