Faculty & Staff

Nadja Germann
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Office: HU 050K
410-617-2043
ngermann@loyola.edu

Education and Experience

• M.A. – University of Konstanz (Philosophy), 2001
• M.A. – University of Tübingen (Islamic Studies), 2006
• Ph.D. – University of Tübingen (Philosophy), 2005
• Post-Graduate Researcher at the Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, Leuven, Belgium, 2003-2004
• Assistant Lecturer and Researcher at Freiburg University, Germany, 2005-2009
• Visiting Scholar at Boston College, 2007
• Research Affiliate at Yale University, 2008-2009

Areas of Specialization

• Epistemology and Metaphysics at the crossroads of Arabic and Latin Philosophy (11th-13th centuries)
• Philosophy of Language and Logic in the Arabic East (9th-11th centuries)
• Natural Philosophy in the Latin West (9th-12th centuries)

Recent Courses Taught

• PL 201: Foundations of Philosophy
• PL 202: The Project of Modernity
• PL 370: Medieval Philosophy
• Avicenna's Metaphysics
• What Is the Intellect?

Selected Publications

• "Natural Philosophy in Earlier Latin Thought," The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, ed. R. Pasnau, Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, vol. 1, pp. 219-231.
• "Philosophizing Without Philosophy? The Concept of Philosophy in Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan," Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales 75 (2008), pp. 97-127.
• "Logik zwischen 'Kunst' und 'Wissenschaft'. Avicenna zum Status der Logik in seiner Isagoge," Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales 75 (2008), pp. 1-32.
• "Avicenna," Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Philosophy Between 500 and 1500, ed. H. Lagerlund, Heidelberg: Springer, forthcoming.
• "Chartres," Die Philosophie des 12. Jahrhunderts [Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie], ed. R. Imbach and T. Ricklin, Basel: Schwabe, forthcoming.