Rodrigo Ballon-Villanueva

I'm a Peruvian PhD student in Philosophy at Durham University (UK), supervised by Anna Marmodoro (Philosophy) & Alberto Rigolio (Classics), and Matthew Tugby (Philosophy) thanks to a Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities. I work at the intersection of late ancient/early medieval philosophy (focused on the Neoplatonic tradition) and contemporary metaphysics (especially causality, existence, properties, and relations). I also have strong interests in philosophy of religion (e.g., apophatism, divine attributes, and universalism).

I hold a BA from the University of Navarra (Spain) and an MA from the Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland). My training as a historian of philosophy began at the former, whereas at the latter, I became acquainted with analytic metaphysics. I'm using both skill sets in my doctoral dissertation: 'Early Medieval Theories of Relations (4th-9th centuries)'. My goal is to reconstruct the overlooked metaphysics of relations of Augustine, Boethius, and Eriugena to introduce them within the contemporary - and heated - debate on the topic. 

Curious about my approach? Read more about it in this interview I did with Anna! 

I'm also part of the editorial team of IPM. Monthly. Medieval Philosophy Today. I coordinate the 'Small Portraits' section, whose goal is to highlight the work of young researchers in medieval philosophy and related areas.