Text and Idea of Aristotle's Science of Living Things (TIDA)

Johanna Schmitt joined the department of philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, as a postdoctoral researcher in 2023. Prior to that she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Tübingen in the DFG-project Dimensions of Doubt (2021-2022). She completed a dissertation on Sextus Empiricus at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2021.

Her research interests lie in Hellenistic and Aristotelian philosophy, with a special focus on skepticism, epistemology and philosophy of science. Within TIDA, Johanna is investigating methodological questions of Aristotle’s science of living beings.

Representative Publications

Schmitt, Johanna (forthcoming): “Sextus vs. a Galenic doctor - who might be Galen - on Sophisms” in J. Vlasits & M. Veres (ed.) Sextus’ Logic in Context. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.

Schmitt, Johanna (forthcoming): “Is Assent to Kataleptic Impressions Voluntary?” in A. Zinke & V. Werner (ed.) Dimensions of Doubt. Routledge (forthcoming)

Schmitt, Johanna (forthcoming): “Galen on Induction”, in H. Lagerlund & M. Perälä (ed.) Aristotelian Induction and its Reception in Antiquity. Forthcoming.