Andrea Sangiacomo (University of Groningen)

Andrea Sangiacomo is an assistant professor at the Department of History of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. He worked extensively on Spinoza, especially concerning his ontology, moral philosophy and his sources. Recently, he started a new NWO research project (Veni) on the medieval and later-scholastics roots of occasionalism and on its impact on the shaping of seventeenth and eighteenth century science.
Sara Uckelman (Durham University)

My interests in logic and medieval history both developed in high school, but it wasn’t until I was doing my PhD in Amsterdam that I discovered they actually did logic in the Middle Ages, and from that moment on, my career path was set. For the last decade, I have taken my knowledge of contemporary logical techniques back to medieval logical texts to try to decipher what they are doing, and in turn taking the new insights that I have gained from reading the medieval texts back to 21st century problems. This research takes me to medievalist conferences and mathematical conferences, and many things in between, and one thing I have learned is that I am very much a logician, not a historian. What’s the difference, and what difference does it make to the methodologies used to study historical logic? Come to my talk and find out….

Mogens Laerke (CNRS)

Born in Denmark in 1971, I am a senior researcher, or directeur de recherche, at the national French research institution, the CNRS, with an affiliation at the research lab IHRIM (UMR 5317) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. This is also where I originally did my PhD with Pierre-François Moreau in 2003. Before returning to my French alma mater in 2011, I worked in Denmark, Israel, the United States, and Scotland. I have mainly written on early modern philosophy, mostly Leibniz and Spinoza, including two books (Leibniz lecteur de Spinoza from 2008, and Les Lumières de Leibniz from 2015) and an awful lot of articles and chapters. I have also co-edited some volumes (The Use of Censorship in the Enlightenment (2009); The Philosophy of the Young Leibniz (2009); Philosophy and Its History (2013); Spinoza/Leibniz. Rencontres, controverses, réceptions (2014). I like organizing events and co-organize, among other things, the yearly Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy since 2009. Right now I am working on a book on State-Church relations in early modern philosophy, from Justius Lipsius to Moses Mendelssohn, and a host of other, smaller projects.
Martin Lenz (University of Groningen)

Martin Lenz is professor of philosophy and chair of the Department of History of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. Before joining the philosophy faculty at University of Groningen in 2012, he studied in Bochum, Budapest and Hull (Ph.D. in 2001 in Bochum) and spent his postdoctoral period in Cambridge, Tübingen and Berlin (Habilitation in 2009). Most of his work is on the philosophy of language and mind, metaphysics and epistemology. His historical research focuses on medieval and early modern philosophy.
Doina-Cristina Rusu (Univeristy of Groningen)

Doina-Cristina Rusu is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen. Her current project “Manipulating Spiritual Matter. How Did Early Modern Science Become Experimental?” focuses on the emergence of experimental philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She published on Francis Bacon, Giambattista della Porta, Hugh Platt, and feminine literature in the early modern period.
John Marenbon (University of Cambridge)

John Marenbon is a Fellow of the British Academy, Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, and Honorary Professor of Medieval Philosophy, as well as Visiting Professor at the Philosophy Department of Peking University. His interests cover the whole breadth of philosophy in the Long Middle Ages (c. 200 – c. 1700), in the Latin and Greek Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions. He has written both general books (especially Medieval Philosophy: an historical and philosophical introduction (2007) and (as editor) the Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy (2012), as well as more specialized studies of Boethius and Abelard. He also co-edited Methods and Methodologies: Aristotelian Logic East and West, 500-1500.
Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Univeristy of Groningen)

I am a professor and Rosalind Franklin fellow at the Department of Theoretical Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen. I am also an external member of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, and one of the Editors-in-Chief of Synthese . My main fields of research are history and philosophy of logic and mathematics. I also have general interests in medieval philosophy, philosophy of psychology and cognitive science, general philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, issues pertaining to gender and race, and empirically-informed approaches to philosophy in general. From 2011 to 2016 I led the research project The Roots of Deduction.