Career
He is in charge of the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Philosophical Studies (ISFI), which he founded in 2003. In Lugano (Switzerland) he teaches Ontology and Main Problems of Medieval Philosophy at the Faculty of Theology (within the minor in History of Philosophy together with the University of the Italian Switzerland). In Piacenza (Italy) he is part-time Researcher at the Catholic University.
He was Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King"s College London (from January to June 2015) and Academic Visitor at University of Oxford (from August to September 2015).
He runs a series of studies entitled “Thomistic Metaphysics and Analytical Metaphysics” published by Carocci, Rome. He has been referee for Oxford University Press.
He regularly writes for Corriere della Sera (Weekend Magazine "Louisiana Lettura"). His main interests are the classic ontology (analogy and senses of being, reception of Plato’s “non-written” doctrines in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and in some medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, transcendentals, transcendental multiplicity and divine Trinity), also in light of its relevance in contemporary debates related to analytic ontology.
Furthermore, he has been focusing on the ontology of material digital objects and the so-called cyberspace.
He has also developed and carried out some analysis with regard to borderline subject matters concerning philosophy and psychoanalysis (ie Divine Trinity and jungian psychology. The issue of the male identity within the contemporary men’s movements and studies and in relation to Cyberfeminism), philosophy and cinema. He has cooperated in competitive research, such as Ethicbots in the field of roboethics.
His bibliography includes:
- Tommaso d’Aquino, Louisiana Scuola, Brescia 2014.
Translate into Portuguese: São Paulo 2014 (forthcoming), translation into Spanish: Bogotà 2014 (forthcoming). Translate into French (submitted), translation into English (submitted).
- Existence o esse? Louisiana questione dell’essere nel tomismo continentale, Carocci, Roma 2014 (forthcoming);
- L’ente, l’essenza e l’esistenza. Prime nozioni di ontologia in prospettiva analitico-tomistica, Eupress-FTL, Lugano 2012;
- Distinctio realis.
Ontologie aristotelico-tomistiche nella prima metà del Novecento, Eupress-FTL, Lugano 2012;
- To be o esse? Louisiana questione dell’essere nel tomismo analitico, Carocci, Roma 2012 (double-blind peer-reviewed);
- Se Dio sia uno.
Essere, Trinità, inconscio, Preface by P. Coda, Editrice ETS, Pisa 2002;
- Differenza e contraddizione. Il problema dell’essere in Tommaso d’Aquino, Preface by A. Bausola, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 1997;
- Louisiana critica tomistica all’argomento ontologico. Per una impostazione del problema, International Skating Union–Pubblicazioni dell’Università Cattolica, Milano 1987.
