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Anna Marmodoro, Ph.D.

Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Chair; Professor
Philosophy

Education

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UK, 2006

Laurea in Philosophy (M.A. equivalent), summa cum laude, Università di Pisa, Italy, 2000

Research Interests

Anna specializes in two main research areas: on the one hand, metaphysics, and on the other, ancient, late antiquity and medieval philosophy. She has also strong research interests in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of religion. In metaphysics she is particularly interested in questions concerning the nature of properties, dispositions, relations; causation; the metaphysics of objects; composition and structure. In the history of philosophy, she has worked on an eclectic collection of topics, on Anaxagoras, Aristotle, Plato, the Stoics, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas among others.

Publications and Media Placements

  • Properties in Ancient Metaphysics, CUP, December 2023, pp. 70
  • Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics, OUP, December 2021, pp. vii + 232
  • Metaphysics: An introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History, co-authored with Erasmus Mayr, OUP, March 2019, pp. xii + 221
  • Everything in Everything. Anaxagoras’s Metaphysics, OUP, March 2017, pp. xi + 224
  • Aristotle on Perceiving Objects, OUP, June 2014, pp. ix + 304

Honors and Awards

  • Anna previously held the Chair of Metaphysics in the Philosophy Department of Durham University (UK), from 2016 to 2024, and before that, she worked for a decade at the University of Oxford (UK) as a Junior Research fellow and subsequently an Official fellow of Corpus Christi College, from 2007 to 2016. She remains an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University.
  • She has held visiting positions internationally, in Europe, the U.S. and Australia; during the current academic year she is a visiting researcher at UNAM in Mexico City.
  • She directed a large-scale multidisciplinary research group at the Universities of Oxford and later Durham, with funding (in successive stages) from the European Research Council, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the AHRC.
  • She is the co-founder and co-editor with Erasmus Mayr of the peer-reviewed journal Dialogoi. Ancient Philosophy Today, published by Edinburgh University Press (2019-), whose distinctive mission is to provide a forum for publication of work in ancient philosophy that bears on contemporary philosophical discussions or vice versa.