Speakers

Jean-Luc Amalric (EHESS) is Agrégé de Philosophie and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is member of the scientific committee of the Fonds Ricoeur, associate member of C.R.A.L (EHESS), associate member of C.R.I.S.E.S (University of Montpellier 3), and professor of philosophy at CPGE Arts and Design. Since 2015, he is co-editor of the journal Études Ricoeuriennes/Ricoeur Studies. He is co-editor of the forthcoming English edition of Paul Ricoeur’s Lectures on Imagination. He devoted his work to develop a general theory of imagination within its practical, poetical and social dimension. 

Iacopo Chiaravalli (IISG) is an assistant researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici. During his Ph.D. at the University of Padova, he worked on the epistemology of mathematics in Descartes' philosophy. In 2021, he was research fellow at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Since 2021, he has been collaborating with the University of Pisa to the project "Le radici mediterranee dello spirito europeo". His main research interests and publications concern Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and Husserl. In 2020, he published the book "L'oggetto puro. Matematica e scienza in Descartes".

Alfredo Ferrarin (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)  is Full Professor of History of Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. He has also taught at Boston University and the University of Pisa. He is director of the series “Dialectica” for ETS Press and member of the editorial board of several book series and journals. His areas of specialization include German Idealism (Kant and Hegel), Aristotle, Hobbes, Husserl, and the philosophy of imagination. He authored several papers and books, and his last book is “Un mondo non di questo mondo. La realtà delle immagini e l’immaginazione” (ETS Press, 2023).

Lorenzo Magnani (Università degli Studi di Pavia) is a philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is Full Professor at the University of Pavia and Director of the Computational Philosophy Laboratory. He taught in Montreal, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, New York and Guangzhou, and received a Laurea Honoris Causa in 2012 for “Stefan Cel Mare” University for his seminal interdisciplinary works in computational philosophy, philosophy of science and semiotics. He works in Philosophy of Science and of Cognitive Sciences. His main focus is on epistemology, ethics and technology, abductive reasoning, Philosophy of Medicine, and History and Philosophy of Geometry. 

Claudio Majolino (University of Lille) is Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Lille/UMR-CNRS 8163 STL, and Full Professor and Director of the “Summer School of Phenomenological Philosophy” at the University of Venice “Ca’ Foscari”. He has also taught at the University of Paris “La Sorbonne” and Seattle University. His areas of specialization include German and French phenomenology, and philosophies and theories of language. He authored several papers and books, and his last book is “The Invention of Infinity: Essays on Husserl and the History of Philosophy” (Springer, 2023). 

Cécile Malaspina (King's College London) is the author of An Epistemology of Noise (Bloomsbury, 2018) and principal translator of Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (Univocal, MUP, 2017). She is directrice de programme at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris (Ciph) and programmer for Art & Cultorial Practice at the New Center for Research and Practice. She is based in London, at King’s College, where she is a Visiting Research Fellow. Cécile is a member of the editorial boards of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanieties, Copy Press, and is a guest editor at Nature: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 

Fabrice Teroni (University of Geneva) is Full Professor in Philosophy at the University of Geneva and project leader at the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences (CISA). He works in the philosophy of mind and epistemology. His background is in the philosophy of memory, perception and affective states. He has published several articles and monographs on the general theory of emotions (The Emotions: A Philosophical Introduction, Routledge 2012), on the nature of shame (In Defense of Shame: The Faces of an Emotion, Oxford 2011), and on memory. Currently, he co-leads the project “Emotions and Mental Imagery” (2022-2026).

Andrea Nicolini (Università di Firenze) teaches Ethics at the University of Florence, where he is a founding member of the NAF (Nuova Antropologia Filosofica) Research Unit. He previously taught Moral Philosophy at the University of Verona and Comparative Literature at the University of Bergamo. He has carried out numerous periods of study and research abroad, in particular at TUFTS University in Boston and at the University of Tours as Visiting Professor. In 2019, he was awarded the prize for the ‘Best unpublished essay in moral philosophy’ by the SIFM (Italian Society of Moral Philosophy) for his essay "Foucault's Ethics of Pleasure(s) and its Discontents". His publications include the monographs "Self-Recognition and the Genesis of Consciousness" and "Masochism: a Challenge for Ethics". His research interests are particularly directed towards the relationships between ethics and aesthetics, ethics of literature and philosophy of sexuality with a focus on the relationship between subjectivity, emotions and drives.

Lorenzo Vinciguerra (Università di Bologna) is Professeur des universités and Agrégé de philosophie in France, and Full Professor at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, where he is Director of Sive Natura. International Centre for Spinozian Studies (ICSS). He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and at the State University of Milan, where he was a student of Carlo Sini, and then he specialized at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa with Paolo Cristofolini and at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris with Bernard Pautrat and Pierre-François Moreau. His interests lie mainly in Spinozism, French philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of art, semiotics and American pragmatism.