Dragulinescu Stefan

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Titre de la thèse : "L’analogie aristotélicienne entre la perception et l’intellection"

Direction : M^me Anca Vasiliu

Résumé du projet de thèse :

Ce projet de thèse s’articule autour d’une certaine tension qu'on peut retrouver chez Aristote entre son approche vis-à-vis de la problématique du changement, d'une part, et un certain type de transformations – surtout manifestées dans la description des processus noétiques et perceptives, mais aussi présentes dans d'autres parties de sa science de la nature (plus précisément dans l'interprétation de la translation des éléments) – un type de transformations qui semblent échapper à la définition du mouvement et du changement, telle qu'elle est présentée dans Phys. 1.7 et Met. ? 1-3. Afin de retrouver la source de cette tension, on va circonscrire le rôle (“physique” et “herméneutique”) joué par la lumière (to phôs) dans le processus perceptif visuel et dans celui de l’intellection, chez Aristote et ses commentateurs anciens, tout en mettant en relief les liens conceptuels platoniciens qui relient tacitement le De Anima avec le Timée, le Philèbe, la République, vis-à-vis des notions essentiels comme “khôra”, “topos oratos”, “topos noêtos”, et aussi “apeiron” et “peras”.

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s.dragulinescu[at]gmail.com,  stefan.dragulinescu[at]paris-sorbonne.fr

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dragulinescu_biblio.pdf

Lefebvre David

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David Lefebvre is a former student of the École Normale supérieure (1987); in 1990, he passed the French “agrégation de philosophie”. He started studying ancient philosophy with professor Jacques Brunschwig at the University Paris I (working on Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s treatise on time and on Epictetus). David Lefebvre defended his PhD. in 2000 with professor Rémi Brague and, in 2012, he got his “Habilitation à diriger des recherches”. He has taught as assistant professor in the department of philosophy of the École normale supérieure (2000-2006) and at the Sorbonne (2006-2014). After his “Habilitation”, he has been elected as full professor at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (2015-2018); since 2018, he is professor of the history of ancient philosophy at the department of philosophy of Sorbonne University, and member of the centre Léon Robin.

His research interests focus on Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition, with three main topics: (1) Aristotle’s Metaphysics and especially book Theta (his publications on this issue include notably Dynamis, Sens et genèse de la notion aristotélicienne de puissance, Vrin); (2) Aristotle’s biology, particularly the Generation of Animals: he made a new French translation of this treatise in the Complete Works of Aristotle published by Flammarion; on the same subject, he is the editor with Andrea Falcon of Aristotle's Generation of Animals, A Critical Guide, published by Cambridge University Press; (3) the Peripatetic tradition, including Theophrastus, Strato, and Eudemus (he has published various papers and he has edited with Annick Jaulin: La Métaphysique de Théophraste, Principes et apories, Peeters).

He is currently working on two new books: a running commentary of the five books of Aristotle’s Generation of Animals with a revised translation (to be published by Les Belles Lettres, in the collection “Anagôgè”); a new translation with notes and commentary of Metaphysics book Theta, to be published by Vrin. Marwan Rashed and David Lefebvre are General editors of a series published by Vrin devoted to the translation and commentary of the 14 books of Aristotle’s Metaphysics (up to now, 4 books have been published: Delta, Epsilon, Eta, and Lambda).

David Lefebvre is editor of the French journal Les Études Philosophiques published by the Presses Universitaires de France.

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Viano Cristina

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Born in Turin (Italy) in 1959, Cristina Viano has been student in the local University, where she obtained the laurea in philosophy in 1983. In 1986, she obtained the PhD. at La Sorbonne with a dissertation on Heraclitus in Aristotle, directed by Pierre Aubenque. In 2004, in the same university, she obtained the Habilitation à diriger des recherches, with a dissertation directed by Jonathan Barnes and entitled Etudes de philosophie grecque: Doxographie. Théories philosophiques et alchimiques de la matière. Les passions chez Aristote. Since 1992 she is researcher at the CNRS, in the Centre "Léon Robin" http://centreleonrobin.fr. Since 2009 she is Senior researcher. She has frequently sojourned in foreign institutions, in particular in Cambridge, Edinburgh and Oxford. She has been visiting professor in Venice, São Paulo, Santiago (Chili), México, Jinan (Shandong, China). She is member of the European Society for Ancient Philosophy (ESAP). She belongs to scientific board of the Revista de Filosofia Antiga (São Paulo), of the journal Dialogoi. Ancient Philosophy Today and of the series Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry: Sir Robert Mond Studies in the History of Early Chemistry, Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC).

She is associated research director at the École Doctorale 433 (Concepts et langages) of Sorbonne Université, member of the Council of the Doctoral School in Philosophy at the University Ca' Foscari Venice. She directed an interrnational project (GDRI) (France, Italy, Brazil, UK and Portugal), entitled: AITIA/AITIAI. The causal link in the ancient thought: origins, forms and transformations (2014-2017) (http://aitia.hypotheses.org/) and two Franco-Brazilian cooperation projects (SPRINT CNRS-FAPESP) with USP, São Paulo, respectively entitled "Pathos. The Aristotelian doctrine of emotions " (2018-2019) and "The individual and the city: human and political relationships in Aristotle and in his time" (2020-2021). She currently directs a CNRS International Research Project (IRP) (France, Brazil, UK), entitled PATHOS. Passions, actions et réactions dans le monde antique/ PATHOS. Passions, Actions and Reactions in ancient World (2022-2026).

She directs a certain number of PhD and is responsible of a research seminar at Sorbonne Université. She also taught history of ancient philosophy in University of Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne. Her main research fields concern the history of philosophy and ancient science. Her main topics are: (a) The ancient doctrines of causation. (b) Aristotle: natural philosophy, ethics, rhetoric and the theory of passions. In particular, she published the Italian translation, with introduction and notes of Aristotle's Rhetoric (Laterza publishing house, Bari); (c) Ancient theories of matter from the Presocratics to the Neoplatonists. She has published the book La matière des choses. Le livre IV des Météorologiques d'Aristote, et son interprétation par Olympiodore, with the Greek text and a translation of Olympiodorus' commentary to book IV (Vrin 2006, this work obtained the "Azogue Book Of The Year Award for the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into history of alchemy and related fields"); (d) Alexandrian alchemy and the relationship with Greek philosophy; (e) Doxography (Heraclitus, Socrates, Stoics). Her bibliographical production includes, in addition to the works mentioned above, eleven directions of collective works and a hundred articles.

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VIANO Biblio LR 2021 .pdf

VIANO CV LR 2022.pdf

Michalewski Alexandra

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Born in Poissy in 1977, Alexandra Michalewski holds the Agrégation of Philosophy (2000), and is a former student of the École Normale Supérieure (Paris-Ulm 1998). After completing her PhD in philosophy, entitled The Causality of Forms in the Philosophy of Plotinus, she became a postdoctoral researcher at the CNRS. In 2011, she was in residence at the University of Cologne as postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. From 2012 to 2015, she was a postdoctoral researcher (FRS-FNRS) at the University of Liège (Belgium), where she taught regularly. She has been Research Fellow (CR1) at the CNRS since 2015.

Her work focuses on the cosmology and metaphysics of the Platonic tradition, from the imperial era to late Antiquity. Since 2009, her research has been conducted in close collaboration with several Belgian universities, especially with the researchers at the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at KU Leuven, where she is an associate member. She has also organized workshops and conferences in Paris, Leuven and Liège, concerning the  so-called ‘theory’ of Forms and the reception of the Platonic theory of cosmological principles (La puissance de l’intelligible. La théorie plotinienne des Formes au miroir de l’héritage médioplatonicien, Leuven, University Press, 2014, Prix Desrousseaux de l'Association des Études Grecques. Co-edited with P. d'Hoine : Les Formes platoniciennes dans l’Antiquité tardive, Études Platoniciennes VIII, Paris, Belles Lettres, 2011).

One of the main themes of Alexandra Michalewski’s research is the interplay between Aristotelianism and Platonism, from the beginnings of the imperial era to late Antiquity especially regarding (1) the question of the nature and causality of intelligible Forms and (2) the receptions of Aristotelianism in the context of the emergence of Platonic commentarism.

She is currently preparing a new edition and translation of the fragments of the Middle Platonist Atticus.

Co-Director with Pieter d'Hoine (DWMC-KU Leuven) of a funded research project (PICS, 2018-2021) : The theory of intelligible Forms in late Neoplatonism: translation and commentary of books Alpha to Gamma of Asclepius of Tralles’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics.

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CV-Michalewski-18.pdf