Women's Perspectives on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

Isabelle Chouinard is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Université de Montréal and the Centre Léon Robin (Sorbonne Université) under the joint supervision of Louis-André Dorion and Jean-Baptiste Gourinat. Her dissertation examines the Stoic reception of ancient Cynicism. Her main areas of research include Socratic and Hellenistic schools of philosophy, especially Cynicism, Cyrenaic hedonism and Stoicism. She teaches ancient Greek at the Université de Montréal. 

Zoe McConaughey  is  agrégée in philosophy; PhD student at the Université de Lille (France) and the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada), she will defend in 2021 her dissertation entitled “Aristotle. Science and the dialectician's activity.” Her research deals with history and philosophy of logic, thus encompassing both historical issues, especially Aristotelian logic and epistemology, and logical issues, in particular dialogical logic. She is co-author of  Immanent Reasoning or Equalityin Action  (Springer, 2018), with Shahid Rahman, Ansten Klev and Nicolas Clerbout. 

Aline Medeiros Ramos is an instructor ( chargée de cours ) in philosophy at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, in Canada. She is also a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Université du Québec à Montréal, currently writing her dissertation under the supervision of Claude Panaccio on the intellectual virtues according to John Buridan. In addition to specializing in medieval philosophy focusing on the late Middle Ages, she is also generally interested in ethics and, in particular, virtue theory. 

Roxane Noël is a Gates scholar currently writing her PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of John Marenbon. She specializes in medieval philosophy, with a special focus on the twelfth century. Her M.A. thesis, titled “Understanding universals in Abelard’s Tractatus de intellectibus : The notion of ‘nature’”, was written under the supervision of Jack Zupko, at the University of Alberta, with support from SSHRC and FRQSC.