Ernesto Fuentes Padgett
Education
Research MA in Philosophy (KU Leuven, 2024); BA in Philosophy (Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2022)
Year of Matriculation
2024
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Areas of Interest
Ancient and medieval philosophy (Neoplatonism and Aristotelianism); theories of knowledge, self, and the soul; manuscript studies; Ancient Greek and Latin
Profile
I research the history of ancient, late ancient, and medieval philosophy in the pagan and Christian Platonic and Aristotelian traditions. Above all, I have focused on John Scottus Eriugena's original reception of the Aristotelian categories, his theory of knowledge, and his theory of the soul and mind as triadic structures. I also study his Latin and Greek sources such as Augustine and Maximus the Confessor, among others. Furthermore, I have recently delved into theories of cognition in the Late Middle Ages, mainly those of Peter of John Olivi. I am particularly interested in how concepts such as self, subjectivity, and self-knowledge appear and are understood in the context of medieval theories of knowledge, the soul, and intentionality.
Recent Scholarly Activity
- Award: Vlaamse Universiteiten en Hogescholen Raad (VLUHR) Master Mind Scholarship, 2022–24.
- Award: KU Leuven Short Mobility Grant for Munich International Summer University’s Summer German Language Course at LMU München, August 2023.
- Publication: Fuentes Padgett, Ernesto. “Glosas a Platón (traducción de los pasajes 87-99).” In Platón Cosmólogo. Recepción del Timeo entre la Edad Media y la Temprana Modernidad. Edited by Natalia Jakubecki, María Cecilia Rusconi, and Natalia Strok. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Winograd, 2022. pp. 184-211.
- Conference Paper: “Aristotelian Refutative Strategies: Parmenides, the Eristic in Physics and the Physic in Metaphysics,” III National Congress of the University of Buenos Aires' Department of Philosophy, Buenos Aires, November 2018.
- Conference Paper: “Definition or οὗ ἂνευ τὸ πᾶν in Book I of the Periphyseon,” VI International Congress on Medieval Studies and XXVI Update Course on Medieval History, Multidisciplinary Institute of History and the Humanities (IMHICIHU) of the National Research Council-Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, September 2018.