Phd in PHILOSOPHY

email: emidio.spinelli@uniroma1.it
phone: 06-49917235
building: Dipartimento di Filosofia (Villa Mirafiori) - II piano
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Emidio Spinelli is currently Full Professor at "Sapienza"-Università di Roma (‘History of Ancient Philosophy‘-Department of Philosophy), President of the “Consiglio di Area Didattica di Filosofia” (Department of Philosophy) and Vice-Dean of The Faculty of ‘Lettere e Filosofia’. At the same Department he is responsible for the following LLP-Easmus Bilateral Agreements: 1. MCI-Management Center Innsbruck GMBH; 2. Université Saint-Louis/Bruxelles; 3. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; 4. Université Catholique de Louvain; 5. Sofia University; 6. Freie Universitaet Berlin; 7. Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg; 8. Universitaet Koeln; 9. Universitaet Konstanz; 10. Universitaet Siegen; 11. Universitaet Stuttgart; 12. Universitaet Tuebingen; 13. Universidad Complutense de Madrid; 14. Universidad de Oviedo; 15. Universidad de Sevilla; 16. Universidad de Valencia; 17. Université Lille III; 18. Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon; 19. Université Aix-Marseille; 20. Université Pantheon-Sorbonne-Paris I; 21. Université Pantheon-Sorbonne-Paris IV; 22. Università ‘Panepistimio Patron’/Greece; 23. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen; 24. Universidade de Lisboa; 25. Yildiz Teknik Universitesi/Istanbul; 26. University of Durham; since 2015 he is responsible for an International Agreement between "Sapienza"-Università di Roma and Université du Quebec à Trois-Rivières, Canada.
He was General Secretary (1992-2004) and Vice-President (2004-2007) of the "Società Filosofica Italiana"; and he is now National President of the same Society. He has also been Associate Professor at the ILIESI (Istituto per il Lessico Intelletuale Europeo) -CNR, Rom, where, in the framework of the European project ‘Discovery‘, he is ‘general editor‘ and responsible for the on-line corpora on Presocratics, Socratics, Diogenes Laertius, Sextus Empiricus (see: www.daphnet.org).
Apart from many research grants (for example at "Istituto Gramsci Siciliano", 1985, or at "Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici", 1986-1987), he has been Junior Fellow at "Center for Hellenic Studies"/Harvard University (Washington DC, U. S. A. – 1995/1996); Research Fellow at "Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung" (Universitaet Konstanz, Germany – 1998-1999) and recently Visiting Scholar at the "Humboldt Universitaet-Berlin" (2009), at the ’École Normale Supérieure’-Lyon (2010), at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet, Freiburg i.B. (2014 and 2015), at the ‘Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies’, Universitaet Hamburg (2017 and 2018). He is member of the ‘ESF Pool of Reviewers‘ (2009-); of the Pool of Reviewers for the “Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique/FNRS” (“F.R.S.-FNRS”), Bruxelles. Since 2018 he also is “Socio Corrispondente” at the ‘Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti’.
Chief editor of the “Bollettino della Società Filosofica Italiana” and co-editor (along with F. Alesse and R. Chiaradonna) of the Journal "Elenchos" (Rivista di studi sul pensiero antico), he was and/or still is member of the editorial staff of the following Journals: "Comunicazione filosofica" (www.sfi.it); "Giornale critico di storia delle idee-Rivista internazionale di filosofia" (www.giornalecritico.it); "International Journal for the Study of Skepticism"; "Lexicon Philosophicum. International Journal for the History of Texts and Ideas"; "PROMETEUS PHILOSOPHY IN REVIEW"; “Phenomenology and Mind”. He is also member of the advisory board of the Series ‘Ethica. International Studies in Ancient Practical Philosophy‘ (Academia Verlag, Sankt Augustin, Germania) and ‘Lexis Ancient Philosophy’ (Hackkert, Las Palmas, Spagna). He is responsible (along with Stefano Velotti) of the Series 'Philosophica'/Sapienza Università Editrice. He also collaborates with the "Dictionnaire des Philosophes Antiques", directed by R. Goulet, and with the "Enciclopedia Filosofica di Gallarate".
Besides many articles on different topics in ancient philosophy (presocratics, atomists, Socrates/minor Socratics, Plato, stoics, epicureans, literary and philosophical papyri) and apart his work in the field of electronic editions of ancient texts, his main publications on Greek scepticism include: Sesto Empirico. Contro gli etici (Naples 1995); Sesto Empirico. Contro gli astrologi (Naples 2000); Questioni scettiche. Letture introduttive al pirronismo antico (Rome 2005; now on-line: http://lexicon.cnr.it/index.php/DDL/issue/view/18).
He is editor of the following books: I filosofi antichi nel pensiero del Novecento, TLA Editrice, Ferrara 1998; C. Horn, L'arte della vita nell'antichità. Felicità e morale da Socrate ai Neoplatonici, Carocci, Roma 2004; Amicizia e concordia: etica, fisica, politica in età preplatonica, EUROMA, Roma 2006; Razionalità e prassi. Modelli ellenistici e post-ellenistici, sezione monografica della rivista “Iride”, 2015, pp. 545-639; Storia della filosofia antica, vol. 3, L'età ellenistica, Carocci, Roma 2016. He is co-editor of the following books: [with M. De Caro] Scetticismo. Una vicenda filosofica (Rome 2007); [with Francesca Alesse-Francesco Aronadio-Cristina Dalfino-Luca Simeoni] Anthropine sophia. Studi di filologia e storiografia filosofica in memoria di Gabriele Giannantoni, Bibliopolis, Napoli 2008; [with P. Donatelli] Il senso della virtù (Rome 2009); [with Bruno Centrone-Riccardo Chiaradonna-Diana Quarantotto] A.M. Ioppolo, Dibattiti filosofici ellenistici. Dottrina delle cause, Stoicismo, Accademia scettica, Sankt Augustin, Academia Verlag 2013; [with M. De Caro and M. Mori] Il libero arbitrio. Storia di una controversia filosofica, Carocci, Roma 2014; [with D. De Sanctis-M. Tulli-F. Verde] Questioni epicuree, Sankt Augustin, Academia Verlag 2015; [with F. Trabattoni] La bandiera di Socrate. Momenti di storiografia filosofica italiana nel Novecento, Sapienza Università Editrice, Roma 2016.
Since 1998 he actively works also on Hans Jonas and some of his unpublished texts; in this area of research, besides many articles in national and international Journals or books, he edited also the following books: H. Jonas, La domanda senza risposta. Alcune riflessioni su scienza, ateismo e la nozione di Dio, a cura di Emidio Spinelli, Il Nuovo Melangolo, Genova 2001; Hans Jonas (special issue of the Journal "Paradigmi", 66, 2004, pp. 275-406); H. Jonas, Problemi di libertà, a cura di E. Spinelli, con la collaborazione di A. Michelis, Nino Aragno Editore, Torino 2010; E. Spinelli, Obiettivo Platone: a lezione da Hans Jonas, ETS, Pisa 2019; H. Jonas, Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Hans Jonas. Philosophische Hauptwerke, Band II/1: Zeit und Freiheit. Über den Geist der Antike und Spätantike, hrsg. E. Spinelli in Verbindung mit S. Bancalari, 1100 pp., in 2 Teilbänden (forthcoming, Rombach, Freiburg 2020); with C. Arruzza-C. Horn-D. Nikulin he also edited Hans Jonas: the Thinker of Antiquity and Modernity, monographic issue of the Journal “Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee”, 7/8, n. 14, 2015, p. 1-165.