Jean Christian Egoavil

by Rodrigo Ballon Villanueva

Jean Christian Egoavil

September 2024 – This month, we move from the Northern to the Southern Hemisphere with Jean Christian Egoavil! Jean is a Lecturer in Philosophy and History at several Peruvian universities, such as the University of the Pacific, the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, and the Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University (UARM). His work focuses on medieval thought, especially on the logic and epistemology of John Duns Scotus and its posterior influence.

Jean received his BA in Philosophy (2017) from the UARM, with a thesis devoted to the role of haecceitas in Scotus’s account of the individuation of substances, supervised by Luis Bacigalupo and Gustavo Leonardo. Concomitantly, he studied classical and medieval Latin under the guidance of Dante Villanueva at the Convent of Ocopa (Peru). In 2022, Jean obtained an MA in History at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. In his thesis, directed by Carlos Gálvez-Peña, he analysed the transmission of philosophy from Spain to Peru during the 16^th and 17^th centuries – especially the case of Jerónimo Valera’s Logica Via Scoti. Currently, Jean is a PhD Candidate in Liberal Arts at the University of Navarra (Spain), where he continues his research on the philosophical exchanges between Europe and America during the Viceregal period.

Jean’s latest publications include a book chapter titled ‘Medievalism, Philosophers, and Medievalists in the Twenty-First Century in Peru: From the Forgotten Image to New Perspectives” and the paper ‘Del antimedievalismo de los siglos XVIII y XIX al neomedievalismo del siglo XXI en el pensamiento filosófico peruano. Un balance historiográfico’ (Signum, 2021), etc. You can read some of Jean’s work in his personal profile, here.