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Personal information
Date of birth: February 7, 1956
Nationality: Italian
URL for website: https://labont.it/people/dcxv/
ID Scopus: 20433396200
ID Orcid: 0000-0002-3027-1691

Current position
2015– President of LabOnt (Laboratory for Ontology), University of Turin
1999– Full Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Turin

Awards and Honoris Causa

2022         “Miladin Životić” Annual Award for Critical Engagement, Beograd

2022         “Udine filosofia” Prize, Udine

2021         “Erca d’argento” Prize, Nizza Monferrato

2021         Doctor Honoris Causa in Philosophy, IIH (International Institute for Hermeneutics, Warsaw)

2018         “Altiero Spinelli” Prize for Outreach UE Commission

2018         “Elio Matassi” Philosophical Award, Frascati

2017         “Hermes Award: A Book of the Year in Lingually Oriented Phenomenological Hermeneutics”, for Postverità e altri enigmi (Bologna: il Mulino, 2017)

2017         Humboldt Forschung Award, University of München

2017         Doctor Honoris Causa in Philosophy, University of Pécs                         

2017         Doctor Honoris Causa in Philosophy, Universidad De Flores, Buenos Aires

2014         Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn University

2012         “Capalbio” Philosophical Award

2008         “Viaggio a Siracusa” Philosophical Award

2007         “Ringrose” Award, University of Berkeley

2006         “Castiglioncello” Philosophical Award

2005         “Valitutti” Award in Essay Writing

1990         “Claretta” Award for Franco-italian Cultural Interchange

 

Previous positions, education, and fellowships

2013-2014  Fellow Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kultur”, Bonn

2006          Fellow Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York

2004          Fellow Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, University of Leipzig

1999-2015  Director of LabOnt (Laboratory for Ontology), University of Turin

1998-2003  Directeur de programme, Collège International de Philosophie, Paris

1997-2001 Director, Department of Philosophy, University of Turin

1995-1998  Full Professor of Aesthetics, University of Turin

1994-1996  Fellow Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, University of Heidelberg

1988          Fellow “Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst” Grant, University of Heidelberg

1984           Diplôme d’études approfondies École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (under the supervision of J. Derrida)

1984-1995  Associate Professor in Aesthetics, University of Trieste

1982-1984  Professorship in Aesthetics, University of Macerata

1980-1984 Chief of Seminar, University of Turin

1979           Degree in Philosophy, University of Turin (cum laude, under the supervision of G.Vattimo)

 

Institutional responsibilities and memberships of scientific and other societies

2022–         Member of the Stay-Up project for social wellbeing, Harvard University

2021–         Member of the Editorial Board of “Digital Politics”

2019–         Director of Scienza Nuova, University of Turin and Politecnico of Turin

2018 –        Member of the Scientific Committee, Tiche, Tecnologie dei beni culturali (Naples)

2018–         Member of the Scientific Committee, Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo

2018-19      Member of the Scientific Committee of Scuola dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo (Rome)

2017–         Member of the Advisory Board of the International Yearbook for Hermeneutics (Mohr Siebeck, Heidelberg)

2017–         Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” (Bonn)

2017–        Member of the American Association for Aesthetics

2016–         Member of the Scientific Board of the journal Ardeth–Architectural Design Theory

2016–         Member of the Scientific Board of the book series “Analytic Aesthetics and Contemporary Art” (Bloomsbury Academic, London)

2016–         Member of the Scientific Board of the journal Brill Perspectives in Art and Law (Brill, Leiden-Boston)

2015–         President of LabOnt (Laboratory for Ontology), University of Turin

2015-19      Member of the Jury, Prix des Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco

2015–         Member of the editorial board for the series “New Perspectives in Ontology”, Edinburgh UP

2014–         Member of the doctoral school of Philosophy, Consorzio di dottorato in filosofia Nord Ovest

2014-17      Scientific director, Festival della laicità, Pescara

2014–         Member of the Scientific Board of the book series “Filosofie dell’economia” (Mimesis, Milan)

2014–         Member of Institut International de Philosophie, Paris

2014–         Director, International Chair for Philosophy Jacques Derrida, University of Turin

2014–         Member of Internationales Zentrum für Philosophie NRW, Bonn University

2013–         Member of Scientific Committee of Center for Advanced Studies, Rijeka

2013-18      Member of Collège d’études mondiales, Paris

2013–         Member of the Scientific Board of Animot: l’altra filosofia (Graphe, Perugia)

2012–         Director (with M. De Caro) of the book series “Nuovo Realismo” (Mimesis, Milan)

2012–         Member of the Scientific Board of the book series “Forme del possibile” (Mimesis, Milan)

2012-19      Member of the School for Advanced Studies, University of Turin

2012 –        Member of the Scientific Board of Pólemos. Journal of Law, Literature and Culture (NY, de Gruyter)

2012-17      Member of the Board of Directors of the SIFIT (Società Italiana di FilosofiaTeoretica)

2011-14      Director of the philosophy television programm “Zettel” (Rai Cultura)

2011–         Member of the Scientific Board of the book series “Percorsi di confine” (Mimesis, Milan)

2011–         Member of the Scientific Board of La Filosofia Futura (Mimesis, Milan)

2010–         Member of the Directory Board of Ars Interpretandi (Cedam, Padua)

2010–         Peer reviewer, Portuguese Research Foundation

2009–         Member of the Directory Board of Revue francophone d’esthétique

2009-12      Scientific director of the DVD series “Il Caffè filosofico”

2009–         Director, “Paolo Bozzi” prize for Ontology, University of Turin

2008–         Member of the Directory Board of Critique (Ed. de Minuit, Paris)

2008-14      Advisory Editor of Monist (Oxford University Press)

2005–         Member of Scientific Committee of Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (Naples)

2004–         Director of the book series “Ontologia” (Mimesis, Milan)

2001–         Member of Scientific Committee of Insitut Européen du Dessin (Meina/Paris)                     

1999-2016 Director of LabOnt, University of Turin

1999–         Member of SFI (Società Filosofica Italiana)

1998-2010 Member of SIFA (Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica)                 

1996-2016  Director, Rivista di estetica (indexed by SCOPUS and ISI)

1996-2010 Member of SIE (Società Italiana di Estetica)     

1981-2011 Member of the Directory Board of the journal AutAut (il Saggiatore, Milano)

1979-1987 Member of the Directory Board of the journal Alfabeta (Cooperativa Alfabeta, Milano)

     

Visiting professorships

2023 (February-July) Mercator Visiting Professorship for AI in the Human Context, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn

2018 (March-July) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

2018 (January-February) Collège d’études mondiales, Paris

2017 (April) Beijing Normal University

2017 (March) Indiana University, Bloomington

2017 (February) Collège d’études mondiales, Paris

2016 (October) Pécsi Tudományegyetem, Hungary

2016 (March) Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile

2016 (April) Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussets

2015 (Spring) De Sanctis Chair, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich

2015 (February) Collège d’études mondiales, Paris

2014 (November) Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

2014 (October) Universidad Anáhuac México

2014 (March) Université de Montréal

2013 (March) Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussets

2012 (March) Universidad Complutense, Madrid

2011 (February) Center for Contemporary Philosophy, Belgrade

2010 (September) Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de la Compañía de Jesús, Bogotá

2010 (February) École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

2009 (February) Institut Jean Nicod, Paris

2008 (March) École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

2007 (March) École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

2007 (February) University of California at Santa Barbara

2003 (September) Istituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

2002 (May) Indianapolis University, Athens

2001-2002 Institut Jean Nicod, Paris

2000 (Spring) Université de Montpellier

1999 (September) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City

1998-2003 Collège International de Philosophie, Paris

1990 (Spring) Colorado College, Colorado

1985 (Fall) Yale University, University of California, New York University, University of Colorado, Visiting Scholar

 

Research projects

2022- Partnership with CCB (Cassa Centrale Banca), Webfare (€ 100,000)

2021- PI, Documenting transgenerationality: the role of the notarial office and archival tools, Fondazione 1563 (€ 62,000)

2020-2021 PI, SN-DICAP (Scienza Nuova, DIgital CAPital), Fondazione CRT (€ 45,000), TEAM: Tiziana Andina, Elena Casetta, Davide Dal Sasso, Cecilia Pennacini, Michele Rosboch, Tiziano Toracca

2017-2018 PI, Documenta, Fondazione Italiana del Notariato (€ 90,000)

2016-2017 PI, I work therefore I am (European), (Erasmus + Programme – Jean Monnet “Policy

Debate with academic world”, € 40,000)

2013-2015 PI, DOC. Documentality Organizing Complexity (EU Accelerating Grant, Compagnia di San Paolo, € 86,701)

2013-2014 PI, Documental Art, Museo d’Artecontemporanea, Naples (€ 28,000)

2008-2012 PI, DOC. Documentality and Organization of Complexity (Italian Edu. Ministry, €161,000)

2006-2008 PI, Ontologies and Technologies for Citizenship (Italian Edu. Ministry, €90,000)

2004-2006 PI, Ontological Canon (Italian Edu. Ministry, €150,000)

2002-2004 PI, Property of Objects and Property of Ideas (Italian Edu. Ministry, € 86,000)

Major collaborations

2019 co-author, with John R. Searle, of Money, Social Ontology and Law (New York, Routledge)

2001  co-author, with Jacques Derrida, of A Taste for The Secret (Oxford, Blackwell)

1998 co-author, with Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Gianni Vattimo and others, of Religion (Stanford University Press 1998)

1987-1995  co-editor, with Gianni Vattimo, of Laterza Philosophical Yearbook

1980-1988 co-editor, with Umberto Eco and others, of Alfabeta (Monthly cultural journal, Milan)

 

Columnist

2022–                    Corriere della sera

2018–                    Neue Zürcher Zeitung

2009-2022              La Repubblica

1989-2009              Il Sole 24 Ore

1987-1989              Il Secolo XIX

1985–                    Il Manifesto

 

Tenured Phd students

Pietro Kobau. 1986, B.A. (Philosophy, Aesthetics), University of Trieste. Since 2006 Associate Professor (permanent position), University of Turin

Alessandro Arbo. 1987, B.A. (Philosophy, Aesthetics), University of Trieste. Since 2016 Full Professor

(permanent position), University of Strasbourg, France

Edoardo Fugali. 1993, B.A. (Theoretical Philosophy), University of Trieste. Since 2012, Associate Professor in Theoretical Philosophy (permanent position), University of Messina

Carola Barbero. 1999, B.A. (Theoretical Philosophy), University of Turin. Since 2021, Full Professor in Philosophy of Language (permanent position), University of Turin

Cristina Becchio. 2000, B.A. (Theoretical Philosophy), University of Turin. Since 2011, Full Professor (permanent position), Department of Psychology, University of Turin (2013 winner of ERC Junior Grant)

Giuliano Torrengo. 2001, B.A. (Theoretical Philosophy), University of Turin. Associate Professor, University of Milan

Alessandra Jacomuzzi. 2002, B.A. (Theoretical Philosophy), University of Turin. Since 2010 Research Assistant (permanent position), University of Venice

Enrico Terrone. 2014, PhD (Philosophy), University of Turin. Since 2022, Associate professor (permanent position), University of Genoa

 

Phd students (non-tenured)

Leonardo Cerliani. 2001-2002, B.A. (Theoretical Philosophy), University of Turin. Postdoc in Neuroscience in the lab of Professor Christian Keysers, joint appointment at the University Medical Center of Groningen (NL) and at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (Amsterdam, NL)

Alessandro Salice. 2002, B.A. (Theoretical Philosophy), University of Turin. Since 2011: Research Assistant and Lecturer at the University of Vienna and at Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen

Elena Casetta. 2003, B.A. (Theoretical Philosophy), University of Turin. Assistant Professor, University of Turin.

Luca Angelone. 2004, B.A. (Theoretical Philosophy), University of Turin. Junior Researcher, University of Fribourg (CH)

Lorenzo Baravalle. 2005, B.A. (Theoretical Philosophy), University of Turin. Since 2013, Assistant professor in Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Science at University of São Paulo

Emanuele Bottazzi. 2006, B.A. (Theoretical Philosophy), University of Turin. Since 2013, Assistant Professor, University of Trento

 

Organisation of scientific meetings

More than 200 conferences and seminars as President of LabOnt: http://labont.it/events and http://labont.it/archives

Among them FOIS-2004 International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, http://fois2004.di.unito.it/

 

Examples of leadership in scientific design

Scienza Nuova, the Italian Institute for Advanced Studies in Torino “Umberto Eco” is the research institute born from the cooperation between the University and the Politecnico di Torino (the memorandum of understanding signed by the two Rectors on 9 January 2019).

Link to the project page: https://labont.it/areas/scienza-nuova/