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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

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Research Group Leader

Research Group Leader

Knowledge Ensouled: Premodern Experience of the Natural World

Research Support

Departmental Assistant

Researchers

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Apr 2024 - Oct 2026)

Predoctoral Scholar (Mar 2024 - Oct 2026)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jan 2024 - Apr 2026)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Feb 2025 - Oct 2026)

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

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jan 2024 - Oct 2026)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Mar 2024 - Oct 2026)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (May 2024 - Oct 2026)

Israel's AI's and Energy policies: Different Rationalities?

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 - Oct 2026)

History of early Greek philosophy as a disciplinary problem

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Feb 2024 - Oct 2026)

Stefanie Rudolf

Postdoctoral Scholar

Experience, Philosophy and Expertise: The Foundations of Syriac Medicine

Maaike van der Lugt

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jan 2025 - Jun 2026)

Janina Wellmann

Research Scholar (Oct 2022 - Oct 2026)

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)