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Sarah De Mendonça Virgi is an Assistant Professor of European Islamic Philosophy at Utrecht University. She comes from a postdoctoral researcher position at LMU Munich, where she worked on various research projects under the guidance of Prof. Peter Adamson, specifically focusing on the lasting impact of Avicenna's philosophy in the Islamic world and the role of animals in Islamic philosophical thought. Her research primarily investigates medieval Arabic thought, with emphases on natural philosophy, the mind, metaphysics, and theology. Her PhD thesis delved into the concepts of spirit and soul as articulated by influential Islamic philosophers from the medieval period, including al-Ghazali and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi. She has a keen interest in ancient and medieval conceptions of nature, biology, and intelligence in animals and humans, as well as the intersections of these ideas with moral philosophy, ethics, and gender. Virgi is dedicated to making philosophy more accessible within academia and is a vice editor and regular contributor to IPM Monthly: Medieval Philosophy, an online magazine that interviews scholars and connects philosophical discourse to a broader community.
Department of Psychology