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Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body ca. 800–1650

Research Group "Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body"

Research Group Leader Katja Krause

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Chaonan Zhang

sek.krause@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Research Group Leader

Research Group Leader

Knowledge Ensouled: Premodern Experience of the Natural World

Research Support

Departmental Assistant

Publications Manager

Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body

Researchers

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Apr 2024 - Oct 2026)

Postdoctoral Fellow (May 2025 - Jul 2025)

Mapping as a Mind-Science: varietas and the Humanist habitus in Latinate Geography Textbooks

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Mar 2024 - Sep 2025)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jan 2024 - Dec 2025)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Nov 2017 - Oct 2026)

MPRG Historical EpistemoloScientific Questions Then and Now. / Fragen der Wissenschaft – Damals und Heute.

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jan 2024 - Oct 2026)

Predoctoral Scholar

Definition and division in medieval Latin commentaries on Aristotle’s Historia animalium and De partibus animalium

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Mar 2024 - Oct 2026)

Daniel Moshe Knebel

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Apr 2023 - Jun 2026)

Reflections on the Reflex: Conceptual Changes in 20th-century Brain Science

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Mar 2025 - Jun 2025)

History of early Greek philosophy as a disciplinary problem

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Feb 2024 - Sep 2025)

For everything in nature goes to infinity: Leibniz's Network and the Introduction of Infinity into Nature

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Feb 2024 - Oct 2026)

Stefanie Rudolf

Postdoctoral Scholar

Heilkunde oder Philosophie? Die syrische Überlieferung der Medizin zwischen Empirie und Tradition

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Mar 2020 - Sep 2025)

The Coimbra Commentaries' Doctrine of Sense Perception

Maaike van der Lugt

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jan 2025 - Jun 2025)

Janina Wellmann

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Oct 2022 - Sep 2025)

Ecologies of Skins

Postdoctoral Scholar

Agreement and Disagreement: Late Scholastic scientia in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

External Advisors

This Research Group is complemented by an interdisciplinary board of external advisors, including:

Peter Adamson (LMU Munich), Dong Xiu Yuang (Shandong University), Steven Harvey (Bar-Ilan University), Roberto Hofmeister Pich (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul), Luís Lopez-Farjeat (UP Mexico), José Meirinhos (Universidade do Porto), Yosef Schwartz (Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University), Loris Sturlese (Università del Salento), and Richard Taylor (Marquette University).

Collaborators

We work in close collaboration with the following existing research projects:

Heirs of Avicenna and Natur in politischen Ordnungsentwürfen (both LMU Munich)
Animal Rationale Mortale, Petrus Hispanus medicus, and From Data to Wisdom (Universidade do Porto)
Aquinas and “the Arabs” International Working Group
Making Mysticism (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) (completed)