Alfonso Ganem
PhD candidate - 1st cohort
1 - 2023
Lateinische und mittelalterliche Philosophie
Research project
My doctoral research, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mathias Perkams, aims to study Philoponus' use of logic and mereology in his philosophical, polemical and Christological texts. In particular, I am interested in exploring how Philoponus adapted these tools of analysis to elaborate a novel miaphysite Christology against the diophysite Christology of the Chalcedonians. In these texts, Philoponus incorporates many philosophical arguments into the theological debates of his time and also demonstrates new applications of his criticisms of Neoplatonic philosophy.
Although the theology of Philoponus has attracted increasing interest in various scholarly circles, it has not been sufficiently studied in contemporary scholarship. I hope that my doctoral research will shed some light on the role of Philoponus' Christological treatises within the rest of his philosophy and his disruptive criticism against Aristotle and Proclus.
Curriculum Vitae
PhD-Candidate (FSU). Supervisor: Prof. Matthias Perkams, Prof. Rainer Thiel, Prof. Johannes Johannes Zachhuber
Master of Philosophy (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Bachelor of Philosophy (Universidad Panamericana)
Positions at University
Academic Coordinator of Social Philosophy and Contemporary Philosophy at the Institute of Humanities in Universidad Panamericana
Full time professor at the Institute of Humanities in Universidad Panamericana
Assistant Professor of Intellectual History and Western Tradition
Assistant Professor of Ethics and Anthropology at the Institute of Humanities in Universidad Panamericana
Presentations
Forschungskolloquium, GRK 2792, participation with the paper “A Whole Puzzle of Parts: A Reconstruction of John Philoponus´Mereology”
New Editions and Actual Research on Syriac and Armenian Philosophical Texts, GRK 2792, participation with the paper “Three-dimensional as the substance of bodies: the Syriac Afterlife of De Aeternite Mundi XI”
Human Nature and Religion, ESPR Conference, participation with the paper “Soul and body are not part of us: A Mereological Analysis of Human Nature”
Participation in the Symposium Syriacum Bambergense with the paper Greek Criticism in Syriac against Dyophysite Theology and the Council of Chalcedon: A Survey of the Tmêmata of John Philoponus
Forschungskolloquium, GRK 2792, participation with the paper “"In" Two Natures or "out of" Two Natures: The Philosophical Use of Prepositions in the Christological Treatises of John Philoponus”
conference, 'Neoplatonism in the Christological Debates of Late Antiquity: Influences, Interferences and Contrasts' with a paper “Who do yo say I am Philoponus on Homonymous Proper Names”
Forschungskolloquium, GRK 2792, participation with the paper “Darkening Reason and Perverting Judgement: A Theo-Logical Gaze into the Eye of the Soul”