Staff profile

Anna is Full Professor of Philosophy and holds in the department the Chair of Metaphysics (previously E. J. Lowe's). She is concomitantly an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Oxford.

She took her current position in 2016; previously she worked for a decade at the University of Oxford, after earning her Ph.D. at Edinburgh University in 2006, and her MA (Laurea) at the University of Pisa in 2000. At Oxford she held different academic positions: she was a Departmental Lecturer in Philosophy (2007-08); a Junior Research Fellow (funded by a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2008-11); and an Official Fellow in Philosophy in Corpus Christi College (2011-17). Anna has held visiting positions internationally, in Europe, the U.S. and Australia; during the current academic year she is a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, in Germany.

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 substance; composition and structure. In the history of philosophy, she has worked on an eclectic collection of topics, on Anaxagoras, Aristotle, Plato, Plotinus, the Stoics, Gregory of Nyssa, and Thomas Aquinas among others. Anna has published monographs, edited books and journal articles in all these areas. Her latest monograph is Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2021). She is currently working on a new one, on Properties in Ancient Metaphysics, under contract with Cambridge University Press. 

She has been directing a large-scale multidisciplinary research group, with funding (in successive stages) from the European Research Council, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the AHRC.

Anna is also 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. 

CV:  http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/profiles/15318/MarmodoroCV_20-10-22.pdf

Contact details

• Metaphysics
• Ancient, late antiquity and medieval philosophy
• Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy of Religion

Authored book

• Marmodoro, A. (2021). Forms and Structure in Plato's Metaphysics. Oxford University Press
• Marmodoro, A., & Mayr, E. (2019). Metaphysics: An introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History. Oxford University Press
• Marmodoro, A. (2017). Everything in Everything. Anaxagoras's Metaphysics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780190611972.001.0001
• Marmodoro, A., & Mayr, E. (2017). Metafisica. Una Breve Introduzione. Carocci Editore
• Marmodoro, A. (2014). Aristotle on Perceiving Objects. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199326006.001.0001

Chapter in book

• Guo, X., & Tugby, M. (2023). Collective Powers. In C. J. Austin, A. Marmodoro, & A. Roselli (Eds.), Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers (142-166). New York and Abingdon: Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003298830-11
• Marmodoro, A. (2022). What's dynamic about causal powers? A black box!. In Powers, Time and Free Will (1-15). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92486-7_1
• Marmodoro, A. (2021). Causal Powers in Aristotle and his Predecessors. In J. Jorati (Ed.), Powers: A History (10-27). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190925512.003.0002
• Marmodoro, A. (2020). Hylomorphic Unity. In R. Bliss, & J. Miller (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics (284-299). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315112596
• Marmodoro, A. (2019). Plotinus on Perception. In G. B, & S. J.f. (Eds.), The senses and the history of perception. Routledge
• Marmodoro, A. (2019). Structure versus whole versus one. In L. Bellotti (Ed.), Logic, Language and Metaphysics. Pisa: ETS
• Marmodoro, A. (2018). Whole, but not one. In J. Heil, S. Gibb, & A. Carruth (Eds.), Ontology, modality, mind : themes from the metaphysics of E. J. Lowe (60-72). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796299.003.0005
• Marmodoro, A. (2018). Gregory of Nyssa on the Trinity (with focus on his Letter ad Ablabius). In A. Marmodoro, & N. McLynn (Eds.), Exploring Gregory of Nyssa : philosophical, theological and historical studies (220-234). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826422.003.0012
• Marmodoro, A. (2018). Potentiality in Aristotle's Metaphysics. In K. Engelhard, & M. Quante (Eds.), Handbook of Potentiality. Springer Verlag
• Marmodoro, A. (2017). Power Mereology: Structural Powers versus Substantial Powers. In M. Paoletti, & F. Orilia (Eds.), Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation (110-127). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315638577-7
• Marmodoro, A. (2017). Aristotelian Powers at Work: Reciprocity Without Symmetry in Causation. In J. Jacobs (Ed.), Causal Powers (57-76). Oxford University Press
• Marmodoro, A., & Austin, C. (2017). Structural Powers and the Homeodynamic Unity of Organisms. In R. Koons, N. Teh, & W. Simpson (Eds.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Modern Science. Routledge
• Marmodoro, A. (2015). Gregory of Nyssa on the Creation of the World. In A. Marmodoro, & B. Prince (Eds.), Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity (94-111). Cambridge University Press
• Marmodoro, A. (2013). Causation without glue: Aristotle on causal powers. In C. Natali, C. Viano, & M. Zingano (Eds.), Les Quatre Causes d'Aristote. Origins et Interpretations (221-246). Peeters, Louvain
• Marmodoro, A. (2011). The metaphysics of the extended mind in ontological entanglements. In A. Marmodoro, & J. Hill (Eds.), The Metaphysics of the Incarnation (206-228). Oxford University Press

Edited book

• Xenofontos, S., & Marmodoro, A. (Eds.). (2021). The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium. Cambridge University Press
• Glick, D., Darby, G., & Marmodoro, A. (Eds.). (2020). The Foundations of Reality: Fundamentality, Space and Time. Oxford University Press
• Marmodoro, A. (Ed.). (2018). Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: philosophical, theological and historical studies. Oxford University Press
• Marmodoro, A., & Cartwright, S. (Eds.). (2018). Mind and Body in Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316848531
• Marmodoro, A., & Viltanioti, E. F. (Eds.). (2017). Divine Powers in Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press
• Marmodoro, A., & Yates, D. (Eds.). (2016). The Metaphysics of Relations. Oxford University Press
• Marmodoro, A., & Prince, B. (Eds.). (2015). Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107447974
• Marmodoro, A., & Hill, J. (Eds.). (2013). The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press
• Marmodoro, A. (Ed.). (2010). The Metaphysics of Powers: Their Grounding and Their Manifestations. Routledge

Journal Article

• Marmodoro, A. (2022). Why studying the history of philosophy matters. Think, 21(60), 5-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1477175621000294
• Marmodoro, A., & Grasso, M. (2020). The power of color. American Philosophical Quarterly, 57(1), 65-78
• Marmodoro, A. (2017). Stoic Blends
. Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy, 32(1), https://doi.org/10.1163/22134417-00321p02
• Marmodoro, A. (2016). Dispositional modality vis-a-vis conditional necessity. Philosophical Investigations, 39(3), 205-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.12125
• Marmodoro, A., & Page, B. (2016). Aquinas on Forms, Substances and Artifacts. Vivarium: A Journal for Medieval and Early-Modern Philosophy and Intellectual Life, 54(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685349-12341310
• Marmodoro, A. (2015). Anaxagoras' Qualitative Gunk. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23(3), 402-422
• Marmodoro, A., Murphy, R. A., & Baker, A. (2014). Does the inherence heuristic take us to psychological essentialism?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(05), 494-495. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x13003798
• Marmodoro, A. (2013). Aristotle's hylomorphism without reconditioning. Philosophical Inquiry, 37(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.5840/philinquiry2013371/28
• Marmodoro, A. (2011). Aristotle on Complex Perceptual Content. The Metaphysics of the Common Sense. Philosophical Inquiry, 34(1-2), 15-65. https://doi.org/10.5840/philinquiry2011341/212
• Marmodoro, A., & Hill, J. (2011). Peter Abelard's metaphysics of the incarnation. Philosophy and Theology, 22(1/2), 27-48. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtheol2010221/22
• Marmodoro, A. (2011). Moral Character versus Situations: an Aristotelian contribution to the debate. Revista de filosofia antiga (Ed. português), 5(2), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v5i2p1-24
• Marmodoro, A., & Hill, J. (2010). Composition Models of the Incarnation. Religious Studies, 20, 469-488. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412510000119
• Marmodoro, A. (2009). Do powers need powers to make them powerful? From Pandispositionalism to Aristotle. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 26(4), 337-352
• Marmodoro, A. (2008). Is Being One Only One? The argument for the Uniqueness of Platonic Forms. Apeiron, XLI(4), 211-227. https://doi.org/10.1515/apeiron.2008.41.4.211
• Marmodoro, A. (2007). The Union of Cause and Effect in Aristotle: Physics III 3. Oxford studies in ancient philosophy, 32, 205-232
• Marmodoro, A. (2006). It's a colorful world. American Philosophical Quarterly, 43(1), 71-80
• Marmodoro, A. (2001). Metaphysica V 7: diverse soluzioni esegetiche a confronto. Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, XII, 1-61
• Marmodoro, A. (2000). La nozione di per se': una nuova proposta interpretativa. Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, XI, 1-35