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Natalia Bolatti Guzzo
Massimiliano Marazzi
Leopoldo Repola
Andreas Schachner
Stefano Sven Tilia
The “Hattusa Project”. A German-Italian Cooperation for the Three-Dimensional Documentation and Representation of an UNESCO Archaeological Site
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Lorenzo d’Alfonso
Maria Elena Balza
Clelia Mora
Ten Years of Research in Southern Cappadocia: History, Archaeological Investigations, and Ancient Landscapes
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Paola Cotticelli
Federico Giusfredi
The European Project SLUW: A Short Overview
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Clelia Mora
Hieroglyphic Inscriptions and Monuments in Hittite and Neo-Hittite Periods
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Giulia Torri
From the Scribes of Ḫattuša to the Social Network of the Hittite Officials and Employees
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Is a Swedish diplomat for more than 30 years, of which 15 years as ambassador. He served i. a. in Moscow, Peking, Geneva, Rome and Seville and was i. a. in charge of Swedish development assistance through UN. He had a short career as opera singer. Co-founder (2002) and secretary general of the European Cultural Parliament, ECP, the only pan-European, interdisciplinary forum for artists and intellectuals. He is author of more than 20 books on subjects like China, India, Germany, Football, Theater, Opera, European identities, European values, World Population and Democracy. He participates in debates in media and at conferences all over Europe. He is guest professor at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin. He is resident in Berlin and Stockholm.
As co-founder and Secretary General of the European Cultural Parliament, ECP, I have an af nity with the ESMP. We share the emphasis on European values. The ECP has as a premise that “Ethical and aesthetic values must be the essence of a new European society”. In a historic perspective Europe has been “good” in creating values and societies based on Akropolis, Collosseum and Golgata, Enlightenment, but “bad” through all wars, colonialism, oppression, Hitler and Stalin. In today’s world it is easy to nd polarizing examples with arguments for both good and bad: China’s one child- policy, Free Trade, Syria. The UN Declaration on Human Rights, unfortunately, is not accepted universally. The value scales are different in various cultures. In Europe, where it should be possible to agree on what is good, the recent crisis has created new ideological barriers. North versus South in economic affairs, East against West on refugee issues. On economic issues many Europeans feel lost in the globalized world. New initiatives will be necessary in order to break the trend of bigger and bigger gaps between rich and poor and to give power back to citizens (through elected politicians) against mega-companies and banks. The religious anxieties of East Europeans and populists could best be reduced through a Europe with freedom of religion in a secular context. Humanities and “Bildung” (knowledge and good education) should be given political priority all over Europe. Culture and arts can guarantee that Europe remains “good”.
studied Philosophy at the University of Ferrara (Italy) and at the University of Marburg (Germany). She received my M.A. (October 2001) and Ph.D. (April 2009) in Philosophy from the University of Ferrara (Italy). Since April 2010, she has a teaching and research position at the Philosophy Department at the University of Konstanz (Germany). In May 2015 she was awarded a two- year fellowship from the to carry out a research project on animal ethics. Since the 2015/2016 academic year she also Moral Philosophy at the University of Ferrara (as “professoressa a contratto”). Her areas of expertise are:
– Philosophy of Enlightenment, especially Kant and his Practical Philosophy
– Marxist Philosophy, especially György Lukács
– Normative Ethics and Applied Ethics, especially Bioethics and Animal Ethics
– Metaethics.
In Critique of Practical Reason (1788), Kant de nes “good” and “evil” as “objects of practical reason” and “consequences of the a priori determination of the will”. It is relatively easy to understand that pure practical reason brings about, as the effect of its determination of the will, something which is good, but how shall we understand evil as a consequence of a determination of the will by the moral law? Closely connected to this problem is the question if the Kantian theory enables us to understand, and judge, evil as an effect of our freedom, which arises from Kant’s conception of “freedom”, which is not for Kant the capacity to choose between good and evil, between an action in accordance to the moral law and an action against the moral law. Some interpreters of Kant have suggested that the doctrine of radical evil, which Kant develops in the rst section of his work Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason (1792-1793), aims to provide a solution to the problem of freely chosen evil action. Against this kind of interpretations, I hold the view that Kant did not provide any correction to his theory of freedom in his later works and that the doctrine of radical evil does not aim to provide a justi cation for the moral responsibility of actions committed against the moral law.
is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Intercultural Hermeneutics at the University of Macerata, Italy. She completed her PhD in Philosophy and Human Sciences at the University of Perugia. Her thesis was concerned with the in uence of Maine de Biran on subsequent French Philosophy, especially that of Louis Lavelle and René le Senne. Prior to her PhD, she completed advanced research on Jean Nabert and his concept of evil, for which she also translated Nabert’s Essai sur le mal. Since 2000, she has worked in contemporary French hermeneutics and phenomenology, on and with Michel Henry, Paul Ricœur, Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Louis Chrétien, and Claude Romano. In addition to her continued research in phenomenology and hermeneutics. She has just completed a work (Il chiasmo della traduzione: Metafora e verità) on translation as a method for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue. Her major publications include: Coscienza, corpo libertà. Itinerario tra Maine de Biran, Lavelle, Le Senne (Consciousness, Body, Freedom: Pathways Between Maine de Biran, Lavelle, Le Senne, Napoli 2001); La fenomenologia rovesciata. Percorsi tentati in Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Jean-Louis Chrétien (Phenomenology Overturned: On Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Jean-Louis Chrétien) (Torino 2004); L’estasi della speranza. Ai margini del pensiero di Jean Nabert (Ecstatic Hope: On Jean Nabert, Assisi 2005); Il chiasmo della traduzione. Metafora e verità (The Chiasm of Translation. Metaphor and Truth, Milano 2017)
In 2000 Marcel Detienne published Comparer l’incomparable supporting the thesis that, when cultures and tradition are very different «pour construire de bons comparables, il faut [...] monnayer une “catégorie-entrée” avec l’aide des gens du terrain (historiens et anthropologues) pour analyser les agencements lisibles dans les con gurations culturelles». This “catégorie-entrée” should be necessary to compare cultures totally different. In fact, in different cultures and traditions, the same words not intend to say the same thing. An example is “goodness”.
The aim of this paper is to examine the translation in its etymological sense of “transport in front of”. If translating means to facilitate passages, and if a possible nucleus of goodness is in its generating relations, what does this imply about the translation of goodness in cultures and traditions? It will mean not to look for the most appropriate meaning but to look for experiences of relations and ties in different cultures living together nowadays, without renouncing their speci city. So, with the help of some research developed in the eld of cultural anthropology, it will emerge that the capacity to create ties is the way in which goodness can nowadays translate itself in social ties, improving them.
is full professor of Moral Philosophy at the Università «Gabriele d’Annunzio» of Chieti-Pescara. He is a member, at times with an executive role, of numerous Societies, Istitutions, Scienti c Commitees, and Redactional Boards of national and international reviews (among which: Internationale Rosenzweig Gesellschaft, Istituto di Studi Filoso ci «Enrico Castelli», European Society for Moral Philosophy; Reviews: «Archivio di Filoso a / Archives of Philosophy, «Nuovo Giornale di Filoso a della Religione», Redazione Romana «Filoso a e teologia»), and author of 140 publications, of which seven are monographies, in different languages (Italian, French, English, German, Spanish and Portuguese). He is a specialist in gures and themes of philosophy of existence (L. Pareyson) and of 20th century Jewish thought (F. Rosenzweig; E. Levinas).
This paper aims to propose a comprehensive rethinking of the question about the good, both in a theoretical key, and in a phenomenological-existential perspective. In this context, the good is interpreted as an event that covers the horizon of human existence in its globality, and involves the ethical dimension, while preceding, founding, and surpassing it. The question of the good is thus translated into a question that closely touches the regional signi cations and the global sense of human existence. The paper’s founding thesis consists of the proposal of a total identi cation of the supreme good with the virtuous circle that connects regional signi cations to the global sense of human existence.
is an associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Ponti cal Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum and teaches mainly in the area of moral philosophy. His current areas of research areas are natural law, virtue ethics, economic ethics, political philosophy and Aquinas.
Virtue ethicists do not generally appeal to theism in order to ground their central theses. In this paper I shall argue, however, that unless virtue ethics defends a commitment to wisdom as an essential quality of a virtuous agent, its neutrality vis- à-vis theism leads to an inconsistent conception of the virtuous agent as someone who could be indifferent to potentially important existential issues. Indeed, since virtue ethics presupposes a realist conception of reasons for action, a virtuous agent must be committed to wisdom and cannot be indifferent to the issue of theism.
is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies of the University of Bologna. Its areas of research are History of Medieval Philosophy and Late XIV century Theology and Epistemology, (Prescience, Free Will and Determinism, Divine Omnipotence and Future Contingents), History of Ideas (in part: the historical reconstruction of the concept of Intentionality); History of reading, publishing and contemporary modes to represents and archiving knowledge. He published (ed. with Umberto Eco) La loso a e le sue storie (Laterza 2014-2015, III voll. – 1500 p.). He’s also author of several papers for National and International Journals and Publishers (Laterza, Il Mulino, Brill, Kluwer, Springer). His recent books are La sesta prosa (Foreknowledge, Free Will and Contingency), Mimesis, Milan 2015 and Metter le brache al mondo. Compatibilismo, conoscenza e libertà (a study of the compatibilism and free will in some historical reconstruction of the problem), Jaca Book, Milan 2016 (with Roberto Limonta).
is Honorary Fellow at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies of the University of Bologna. He contributed as author to Eco and Fedriga’s, La loso a e le sue storie (Laterza 2015) and he’s also author of papers for national and international reviews as «Rivista di storia della loso a», «Documenti e studi sulla tradizione loso ca medievale», «Rivista di loso a», «Dianoia», «Philosophical Inquieries» and others – about the weakness of will in the Mediaeval philosophy and about the theological questions related to compatibilism, theological fatalism, divine foreknowledge, prophecies and future contingents in the Mediaeval traditions. His last works are Volando sul mondo. Opicino de Canistris (1296-1352), Archinto, Milano 2016 (with Mt. Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri) and Metter le brache al mondo. Compatibilismo, conoscenza e libertà, Jaca Book, Milano 2016 (with Riccardo Fedriga).
This paper aims to retrace the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ theory of incontinentia in the complex context of his sources. The Dominican theologian, even related to the mainstream of the Aristotelian theory of akrasia, relies on different kind of sources, such as the Christian theological tradition (Augustine and Anselm of Canterbury, in particular) and Avicenna’s philosophical and scienti c works. Particularly, this research focuses on the role played by the Augustinian voluntas in the Aquinas’ Aristotelian cognitive perspective on the problems related to the weakness of will.
has a three-year degree (2009) and a MADegree (2011) in Philosophy at University of Pisa, Italy. She has spent a visiting student at University of Chicago in 2009. She also holds a PhD in “Cultural Sciences curriculum Philosophy” (2016) at Scuola Internazionale di Alti Studi of the Fondazione Collegio San Carlo in Modena with a dissertation about an intellectual history of Holocaust testimony, especially in the thoughts of a italian witness, Primo Levi. She has published several journal and she has participated to numerous conferences.
has a BA in Philosophy of Language at University of Siena, a Master’s Degree in Theoretical Philosophy at University of Siena, and a PhD in Theoretical Philosophy at University of Pisa. She he was Honour Fellow in Ethic and Religious studies at University of Pisa. She was Visiting Fellow at CAPPE in Brighton from November 2016 to June 2016, where she had developed her elds of research about applied ethics.
has a three-year degree in Philosophy (2009) and a MA Degree in Philosophical Sciences (2011) at the University of Padua, Italy. In 2015 she was awarded of a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Pisa, Italy. Her research was about Adorno and his notion of Individual. She is interested in political philosophy and philosophy of art, in particular the works of Adorno, Heidegger and Benjamin. She has presented many papers in national and international conferences.
This article aims to examine the notion of good in the XXI century, after the event of Auschwitz. In this work, we are wondering if there could be both a good God and a good, in general that could preside over such horror. From our three-folded re ections it seems that an all-good (omnibenevolent) God would wish to prevent evil from existing in the world. First of all, André Neher turns upside down the problem of evil by, referring it to Auschwitz. The Holocaust is not foreseen in the violent episodes reported in the Bible but it is the Bible’s message that evolve if read under the light of Holocaust. May we say that after Auschwitz God has ever spoken? And, in this case, does His words make sense? What is the relationship between His word or His silence and the good? Secondly, Jonas investigates the relationship between humanity and God. One of his most important contributions to this subject is that such a God cannot be omnipotent. The presence of God in the world is an adventure with an uncertain outcome. In Jonas’s theology, God is totally in the hands of humanity: God can become its own essence only through good deeds of humanity. Finally, in Adorno’s philosophy the Good seems to be impossible in the late capitalist world based on a false, untrue and evil society. Then, how could be possible a moral philosophy? It cannot be only a critique of the modern society and its traditions.
(Ph.D. in Religious Ethics, Yale, 1990; Ph.D. in Moral Philosophy, SUNY at Buffalo, 1982) is Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy and Director of Centre for Applied Ethics at Hong Kong Baptist University. His recent publication is Chinese Just War Ethics: Origin, Development, and Dissent, (co-edited, Routledge, 2015).
What ultimately justi es this distinction between two types of goods, epistemic and moral? For those who think that there are pragmatic parameters of knowledge, whether we can attribute to someone a reasonable belief depends upon her practical situation. The idea is that the factors that make true belief into knowledge (or suf ciently justi ed belief) include elements from practical rationality and depend to an agent’s practical situation. The paper shows that the defenders of the many forms of the “pragmatic encroachment” thesis are wrong to assume that there are moral norms for the justi cation or legitimacy of beliefs, or of knowledge for that matter. However, if the epistemic value of belief or knowledge is not a moral affair, the value of the epistemic is a moral question. What Thomas Aquinas calls “studiositas” concerns our intellectual activity, but is a moral virtue. It disposes us to excel in the choices made in our intellectual life; indeed, it orders this life. So, epistemic goods and moral goods are distinct. But the orderly desire for epistemic goods is part, and even an important part, of our moral life.
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lorraine, Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He published mainly in the elds of metaphysics, epistemology and aesthetics, often intermingling the three.
What ultimately justi es this distinction between two types of goods, epistemic and moral? For those who think that there are pragmatic parameters of knowledge, whether we can attribute to someone a reasonable belief depends upon her practical situation. The idea is that the factors that make true belief into knowledge (or suf ciently justi ed belief) include elements from practical rationality and depend to an agent’s practical situation. The paper shows that the defenders of the many forms of the “pragmatic encroachment” thesis are wrong to assume that there are moral norms for the justi cation or legitimacy of beliefs, or of knowledge for that matter. However, if the epistemic value of belief or knowledge is not a moral affair, the value of the epistemic is a moral question. What Thomas Aquinas calls “studiositas” concerns our intellectual activity, but is a moral virtue. It disposes us to excel in the choices made in our intellectual life; indeed, it orders this life. So, epistemic goods and moral goods are distinct. But the orderly desire for epistemic goods is part, and even an important part, of our moral life.
ph.d and dr. scient. adm. (born 1965) is Senior Associate Professor of Ethics, at Roskilde University, Denmark. Rendtorff has a background in research in ethics, business ethics, bioethics, political theory and philosophy of law. He has also been doing research in phenomenology and hermeneutics, continental French and German philosophy. Rendtorff received his M.A. and Ph.D at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has also degrees in philosophy and political science from the University of Paris and Freie Universität, Berlin. He has among others been visiting professor at the University of Franche-Comté (2011), Bard College, New York 2011, the University of Paris-Ouest-La defense (2012), Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen (2014). Rendtorff has written 14 books on issues of existentialism and hermeneutics, French philosophy, ethics, bioethics and business ethics as well as philosophy of law and he has been co-author and editor on 13 other books. Rendtorff is in addition member of the board of the Danish Philosophical Forum and he is vice president of the Danish Association for philosophy in French language. He is also a member of the international group on re exion about ethics, Eco-ethica, founded by Professor Imamichi Tomonobu. In 2008 Rendtorff was elected as member of the Steering Committee of FISP (Féderation international des societies de philosophie), the global organisation of philosophy that is responsible for the organization of the world congress of philosophy.
This article presents Basic Ethical Principles for Democracy in Europe. The article focusses on autonomy, dignity, integrity and vulnerability in the framework of responsibility and solidarity. Although the principles were originally applied to bioethics and biolaw, they also have signi cance as general principles for democracy and political community. The principles can in this perspective be considered as central to a European idea of democracy and the common good. The conclusion is that these ethical principles promote a vision of respect for human person within a legal system based on political morality. In this sense basic ethical principles are important for legislation and policy making in the European institutions and the council of Europe.
Born 1945, Austrian, married, 6 children, six grandchildren. Philosopher, chief representative of realist Phenomenology, Studies at the University of Salzburg (Dr. phil.) and Fordham, Dr. phil. habil. from the University of Munich. He taught at the University of Salzburg 1969-1975, Director of doctoral program in philosophy at the University of Dallas (1973 to 1980). Studied with Dietrich von Hildebrand, Balduin Schwarz, Gabriel Marcel, cooperated with Robert Spaemann and Karol Wojtyla. Has focused on metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical anthropology and ethics. Founder of Aletheia (1976-), Founding Editor of Studies in Phenomenological and Classical Realism and Academy Addresses. Winter, Heidelberg. (1992-); Founding Editor, with Anashvili and Molchanow, Logos- Publishing, Moscow: Realist Phenomenology (Monographs: Russian/English/ German), 1998-; Founding Editor of Realist Phenomenological Philosophy (IAP Press, 2015-). Recipient of EU Medal of Merit and of EU Order of Merit, 1997 for Founding of International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality Liechtenstein and philosophical work of “highest European Standards” 1997. 1980- Founder (Founding Director) of the International Academy of Philosophy (Texas), and of the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality Liechtenstein (Rector from 1986 until 2012, from 2004 to 2012 on the Campus of the Ponti cal University Catholic of Chile. On all Campi Full Professor). Today, he works on the Campus of the same Academy (IAP-IFES) in Granada Holder of Dietrich von Hildebrand Chair for Realist Phenomenology (2015-).
Author of 34 books and 380 articles (originals in 5 languages, translations into 12 languages) and of some published shortstories and an unpublished novel (under penname Melchior B. Seifert). http://iap.academia.edu/JosefMSEIFERT.
Like being, also the good can be spoken of in many senses. We can call something good because we like its taste subjectively. We can call ‘good’ as well that which lies in the true interest of a person and of his or her true happiness.
But we may speak of good in a third sense as of something that is intrinsically good, which is lifted out of the neutral and opposed to evil by its own nature and existence. Within that urphenomenon which we call intrinsically good, there is a huge gradation. For example, the value of a human person is incomparably higher than the intrinsic value of a dog. When we ask for the supreme form of the good in the world, we could say: There can be no higher, intrinsic value-bearing good than the person. To say this implies that the concept of ‘person’ differs from that of ‘human person’.
But what inclines to say that the person possesses value in the supreme sense? Is it the ontological value that also the unconscious embryo possesses? Is it only the dignity of the awakened, self-conscious person? Is it only moral dignity? Or is it a goodness and dignity bestowed on persons by society or by God? Is there then a goodness of man greater than moral goodness?
It seems that the supreme form of the good we are looking for can only lie in moral goodness. At least, the supreme good must entail moral goodness. Correspondingly, moral evil is a more terrible evil than illness, hunger, pain, or death. Moral goodness is also good in a higher sense for the additional reason that it cannot be ‘abused’ like other talents. It also makes the person as such good; it touches his very being.
Moral goodness, when possessed by a person, is likewise the highest objective good for the person.
Socrates says that if the doing injustice is intrinsically a greater evil than suffering, it must also be a greater evil for the soul of man. Similarly, if moral rectitude is the highest intrinsic value a person can possess, it must also be the greatest good for man to be just and morally good.
The ‘”upreme form of the good” in man can only be seen in the light of a metaphysics of love and of being loved that goes beyond what can be acquired by us through our good will alone. And absolutely speaking, the supreme good can only be “that greater than which nothing can be conceived”, God. The paper ends in a short investigation of this absolute Good and the indispensable role moral goodness has in it.
is professor of philosophy with a focus on political philosophy at the University of Bern.
I argue that the Bolognese Glossators developed the primitive notion of a right expressed in the Latin phrase “ius suum”, as they found it in the classical de nition of justice in Justinian’s Institutes, into the richer conception of a claim-right correlative to someone else’s duty. They did so by taking the breach of a contract as a paradigmatic model for an injustice and by regarding pacta sunt servanda as a contextual de nition of a right [ius suum]. Making this contextual de nition explicit reveals the relevant sense of ius suum to be that of a claim-right correlative to a duty. – My argument for this interpretative thesis makes up the main part of the paper. In its last section, I suggest that the conception of justice in terms of claim-right/duty-relations developed by the Glossators was adopted by Thomas Aquinas and informed his understanding of justice in general and of the Decalogue in particular. I conclude that the fact that Aquinas explicitly regarded the Ten Commandments as requirements of justice commits him to the view that it must be possible to reformulate them in terms of claim-rights, and I defend this interpretation against an important objection by H.L.A Hart.
Elisa Grimi is Executive Director of the European Society for Moral Philosophy, Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Philosophical News and Project Manager of philojotter.com. On 30th May, 2014 she received the Paolo Michele Erede Foundation First Prize with a work on ‘Politics and Network’. She has studied and worked at various universities throughout the world, in countries including Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, England, France and the United States. She is author of numerous publications, including her first Italian monograph G.E.M. Anscombe: The Dragon Lady (2014) with direct testimonies, co-author with Rémi Brague of Contro il cristianismo e l’umanismo. Il perdono dell’Occidente (Cantagalli 2015), editor of the collection Tradition as the Future for Innovation (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) and of the Dossier La philosophie de l’humilité (Recherches Philosophiques, ICT, 2017).
José Barrientos-Rastrojo is Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) at the University of Seville, Spain. He has researched on Philosophical Practice, Life-Experience, Hermeneutics and Wisdom at Harvard University, University of Cambridge, Princeton University, The University of Tokyo, The University of Sao Paulo or Autonomous National University of Mexico among others. He is the Principal Investigator of several projects such as “Can wisdom be learned in different context?” (funded by the University of Chicago). He has organized several international events such as the International Conference on Philosophical Practice and he has written more than 200 books and articles. Barrientos-Rastrojo has been awarded with two Honorary Doctorates and National Awards on Philosophy in México, Portugal and Italy. Currently, he is the Editor of the International Journal on Philosophical Practice HASER and Associate Editor of the journal Argumentos de Razón Técnica.
Enrico Berti is emeritus professor of the University of Padua and Doctor honoris causa of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens. He has been professor of philosophy in the universities of Perugia, Padua, Geneva, Bruxelles and Lugano. He is member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome), of the International Academy for Philosophy (Yerevan, Armenia) and of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Vatican City), and honorary president of the International Institute of Philosophy (Paris). His scientific interests are directed to ancient and contemporary philosophy, especially Aristotle’s thought and its survival today, so in logic as in metaphysics, anthropology, ethics and politics. He is author of many publications (books and articles), some of which have been translated in English, French, German, Greek, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese.
Maria Tilde Bettetini is Associate Professor in History of Philosophy at the International University of Languages and Media IULM, Milan Italy. Here she teaches Aesthetics and History of Philosophy. She taught History of Medieval Philosophy at the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy. She directs the ancient series Il Pensiero Occidentale of Bompiani publishing house. She contributes to the culture section of Sole24Ore, a national newspaper. She focused on ancient and medieval roots of contemporary thought. Among her recent publications: Breve storia della bugia (Milan 2001, several times re-edited and translated into 7 languages), Figure di verità. La finzione nel Medioevo occidentale (Turin 2004), Contro le immagini: alle radici dell’iconoclastia (Bari-Rome 2006), Introduzione a Agostino (Bari-Rome 2008), Quattro modi dell’amore (Bari-Rome 2012), Distruggere il passato. L’iconoclastia dall’Islam all’Isis (Milan 2016).
Rémi Brague is a French historian of philosophy, specializing in the Arabic, Jewish, and Christian thought of the Middle Ages. He is professor emeritus of Arabic and religious philosophy at the Paris-Sorbonne University, France, and Romano Guardini chair of philosophy (emeritus) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
Carla Canullo is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Intercultural Hermeneutics at the University of Macerata, Italy. She completed her PhD in Philosophy and Human Sciences at the University of Perugia. Her thesis was concerned with the influence of Maine de Biran on subsequent French Philosophy, especially that of Louis Lavelle and René le Senne. Prior to her PhD, she completed advanced research on Jean Nabert and his concept of evil, for which she also translated Nabert’s Essai sur le mal. Since 2000, she has worked in contemporary French hermeneutics and phenomenology, on and with Michel Henry, Paul Ricoeur, Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Louis Chrétien, and Claude Romano. In addition to her continued research in phenomenology and hermeneutics. She has just completed a work Il chiasmo della traduzione: Metafora e verità on translation as a method for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue. Her major publications include: Coscienza, corpo libertà. Itinerario tra Maine de Biran, Lavelle [Consciousness, Body, Freedom: Pathways Between Maine de Biran], Le Senne, Napoli 2001; La fenomenologia rovesciata. Percorsi tentati in Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Jean-Louis Chrétien [Phenomenology Overturned: On Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Jean-Louis Chrétien], Torino 2004; L’estasi della speranza. Ai margini del pensiero di Jean Nabert [Ecstatic Hope: On Jean Nabert], Assisi 2005; Il chiasmo della traduzione. Metafora e verità [The Chiasm of Translation. Metaphor and Truth], Milano 2017.
Juan R. Coca (Ourense, Galiza - Spain) Professor and member of Department of Sociology and Social Work at Universidad de Valladolid. Director of journal: Sociología y Tecnociencia and co-director of journal: Cómaros. Your research lines are centered in epistemology, social theory, social imaginaries and socio-hermeneutics of the Technoscientific Social System. He has published over 100 papers and many books chapters. H-index: 8.
orcid.org - RESEARCHER-ID: D-5387-2016 www.redalyc.orgJohn Joseph Haldane is a Scottish philosopher, commentator and broadcaster. He is a papal adviser to the Vatican. He is credited with coining the term Analytical Thomism and is himself a Thomist in the analytic tradition. Haldane is associated with The Veritas Forum and is the current chairman of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
Vasso Kindi is a Professor of Philosophy at the Department of History and Philosophy of science of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She has published on philosophy of science, T. S. Kuhn’s work, Wittgenstein’s philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of history and ethics.
Martyna Koszkało, PhD - Assistant Professor, Chair of History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism, University of Gdańsk, Poland. She received her MA (1994) and PhD (2002) in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Lublin. Her PhD thesis was on the question of individuation according to John Duns Scotus. Her first monograph, published in Polish, was: Individual and individuation. The analysis of John Duns Scotus’ texts, TN KUL [publ.], Lublin 2003. From 2006 to 2016 she was a vice-director of the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism of the University of Gdańsk, Poland. She conducted independent scholarly research at the Catholic University of America (from August to October 2015). Now she is finishing the project obtained by competition in National Centre of Science (Poland): The Nature of Will. Freedom and Necessity. The Analysis of John Duns Scotus' theory in comparison to St. Augustine, St. Anselm of Canterbury and St. Thomas Aquinas. Areas of Specialization: Medieval Christian Thought, History of Ancient and Medieval Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, John Duns Scotus, Theories of Individuation. Publications: papers in Polish and English (Scholastic Sources of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Treatise Disputatio Metaphysica De Principio Individui, „Roczniki Filozoficzne” 65 (2017/2), 23-55. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rf.2017.65.2-2; Free Will, Grace and God: The Problem of Predestination of Human Beings according to John Duns Scotus, Athens: ATINER'S Conference Paper Series, No: PHI2017-2363. https://www.atiner.gr/papers/PHI2017-2363.pdf), translation from Latin to Polish (John Duns Scotus).
Claudio La Rocca is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy and Philosophy of Mind in the Department of Education (DISFOR) at the University of Genoa, Italy. His research interests focus on Italian philosophy of the XX century, phenomenology, hermeneutics, philosophy of mind, and in particular on the philosophy of Kant, on which he has published several volumes and numerous essays in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German. From 2006 to May 2016 he was president of the Società Italiana di Studi Kantiani (Italian society of Kantian Studies). He is currently vice-president of the Italian Society of Theoretical Philosophy and member of the Executive Committee of the Consulta Nazionale di Filosofia. He is editor-in-chief of the journal «Studi kantiani».
Danielle Lories is Full Professor in Philosophy and Director of the Centre d'études phénoménologiques at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She teaches History of Philosophy, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. Among her publications: Philosophie analytique et esthétique (Klincksieck, Paris 2004, 3e éd.), Shaftesbury, Soliloque (L’Herne, Paris 1994), Mimèsis. Approches actuelles (la Lettre volée, Bruxelles 2007), L’art en valeurs (L’Harmattan, Paris 2011), Le sens commun et le jugement du phronimos. Aristote et les stoïciens, Louvain, Peeters (Aristote. Traductions et études, 1998), Le jugement pratique. Autour de la notion de phronèsis, (co-edited with L. Rizzerio, Vrin, Paris 2008) Le phénomène de la vie de Hans Jonas (De Boeck, Bruxelles 2001), Essais philosophiques (ed. by O. Depré, Vrin, Paris 2013), Vie et liberté. Phénoménologie, nature et éthique chez Hans Jonas (co-autor with O. Depré, Vrin, Paris 2003).
Dariusz Łukasiewicz is professor at Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland. Director of the Institute of Philosophy. Chairman of the Department of Logic and Ontology. Member of the Committee of Philosophical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. President of the Central European Society for Philosophy of Religion. The author of over 100 scientific publications including 15 authored or edited books. Current research: Polish Brentanism and philosophy of religion.
Margarita Mauri Alvarez is Professor of Ethics at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Barcelona, Spain. Degree in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona in 1980. Extraordinary Degree Award. Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona in 1986. She is the principal investigator of the International Group of Stágeira. Aristotelian Studies of Practical Philosophy. He conducts two permanent research Seminars: the Aristotle Seminar and the Iris Murdoch Seminar.
Michele Marsonet received his degrees from the University of Genoa, Italy, and the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He currently is Full Professor of Philosophy of Science and Methodology of Human Sciences, and Dean of the School of Humanities, University of Genoa. He has been Visiting Professor in several universities around the world, and is Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written many books in Italian and English, among which: Science, Reality, and Language (Stete University of New York Press 1995), The Primacy of Practical Reason (University Press of America 1996), The Problem of Realism (Ashgate 2002), Logic and Metaphysics (Name 2004), Idealism and Praxis (Ontos Verlag 2008), Science, Realism and Conceptual Schemes (Lambert 2016).
Letterio Mauro is full professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Genoa, Italy. Head of the Post-graduate Degree in Philosophical Methodologies (2010-2013), deputy headmaster of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy (2011-2013), vice director of the Department of Philosophy (2000-2011; 2015-), Mauro teaches history of philosophy and tutors students in their dissertations, post-graduate and PhD thesis on the whole history of philosophy. Mauro has also organized seminars and lectures for the PhD in Philosophy, which have resulted in his recent publications L’uomo (in)formato. Percorsi nella paideia ieri e oggi (Milano 2011) and L’idea di Università tra passato e futuro (Genova, 2011). Mauro was part of PRIN, PhD and University Committees and coordinated projects sponsored by the University of Genoa (2006, 2008, 2012, 2014). He is currently leading the PRIN 2012 research unit based at the University of Genoa; he is also a founding member of “Aretai – International Center on Virtues”, that is based at the University of Genoa and is associated to several international institutions, such as the “Virtues across continents program” promoted by the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing (ISHF) at University of Oklahoma, the Jubilee Center for Character and Virtues at University of Birmingham and the Virtue, Happiness & the Meaning of Life Project at University of Chicago. Mauro is also member of “Accademia Ligure di Scienze e Lettere”.
Cyrille Michon is Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Nantes, France. He has been director of the Centre Atlantique de Philosophie (CAPHI - EA 2163). He focused on history of medieval philosophy and then on analytic tradition contemporary philosophy, with particular attention to philosophy of action, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion.
Javier San Martín. Untill 2016 Full Professor of Philosophy at UNED, (Open University of Spain), now Emeritus Professor. Founder and currently Honorary President of the Spanish Society of Phenomenology (SEFE). Research interests: phenomenology, philosophy of culture, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of Ortega y Gasset. Selection of publications: La estructura del método fenomenológico; La fenomenología de Husserl como utopía de la razón; Fenomenología y cultura en Ortega; Teoría de la cultura; Para una filosofía de Europa: ensayos de fenomenología de la historia; Antropología filosófica I and Antropología filosófica II; La nueva imagen de Husserl, lecciones de Guanajuato. As editor, Ortega y Gassets Schriften zur Phänomenologie, and Phänomenologie in Spanien. More in: http://www2.uned.es/dpto_fim/profesores/JSM/JSMperfil.htm
Robert Spaemann is a German Roman Catholic philosopher. He is considered as a member of the Ritter-School. Spaemann's focus is on Christian ethics. He is known for his work in bioethics, ecology, and human rights. Although not yet widely translated into languages other than his native German, Spaemann is internationally known and his work is highly regarded by Pope Benedict XVI.
Ricardo Tejada currently works at the Department of Spanish, Université du Maine, France. He conducts research in Social and Political Philosophy, Metaphysics and Aesthetics. His current project is “History of Spain essays”.
René Torkler, born in 1977, is professor of the didactics of ethics at Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. He studied philosophy, history, Dutch philology, German as a foreign language, and educational science. His work focuses in particular on the didactics of philosophy and ethics, hermeneutics, philosophy of education and practical philosophy with a special interest in the works of Hannah Arendt.
Manuel E. Vázquez. Professor of Philosophy, University of Valencia (Spain). Ex-Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and CC.EE. His field of research is contemporary philosophy, particularly hermeneutics and deconstruction. His publications deal with the problem of nihilism, the difference between man and animal, the relationship between philosophy and literature, as well as the current dilemmas of politics.
John Henry Crosby is an American translator, writer, and cultural entrepreneur. He is founder and president of the Hildebrand Project, which promotes Dietrich von Hildebrand’s thought and witness through publications, events, and digital media.
John O'Callaghan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Notre Dame University, Indiana, USA. President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (2012-2013), BS in Physics, St. Norbert College, 1984. MS in Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, 1986. PhD in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 1996. Director of the Jacques Maritain Center at the University of Notre Dame. Permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. Past President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. His areas of scholarly interest include Medieval Philosophy, the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and Thomistic Metaphysics and Ethics.
Professor Tracey Rowland holds the St John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia. She is the author of five books and holds two doctorates in theology along with degrees in law and political philosophy. She is a member of the International Theological Commission.
Danielle Lories is Full Professor in Philosophy and Director of the Centre d'études phénoménologiques at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She teaches History of Philosophy, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. Among her publications: Philosophie analytique et esthétique (Klincksieck, Paris 2004 (3e éd.)), Shaftesbury, Soliloque (L’Herne, Paris 1994), Mimèsis. Approches actuelles (la Lettre volée, Bruxelles 2007), L’art en valeurs (L’Harmattan, Paris 2011), Le sens commun et le jugement du phronimos. Aristote et les stoïciens, Louvain, Peeters (Aristote. Traductions et études, 1998), Le jugement pratique. Autour de la notion de phronèsis, (co-edited with L. Rizzerio, Vrin, Paris 2008) Le phénomène de la vie de Hans Jonas (De Boeck, Bruxelles 2001), Essais philosophiques (ed. by O. Depré, Vrin, Paris 2013), Vie et liberté. Phénoménologie, nature et éthique chez Hans Jonas (co-autor with O. Depré, Vrin, Paris 2003).
Peter Schaber Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He has written about various issues in applied ethics. He is the author of a book on Human Dignity. He is co-editor of the the forthcoming Handbook of The Ethics of Consent. He is also co-editor of Moral Philosophy and Policy and he is currently working on a theory of consent.
Philipp Schwind is a postdoc at the Center for Ethics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Has has studied in Munich, St. Andrews and holds a PhD from the University of Miami, USA. Normative ethics and political philosophy are his main areas of research. His current project is on moral luck. He has published on moral epistemology and the philosophy of friendship. Currently, he is working on a collection of the most important papers in moral philosophy in the 20th century, a translation of Ross' The Right and the Good into German, the philosophy of boycotts and the epistemology of moral intuitionism.
Joshua Stuchlik is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. His main areas of interest include ethics, action theory, and epistemology. His work has appeared in Philosophical Studies, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, The Journal of Value Inquiry, Synthese, and The Journal of the History of Philosophy.
Achille C. Varzi is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York (USA). A graduate of the University of Trento (Italy), he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto (Canada). His main research interests are in logic, metaphysics and philosophy of language. He is an editor of The Journal of Philosophy, a subject editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and an associate or advisory editor of The Monist, Synthese, Dialectica, The Review of Symbolic Logic, and other journals. He also writes for the general public and contributes regularly to some Italian newspapers, and is currently teaching for the Prison Education Program sponsored by Columbia University’s Justice-in-Education Initiative.
studied Philosophy at the University of Ferrara (Italy) and at the University of Marburg (Germany). She received her M.A. (October 2001) and Ph.D. (April 2009) in Philosophy from the University of Ferrara (Italy). Since April 2010, she has a teaching and research position at the Philosophy Department at the University of Konstanz (Germany). In May 2015 she was awarded a two-year fellowship from the Brigitte-Schlieben-Lange-Programm für Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen mit Kind to carry out a research project on animal ethics. Since the 2015/2016 academic year she also teaches Moral Philosophy at the University of Ferrara (as “professoressa a contratto”). Her areas of expertise are: Philosophy of Enlightenment, especially Kant and his Practical Philosophy; Marxist Philosophy, especially György Lukács; Normative Ethics and Applied Ethics, especially Bioethics and Animal Ethics; Metaethics.
is a Contract Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law at the University of Verona and Post-doc Researcher in Business Law at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan and. After his graduation in Law at the Catholic University of Milan, in 2012 he was admitted to the bar of Milan and in 2015 he received his PhD in Law and Economics from Luiss University of Rome. As a PhD candidate, he was Visiting Researcher at Columbia University of New York (2013) and Scholarship Holder at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (2014). In addition to slightly technical topics in the field of business law, his research interests embrace Legal Theory, Law and Economics, and Moral Philosophy. Besides his publications in Italian and European law journals, for instance he is author of an inspiring interview with United States Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi (Yale Professor Emeritus of Law) concerning the role of philosophy for judges – published in Philosophical News(No. 6, 2013).
is professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the Theological Faculty of Florence, and research coordinator at the Fondazione Centro Studi Campostrini of Verona; he is member of the Council Board of Italian Association of Philosophy of Religion – AIFR (www.aifr.it), which is associated with the European Society for Philosophy of Religion; he is also member of the Editorial Board of the Editor Project for Academia (academia.edu). He studied the French personalism of the XXth Century, in particular the thought of Denis de Rougemont, on which he has published the first monograph in Italian (La Persona e l’Occidente, Milan, 2014). In the last two years, he switched his interest to the links between philosophy, ecology and religion: on this topic he recently published a book entitled Fine del mondo o fine dell’uomo? Saggio su ecologia e religione (Verona, 2015). In the theological context, he is concerned himself with the concept of “person” in Christology and Trinitarian theology. He translated two books of Slavoj Žižek in italian, The Monstrosity of Christ and Paul’s New Moment (La mostrouisità di Cristo and Paolo Reloaded. Sul futuro del cristianesimo, Massa, 2010 and 2012).
has obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Theology at the Facoltà di Teologia dell’Italia Settentrionale (2002) and a PhD in Philosophy at Università degli Studi di Genova (2008). Currently, he does research work in History of Philosophy at Università degli Studi di Genova where he teach Tendencies of Contemporary Thought. He has authored three essays and about fifty papers published in journals or in collections of essays that concern contemporary thinking. He especially researches in epistemology, particularly addressing the problem of intentionality (Wittgenstein, Tommaso e la cura dell’intenzionalità, MEF, Firenze 2009; From Justification to Warrant, towards Virtue Epistemology, «Epistemologia», 34 (2011), pp. 5-28) as well as analytic philosophy of religion, conducting inquiries into its epistemological aspects (Una nuova teologia naturale. La proposta degli epistemologi riformati e dei tomisti wittgensteiniani, Carocci, Roma 2011). He has investigated the public role of religion (M. Damonte, Confrontation Between Civilization, Religions and Professions of Faith, «Études Maritainiennes / Maritain Studies», 25 (2009), pp. 46-57) and the philosophy of prayer (Homo organs. Antropologia della preghiera, Fondazione Centro Studi Campostrini, Verona 2014). The results of his research have been discussed at various international conventions, above all Europe-wide, thanks to The European Society for Philosophy of Religion’s biennial conventions. He has recently proposed a new approach to natural theology (Towards a New Natural Theology: Between Reformed Epistemology and Wittgensteinian Thomism, in S.T. Kołodziejczyk, J. Salamon (eds.), Knowledge, Action, Pluralism, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2013, pp. 113-134); for this reason, he was also called upon to study the Mediaeval sources of analytic philosophy of religion.
is a student of ancient and medieval philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Editor of The Clarion Review and Classics Editor at Politics & Poetics, past studies have taken him to the University of Virginia (USA), the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany), and the Institut catholique de Paris (France). More recently he has taught Platonic dialogues for the Department of Legal Philosophy at the University of Leiden Law School (The Netherlands). His translations include Rémi Brague’s Les ancres dans le ciel (forthcoming, St. Augustine’s Press).
is an adjunct member of the Theology Faculty at St. John’s University, where he teaches for their Rome campus. He is also director of the St. Albert the Great Center for Scholastic Studies, which for five years has hosted an annual summer theology program in Norcia, Italy. Christopher is enrolled at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (“the Angelicum”), where he will soon complete his Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.) with a concentration in Thomistic Studies. His thesis investigates the question of predestination in the early Thomist school. During the 2015/2016 academic year, Christopher had the opportunity to take a postgraduate diploma in Medieval Studies offered through the International Federation for Medieval Studies (FIDEM). Christopher completed his Masters in Sacred Theology (S.T.M., Mag. Theol.) at the International Theological Institute in Trumau, Austria, where his thesis was on the question of the liturgy as a theological source in the Church Fathers and St. Thomas Aquinas. Originally from North Carolina, Christopher has previously worked at the Maryvale Higher Institute for Religious Sciences in Birmingham, England and also in various capacities of pastoral ministry. Christopher’s research interests in both philosophy and theology are focused around the conjunction of metaphysics and religion as found principally in the Thomistic tradition, as well as more generally in the medieval dialectic of the University of Paris. He has a critical edition of several previously unpublished articles by Henry of Ghent on the subject of Human Freedom forthcoming.
graduated at State University of Milan, focuses her research on medieval philosophy and phenomenology. After spending one year in Cologne she moved to Erfurt, where she is currently completing her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Max Weber Center for cultural studies with a thesis on Scheler’s phenomenology of religion. Her interests are in phenomenology, philosophy of religion, as well as ontology and ethics. Among her publications there is the translation and editing of “Max Scheler, sfera Assoluta e posizione reale dell’idea di Dio – La morte nel contesto di vita morale” (Milan, 2015), and the essays “Der Wahrheitsbegriff bei Husserl und Edith Stein” (in print, Herder) and “The Concept of Life in Ludwig Binswanger’s Phenomenological Psychopathology” (in print, Springer).
he is Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the University of Salerno with a thesis on Max Scheler. His field of research are theoretical philosophy, moral philosophy, early phenomenology and philosophy of religion, with particular attention to the thought of Edmund Husserl, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Edith Stein, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Immanuel Kant, Rudolf Otto, Jean-Luc Marion and Peter Sloterdijk. He is also focusing on philosophical theology (especially around the philosophical and theological contribution of Austin Farrer right now), personalistic ethics and theism, philosophy of emotions and ontology of relation, with an emphasis on the notions of person, sacrifice, care, sympathy, love and evil. Ruggiero is a member of the Editorial Board of «Giornale di Filosofia della Religione» since 2015 and of Max-Scheler-Gesellschaft. He collaborates with the FormaMentis research center, based at the University of Verona, directed by Professor Guido Cusinato, which aims are the study of phenomenology of care relationships, formation process (Paideia, Bildung and Um-Bildung) through different disciplines and cultures, and philosophy conceived as transformative exercise of the person. He participated to the XXI Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion (ESPR), Uppsala University, August 2016, with the talk “Involved God. Thinking of Evil beyond the Idea of Fall?”.
is adjunct professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Calabria (Italy), professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the Theological seminar of Agrigento and Visiting Professor at the Instituto de Investigations Filológicas – Seminario de Hermenéutica of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; he also collaborates with Campostrini Foundation in Verona. He spent periods study at the University of Madrid (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, CSIC), Ciudad de México (UAM, ITESM), Puebla (BUAP – México) and Morelia (UMSNH – México). He is member of many international projects and editorial boards. His studies focus on philosophical anthropology and philosophy of religion both read from a phenomenological point of view. His most important publications are Tra metafisica e storia. L’idea dell’uomo in Eduardo Nicol (Firenze, 2010), Simbolo e corpo. A partire da Eduardo Nicol(Napoli, 2013). At this time, his interest have turned to the study of Philosophical Christology and Political Theology.
is currently completing a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata with a thesis on Louis Lavelle. Her studies focus on philosophical anthropology and her interests are in metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of religion; she studied in particular María Zambrano and Romano Guardini (“Sul limite della vita. La filosofia polare di Romano Guardini” [On the limit of life. The polar philosophy of Romano Guardini], «Dialegesthai», 2014). She published the essay “Un’etica della ‘visione’. Romano Guardini e l’unità oppositiva” [An ethic of ‘vision’. Romano Guardini and the oppositive unity] for Morcelliana Publisher and a study on the topic of Ecology for «La Società». She has spent a period of research at Collège de France and she will collaborate at the Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France, as responsible of the Équipe de recherché “Métaphysique: histoire, concepts et actuality”.
is currently post-doctoral fellow in History of Philosophy at the University of Genoa, where she collaborates with the chair of History of Philosophy, General Pedagogy, Psychopedagogy. She conducted her doctoral research under the supervision of professor Luciano Malusa. She obtained a PhD in Philosophy in this university (2012) defending a Ph.D. thesis on “Humanism and humanisms in the historiography of Eugenio Garin”. During her Ph.D., she studied archival material stored in the Library and Archives Center of the SNS of Pisa, in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library – Duke University of Durham (North Carolina – USA) and in the Archival Collections – Rare Book & Manuscript Library – Columbia University of New York (USA). She has been enrolled in more PRIN (Italian Project of National Interest) with University of Genoa and in two Research Projects co-financed by the Foundation CARITRO. Since 2010 she is member of the Scientific Committee for the National and Critical edition of Antonio Rosmini’s letters. Since 2012 she participates as a scholarship holder at the Rosminian Symposium organized by the International Center of Rosminian Studies; since 2014 she participates at the Philosophical Cenacles organized by the Rosmini Institute – Philosophical Research Center. She also organized and organizes International and National Conferences, Seminars. She is member of Italian Philosophical Society (SFI), Board of Directors of Ligurian Philosophical Association, of Aretai – Center on Virtues at the University of Genoa. She has high knowledge of Latin. She speaks Italian (mother tongue), English, Spanish. For the complete list of publications see here.
holds a PhD in Political Philosophy (2007) at University of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa (SSSA), where he covered different research positions from 2009 to 2016. He is a member of Lab Migrant Studies at the University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). From 2012 to 2014, he was a member and co-leader of the EU-funded project RoboLaw (Regulating Emerging Robotic Technologies in Europe), Robot-Era and responsible for the scientific activities of several Research Projects of National Interest (PRIN) funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Universities (MIUR). He is currently involved in the EU-projects PERSONA, ASSISTANCE, and PERSIST. He was a member of the International Research Laboratory on Conflict, Development and Global Politics at SSSA. He has published over 40 papers in international journals, books, and conferences, and has peer-reviewed for many highly ranked journals. He spent research periods at the Institut für Sozialforschung of the J.W. Goethe-University in Frankfurt, and he was visiting scholar at the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago (2006). His fields of specialization are modern and contemporary political philosophy, Hegel, Frankfurt School, social justice, shame, human enhancement, robotics and disabilities, ethics and emerging technologies.
studied philosophy at the University of Genoa (Italy) and at the University of Tübingen (Germany). She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at the University of Genoa with a thesis on Jürgen Habermas interpreter of Kant’s philosophy of religion and a Master’s degree in Philosophical Methodologies with a work on Kant’s ethical-religious community and cosmopolitan community. Since 2019 she is PhD student at the FINO – Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium (Theoretical Curriculum, at the University of Turin, Italy) with a project focused on the Kantian community of taste as a basis for an intercultural community. Current research interests include theoretical philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, German philosophy with a particular focus on Immanuel Kant, philosophy for community and intercultural dialogue.
Joseph M. Forte is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rivier University (U.S.A). Other institutions at which he has taught include Merrimack College, Boston College, Bridgewater State University, and The Catholic University of America. He earned his Ph.D at The Catholic University of America School of Philosophy (2016), his MA at Boston College, and his BA at The College of the Holy Cross. He also spent a year studying at Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland). His most recent publication is an introductory ethics textbook titled Moral Issues and Movies: An Introduction to Ethical Theories and Issues through the Lens of Film (2021). He has also published journal articles on Plato's ethics and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). He is originally from New York City (the Bronx) and currently resides in Maine (U.S.A).
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Elisa Grimi is Executive Director of the European Society for Moral Philosophy, Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Philosophical News and Project Manager of philojotter.com. On 30th May, 2014 she received the Paolo Michele Erede Foundation First Prize with a work on ‘Politics and Network’. She has studied and worked at various universities throughout the world, in countries including Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, England, France and the United States. She is author of numerous publications, including her first Italian monograph G.E.M. Anscombe: The Dragon Lady (2014) with direct testimonies, co-author with Rémi Brague of Contro il cristianismo e l’umanismo. Il perdono dell’Occidente (Cantagalli 2015), editor of the collection Tradition as the Future for Innovation (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) and of the Dossier La philosophie de l’humilité (Recherches Philosophiques, ICT, 2017).
José Barrientos-Rastrojo is Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) at the University of Seville, Spain. He has researched on Philosophical Practice, Life-Experience, Hermeneutics and Wisdom at Harvard University, University of Cambridge, Princeton University, The University of Tokyo, The University of Sao Paulo or Autonomous National University of Mexico among others. He is the Principal Investigator of several projects such as “Can wisdom be learned in different context?” (funded by the University of Chicago). He has organized several international events such as the International Conference on Philosophical Practice and he has written more than 200 books and articles. Barrientos-Rastrojo has been awarded with two Honorary Doctorates and National Awards on Philosophy in México, Portugal and Italy. Currently, he is the Editor of the International Journal on Philosophical Practice HASER and Associate Editor of the journal Argumentos de Razón Técnica.
Enrico Berti is emeritus professor of the University of Padua and Doctor honoris causa of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens. He has been professor of philosophy in the universities of Perugia, Padua, Geneva, Bruxelles and Lugano. He is member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome), of the International Academy for Philosophy (Yerevan, Armenia) and of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Vatican City), and honorary president of the International Institute of Philosophy (Paris). His scientific interests are directed to ancient and contemporary philosophy, especially Aristotle’s thought and its survival today, so in logic as in metaphysics, anthropology, ethics and politics. He is author of many publications (books and articles), some of which have been translated in English, French, German, Greek, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese.
Maria Tilde Bettetini is Associate Professor in History of Philosophy at the International University of Languages and Media IULM, Milan Italy. Here she teaches Aesthetics and History of Philosophy. She taught History of Medieval Philosophy at the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy. She directs the ancient series Il Pensiero Occidentale of Bompiani publishing house. She contributes to the culture section of Sole24Ore, a national newspaper. She focused on ancient and medieval roots of contemporary thought. Among her recent publications: Breve storia della bugia (Milan 2001, several times re-edited and translated into 7 languages), Figure di verità. La finzione nel Medioevo occidentale (Turin 2004), Contro le immagini: alle radici dell’iconoclastia (Bari-Rome 2006), Introduzione a Agostino (Bari-Rome 2008), Quattro modi dell’amore (Bari-Rome 2012), Distruggere il passato. L’iconoclastia dall’Islam all’Isis (Milan 2016).
Rémi Brague is a French historian of philosophy, specializing in the Arabic, Jewish, and Christian thought of the Middle Ages. He is professor emeritus of Arabic and religious philosophy at the Paris-Sorbonne University, France, and Romano Guardini chair of philosophy (emeritus) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
Carla Canullo is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Intercultural Hermeneutics at the University of Macerata, Italy. She completed her PhD in Philosophy and Human Sciences at the University of Perugia. Her thesis was concerned with the influence of Maine de Biran on subsequent French Philosophy, especially that of Louis Lavelle and René le Senne. Prior to her PhD, she completed advanced research on Jean Nabert and his concept of evil, for which she also translated Nabert’s Essai sur le mal. Since 2000, she has worked in contemporary French hermeneutics and phenomenology, on and with Michel Henry, Paul Ricoeur, Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Louis Chrétien, and Claude Romano. In addition to her continued research in phenomenology and hermeneutics. She has just completed a work Il chiasmo della traduzione: Metafora e verità on translation as a method for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue. Her major publications include: Coscienza, corpo libertà. Itinerario tra Maine de Biran, Lavelle [Consciousness, Body, Freedom: Pathways Between Maine de Biran], Le Senne, Napoli 2001; La fenomenologia rovesciata. Percorsi tentati in Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Jean-Louis Chrétien [Phenomenology Overturned: On Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Jean-Louis Chrétien], Torino 2004; L’estasi della speranza. Ai margini del pensiero di Jean Nabert [Ecstatic Hope: On Jean Nabert], Assisi 2005; Il chiasmo della traduzione. Metafora e verità [The Chiasm of Translation. Metaphor and Truth], Milano 2017.
Juan R. Coca (Ourense, Galiza - Spain) Professor and member of Department of Sociology and Social Work at Universidad de Valladolid. Director of journal: Sociología y Tecnociencia and co-director of journal: Cómaros. Your research lines are centered in epistemology, social theory, social imaginaries and socio-hermeneutics of the Technoscientific Social System. He has published over 100 papers and many books chapters. H-index: 8.
orcid.org - RESEARCHER-ID: D-5387-2016 www.redalyc.orgJohn Joseph Haldane is a Scottish philosopher, commentator and broadcaster. He is a papal adviser to the Vatican. He is credited with coining the term Analytical Thomism and is himself a Thomist in the analytic tradition. Haldane is associated with The Veritas Forum and is the current chairman of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
Vasso Kindi is a Professor of Philosophy at the Department of History and Philosophy of science of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She has published on philosophy of science, T. S. Kuhn’s work, Wittgenstein’s philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of history and ethics.
Martyna Koszkało, PhD - Assistant Professor, Chair of History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism, University of Gdańsk, Poland. She received her MA (1994) and PhD (2002) in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Lublin. Her PhD thesis was on the question of individuation according to John Duns Scotus. Her first monograph, published in Polish, was: Individual and individuation. The analysis of John Duns Scotus’ texts, TN KUL [publ.], Lublin 2003. From 2006 to 2016 she was a vice-director of the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism of the University of Gdańsk, Poland. She conducted independent scholarly research at the Catholic University of America (from August to October 2015). Now she is finishing the project obtained by competition in National Centre of Science (Poland): The Nature of Will. Freedom and Necessity. The Analysis of John Duns Scotus' theory in comparison to St. Augustine, St. Anselm of Canterbury and St. Thomas Aquinas. Areas of Specialization: Medieval Christian Thought, History of Ancient and Medieval Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, John Duns Scotus, Theories of Individuation. Publications: papers in Polish and English (Scholastic Sources of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Treatise Disputatio Metaphysica De Principio Individui, „Roczniki Filozoficzne” 65 (2017/2), 23-55. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rf.2017.65.2-2; Free Will, Grace and God: The Problem of Predestination of Human Beings according to John Duns Scotus, Athens: ATINER'S Conference Paper Series, No: PHI2017-2363. https://www.atiner.gr/papers/PHI2017-2363.pdf), translation from Latin to Polish (John Duns Scotus).
Claudio La Rocca is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy and Philosophy of Mind in the Department of Education (DISFOR) at the University of Genoa, Italy. His research interests focus on Italian philosophy of the XX century, phenomenology, hermeneutics, philosophy of mind, and in particular on the philosophy of Kant, on which he has published several volumes and numerous essays in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German. From 2006 to May 2016 he was president of the Società Italiana di Studi Kantiani (Italian society of Kantian Studies). He is currently vice-president of the Italian Society of Theoretical Philosophy and member of the Executive Committee of the Consulta Nazionale di Filosofia. He is editor-in-chief of the journal «Studi kantiani».
Danielle Lories is Full Professor in Philosophy and Director of the Centre d'études phénoménologiques at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She teaches History of Philosophy, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. Among her publications: Philosophie analytique et esthétique (Klincksieck, Paris 2004, 3e éd.), Shaftesbury, Soliloque (L’Herne, Paris 1994), Mimèsis. Approches actuelles (la Lettre volée, Bruxelles 2007), L’art en valeurs (L’Harmattan, Paris 2011), Le sens commun et le jugement du phronimos. Aristote et les stoïciens, Louvain, Peeters (Aristote. Traductions et études, 1998), Le jugement pratique. Autour de la notion de phronèsis, (co-edited with L. Rizzerio, Vrin, Paris 2008) Le phénomène de la vie de Hans Jonas (De Boeck, Bruxelles 2001), Essais philosophiques (ed. by O. Depré, Vrin, Paris 2013), Vie et liberté. Phénoménologie, nature et éthique chez Hans Jonas (co-autor with O. Depré, Vrin, Paris 2003).
Dariusz Łukasiewicz is professor at Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland. Director of the Institute of Philosophy. Chairman of the Department of Logic and Ontology. Member of the Committee of Philosophical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. President of the Central European Society for Philosophy of Religion. The author of over 100 scientific publications including 15 authored or edited books. Current research: Polish Brentanism and philosophy of religion.
Margarita Mauri Alvarez is Professor of Ethics at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Barcelona, Spain. Degree in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona in 1980. Extraordinary Degree Award. Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona in 1986. She is the principal investigator of the International Group of Stágeira. Aristotelian Studies of Practical Philosophy. He conducts two permanent research Seminars: the Aristotle Seminar and the Iris Murdoch Seminar.
Michele Marsonet received his degrees from the University of Genoa, Italy, and the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He currently is Full Professor of Philosophy of Science and Methodology of Human Sciences, and Dean of the School of Humanities, University of Genoa. He has been Visiting Professor in several universities around the world, and is Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written many books in Italian and English, among which: Science, Reality, and Language (Stete University of New York Press 1995), The Primacy of Practical Reason (University Press of America 1996), The Problem of Realism (Ashgate 2002), Logic and Metaphysics (Name 2004), Idealism and Praxis (Ontos Verlag 2008), Science, Realism and Conceptual Schemes (Lambert 2016).
Letterio Mauro is full professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Genoa, Italy. Head of the Post-graduate Degree in Philosophical Methodologies (2010-2013), deputy headmaster of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy (2011-2013), vice director of the Department of Philosophy (2000-2011; 2015-), Mauro teaches history of philosophy and tutors students in their dissertations, post-graduate and PhD thesis on the whole history of philosophy. Mauro has also organized seminars and lectures for the PhD in Philosophy, which have resulted in his recent publications L’uomo (in)formato. Percorsi nella paideia ieri e oggi (Milano 2011) and L’idea di Università tra passato e futuro (Genova, 2011). Mauro was part of PRIN, PhD and University Committees and coordinated projects sponsored by the University of Genoa (2006, 2008, 2012, 2014). He is currently leading the PRIN 2012 research unit based at the University of Genoa; he is also a founding member of “Aretai – International Center on Virtues”, that is based at the University of Genoa and is associated to several international institutions, such as the “Virtues across continents program” promoted by the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing (ISHF) at University of Oklahoma, the Jubilee Center for Character and Virtues at University of Birmingham and the Virtue, Happiness & the Meaning of Life Project at University of Chicago. Mauro is also member of “Accademia Ligure di Scienze e Lettere”.
Cyrille Michon is Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Nantes, France. He has been director of the Centre Atlantique de Philosophie (CAPHI - EA 2163). He focused on history of medieval philosophy and then on analytic tradition contemporary philosophy, with particular attention to philosophy of action, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion.
Javier San Martín. Untill 2016 Full Professor of Philosophy at UNED, (Open University of Spain), now Emeritus Professor. Founder and currently Honorary President of the Spanish Society of Phenomenology (SEFE). Research interests: phenomenology, philosophy of culture, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of Ortega y Gasset. Selection of publications: La estructura del método fenomenológico; La fenomenología de Husserl como utopía de la razón; Fenomenología y cultura en Ortega; Teoría de la cultura; Para una filosofía de Europa: ensayos de fenomenología de la historia; Antropología filosófica I and Antropología filosófica II; La nueva imagen de Husserl, lecciones de Guanajuato. As editor, Ortega y Gassets Schriften zur Phänomenologie, and Phänomenologie in Spanien. More in: http://www2.uned.es/dpto_fim/profesores/JSM/JSMperfil.htm
Robert Spaemann is a German Roman Catholic philosopher. He is considered as a member of the Ritter-School. Spaemann's focus is on Christian ethics. He is known for his work in bioethics, ecology, and human rights. Although not yet widely translated into languages other than his native German, Spaemann is internationally known and his work is highly regarded by Pope Benedict XVI.
Ricardo Tejada currently works at the Department of Spanish, Université du Maine, France. He conducts research in Social and Political Philosophy, Metaphysics and Aesthetics. His current project is “History of Spain essays”.
René Torkler, born in 1977, is professor of the didactics of ethics at Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. He studied philosophy, history, Dutch philology, German as a foreign language, and educational science. His work focuses in particular on the didactics of philosophy and ethics, hermeneutics, philosophy of education and practical philosophy with a special interest in the works of Hannah Arendt.
Manuel E. Vázquez. Professor of Philosophy, University of Valencia (Spain). Ex-Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and CC.EE. His field of research is contemporary philosophy, particularly hermeneutics and deconstruction. His publications deal with the problem of nihilism, the difference between man and animal, the relationship between philosophy and literature, as well as the current dilemmas of politics.
John Henry Crosby is an American translator, writer, and cultural entrepreneur. He is founder and president of the Hildebrand Project, which promotes Dietrich von Hildebrand’s thought and witness through publications, events, and digital media.
John O'Callaghan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Notre Dame University, Indiana, USA. President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (2012-2013), BS in Physics, St. Norbert College, 1984. MS in Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, 1986. PhD in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 1996. Director of the Jacques Maritain Center at the University of Notre Dame. Permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. Past President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. His areas of scholarly interest include Medieval Philosophy, the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and Thomistic Metaphysics and Ethics.
Professor Tracey Rowland holds the St John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia. She is the author of five books and holds two doctorates in theology along with degrees in law and political philosophy. She is a member of the International Theological Commission.
Danielle Lories is Full Professor in Philosophy and Director of the Centre d'études phénoménologiques at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She teaches History of Philosophy, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. Among her publications: Philosophie analytique et esthétique (Klincksieck, Paris 2004 (3e éd.)), Shaftesbury, Soliloque (L’Herne, Paris 1994), Mimèsis. Approches actuelles (la Lettre volée, Bruxelles 2007), L’art en valeurs (L’Harmattan, Paris 2011), Le sens commun et le jugement du phronimos. Aristote et les stoïciens, Louvain, Peeters (Aristote. Traductions et études, 1998), Le jugement pratique. Autour de la notion de phronèsis, (co-edited with L. Rizzerio, Vrin, Paris 2008) Le phénomène de la vie de Hans Jonas (De Boeck, Bruxelles 2001), Essais philosophiques (ed. by O. Depré, Vrin, Paris 2013), Vie et liberté. Phénoménologie, nature et éthique chez Hans Jonas (co-autor with O. Depré, Vrin, Paris 2003).
Peter Schaber Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He has written about various issues in applied ethics. He is the author of a book on Human Dignity. He is co-editor of the the forthcoming Handbook of The Ethics of Consent. He is also co-editor of Moral Philosophy and Policy and he is currently working on a theory of consent.
Philipp Schwind is a postdoc at the Center for Ethics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Has has studied in Munich, St. Andrews and holds a PhD from the University of Miami, USA. Normative ethics and political philosophy are his main areas of research. His current project is on moral luck. He has published on moral epistemology and the philosophy of friendship. Currently, he is working on a collection of the most important papers in moral philosophy in the 20th century, a translation of Ross' The Right and the Good into German, the philosophy of boycotts and the epistemology of moral intuitionism.
Joshua Stuchlik is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. His main areas of interest include ethics, action theory, and epistemology. His work has appeared in Philosophical Studies, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, The Journal of Value Inquiry, Synthese, and The Journal of the History of Philosophy.
Achille C. Varzi is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York (USA). A graduate of the University of Trento (Italy), he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto (Canada). His main research interests are in logic, metaphysics and philosophy of language. He is an editor of The Journal of Philosophy, a subject editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and an associate or advisory editor of The Monist, Synthese, Dialectica, The Review of Symbolic Logic, and other journals. He also writes for the general public and contributes regularly to some Italian newspapers, and is currently teaching for the Prison Education Program sponsored by Columbia University’s Justice-in-Education Initiative.
studied Philosophy at the University of Ferrara (Italy) and at the University of Marburg (Germany). She received her M.A. (October 2001) and Ph.D. (April 2009) in Philosophy from the University of Ferrara (Italy). Since April 2010, she has a teaching and research position at the Philosophy Department at the University of Konstanz (Germany). In May 2015 she was awarded a two-year fellowship from the Brigitte-Schlieben-Lange-Programm für Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen mit Kind to carry out a research project on animal ethics. Since the 2015/2016 academic year she also teaches Moral Philosophy at the University of Ferrara (as “professoressa a contratto”). Her areas of expertise are: Philosophy of Enlightenment, especially Kant and his Practical Philosophy; Marxist Philosophy, especially György Lukács; Normative Ethics and Applied Ethics, especially Bioethics and Animal Ethics; Metaethics.
is a Contract Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law at the University of Verona and Post-doc Researcher in Business Law at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan and. After his graduation in Law at the Catholic University of Milan, in 2012 he was admitted to the bar of Milan and in 2015 he received his PhD in Law and Economics from Luiss University of Rome. As a PhD candidate, he was Visiting Researcher at Columbia University of New York (2013) and Scholarship Holder at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (2014). In addition to slightly technical topics in the field of business law, his research interests embrace Legal Theory, Law and Economics, and Moral Philosophy. Besides his publications in Italian and European law journals, for instance he is author of an inspiring interview with United States Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi (Yale Professor Emeritus of Law) concerning the role of philosophy for judges – published in Philosophical News(No. 6, 2013).
is professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the Theological Faculty of Florence, and research coordinator at the Fondazione Centro Studi Campostrini of Verona; he is member of the Council Board of Italian Association of Philosophy of Religion – AIFR (www.aifr.it), which is associated with the European Society for Philosophy of Religion; he is also member of the Editorial Board of the Editor Project for Academia (academia.edu). He studied the French personalism of the XXth Century, in particular the thought of Denis de Rougemont, on which he has published the first monograph in Italian (La Persona e l’Occidente, Milan, 2014). In the last two years, he switched his interest to the links between philosophy, ecology and religion: on this topic he recently published a book entitled Fine del mondo o fine dell’uomo? Saggio su ecologia e religione (Verona, 2015). In the theological context, he is concerned himself with the concept of “person” in Christology and Trinitarian theology. He translated two books of Slavoj Žižek in italian, The Monstrosity of Christ and Paul’s New Moment (La mostrouisità di Cristo and Paolo Reloaded. Sul futuro del cristianesimo, Massa, 2010 and 2012).
has obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Theology at the Facoltà di Teologia dell’Italia Settentrionale (2002) and a PhD in Philosophy at Università degli Studi di Genova (2008). Currently, he does research work in History of Philosophy at Università degli Studi di Genova where he teach Tendencies of Contemporary Thought. He has authored three essays and about fifty papers published in journals or in collections of essays that concern contemporary thinking. He especially researches in epistemology, particularly addressing the problem of intentionality (Wittgenstein, Tommaso e la cura dell’intenzionalità, MEF, Firenze 2009; From Justification to Warrant, towards Virtue Epistemology, «Epistemologia», 34 (2011), pp. 5-28) as well as analytic philosophy of religion, conducting inquiries into its epistemological aspects (Una nuova teologia naturale. La proposta degli epistemologi riformati e dei tomisti wittgensteiniani, Carocci, Roma 2011). He has investigated the public role of religion (M. Damonte, Confrontation Between Civilization, Religions and Professions of Faith, «Études Maritainiennes / Maritain Studies», 25 (2009), pp. 46-57) and the philosophy of prayer (Homo organs. Antropologia della preghiera, Fondazione Centro Studi Campostrini, Verona 2014). The results of his research have been discussed at various international conventions, above all Europe-wide, thanks to The European Society for Philosophy of Religion’s biennial conventions. He has recently proposed a new approach to natural theology (Towards a New Natural Theology: Between Reformed Epistemology and Wittgensteinian Thomism, in S.T. Kołodziejczyk, J. Salamon (eds.), Knowledge, Action, Pluralism, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2013, pp. 113-134); for this reason, he was also called upon to study the Mediaeval sources of analytic philosophy of religion.
is a student of ancient and medieval philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Editor of The Clarion Review and Classics Editor at Politics & Poetics, past studies have taken him to the University of Virginia (USA), the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany), and the Institut catholique de Paris (France). More recently he has taught Platonic dialogues for the Department of Legal Philosophy at the University of Leiden Law School (The Netherlands). His translations include Rémi Brague’s Les ancres dans le ciel (forthcoming, St. Augustine’s Press).
is an adjunct member of the Theology Faculty at St. John’s University, where he teaches for their Rome campus. He is also director of the St. Albert the Great Center for Scholastic Studies, which for five years has hosted an annual summer theology program in Norcia, Italy. Christopher is enrolled at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (“the Angelicum”), where he will soon complete his Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.) with a concentration in Thomistic Studies. His thesis investigates the question of predestination in the early Thomist school. During the 2015/2016 academic year, Christopher had the opportunity to take a postgraduate diploma in Medieval Studies offered through the International Federation for Medieval Studies (FIDEM). Christopher completed his Masters in Sacred Theology (S.T.M., Mag. Theol.) at the International Theological Institute in Trumau, Austria, where his thesis was on the question of the liturgy as a theological source in the Church Fathers and St. Thomas Aquinas. Originally from North Carolina, Christopher has previously worked at the Maryvale Higher Institute for Religious Sciences in Birmingham, England and also in various capacities of pastoral ministry. Christopher’s research interests in both philosophy and theology are focused around the conjunction of metaphysics and religion as found principally in the Thomistic tradition, as well as more generally in the medieval dialectic of the University of Paris. He has a critical edition of several previously unpublished articles by Henry of Ghent on the subject of Human Freedom forthcoming.
graduated at State University of Milan, focuses her research on medieval philosophy and phenomenology. After spending one year in Cologne she moved to Erfurt, where she is currently completing her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Max Weber Center for cultural studies with a thesis on Scheler’s phenomenology of religion. Her interests are in phenomenology, philosophy of religion, as well as ontology and ethics. Among her publications there is the translation and editing of “Max Scheler, sfera Assoluta e posizione reale dell’idea di Dio – La morte nel contesto di vita morale” (Milan, 2015), and the essays “Der Wahrheitsbegriff bei Husserl und Edith Stein” (in print, Herder) and “The Concept of Life in Ludwig Binswanger’s Phenomenological Psychopathology” (in print, Springer).
he is Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the University of Salerno with a thesis on Max Scheler. His field of research are theoretical philosophy, moral philosophy, early phenomenology and philosophy of religion, with particular attention to the thought of Edmund Husserl, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Edith Stein, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Immanuel Kant, Rudolf Otto, Jean-Luc Marion and Peter Sloterdijk. He is also focusing on philosophical theology (especially around the philosophical and theological contribution of Austin Farrer right now), personalistic ethics and theism, philosophy of emotions and ontology of relation, with an emphasis on the notions of person, sacrifice, care, sympathy, love and evil. Ruggiero is a member of the Editorial Board of «Giornale di Filosofia della Religione» since 2015 and of Max-Scheler-Gesellschaft. He collaborates with the FormaMentis research center, based at the University of Verona, directed by Professor Guido Cusinato, which aims are the study of phenomenology of care relationships, formation process (Paideia, Bildung and Um-Bildung) through different disciplines and cultures, and philosophy conceived as transformative exercise of the person. He participated to the XXI Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion (ESPR), Uppsala University, August 2016, with the talk “Involved God. Thinking of Evil beyond the Idea of Fall?”.
is adjunct professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Calabria (Italy), professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the Theological seminar of Agrigento and Visiting Professor at the Instituto de Investigations Filológicas – Seminario de Hermenéutica of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; he also collaborates with Campostrini Foundation in Verona. He spent periods study at the University of Madrid (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, CSIC), Ciudad de México (UAM, ITESM), Puebla (BUAP – México) and Morelia (UMSNH – México). He is member of many international projects and editorial boards. His studies focus on philosophical anthropology and philosophy of religion both read from a phenomenological point of view. His most important publications are Tra metafisica e storia. L’idea dell’uomo in Eduardo Nicol (Firenze, 2010), Simbolo e corpo. A partire da Eduardo Nicol(Napoli, 2013). At this time, his interest have turned to the study of Philosophical Christology and Political Theology.
is currently completing a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata with a thesis on Louis Lavelle. Her studies focus on philosophical anthropology and her interests are in metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of religion; she studied in particular María Zambrano and Romano Guardini (“Sul limite della vita. La filosofia polare di Romano Guardini” [On the limit of life. The polar philosophy of Romano Guardini], «Dialegesthai», 2014). She published the essay “Un’etica della ‘visione’. Romano Guardini e l’unità oppositiva” [An ethic of ‘vision’. Romano Guardini and the oppositive unity] for Morcelliana Publisher and a study on the topic of Ecology for «La Società». She has spent a period of research at Collège de France and she will collaborate at the Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France, as responsible of the Équipe de recherché “Métaphysique: histoire, concepts et actuality”.
is currently post-doctoral fellow in History of Philosophy at the University of Genoa, where she collaborates with the chair of History of Philosophy, General Pedagogy, Psychopedagogy. She conducted her doctoral research under the supervision of professor Luciano Malusa. She obtained a PhD in Philosophy in this university (2012) defending a Ph.D. thesis on “Humanism and humanisms in the historiography of Eugenio Garin”. During her Ph.D., she studied archival material stored in the Library and Archives Center of the SNS of Pisa, in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library – Duke University of Durham (North Carolina – USA) and in the Archival Collections – Rare Book & Manuscript Library – Columbia University of New York (USA). She has been enrolled in more PRIN (Italian Project of National Interest) with University of Genoa and in two Research Projects co-financed by the Foundation CARITRO. Since 2010 she is member of the Scientific Committee for the National and Critical edition of Antonio Rosmini’s letters. Since 2012 she participates as a scholarship holder at the Rosminian Symposium organized by the International Center of Rosminian Studies; since 2014 she participates at the Philosophical Cenacles organized by the Rosmini Institute – Philosophical Research Center. She also organized and organizes International and National Conferences, Seminars. She is member of Italian Philosophical Society (SFI), Board of Directors of Ligurian Philosophical Association, of Aretai – Center on Virtues at the University of Genoa. She has high knowledge of Latin. She speaks Italian (mother tongue), English, Spanish. For the complete list of publications see here.
holds a PhD in Political Philosophy (2007) at University of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa (SSSA), where he covered different research positions from 2009 to 2016. He is a member of Lab Migrant Studies at the University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). From 2012 to 2014, he was a member and co-leader of the EU-funded project RoboLaw (Regulating Emerging Robotic Technologies in Europe), Robot-Era and responsible for the scientific activities of several Research Projects of National Interest (PRIN) funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Universities (MIUR). He is currently involved in the EU-projects PERSONA, ASSISTANCE, and PERSIST. He was a member of the International Research Laboratory on Conflict, Development and Global Politics at SSSA. He has published over 40 papers in international journals, books, and conferences, and has peer-reviewed for many highly ranked journals. He spent research periods at the Institut für Sozialforschung of the J.W. Goethe-University in Frankfurt, and he was visiting scholar at the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago (2006). His fields of specialization are modern and contemporary political philosophy, Hegel, Frankfurt School, social justice, shame, human enhancement, robotics and disabilities, ethics and emerging technologies.
studied philosophy at the University of Genoa (Italy) and at the University of Tübingen (Germany). She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at the University of Genoa with a thesis on Jürgen Habermas interpreter of Kant’s philosophy of religion and a Master’s degree in Philosophical Methodologies with a work on Kant’s ethical-religious community and cosmopolitan community. Since 2019 she is PhD student at the FINO – Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium (Theoretical Curriculum, at the University of Turin, Italy) with a project focused on the Kantian community of taste as a basis for an intercultural community. Current research interests include theoretical philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, German philosophy with a particular focus on Immanuel Kant, philosophy for community and intercultural dialogue.
Joseph M. Forte is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rivier University (U.S.A). Other institutions at which he has taught include Merrimack College, Boston College, Bridgewater State University, and The Catholic University of America. He earned his Ph.D at The Catholic University of America School of Philosophy (2016), his MA at Boston College, and his BA at The College of the Holy Cross. He also spent a year studying at Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland). His most recent publication is an introductory ethics textbook titled Moral Issues and Movies: An Introduction to Ethical Theories and Issues through the Lens of Film (2021). He has also published journal articles on Plato's ethics and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). He is originally from New York City (the Bronx) and currently resides in Maine (U.S.A).
