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He teaches Philosophical Anthropology at the University of  Rome Tor Vergata. He studied phenomenology (Fenomenologia. La filosofia come vocazione, Roma 1981) and contemporary Jewish thought, in particolar Rosenzweig, Levinas (Levinas. Soggettività e infinito, Roma 1985), Heschel and the dialogical thought (La soggettività dialogica, Roma 2002; La persona e i suoi volti, (Roma 20032). Baccarini, moreover, is the founder and the director of the on-line journal of philosophy Dialegesthai (http://mondodomani.org/dialegesthai).

Stefano Biancu is Privat-Docent in Ethics at the University of Geneva. He also teaches as adjunct professor at the Catholic University of Milan. He has received a doctorate in Philosophy and Humanities (2006) and in Theology (2010). He has published  La poesia e le cose. Su Leopardi (Mimesis, Milan 2006) and numerous essays in volumes and in international journals. He recently edited the volume Il Corpo (with G. Pugliesi, Cittadella, Assisi 2009), Autorità. Una questione aperta (with G. Tognon, Diabasis, Reggio Emilia 2010), Culpabilité et rétribution: essais de philosophie pénale (with A. Bondolfi e F. De Vecchi, Schwabe, Basel 2011).
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He is Emeritus Professor of Medieval and Arabic Philosophy at the University of Paris I. He teaches also at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität of Munich where he holds the chair Romano Guardini. He was visiting professor at the University of Boston, at the Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona) and at the University  San Raffaele (Milan). He is member of the Institut de France (Academy of moral and political sciences). He is author of the following volumes: La loi de Dieu. Histoire philosophique d’une alliance, Gallimard, Paris 2008; Au moyen du Moyen âge. Philosophies médiévales en chrétienté, judaïsme et islam, Flammarion, Paris 2008; Les Ancres dans le ciel ou l’infrastructure métaphysique, Seuil, Paris 2011. The following volumes have been translated into Italian: Il futuro dell’occidente. Nel modello romano la salvezza dell’Europa, Bompiani, Milano 2005; La saggezza del mondo. Storia dell’esperienza umana dell’universo, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2005; Il Dio dei cristiani, l’unico Dio?, Cortina, Milano, 2009.

He is Full Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Human Sciences at the University of  Macerata. He has been von Humboldt researcher at the universities of Würzburg (1988-1989, 2002, 2006), Marburg (2004) and Essen (2010), he is full member of  Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. His most relevant volumes are: Conoscenza e realtà in K.R. Popper (1982), Semantica, ontologia ed ermeneutica della conoscenza scientifica. Saggio su Thomas Kuhn (1986), Paul Ricoeur. Persona e ontologia (1988), Operazionismo ed ermeneutica. Saggio sullo statuto epistemologico della psicoanalisi (1989); Scienza e tecnica. Teoria ed esperienza nelle scienze della natura (1995), Esperimento ed esperimento mentale (2004), Thought Experiment in the Natural Sciences (2008).
 

He was born in Rosario (Argentina) in 1949. He is full professor of moral philosophy, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of interculturality at the University of Genoa, where he is also Dean of Philosophy and Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Philosophy. He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas; moreover he is a member of the scientific committee of the Center for General and Applied Ethics (Almo Collegio Borromeo), of the series of Moral Philosophy and the Yearbook of Ethics edited by the Publishing House Vita e Pensiero (Milano) and of the Journal of Philosophy, “Philosophical News”. He has given many lectures and seminars in Italy, at the Universities of Oxford, Notre Dame, Barcellona, Salamanca, Namur, Lugano, Buenos Aires and S. Fé. His main interests are: anthropology and nature, intersubjectivity and culture, norms and virtue in ethics and interculturality. He has written books and articles on Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Hobbes, Christian thought of the twentieth century, and contemporary Anglo-Saxon ethics. His recent books are: Chi è l’uomo? Un approccio integrale all’antropologia filosofica, Rubbettino 2007 and (with M. S. Vaccarezza) Gli altri in noi. Filosofia dell’interculturalità, Rubbettino 2009.

Gabriele De Anna is lecturer in political philosophy at the University of Udine. He studied philosophy at Padua (undergraduate and doctoral level) and St. Andrews, Scotland (Master and PhD). He was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Philosophy of Science (University of Pittsburgh), Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and professor of philosophy at the University of Bamberg, Germany. His interests are focused on metaphysics, on political philosophy, and on the relations between the two disciplines. He is the author of several books, such as Individuo e persona (Bompiani, Milano 2007, with G. Boniolo and U. Vincenti), and Causa, forma e rappresentazione (FrancoAngeli, Milano 2010). He has edited several collections of essays, including Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006).

Associate professor of moral philosophy at the University of Roma Tre; since 2000 he is also professor at Tufts University. He has been visiting scholar at MIT and Fulbright fellow at Harvard University for two years. He is vice-president of the Italian Society of Analytical Philosophy. He is member of a series of scientific committees of various international journals. He has given many lectures in Italy, France, Spain, German, Switzerland, United States. He is author of Dal punto di vista dell’interprete (Carocci 1998), Il libero arbitrio (Laterza 2004), Azione (Il Mulino 2008), he has edited a series of anthologies, as Naturalism in Question (with D. Macarthur Harvard University Press 2004/2008), Normativity and Nature (Columbia University Press 2009) and Philosophy in an Age of Science (Harvard University Press, being published). He is interested in Ethics, Philosophy of action, naturalism and free will.

Andrea Favaro teaches Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Canon Law of the Studium Generale Marcianum, Venice. He is a lawyer and director of the journal L’Ircocervo. Rivista elettronica italiana di metodologia giuridica, teoria generale del diritto e dottrina dello stato (www.filosofiadeldiritto.it – www.lircocervo.it). He is member of various scientific committees of foundations, institutes and journals. He has collaborated with the University of Padua, the University of Turin, the Pontifical Gregorian University, the University of the Holy Cross, the Grand Valley State University, l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne e la Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His research is focused on the fields of legal epistemology, the general theory of law and canon law with particular emphasis on theoretical and practical issues related to the crisis of sovereignty and democracy, and to the paradigms of rationality and autonomy.

He is Lecturer in History of Philosophy at the Faculty of Education (Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth, Milan). He also teaches at the Institute of applied Philosophy, Lugano and at the European University in Rome. His interests are focused on the relationship between epistemology and theology, Austrian and German thought between the nineteenth and the twentieth century, the relationship between logic and ontology in  phenomenology and in analytic philosophy, Bernard Bolzano’s thought. Among his most important volumes we remember Ragione e dogma. Hans Albert critico della teologia (Guida, Napoli 2003) e Il concetto della filosofia in Bernard Bolzano (Isu Università Cattolica, Milano 2006).
 

Lucio Giuliodori teaches Italian and History of Philosophy at Public Pedagogical University, Moscow. He graduated at the University of Perugia and received his PhD from the Pontifical University St. Anselm with a thesis entitled: Abitare il luogo del confine: Pavel Florenskij e il mondo invisibile. His interests, besides Florenskij’s aesthetics, concern the concepts of tradition and perennial philosophy in Elémire Zolla. He is a member of AIREZ (International Association for Research Elémire Zolla). He has published articles on philosophy, literary and poetic texts.

He is Full Professor and Director of the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville. He has given many seminars and lectures at the Alpe-Adria University, Klagenfurt, Austria and the Czech Academy of Social Sciences, Praga. He is author of The Power of Dialogue: Critical Hermeneutics after Gadamer and Foucault, (1999); Michel Foucault (2nd edition 2004), Kultura, kritika, dialog (Prague 2006), and the co-edited volume Empathy and Agency: The Problem of Understanding in the Human Sciences (2000).

He is Full Professor of History of Contemporary Philosophy and of Ontology and Metaphysics at the Catholic University of Milan. His interests are: Austrian and German thought between the nineteenth and the twentieth century (in particular Brentano, Meinong and the origins of Husserl’s phenomenology), Scheler’s personalism and its applications, the relationships between phenomenology and philosophy of existence, ontology in analytic philosophy. He is author of a various books and many articles on these topics.
 

He teaches Philosophy at the University of Cunnecticut. He is associate fellow of the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, and of Arché, the Philosophical Research Centre for philosophical studies at the University of St. Andrews. He was a past recipient of a Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Humanities (2009-2010). His interests are focused on epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language. He also studied history of philosophy and theory of value. He is author of many books, among them we remember Truth in Context (1998, 2001), True to Life (2004), and Truth as One and Many (2009).

Sante Maletta is lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Calabria. Among his main publications we remember Hannah Arendt e Martin Heidegger. L’esistenza in giudizio (2001), Biografia della ragione. Saggio sulla filosofia politica di MacIntyre (2008). He is member of the Italian Society of Political Philosophy and of the International Society for MacIntyrian Enquiry. He is member of the scientific-editorial direction of the journal «Magazzino di Filosofia» and he is secretary of the scientific board of the association “Prologos”. He cooperates with the Institute for the International Education of Students in Milan, with the network Storia e memoria and with the organization Foresta dei giusti nel mondo.

He is a researcher in Psychology at IULM, Milan. He graduated with degrees in Philosophy and in Electronic Engineering, and he obtained a doctorate in Robotics. His interests are focused on consciousness and the psychology of art. For over ten years he has been studying the problem of consciousness and the possibility of creating models of phenomenal experience. He has studied robotics, artificial intelligence, and the psychology of subjective experience. He has held a series of international conferences on natural and artificial consciousness and on the psychology of art. He is the author of Coscienza e Realtà (2001), Psicologia della Percezione Artistica (Milano 2006), Artificial Consciousness (Exeter 2007), L’esperienza. Perché i neuroni non spiegano tutto (Milano, 2008).

He studied at the Universities of Genoa (Italy) and Pittsburgh (U.S.A.). He is full professor of Introductory Philosophy and Theoretical Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Genoa University, where he also teaches Philosophy of Science and Methodology of Human Sciences. He is also Vice-chancellor of International Relations and Chair of the Department of Philosophy. He was visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh and visiting professor in many universities in the world. He has published many books in Italian and in English, such as: Science, Reality, and Language (State University of New York Press 1995), The Primacy of Practical Reason (University Press of America 1996), The Problem of RealismIdealism and Praxis (Ontos Verlag 2008).

Letterio Mauro is Full Professor of History of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Genoa. His interests are focused on various medieval thinkers (in particular Bonaventure and Aquinas) and contemporary ones (Rosmini, Gioberti, Stein, Weischedel), in particular in relation to the topic of reason and faith, and the relationship between music and philosophy from the late middle ages to the modern age.
 
 

John Milbank is Professor of Religion, Politics and Ethics at the University of Nottingham, where he directs the Centre of Theology and Philosophy. Co-founder of the movement Radical Orthodoxy, he is the author of numerous books including Theology and Social Theory (1990, 2006), The Word Made Strange (1997), Truth in Aquinas (2001, written with C. Pickstock), Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon (2003), The Suspended Middle (2005), The Future of Love (2009), The Monstrosity of Christ (2009, written with S. Žižek). He is currently developing a research on the topic of gift.

Martha Nussbaum was born in New York in 1947. She graduated at the University of New York City, she took a Ph.D. at Harvard under G. E. L. Owen, an expert in the study of ancient philosophy and especially in Aristotle’s thought. She taught at Harvard and later at Brown, where she has received the title of University Professor. She currently holds a Chair of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago as Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor, teaching in the Department of Philosophy, at the Law School and at the Divinity School. She has received honorary degrees from many universities in the U.S., in Europe and in Asia, including the Ecole Normale Superieure, the Emory University and Georgetown. She collaborated with the Nobel Prize economist Amartya Sen, on topics such as development and ethics. The outcomes of these studies have been published in The Quality of Life (Oxford University Press, 1993): this interest has culminated in the foundation of the Human Development and Capability Association in 2003. Among her many books, we remember La fragilità del bene. Fortuna ed etica nella tragedia e nella filosofia greca (Il Mulino, Bologna 2004), L’intelligenza delle emozioni (Il Mulino, Bologna 2004), Nascondere l’umanità. Il disgusto, la vergogna, la legge (Carrocci, Roma 2005), Coltivare l’umanità (Carrocci, Roma 2006), and her last publication Non per profitto: in difesa dell’umanesimo (Il Mulino, Bologna 2011).

Riccardo Pozzo, born in 1959, graduated at the University of Milan (1983). He obtained a doctorate at the Universität des Saarlandes (1988), the professorship at the Universität Trier (1995) and he was confirmed at the Catholic University of America (2000). In 2003 he was called to the chair of History of Philosophy, University of Verona and in 2009 he became Director of the Institute for European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas at CNR. He has written monographic studies on Renaissance (Schwabe, 2011), Enlightenment (Frommann-Holzboog, 2000), Kant (Lang, 1989), Hegel (La Nuova Italia, 1989) and articles published on «Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte», «American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly», «Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte», «Giornale critico della filosofia italiana», «Hegel-Jahrbuch», «History of Science», «History of Universities», «Intersezioni», «Jahrbuch für Universitätsgeschichte», «Journal of the History of Philosophy», «Kant-Studien», «Medioevo», «Philosophia», «Quaestio», «Review of Metaphysics», «Rivista di storia della filosofia», «Studi Kantiani» and «Topoi».

He is Full Professor of Philosophy of Language at the Faculty of Arts (University of Parma). His interests are focused on analytic philosophy and in particular on philosophy of language, semantic of belief inscription, the reference and the theory of truth, moral philosophy. Some of his articles have been published on The Journal of Philosophy, Nous, Synthese, Dialectica. He is founding member of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP) and of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA).

Roger Scruton (1944), English philosopher and polemicist, was professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, University of London, he is currently Research Professor at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, where he teaches philosophy. Since long time he has been involved in supporting dissidents in Eastern Europe and in political and cultural debates. He has directed for many years the Salisbury Review. Among his many books, the following have been translated into Italian: Guida filosofica per tipi intelligenti (Cortina, 1998), L’Occidente e gli altri. La globalizzazione e la minaccia terroristica (Vita e Pensiero, 2004), Manifesto dei conservatori (Cortina, 2007), Gli animali hanno diritti? (Cortina, 2008); La cultura conta. Fede e sentimento in un mondo sotto assedio (Vita & Pensiero, 2008); Bevo dunque sono. Guida filosofica al vino (Cortina, 2010).

He was born in Berlin in 1927. He studied Philosophy, History and Literature in various German universities and in Paris. He obtained his doctorate in Münster, where he studied under Joachim Ritter. He took part in the Collegium Philosophicum directed by Ritter, together with Hermann Lübbe, Odo Marquard, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde. After Habilitierung (1962) he taught Philosophy in Stuttgart, Heidelberg and Munich where he has become emeritus professor in 1992. During his academic career he was also visiting professor in Salzburg and in Rio de Janeiro. His works have been translated into many languages. His interests are focused on the nature and the manifestation of modernity, with a particular attention to its anthropological and ethical dimensions. He is author of Glück und Wohlwollen. Versuch über Ethik (Klett-Cotta, 1989) and Personen. Versuche über den Unterschied zwischen ‘etwas’ und ‘jemand’ (Klett-Cotta 1996), Das unsterbliche Gerücht. Die Frage nach Gott und der Aberglaube der Moderne (Klett-Cotta, 2007). The editor Klett-Cotta has recently started to publish his essays and lectures in the volume Schritte über uns hinaus. Gesammelte Reden und Aufsätze I (2010).

José María Torralba is professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad de Navarra and visiting scholar at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Libertad, objeto práctico y acción. La facultad del juicio en la filosofía moral de Kant (Olms, Hildesheim 2009) and Acción intencional y razonamiento práctico según G. E. M. Anscombe (Eunsa, Pamplona 2005). He has published Natural Natural Law: Historical, Systematic and Juridical Approaches (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2008; with A. N. García y M. Silar), and the text by G. E. M. Anscombe, La filosofía analítica y la espiritualidad del hombre. Lecciones en una Universidad de Navarra (Eunsa, Pamplona 2005; with Jaime Nubiola). His interests are focused on moral philosophy, theory of action, practical reason and the social sciences, Kant, Hegel and Anscombe.

Neil Turnbull is Principal Lecturer in Philosophy at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of many philosophical and theoretical-social essays, and he is also editor of Radical Orthodoxy: Theology, Philosophy, Politics. He was editor of the series of texts Manifestos and he also worked as editor for the journals Theory, Culture and Society and Body and Society. His current research concerns the relationship between philosophy and modernity. He is currently writing two books on the ‘metaphysics of science’ and on ‘secularism’.

He is John Cardinal O’Hara Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame University. He also taught at Syracuse University. Van Inwagen is one of the most eminent analytic thinkers in Metaphysics, Philosophy of action and religion. In 2002 he was appointed lecturer at the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of An Essay of Free Will, Clarendon, Oxford 1983; Material Beings, Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1990; Metaphysics, Westview, Boulder 1993 (following editions: 2002 and 2008); God, Knowledge and Mystery: Essays in Philosophical Theology, Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1995; The Possibility of Resurrection and Other Essays in Christian Apologetics, Westview, Boulder 1998; Ontology, Identity, and Modality: Essays in Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002; The Problem of Evil, Clarendon, Oxford 2006 (Gifford Lectures 2002) also online. Metaphysics (last edition) is the first translation of his works in Italian (being published by Edizioni Cantagalli, Siena 2011).

He is one of the main thinkers in the field of contemporary phenomenology. He studied in various universities in Germany and in France (in particular in Paris, where he worked with Merleau-Ponty). He became professor at the University of Munich and he was appointed Full Professor at the University of Bochum in 1976, where since 1999 he is Emeritus Professor. His phenomenological researches are focused on the topics of the extraneousness and  the extraneous, in particular in relationship to the body, the language, the concept of modernity and intercultural relations. The following volumes are available in Italian: Fenomenologia dell’estraneità (Vivarium, Napoli 2002), Estraniazione della modernità. Percorsi fenomenologici di confine (Città Aperta, Troina 2005) and Fenomenologia dell’estraneo (Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2008). A volume containing his lectures given at the Scuola di Alta Formazione Filosofica (Turin) is expected to be print.