Biography:John Marenbon

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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. He obtained his BA, MA, PhD, and DLitt from the University of Cambridge.[2] Since 1978 he has been a Fellow of Trinity College, 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]

Selected bibliography

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

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