Public Philosophy Lecture Open for Everyone Interested: Ana María Mora-Márquez will give a talk titled "The Medieval Scholar Between Interpreter and Philosopher".

Lund Philosophical Society is pleased to announce our 1st speaker of 2025: Ana María Mora-Márquez (Docent at the University of Gothenburg, Associate Professor at Lund University from Feb 2025). She will give a talk titled "The Medieval Scholar Between Interpreter and Philosopher" on the 29th of January from 18:15-19:30 in LUX: B237.

As always, the talk will be followed by an informal reception in the Department of Philosophy's staff room.

Abstract: In this talk I present an account of what is philosophy in the European Middle Ages. It can be doubted that scholars in the Middle Ages were philosophers in the sense that Kant, for instance, was a philosopher, or in the sense in which, say, Hillary Putnam or Miranda Fricker are philosophers. My aim is to show that despite the fact that medieval scholars were ex officio interpreters (that is, commentators) of authoritative texts, they were doing philosophy in their work as interpreters, with philosophical methods easily recognisable today, even when the interpreted text was of theological nature. Moreover, I intend to show that some crucial discussion that have been part and parcel of the Western philosophical tradition until today can be traced back to discussions that emerged in the Middle Ages in the framework of the exegetical exercises undertook by medieval scholars.