Brett Yardley
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (2020)
Brett Yardley is a PhD candidate at KU Leuven and Marquette University, currently completing a dissertation on testimony and tradition in medieval Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. In 2018–19, he held a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Belgium. His work shows that applying the concepts of contemporary social epistemology allows the medieval tradition to be read in a new light. Brett has recently published “Trust and Perspectivalism in the History of Epistemology: Testimony and After Certainty,” in Neo-Scolastica, and “Biblical Inspiration & Islamic Instrumental Causality: Thomas Aquinas on Prophecy and the Two Authors of Sacred Scripture,” in The Muslim World. In the Max Planck Research Group “Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body, ca. 800–1650,” he will work on the project “Knowledge Ensouled: Premodern Experience of the Natural World,” discussing the notions of authority and the transmission of knowledge within communities via spoken and written testimony.
Publications
- “Trust and Perspectivalism in the History of Epistemology: Testimony and After Certainty,” Rivista Di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 112, no. 1 (2020): 95–109.
- “Biblical Inspiration & Islamic Instrumental Causality: Thomas Aquinas on Prophecy and the Two Authors of Sacred Scripture,” The Muslim World 109, no. 3 (2019): 431–49.
Projekte
When to Trust Authoritative Testimony: Generation and Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Thought
Presentations, Talks, & Teaching Activities
“Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions: Structures of Being, World and Mind” at The Institute of Ismaeli Studies, London
7th Annual Symposium on Medieval & Renaissance Studies at St. Louis University, St. Louis
2019 AAIWG International Meeting: Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions: Intellect, Experience and Renaissance at University of Pisa, Pisa
De Wulf - Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Philosophy - Philosophical Review Club at KU Leuven, Leuven
Cordoba Near Eastern Research Unit (CNERU) at Universidad de Cordoba, Cordoba