John Alexander Marenbon FBA (born 26 August 1955) is a British philosopher and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. [1] His principal area of specialization is medieval philosophy.
He obtained BA, MA, PhD, and DLitt degrees from the University of Cambridge. [2] Since 1978 he has been a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a senior research fellow there since 2005. In 2010 he became an honorary professor of medieval philosophy at Cambridge, [3] delivering an inaugural lecture entitled 'When was medieval philosophy?'. [4] He has also taught at Paris-Sorbonne University, been a visiting fellow at both the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto, and held a visiting appointment at Peking University.
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009. [5]
Since 2020 Marenbon has been a visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland. [6]
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