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Dr. Rafael Nájera

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Dr. Rafael Nájera

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

email

rafael.najera(at)uni-koeln(dot)de

address

Thomas-Institut, 0.07

CV
  • since 2016 Technical Lead,  Averroes Edition Project at the Thomas-Institut
  • 2015-2016 Visiting Researcher, Department of Philosophy at University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada)
  • 2013-2015 Post-doctoral fellow, Brown University (Providence, RI, USA)
  • 2013 Term Faculty, McEwan University (Edmonton, AB, Canada)
  • 2012 PhD Philosophy, McGill University (Montréal, QC, Canada)
    Thesis: "Scientia in the Twelfth Century"; supervisors: Calvin Normore (UCLA), Carlos Fraenkel (McGill)
  • 2005 B.A. Philosophy major, Liberal Arts minor, Concordia University (Montréal, QC, Canada)
  • 1992-2001 Several engineering positions in Costa Rica and the USA
  • 1992 B.Eng. Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Costa Rica
Research fields
  • Digital Humanities
  • Medieval philosophy of science
Selected Talks and Presentations
  • "The Averroes Project and DARE: building a practical digital research environment", Workshop ‚FAIR & Co.: Sicht- und Verfügbarkeit der digitalen Akademienforschung in einer vernetzten Wissenschaftslandschaft‘, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 8. Oktober 2020 (virtuell).
  • "The Averroes Project", in the Third PESHAT International Conference: Translating Ibn Rushd into Hebrew, Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion, University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany),  February 14, 2019
  • "APM: the Digital Tool for the Averroes Edition Project", in the Critical Editions of Medieval Philosophic Translations conference, Jerusalem, Israel, July 24, 2018
  • "Scientia in the Twelfth Century in the Latin West", Zemak Forschungskolloquium, University of Cologne (Cologne, NRW, Germany), December 9, 2016
  • "Suárez on the knowledge of immaterial entities",  Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada), January 22, 2016
  • “Scholastics on the Role of the Body in Knowledge”, Invited Talk at the University of San Diego, Philosophy Department (San Diego, CA, USA), February 17, 2015.
  • “Scholastics on the Role of the Body in Knowledge”, Invited Talk at the University of North Carolina Asheville, Philosophy Department (Asheville, NC, USA), February 9, 2015
  • "The Role of the Body in Scientia", Cornell Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA), May 31, 2014
  • "Hugh of St. Victor on Scientia", The Rhode Island Medieval Circle Lectures, Providence, RI, USA, April 24, 2014
  • "Hugh of St. Victor onScientia", Poster Presentation, American Philosophical Association 2014 Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, April 17, 2014
  • "Substances without Bodies in 13th Century Scholasticism", Cogut Center for the Humanities Seminar, Brown University (Providence, RI, USA), April 6, 2014
Publications
  • "Scientia in the 12th Century", in Knowledge in Medieval Philosophy, ed. by Henrik Lagerlund, The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History, Volume II. London : Bloomsbury, 2018.
  • "Scholastic Philosophers on the Role of the Body in Knowledge" in Embodiment: a History, ed. by Justin EH Smith, Oxford Philosophical Concepts Series, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017