Professor Cecilia Trifogli
Professor
Philosophy
University Academic Fellow since 1999
Cecilia Trifogli (BA in Philosophy and BA in Mathematics, University of Pisa; PhD in Mathematics, University of Milan) is currently Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy, where she serves as Chairman of the Medieval Texts Editorial Committee. She is an expert of the reception of Aristotle's philosophy in the Latin Middle Ages, especially natural philosophy and psychology, and has published extensively in this area. Her main contributions are on the medieval discussions about Aristotle's theories of change, the infinite, space, time, and continuity. She is also engaged in producing editions of medieval philosophical texts from manuscript sources.
Research Areas
Geoffrey of Aspall’s Questions on Aristotle’s Physics (together With S. Donati and J. Ashworth, ABMA 26-27)
And Thomas Wylton's Questions on Cognition (together With L. O. Nielsen, ABMA 47).
Selected Publications
Ed., with L. O. Nielsen, Thomas Wylton, On the Intellectual Soul, English translation by G. Trimble, Auctores britannici Medii Aevi XIX, Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press 2010.
'Giles of Rome against Thomas Aquinas on the Subject of Thinking and the Status of the Human Soul', in Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 23 (2012), pages 221-244.
'Motion and Time', A companion to Walter Burley, ed. A. Conti (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2013) pages 267-299.
'Guido Terreni on the Final Cause', Guido Terreni, O. Carm. (+1342), Studies and Texts, ed. A. Fidora (Barcelona-Madrid 2015) pages 71-82, 307-324.