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CERAMI Cristina

- Research interests
- Formation et exercice des métiers de la recherche
- Bibliography & publications
- Communications
- Organisation of workshops and Conferences
- Organization and participation in research projects, editorial boards, academic associations and scientific communities
- Prizes and participation in selection committees


RESEARCH INTERESTS



History of ancient and medieval Arab philosophies; physics, cosmology, theory of animal generation, metaphysics, logic, theory of knowledge, theory of demonstration; Aristotle; Averroes and the Greco-Arab peripateticism.


Our work has two parts. We study, on the one hand, Aristotle’s text for itself, trying to understand it at the microscopic level of the arguments and at the macroscopic level of the organization of his treatises and in particular of his physical corpus. We examine, on the other hand, the work of Averroes in order to reconstruct it as well in its relation to the commented text as in its Greek (Alexander of Aphrodise, Philopo) and Arabic (al-Fârâbî, Avicenna, al. -Ghazâlî). Each of these two components is based on two main methodological convictions, the first which consists in combining a philological study of the text and a reflection on its theoretical scope, the second to articulate logic, the philosophy of nature and metaphysics. This double-crossed study achieves two major results: it shows, on the one hand, that the Aristotelian system and the reconstructions that have been proposed over the centuries cannot be understood without taking into account the real interaction between the work of transmission and translation of the text and its theoretical interpretation; it shows, on the other hand, that to understand the history of the theory of demonstration it is not simply a question of explaining how the demonstrative model of the Aristotelian organon was applied to other disciplines, but of showing how the interpretation of the latter and in particular of natural philosophy and metaphysics conditioned the very definition of demonstration.



FORMATION ET EXERCICE DES METIERS DE LA RECHERCHE



Jan.-June 2012: Chargée de cours at the University Paris 1-Sorbonne, Master 1.

Oct.-Jan. 2010: Chargée de cours at the University Paris Diderot, Master 1.

Nov. 2009–: Chargé de recherche de première classe (CR1) at UMR 7219, CHSPAM/SPHERE.

Feb.-May 2009: Chargée de cours at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Licence 1.

Oct. 2008: Entrée en fonction au CNRS comme Chargée de Recherche de première classe

Feb.-May 2008: Chargée de cours at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Licence 1.

June 2007-June 2008: Research collaboration contract for the Avicenna project Kitâb al Shifâ’: traduzione e commento, à la Scuola Normale Superiore de Pise.

June-Dec. 2006: Research collaboration contract for the project La tradizione del commento greco, arabo e latino al De Generatione et Corruptione di Aristotele, at the Scuola Normale Superiore de Pise.

Dec. 2002–Oct. 2007: Doctorate in Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Title of the thesis: From second philosophy to first philosophy. The study of generation in Aristotle and Averroes. Score: 70 out of 70 with congratulations from the jury. Thesis supervisor: Giuseppe Cambiano. Members of the jury: Amos Bertolacci, Myles Burnyeat, Francesco Del Punta, Annick Jaulin, Pierre-Marie Morel, Marwan Rashed.

1996 – 2002: Laurea in Philosophy at the University of Pisa, score of 110/110 cum laude (congratulations from the jury). Title of thesis :La nozione di generazione nella Metafisica di Aristotele. Supervisor: Mauro Mariani. Secondsupervisor: Bruno Centrone.



BIBLIOGRAPHY & PUBLICATIONS



Books

Nature et Sagesse. Les rapports entre physique et métaphysique dans la tradition aristotélicienne. Volume in honor of Pierre Pellegrin, Cerami Cristina (ed.), Peeters, Louvain 2012 (sous presse).



Articles

« Signe physique, Signe métaphysique. Avicenne et Averroès sur la démonstration des causes premières », in Nature et Sagesse. Les rapports entre physique et métaphysique dans la tradition aristotélicienne. Volume in honor of Pierre Pellegrin, C. Cerami (ed.). Peeters, Louvain 2012 (soon released).


« Mélange, minima naturalia et croissance animale dans le Commentaire moyen d’Averroès au De generatione et corruptione, I, 5 ». In La nature et le vide dans la physique médiévale. Études dédiées à Edward Grant, Joël Biard and Sabine Rommevaux (eds), Brepols, Turnhout 2012, pp. 137-164.


(Report) « Les Parva Naturalia d’Aristote. Fortune antique et médiévale. P-M Morel, C. Grellard (eds.) », Revue philosophique de Louvain, (2012).


« Corps et continuité. Remarques sur la “nouvelle” physique d’Averroès », Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 21, no2 (2011) : pp. 299-318.


« Contraires et accidents : la question de la génération absolue dans le Commentaire Moyen d’Averroès au De Generatione et Corruptione d’Aristote ». In La circulation des savoirs autour de la Méditerranée : Philosophie et sciences (IXe-XVIe siècles), G. Federici-Vescovini and A. Hasnawi (eds.), Edizioni Cadmo, Firenze 2011, pp. 499-521.


« Generazione verticale, generazione orizzontale : il principio di sinonimia nel Commento Grande di Averroès al libro Z della Metafisica di Aristotele », Chôra, Revue d’études anciennes et médiévales, 2010, pp. 131-160.


« Thomas lecteur critique du Grand Commentaire d’Averroès à Phys. I,1», Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 19 (no 2), 2009, pp. 189-223.


(Compte rendu) « La Fisica di Aristotele oggi. Problemi e prospettive, L.R. Cardullo et G. R. Giardina (éds.), », Revue philosophique de Louvain, 2008.


« Le statut de la forme substantielle et de l’universel comme tode toionde», Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale, 18, 2007, p. 37-49.


« La sostanza sensibile e la nozione di tode toionde in Metafisica VII8 », in Eidos-Idea, Platone, Aristotele e la tradizione platonica, F. FRONTEROTTA et W. LESZL (éd.), Academie Verlag Sankt Augustin, 2005, p. 211-232.


« The Aristotelian Analysis of Generation: Physics A and Metaphysics Z », Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale, 15, 2004, p. 1-38.


« La posizione e il ruolo dei capitoli Z7-9 della Metafisica di Aristotele », Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale, 14, 2003, p.123-158.



to be published


Génération et substance : Aristote et Averroès entre physique et métaphysique, Walter de Gruyter (Scientia Graeco-Arabica), Berlin-New York.


« Le commun avant le propre. Le rôle de Seconds Analytiques I 4-5 dans l’organisation du corpus de philosophie naturelle d’après Averroès », in From Cordoba to Cologne : Transformation and Translation, Transmission and Edition of Averroes’s Works, Miscellanea Medievalia, De Gruyter.

(report) «P. Adamson, Al-Kindi », Aestimatio, 2012.

Le Commentaire moyen d’Averroès au De Generatione et Corruptione, traduction et notes, Paris, Vrin.

« Changer pour rester le même. Forme, dunamis et hexis chez Alexandre d’Aphrodise », in Alexandre d’Aphrodise et la métaphysique.

« Le chapitre 8 du livre Z de la Métaphysique d’Aristote », in Le livre Z de la Métaphysique d’Aristote, M. Crubellier et A. Stevens (eds).



COMMUNICATIONS



Communications with act in an international congress

“L’induction dans le Grand Commentaire d’Averroès aux Seconds Analytiques”. Colloque international La tradition médiévale des Seconds Analytiques. University of Tours, Tours, October 18-20 2012.

“L’éternité du mouvement. Enjeux épistémologiques et cibles polémiques du Grand Commentaire d’Averroès à Phys. VIII”. Congrès international de la SIEPM/ International Congress of Medieval Philosophy: Pleasures of knowledge, Freising, August 20-25, 2012.

“Forme, dunamis, hexis chez Alexandre d’Aphrodise”. International Workshop Alexandre d’Aphrodise et la métaphysique, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, June 14-15, 2012.

“L’organisation du corpus physique aristotélicien d’après Averroès”. International Averroes Conference From Cordoba to Cologne : Transformation and Translation, Transmission and Edition of Averroes’s Works, University of Cologne, Cologne, October 25-28 , 2011.

“Averroès et la découverte des premiers principes de la physique”. International conferences Averroes’ Natural Philosophy and Its European Reception, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen (the Netherlands), June 17-18, 2011.

“Corps et continuité. Les minima naturalia dans l’explication de la croissance animale par Averroès”, 8th SIHSPAI International Colloquium, Philosophy and Science in Classical Islamic Civilisation, Institue of Ismaili Studies, Londres, December 3 -5, 2010.

“La démonstrations des causes premières. Le débat Avicenne Averroès”. Colloque international Nature et sagesse: Les rapports entre physique et métaphysique, CNRS (UMR 7219), University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, June 9-12, 2010.

“La substance première d’Averroès entre logique et ontologie”. International workshop The reception of the Categories in arabic tradition, CNRS- Australian Research Council, Paris, April 3-4, 2009.

Oral communications without publication

“Enjeux épistémologiques et cibles polémiques du Grand Commentaire d’Averroès à Phys. VIII”, Workshop Physics VIII in Antiquity and Beyond, University of Leuven, Institute of Philosophy, Leuven, June 4, 2012.

“La cité et le philosophe : al Farabi et Averroès sur le statut de la philosophie en Islam”. Journée Règles de la raison et rationalité de la pensée, organisée dans le cadre du séminaire Archéologie des Humanités, Paris Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, May 6,i 2011.

“Induction et principes chez Averroès”, Journée d’étude Types de démonstrations ?, CHSPAM/UMR 7219, University Paris Diderot, Paris, Avril 7, 2011.

“Le problème de l’induction dans le Grand Commentaire aux Seconds Analytiques d’Averroès”, Seminar La tradition médiévale des Seconds Analytiques, University of Tours, Tours, April 15, 2011.

“Substances célestes et éther dans le Commentaire Moyen d’Averroès au De Caelo d’Aristote”, Seminar The Cosmology of Averroes: The Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s De caelo, organised by UMR 7062, University Paris-7 Denis Diderot, EPHE & the University Paris I, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, March18, 2010.

“Le Commentaire Moyen d’Averroès au De Caelo d’Aristote : le cinquième élément – DC I 2-3”, Seminar The Cosmology of Averroes: The Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s De caelo, organised by UMR 7062, University Paris-7 Denis Diderot, EPHE et l’Université de Paris I, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, April 9 & May 28, 2010.

“Physique et Métaphysique: L’ordo scientiarum et l’objet de la métaphysique chez Averroès et Thomas d’Aquin”, International Workshop Thomas d’Aquin et ses sources arabes , Commissio Leonina, Paris, March 27-28, 2009.

“La génération substantielle (Aristote et Averroès)”, Seminar of the Centre Léon Robin The transmission of philosophical themes and concepts from antiquity to the Middle Ages, University Paris 4, Paris, March 12, 2009.

“L’objet et le but du De caelo d’Aristote dans le Commentaire moyen d’Averroès”, Seminar The Cosmology of Averroes: The Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s De caelo, organised by UMR 7062, Université Paris-7 Denis Diderot, EPHE & the University Paris I, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, October 17, 2008.

“Thomas lecteur critique du Grand Commentaire d’Averroès à Phys. I, 1”. Study Day The Arab sources of Saint Thomas organized by the CHSPAM (Centre d’histoire des sciences et des philosophies arabes et médiévales)/UMR 7062 & Commissio Leonina, Centre Le Saulchoir, Paris, November 24, 2007.

“La dimostrazione del segno nel Commento Grande di Averroè al primo libro della Fisica”. XIIth International Colloquium of the SIEPM (Société internationale pour l’étude de la philosophie médiévale), Universalité de la raison. Pluralité des philosophies au Moyen-âge, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, September 17-22, 2007.

“Contraires et accidents : la question de la génération absolue dans le Commentaire moyen d’Averroès au De Generatione et Corruptione d’Aristote”. VIth Colloquium of S.I.H.S.P.A.I. (International Society for the History of Sciences and of Arab and Islamic Philosophy) : Circulation des savoirs autour de la Méditerranée (IXe-XVIe siècles), Firenze, February 16-18, 2006.

“Génération absolue, génération relative: deux modèles ou un seul ? ”. Seminar Act, power, movement, co-organised by the University Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, University of Lille III & the CHSPAM (UMR 7062), École Normale Supérieure, Paris, April 2005.

“Le chapitre 8 du livre Z de la Métaphysique d’Aristote”. Book Z of the Metaphysics of Aristotle, organized by the École Normale Supérieure and the universities of Brussels and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, November 2004.



ORGANISATION OF WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES



International Workshop Aquinas and the ‘Arabs’. Matière, Génération, Création, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, May 31-June 2, 2012.

Seminar international "Practice. Critical reflection on the concept of "practice" in HPS today ", co-organized with Karine Chemla, Pascal Crozet & Koen Vermeir, University Paris Diderot, Paris, October 2011-June 2012.

International seminar "Du Noûs : Aristote, avant et après", co-organised with Annick Jaulin (UMR 7219, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) & Michel Crubellier (University Lille 3-Charles de Gaulle), University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, December 2010-May 2012.

Series of conferences "Aristotle’s Physics", University Paris1 Sorbonne-Panthéon, University Paris Diderot, Paris, May 05- 26, 2011.

International Workshop "Thomas d’Aquin et ses sources arabes" / "Aquinas and the ‘Arabs’", co-organised with Valérie Cordonier. University Paris Diderot-Centre Le Saulchoir, Paris, May 20-24, 2011.

Workshop "La nature du mouvement dans la tradition aristotélicienne greco-arabo-latine", University Paris Diderot, Paris, May 19, 2011.

Workshop "Types de démonstrations ?", University Paris Diderot, Paris, April 7, 2011.

Workshop "La cosmologie d’Averroès entre physique, métaphysique et théologie", University Paris Diderot, May 22, 2010.

Workshop "Atomes et indivisibles : pour une histoire de l’atomisme grec, arabe et latin", University Paris Diderot, Paris, March 18, 2010.

International Conference "Nature et sagesse: Les rapports entre physique et métaphysique", University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, June 9-12, 2010.



ORGANIZATION AND PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS, EDITORIAL BOARDS, ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES



Organization and participation in collaborative research projects


Organiser with A. Falcon (Concordia University, Montreal) of the Project PHYSIKA. The "PHYSIKA" project proposes to study and reconstruct the history of the organization and reception of Aristotle’s physical corpus by articulating a purely philological study of the transmission of the corpus to a theoretical study of the interpretative choices that make it. accompanied. This study will be carried out in the four cultural areas, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew and Latin, in which the corpus has been conveyed, interpreted and modified. The final goal of "PHYSIKA" will be to produce a file which takes into account, as much as possible, all the questions which fall within these two parallel and complementary dimensions, in which the debate is declined in the four worlds.

Member of the “Didaskalos. Alexander of Aphrodise and Aristotelian metaphysics. Contextes, Enjeux, Réception ”in collaboration with UMR 6125 and 8163 (http://didaskalos.hypotheses.org/).


Member of The Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group (An International Working Group on Medieval Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions), Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) – Commission Léonine (Paris). (http://academic.mu.edu/taylorr/Aquinas_and_the_Arabs/Aquinas_%26_the_Arabs.html)



Participation in editorial boards

Cerami, Cristina. Member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale" (An International Journal on the Philosophical Tradition from the Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages)



Participation in networks, academic associations, scientific communities
Deputy Secretary of SIHSPAI (International Society for the History of Arab and Islamic Sciences and Philosophy).

Member of SIEPM (International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy).

Webmaster of the mailing list for information on the history of Arab and medieval sciences and philosophies: Philosophie et sciences arabes (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Philosophie-et-Sciences-Arabes/)



PRIZES AND PARTICIPATION IN SELECTION COMMITTEES



Member of selection committee for the recruitment 15 MCF 0425 ‘Grammaire et linguistique arabes’, June 2009.

Prix “Gilberto BERNARDINI” for the best doctoral thesis defended in 2006/2007, May 19, 2008.

Prix "Emilio Bocca" for the best doctoral thesis defended in 2006/2007, 5 February 2008.