Autor: Gabriele De Anna

Gabriele De Anna has been teaching Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy of Science at the University of Udine in Italy since 2001. He has received two PhDs in Philosophy: one from the University of Padua, Italy, and one from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has also completed a Laurea degree (Padua) and Master of literature (St Andrews). He was Visiting Student at the University of Santa Barbara, USA; Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, USA; Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge, England; and First Chair of Philosophy at the University of Bamberg, Germany. He has written over thirty articles in professional journals and collective volumes, and five monographs: Azione e Rappresentanza. Un problema “metafisico” del liberalismo contemporaneo (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2012); Causa, Forma, Rappresentazione. Una trattazione a partire da Tommaso d”Aquino (Milan: Franco Angeli, 2010); Persona e individuo: tre saggi su chi siamo (Milan: Bompiani, 2007; with G. Boniolo and U. Vincenti); Il pensiero filosofico e politico di Sebastiano De Apollonia. Un”introduzione (Udine: Forum, 2004); and Realismo metafisico e rappresentazione mentale. Un”indagine tra Tommaso d”Aquino e Hilary Putnam (Padua: Il Poligrafo, 2001). He has edited six volumes, including Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006; with G. Boniolo). He has received grants and awards from the British Council, the European Commission, the University of Padua, the University of St Andrews, the Regional Labour and Employment Agency for Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region (Italy), the University of California. He was member of Italian national funded research projects (PRIN) in the years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2008. He has given more than thirty talks at professional conferences and research seminars in Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, USA, and Croatia.