Chiara Beneduce is postdoctoral researcher in the history of philosophy and science at the CNRS (Laboratoire SPHERE UMR7219) – Université Paris Cité (France). Since 2018, she has also been teaching assistant in the philosophy of science at Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma (Italy).
She obtained her PhD in February 2017, jointly awarded by Università di Pisa and Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands), with a dissertation titled “Natural Philosophy and Medicine in John Buridan. With an Edition of Buridan’s Quaestiones de secretis mulierum”.
In the winter of 2016, she received a “Notre Dame – SIEPM” stipend, awarded by the “Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale”, to conduct research at the “Medieval Institute” of the University of Notre Dame, IN (US), with a project titled “The Anonymous Commentary on the De animalibus in ms. Vat. Lat. 2164. Natural Philosophy and Medicine in the Late Middle Ages”. In 2017 (January-August), supported by a “Talent (SWT)” grant, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the “Center for the History of Philosophy and Science” of Radboud University. In July 2018, she obtained an annual postdoctoral position at the “Institute of Philosophy of Scientific and Technological Practice” of Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma. In 2019, she has been awarded with a “Veni” grant of the “Dutch Research Council” (NWO) for the project “The Sense of Touch. From Anomaly to Paradigm”, which supported her further postdoctoral position at Radboud University from September 2019 to August 2023. At the end of 2023, she has been awarded with an “ANR – Access ERC Stg” funding of the “Agence nationale de la recherche” for the project “FEMALE BODIES, FEMALE SENSATIONS. A History of Female Corporeity and Sense-Perception in Medieval Science”. This funding is currently supporting her two-years position at the “Laboratoire SPHERE”.
Chiara Beneduce conducts research in the history of medieval philosophy and science, with a focus on the relationship between late-medieval natural philosophy and medicine. Within this framework, she has especially considered theories of generation, sense-perception theories, and the notion of “complexion”. Thanks to her collaboration with a medical university, she has also developed an interest in the philosophy of medicine, with particular reference to the concept of “personalized medicine”.
Her most recent publications include the book C. BENEDUCE, La scienza del tatto. Un percorso tra filosofia naturale e medicina, Editrice Bibliografica, Milano, 2024; the special issue C. BENEDUCE (ed.), Complexio. Across Disciplines, Early Science and Medicine, 28.3-5 (2023); and the essay C. BENEDUCE, “Female Physiology in John Buridan’s Quaestiones de secretis mulierum. Interpreting Buridan’s Biology”, in S. Johnston and H. Lagerlund (eds.), Interpreting Buridan. Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024, pp. 157-177.
In her track, she counts the “KNAW Early Career Award” (2021 edition), awarded by “The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences” to the twelve most promising young researchers in the Netherlands.
Further information about Chiara Beneduce’s academic profile and the complete list of her publications are available in the attached CV (see “PDF” tab below the picture).
