Phd in PHILOSOPHY

email: luisa.valente@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649917219
building: Dipartimento di Filosofia (Villa Mirafiori)
room: 212

She obtained her Ph.D. at the University Paris – Diderot (Paris 7) in 1999, and in the same year became Researcher in History of Medieval Philosophy attached to this Department. During the academic year 2001-2002, and again from 2007 to 2015 as "professore aggregato", has been entrusted with teaching courses in the History of Medieval Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy (which became the Department of Philosophy in 2011). In autumn 2015 she was named Associate Professor in History of Medieval Philosophy. In addition to courses for the three-year laureate and for Master's students (6 and 12 CFU), her teaching activities include supervision of theses for three-year laureate students, Masters students, and Ph.D. students. During the year 2016 she has held a series of lessons in Paris at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes as 'directeur d'études invité'. As a researcher she published around 70 works in which she investigates mainly the thought of 12th century, and in particular the linguistic doctrines which were elaborated in this period within the theological field: the theory of fallacies as applied in biblical exegesis and theological language as an intrinsically improper one (translatio: Phantasia contrarietatis, Firenze, 1997 and some articles about Gilbert of Poitiers and his school); the theory of divine names as metaphorical denominations and the logic of reference (suppositio) in Trinitarian theology (Logique et théologie. Les écoles parisiennes entre 1150 et 1220, Paris, 2008). She investigates also the story of metaphysical terminology ('being', 'one', and 'good' - ens, unum, and bonum - in Boethius and in the 12th Century Boethian tradition, history of the terms 'essentia', 'existentia' and 'res'), as well as the philosophy of Peter Abelard, of Gilbert of Poitiers, and of the Porretan School. In recent years she has started studying the figure of the philosopher, the role of ancient philosophers and the notion of philosophical life in 12th century thought; animals in medieval commentaries to the Bible; 12th century theories about the relation between God and place (exp. the different interpretations of the proposition "Deus est ubique"). In collaboration with Alfonso Maierù she organised the "14th European Symposium of Medieval Logic and Semantics", Rome, June 11-15, 2002, and edited the proceedings of the Symposium. In collaboration with Pina Totaro (ILIESI) she organised the meeting "Sphaera. Forma, immagine e metafora tra medioevo ed età moderna", Rom, January 30-31, 2008, and edited the acts. She also organised, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Maarten Hoenen (Freiburg), the workshop "Visible Words for Invisible Things: Nature, Language, and God in the Treatise Invisibilia Dei (12th Century) ', Rome 18-19 February 2010; in collaboration with Pina Totaro, Olga Lizzini, and Massimiliano Lenzi, she organized the international conference 'Fonti, flussi e onde. L'acqua come metafora e realtà nel pensiero antico, medievale e moderno' Roma, October 24th-26th, 2018, and in collaboration with Irene Kajon, Francesca Gorgoni, Antonio Lamarra, and Maria Cristina Dalfino the meeting 'Traduzioni filosofiche in età tardo antica, medievale e moderna. In ricordo di Mauro Zonta', Roma, February 6th-7th, 2019. She also arganized the course of lectures "La filosofia del linguaggio nel medioevo" (the lectures were held by Madame Irène Rosier-Catach [CNRS – Paris, EPHE] in Rome during the Fall 2011), the seminary "Logica e semantica nel medoevo", Rome, second semester 2012-2013, the "Seminario di logica e semantica medievali 2014-2015", Rome, 1st semester 2014-2015, the workshop "Libertà e determinismo nel medioevo" (2015: in collaboration with Dr. Marialucrezia Leone), the "Seminario di logica e semantica antiche e medievali" (2017-2018; in collaboration with Francesco Fronterotta). She presented papers at ca 45 international and national symposia and held conferences in Paris, Fribourg (CH), Freiburg (D), Amsterdam, Zuerich, Nice, Porto, Génève, Padova, Roma, Trento, Parma, Florence, Pavia, Ferrara. Member of the Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e la Storia delle Idee (ILIESI) del CNR, Societé internazionale pour l'étude de la philosophie médiévale (SIEPM), Società italiana per lo studio del pensiero medievale (SISPM), and Internazionale Gesellschaft für theologische Mediävistik (IGPM). Member of the scientiphical cometee of the reviw "Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale" and of the series Flumen sapientiae (Aracne). She has two sons.