Maria Varlamova

	Year and Place of Birth 1984, Izhevsk ORCID: 0000-0002-8667-2494 ResearcherID: F-6205-2017 Scopus Author ID: 56404715900 RSCI SPIN: 3021-0052, Author ID: 558343 Education B.A. in Philosophy – The St. Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy, May 2005. Thesis: Human Being and Human Praxis (a Case Study of Ancient Poetic and Philosophy). M.A. in Philosophy – Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, Saint Petersburg, May 2006. Ph.D. in Philosophy – St. Petersburg State University, September 2013. Thesis: Dynamis as a Cause of Movement in Aristotle’s Physics. Research interests Ancient Greak and Roman Philosophy, the History of Physics, the History of Biology and Medicine, Peripatetic Tradition
Scholarships	October 2009 - July 2010: DAAD Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates and Young Academics and Scientists. Scholarship at Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
Professional Activities	Since 2015: Research fellow, Scientific and Educational Centre of Problems of Religion, Philosophy and Culture to SUAI, St. Petersburg. Since 2020: Associated Research Fellow, IPhRAS, Moscow
Participation at the research projects	2020–2022: “The Treatise of John Philoponus “On the Creation of the World” in the Context of the Middle Eastern Syrian-Palestinian and Byzantine Theological Traditions”. Supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research. 2020–2022: “Mind, Soul and Body Relations in Late Ancient Commentaries on Aristotle”. Supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research. 2018–2020: “Two Beginnings in the History of Metaphysics: the First Philosophy of Aristotle and the Ontology of John Duns Scotus”. Supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research. 2018–2019: “Soul and Semen as a Causes of Embryo’ Development: The Problem of Physical Unity in the Process of Generation”. Supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research. 2017–2019: “Nature and movement in the “Commentary on the Physics of Aristotle” by Michael Psellos”. Supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research. 2016–2018: “The Followers of John Duns Scotus in the XIVth-XVIth Centuries’ Scholasticism: Problems of Epistemology and Metaphysics”. Supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research. 2015–2016: “The Controversy Concerning the Eternity of the World as one of the important lines for the Formation of Christian science”. Supported by Presidential Research Grants Council, Russian Federation. 2012–2014: “The Function of Concept of Power/Possibility in Aristotle's Natural Philosophy”. Supported by Russian Humanitarian Research Foundation.
Papers	2020 “Semen and Soul as a Causes of Embryogenesis in Aristotle”. The Second International Congress of Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science “Science as a Public Good”. Saint Petersburg State University, 28^th November 2020, St. Petersburg. “How the Soul moves the Body? The Definition of the Soul as an Efficient Cause of Bodily Motion in Alexander of Aphrodisias”. 8nd Moscow International Platonic Conference, Russian State University for the Humanities, 27^th November 2020, Moscow. “Soul as a Form of Body in Alexander of Aphrodisias”. The 28^th International Conference “The Universe of Platonic Thought. Plato and Rhetoric”, Institute of Human Philosophy of Harzen University, 26^th June 2020, St. Petersburg. 2019 “The dialectics of the principles of coming to be in the Commentary of Michael Psellos(?) on Aristotle’s Physics”. The 7nd Moscow International Platonic Conference, Russian State University for the Humanities, 15 November 2019, Moscow. “Ontological structure of being in the Peripatetic metaphysics: the relation of the universal nature of being and an individual thing”. International conference “Metaphysics and Post-Metaphysical Thought”, RAS Institute of Philosophy, 22-23 October 2019, Moscow. “Philoponus’ arguments on animation of the embryo in on Aristotle On the Soul”. International Conference “Paideia, State, Man: Anthropology in Platonic tradition”, Institute of Human Philosophy of Herzen University, 28 June 2019, St. Petersburg. “Time as a measure of motion in Aristotle's cosmology”. Annual Conference of the School of Philosophy “The modes of thinking, the ways of speaking”, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), 22-26 April 2019, Moscow.
Publications	2020 The universal Being is either Nothing or Posterior”: an Inquiry into the Constitution and Priority of being as being in Peripatetic Metaphysics // ΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Phiosophy and the Classical Tradition. vol. 14/2, 2020. P. 449–516. John Philoponus' Arguments on the Animation of the Embryo in his Commentary on Aristotle's On the Soul // Platonic Investigations, vol. 12/2, 202. P. 157–173. The Dialectic of the Principles of Generation in Michael Psellos’(?) Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics // Platonic Investigations, vol. 12/1, 2020. P. 174–189. 2019 Aristotle as a Historian of Philosophy. History as a Method of Inductive Reasoning of the First Principles // History of Philosophy, 24-1 (2019), 5-17. The Soul-parts as a cause of embryogenesis in Aristotle's De Generatione Animalium // ΣΧΟΛΗ. Философское антиковедение и классическая традиция. Т. 13/1, 2019. С. 94-105. Prime Matter as Extention in Simplicius' Commentary on Aristotle's Physics // Philosophy. Journal of the HSE, 3-1 (2019), 145-163. A Correlation of Universal Properties and the Nature of Being in Alexander of Aphrodisias // ESSE: Studies in the Philosophy and Theology, 3-2 (2019), 347-357. 2018 On the Distinction of Soul and Nature of the Living Body in Simplicius // Platonic Investigations, Vol. 9/2 (2018), 121-136. Philoponus on the Nature of the Heavens and the Movement of Elements in Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World // Scrinium. Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography, Vol. 14, 2018, Brill, Leiden. P. 446-461. 2017 Philoponus' Dispute Against the Eternity of the World and its Influence on the Byzantine Philosophy // Scrinium. Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography, Vol. 13 (2017), Brill, Leiden. P. 383-399. Three-dimentionality vs. Prime Matter: Comparing the Ideas of Matter in John Philoponus and Aristotle. ΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition. 11-2 (2017), 446-482. On the Unity of Being as a subject of the first science in Alexander Aphrodisias' commentary on Metaphysic. ESSE: Studies in the Philosophy and Theology, 2-1 (2017), 353-369. 2015 The First Mover as a Cause of Movement and as a Source of Order in the Universe. ΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition, 9-1 (2015), 73-80.
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