Autor: Alfredo Ferrarin

After teaching at Boston University, Alfredo Ferrarin is now professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Pisa. His work on Greek philosophy, modern philosophy, classical German thought, and phenomenology includes some seventy essays as well as the following volumes: Hegel and Aristotle (2001); Artificio, desiderio, considerazione di sé. Hobbes e i fondamenti antropologici della politica (2001); Saggezza, immaginazione e giudizio pratico. Studio su Aristotele e Kant (2004); Galilei e la matematica della natura (2014); The Powers of Pure Reason. Kant and the Idea of Cosmic Philosophy (2015); Thinking and the I. Hegel and the Critique of Kant (2019).  Dermot Moran is the inaugural holder of the Joseph Chair in Catholic Philosophy at Boston College. He was previously Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin. He has held numerous Visiting Professorships, including Yale University, Northwestern University, Rice University, Connecticut College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Wuhan University, and the Gadamer Chair at Boston College (2015). He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and the Institut International de Philosophie. He was awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities in 2012. He was President (2013-2018) of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP) and President of the 24th World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, August 2018. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Athens, Greece, in 2015. Publications include: The Philosophy of John Scotus Eriugena (1989), Introduction to Phenomenology (2000), Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology (2005), and Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (2012).  Elisa Magrì is currently a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UCD School of Philosophy, as well as the awardee of a Humboldt Fellowshipfor Senior Researchers at the University of Cologne, Germany. She specialises in post-Kantian philosophy, phenomenology, and history of philosophy. She authored Hegel e la genesi del concetto. Autoriferimento, memoria, incarnazione (2017), while she dedicated a number of papers to the philosophical relation between Hegel and Merleau-Ponty, as well as to phenomenological issues concerning habit, affectivity, and intersubjectivity. After completing a Newman funded post-doctoral research project on Edith Stein”s theory of empathy, she is currently working on a monograph that explores the concept of social sensitivity in the phenomenological tradition, revising contemporary debates on attention,  habit,  and empathy. She co-edited Empathy, Sociality, and Personhood. Essays on Edith Stein”s Phenomenology (2018) with Dermot Moran, and Hegel e la fenomenologia trascendentale (2015) with Alfredo Ferrarin and Danilo Manca.  Danilo Manca received his doctorate from the University of Pisa, where he now teaches Hermeneutics and Phenomenology. The dissertation he defended was entitled The Awakening of Reason. Hegel and Husserl. He was visiting scholar at the University College Dublin, Hegel-Archiv in Bochum and Husserl-Archiv in Freiburg i.Br. He works on classical German philosophy, phenomenology, the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns, aesthetics and philosophy of literature. He published two volumes,  Esperienza della ragione. Hegel e Husserl in dialogo (2016),  La disputa su ispirazione e composizione. Valéry fra Poe e Borges (2018), and several essays including The phenomenologizing subject as an active power: An Aristotelian model for Husserl”s theory of subjectivity (2017),  Hegel e Husserl sull”intelligibilità della filosofia (2015). He is the editor in chief of the International Journal „Odradek. Studiesin Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories”.