Matteo Di Giovanni
Assistant Professor
Education:
Ph.D. - Graeco-Arabic and Islamic Studies Yale University
Ph.D. - Philosophy Scuola Normale Superiore
Brief Biography:
Matteo Di Giovanni holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, and a Ph.D. in Graeco-Arabic and Islamic Studies from Yale University. He has previously served as Assistant Professor of Late-Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich, Germany. He has been visiting scholar at University College London, the Thomas Institut of Cologne University, and the Institut Français d’Etudes Arabes of Damascus, Syria.
Area(s) of Expertise:
Medieval Arabic Philosophy and Classical Arabic Textual Studies.
Awards and Honors:
William J. Horwitz Prize Yale University
Theron Rockwell Field Prize Yale University
Selected Publications:
Di Giovanni, M. (2018) In Peter Adamson, Matteo Di Giovanni (Ed.), Averroes, Philosopher of Islam. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Di Giovanni, M. Adamson, P. (2018) Interpreting Averroes: Critical Essays. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Di Giovanni, M. (2017) In Amos Bertolacci, Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (Ed.), Philosophy Incarnate: Ibn Rushd’s ‘Almohadism’ and the Problem of God’s Omniscience. Florence,: SISMEL, Edizioni Del Galluzzo
Di Giovanni, M. (2017) Averroè. Rome: Carocci
Di Giovanni, M. Primavesi, O. (2016) In Christoph Horn (Ed.), Who Wrote Alexander’s Commentary on Metaphysics Λ? New Light on the Syro-Arabic Tradition. Boston, MA: De Gruyter
Di Giovanni, M. (2012) In John Marenbon (Ed.), Averroes and Philosophy in Islamic Spain. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press
Di Giovanni, M. (2011) In Margaret Cameron, John Marenbon (Ed.), Averroes and the Logical Status of Metaphysics. Leiden: Brill
Di Giovanni, M. (2011) Motifs of Andalusian Philosophy in the Pre-Almohad Age. Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale.209-234.
Di Giovanni, M. (2011) In Peter Adamson (Ed.), Substantial Form in Averroes’s Long Commentary on the Metaphysics. London, UK: Warburg Institute
