Aquinas Lecture 2025: "Essentialism Without Essential Predication"

Anna Marmodoro (Durham University, Universitá della Svizzera Italiana)

Aquinas Lecture 2025: Anna Marmodoro: "Essentialism Without Essential Predication"

Anna Marmodoro is the Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University (US) and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Durham University (UK), where she held the Chair of Metaphysics between 2016 and 2024. She specializes primarily in ancient philosophy and contemporary metaphysics. Her latest books are Properties in Ancient Metaphysics (CUP, 2023) and Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics (OUP 2021). She is currently working on a new monograph titled: Parmenidean Essentialism. She is also the co-editor of Dialogoi. Ancient Philosophy Today, published by Edinburgh University Press.