Phd in PHILOSOPHY

email: francesco.fronterotta@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649917243
building: Dipartimento di Filosofia (Villa Mirafiori)
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Francesco Fronterotta was born on 10th July 1970 in Rome. He received his Phd in Philosophy from the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) and at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( Paris). He became Lecturer in the History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy on 1/11/ 2001. Since 2005 he has been Associate Professor in the History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the Faculty of Education of the University del Salento. Since 2012, he is Associate Professor in the History of Ancient Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Rome – Sapienza. In 2014, he obtained by the Italian National Commission the title of “Full Professor” in the History of Philosophy (Abilitazione scientifica nazionale di prima fascia per il settore concorsuale 11/C5 – Storia della filosofia).

After graduating from a classics-oriented secondary school in 1989, he studied at Pisa’s Scuola Normale Superiore, where he received his master’s degree and his PhD in philosophy (the latter jointly awarded by SNS and EHESS – Paris). He wrote his MA thesis (Essere, divenire e differenza nell’ontologia platonica del Parmenide e del Sofista di Platone: 1993) and doctoral dissertation (Methexis. La teoria platonica delle idee e la partecipazione delle cose empiriche. Dai dialoghi giovanili al Parmenide: 1997) under the supervision of W. Leszl (University of Pisa), P. Vidal-Naquet (EHESS – Paris), and L. Brisson (CNRS – Paris). Both the thesis and the dissertation were awarded first-class honours.

In Pisa he collaborated to a research project on the “ideal library” of Fr. Nietzsche led by G. Campioni. The aim of the project was the publication of a catalogue of the books of Nietzsche’s personal library in Weimar. This collaboration enabled him to participate in the German (De Gruyter), Italian (Adelphi), and French (Gallimard) editions of Fr. Nietzsche’s philological works (in progress). Since 1994 he has been collaborating with CSPA (Centro studi sul pensiero antico, CNR and University of Rome – La Sapienza) for the editing of Elenchos – Rivista di studi sul pensiero antico. He was a member of national research projects financed by MIUR in 2004-2006 and 2007-2009.

In 1998-99 he received a scholarship from the Istituto italiano per gli studi storici (Naples) to study the Neoplatonic reception of Plato’s theory of ideas. Since 1999 he has been on the Liste de qualification as maître de conférences in section XVII (Philosophie) of the National Board of Directors of the French Universities. Francesco Fronterotta studied in Italy and abroad. He spent ten years at Paris and did research at London, Cambridge as well as at different German universities (Berlin, Weimar and Munich). He was adjunct professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-St. Cloud (1996-1998), at Pisa’s Scuola Normale Superiore (1999-2001), and at the University of Rome – La Sapienza.

He was also professor of Epistemology and History of philosophy of mind in the PhD courses in “Scienze della mente e delle relazioni umane” at the University of Salento–Lecce. He contributed to many national and international conferences, and gave lectures in many universities in Italy and abroad. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris X – Nanterre in 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008; at Sichuan University of Chengdu (China) in July 2015; at the University of Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne in November 2015. In 2001 he founded, with L. Brisson and J.-F. Pradeau, the Société d’études platoniciennes, and the review Les Etudes platoniciennes, supported by the Universities of Paris X, Lecce and Madrid, and published by Les Belles Lettres, Paris. He was European member of the Executive Committee of the International Plato Society (2013-2019) and he serves for the on-line review of this Society, Plato Journal (http://www.nd.edu/~plato/), as the editor of the critical-bibliographical section “Ontology, logic and philosophy of language”; he is founding member and president of the Mediterranean Section of the International Plato Society (2015-2018); he was first president (Erster Vorsitzender) of the Academia platonica septima Monasteriensis e.V., founded in 1999 by Matthias Baltes (2013-2015); he is member of the International Society of Neoplatonic Studies; he was member of the directive board of the Società italiana di Storia della filosofia antica (2012-2019) and of the editorial board of the collection Studi di Storia della filosofia antica of the Società italiana di Storia della filosofia antica at the Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura (Rome); he is Permanent Fellow of the Archai Unesco Chair (Brasilia) and member of its Board of Visiting Scholars; he is member of the Strategic Committee of the Scuola di Studi Superiori in Filosofia of the University of Rome Tor Vergata; he is member of the Advisory Board of the ERC project (Starting grants 2017) Proteus. Paradoxes and Metaphors of Time in Early Universe(s), Panel SH5.
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