Katja Krause
Research Group Leader (Nov 2018-Oct 2023)
PhD, Professor, TU Berlin
Room 209
Katja Krause is a historian of science and medicine, and a philosopher specializing in medieval thought and beyond. She received her PhD in 2014 from King’s College London for her dissertation entitled “Aquinas’ Philosophy of the Beatific Vision: A Textual Analysis of his Commentary on the Sentences in Light of Its Greek, Arabic, and Latin Sources.” After her doctorate, Krause was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, where she worked on a series of articles examining the empirical turn of the thirteenth century that emerged from the appropriation of Averroes’ commentaries on the Corpus Aristotelicum. In 2016/17 she served as Assistant Professor in Medieval Thought at Durham University, UK, and in 2017/18 was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity School, supported by the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften. Krause is currently Leader of the Max Planck Research Group “Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body, ca. 800–1650,” jointly with a professorship at the Technische Universität Berlin.
Katja is currently working on a book project concerned with the notion of experience in medieval and Renaissance sciences of the living world. Her translation of Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences IV.49.2, with introductions and notes, will appear in autumn 2020 with Marquette University Press.
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Institute's Colloquium
Know "Thy" Experience
MOREResearch Colloquium
Know Thy Experience
MOREReading Group
Signification in Artificial Languages in Early Modern European Thought
MOREReading Group
Terms, Notions, and Imagery in Chinese Theories of Signification
MOREReading Group
Signification in Sanskrit and in the Indian Colonial Context
MOREReading Group
Experiences and Signification in Medieval Latin Natural Philosophy
MOREReading Group
Name, Thing Named, and Signification in Classic Islamic Theology
MOREReading Group
Signification in Ancient Greek Philosophy
MOREResearch Seminar
CANCELED: Premodern Conversations
MOREResearch Seminar
CANCELED: Premodern Conversations
MOREResearch Seminar
CANCELED: Premodern Conversations
MOREResearch Seminar
CANCELED: Premodern Conversations
MOREResearch Seminar
Premodern Conversations
MOREResearch Seminar
In the Beginning was the Plant: The Plant-Animal Continuity in Early Modern Medical Reception of Galen
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Géraud de Cordemoy on the Cartesian Theory of Animal Machines and the Use of Scripture
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Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation
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