Maria Leonor Xavier
Research Group: HPhil
Maria Leonor Lamas de Oliveira Xavier holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon (1994), where she also obtained the title of Aggregate (2011). She is a senior associate professor at the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (FLUL), where she teaches the following curricular units: The Study of Philosophy / Themes and Techniques of Philosophy; The Philosophical Thought of Our Masters; Great Masters of Medieval Thought; Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages. She is a member of: Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM); Red Latinoamericana de Filosofía Medieval (RLFM); Sociedad de Filosofía Medieval (SOFIME); International Association for Anselm Studies (IAAS); Society for the European History of Ideas (SEHI).
Selected Publications
Author of: Filosofia com Coração (2017); Three Questions on God (2016); A Questão da Existência de Deus. Uma Disputa Medieval (2013); O Teísmo Medieval. Santo Anselmo e João Duns Escoto (2009); Questões de Filosofia na Idade Média (2007); Razão e Ser. Três Questões de Ontologia em Santo Anselmo (1999); and dozens of articles in collective works and philosophy journals.
Coordinator of: Francisco da Gama Caeiro. A Presença 20 anos depois (2014); Philosophica 34. Anselmo sola ratione 900 anos depois (2009); A Questão de Deus. Ensaios Filosóficos (2010); A Questão de Deus na História da Filosofia I-II (2008). These 2 works were published within the framework of the FCT/CFUL Philosophy Project [PTDC/FIL/64249/2006] «The Question of God. History and Criticism» (Information available at: www.aquestaodedeus.blogspot.