Dr Zita Toth

Zita is a lecturer of Philosophy at King's College London. Her research is in medieval philosophy, especially in 13th- and 14th-century scholastic metaphysics. She teaches medieval philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion.

She has worked on a number of different projects, most recently on scholastic debates about matter and hylomorphism. She is also interested in the problem of causation, and in the way scholastic thinkers perceived the interaction between divine and created causality.

At King's College London, she is coordinating the Latin Philosophy Reading Group, and has also been running a Virtual Palaeography Group for the last few years. She was in the first cohort of students to receive a diploma in manuscript studies by the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, and enjoys working with manuscripts especially of the Gothic book hand.