Phd in PHILOSOPHY

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Francesco Valerio Tommasi (Rome, 1977) deals with history of philosophy, history of metaphysics and philosophy of religion. His research and publications mainly concern the "longue duréee" and the revisitation in modern and contemporary thought of themes from the classical metaphysical tradition, with a particular focus on transcendental philosophy.

He was qualified as Full Professor in the SSD M-Fil/06 (Call 2016, first term, unanimous decision), after having been qualified as Associate Professor (Call 2012, unanimous decision, renewed in 2017, again with unanimous decision).

Invited professor at the Pontificio Ateneo Anselmiano (where he teaches Critique of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion). At Sapienza, in addition to courses in History of Philosophy and History of Metaphysics, he also teaches courses of History of Metaphysics in Global Perspective for the degree course in Global Humanities.

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He is a member of the teaching board of the Doctorate in Philosophy at La Sapienza University of Rome and of the teaching board of the National Doctorate in Peace Studies. He has been thesis tutor, supervisor and member of doctoral committees in Italy and abroad.

Since 2022 he organizes and directs, together with Prof. Gualtiero Lorini of the Catholic University of Milan, the Transcendental Philosophy Permanent Seminar, which hosts several international speakers each year (among others, speakers included: D. Pradelle, A. Grandjean, R. Meer, G. Motta, G. Basile, A. Pelletier, E. Cafagna, E. Ficara, M. Fiorilli, G. Zöller, I. Römer).

He is a member (since 2017) of the Board of Directors of the Italian Association of Philosophy of Religion, of which he was Secretary until 2021.

He is a member of the inter-university project RUNIPACE (Rete Università per la Pace), of the International Curriculum Committee for the Rome-Jena double degree in 'Philosophy and German Idealism'. Since 2008 he is representative of the Philosophy Department of Sapienza University at EGSAMP (European Graduate School for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy).

He is in the Scientific Committee of the editorial series Filosofia contemporanea at the publisher Carabba, in the Scientific Committee of the editorial series Pensamiento and of the review Cuadernos de Pensamiento of the Fundación Universitaria Española, and in the Scientific Committee of the editorial series Anthropine Sophia at the publisher Sciascia.

He was Visiting Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2024), the Universidade Federal de Goiás in Brazil (2017) and has taught at the University of Roma Tre (2015-2016), the Universität zu Köln (2012) and the Universität Würzburg (2002-2003).

He has been invited to give lectures or interventions at conferences at, among others, Hofstra University New York, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento Buenos Aires, Universidade Brasilia, Universidade Federal de Bahia, Van Leer Institute Jerusalem, the École Normale Supérieure (rue d'Ulm, Paris), the Sorbonne Université (Paris IV), the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Husserl Archives in Paris, the Centre Culturel international de Cerisy-La-Salle, the Institut Catholique de Paris, the Universität Bonn, the Freie Universität Berlin, the TU Berlin, the LMU München, the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen, the Universität Landau i. d. Pfalz, the Universität zu Köln, the Edith Stein Archiv Köln, the HAB of Wolfenbüttel, the Universität Wien, the Karlova Univerzita Praha, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the Universidad de Salamanca, the Universidade de Lisboa, the Notre Dame Rome Gateway, the University of Turin, the Università Statale di Milano, the Università Cattolica di Milano, the Almo Collegio Borromeo di Pavia, the European Academy of Religion in Bologna, the University of Lecce, the University of Bari, the University of Roma Tre, the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Pontifical Lateran University, the Pontifical Athenaeum Teresianum, the Pontifical Athenaeum Antonianum, the Italian-German Centre of Villa Vigoni.

He has organised several international conferences, including: 'Teologia politica: una filosofia della storia?', 2023; 'The conjunction 'and' in Franz Rosenzweig’s work', 2017; 'L’analogie se dit de plusieurs façons. Un problème d’histoire de la métaphysique, entre termes et concepts' 2016; 'Der Zyklop in der Wissenschaft. Kant und die transzendentale anthropologie', 2015.

From 2019 to 2022 he was a Tenure Track Associate Professor (RTD-B) at the Philosophy Department of Sapienza. From 2013 to 2018 he had previously been an Assistant Professor (RTD-A) also at Sapienza, as winner, as national coordinator (P.I.), of a call for excellence of MIUR for young researchers (FIRB-Futuro in ricerca), with a project dedicated to "Ens, res, realitas. Le trasformazioni del lessico dell´ontologia nella tradizione scolastica dal Medioevo a Descartes e Kant" (Ens, res, realitas. The transformations of the lexicon of ethics in the scholastic tradition from the Middle Ages to Descartes and Kant) financed with 820,266 Euros and including three other research units (SNS Pisa, Bari, Lecce).

As Principal Investigator he also obtained a grant of 11,400 euro from the Sapienza University on a research call for proposals (2021) for the project: "Political theology: a philosophy of history?").

He has hosted at the Department of Philosophy of Sapienza University, as visiting professors and with a funding on call, Professors Shmuel Wygoda (Yaakov Herzog College - 2020), Judith Revel (Paris X Nanterre - 2022), Arnaud Pelletier (Université Libre de Bruxelles - 2023), Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley - 2024).

He worked as "Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" (2009-2011) and "Wissenschaftlicher Assistent" (2012) at the Thomas-Institut of the University of Cologne.

He has been Researcher at the Institute for Religious Studies of the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento (2012-2013) and Adjunct Professor at the Pontifical Lateran University (2011-2012).

He has directed research projects at the Centro Studi sul Fenomeno Religioso of the Campostrini Foundation (2012-2013) and the Fondazione Achille Grandi per il Benecomune (2011-2012).

He is (or has been) a member of several scientific societies including the Società italiana di Studi Kantiani, the Société d'Etudes Kantiennes de Langue Française, the Associazione italiana di Filosofia della Religione, the European Academy for Religion, the Internationale Rosenzweig Gesellschaft, the International Network for Philosophy of Religion, the International Network on Jewish Thought, the Società Filosofica Italiana.

He has been a project reviewer for the KU Leuven, the Academy of Sciences in Prague and the University of Parma. He has been a peer-reviewer for, among others, the following journals: Rivista di storia della filosofia; New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy; Giornale di Metafisica; Rivista di filosofia neoscolastica; Studia Phaenomenologica;Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio; Lexicon Philosophicum; International Journal for the History of Texts and Ideas; Phenomenology and Mind; Alvearium; Con-Textos Kantianos; American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly; Discipline filosofiche; Philosophy Kitchen; Phenomenological Reviews; Lo Sguardo; Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia; Paradigmi; Human Studies; Open Theology Journal; Kantian Journal.

He collaborated with the Istituto di Studi Filosofici Enrico Castelli (2001-2021) and he was Managing Editor (2015-2021) and first Editorial Assistant (2007-2015) of the journal Archivio di Filosofia. He was a staff editor of the Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione (2017-2020).

From 2007 to 2011 he was a research fellow in Philosophy of Religion at Sapienza.

He spent periods of research, as a scholarship holder, at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (2004), the Universität Würzburg (2002-2003) and the Internationale Akademie für Philosophie im Fürstentum Liechtenstein (2001). He has also spent several repeated periods of research and scientific collaboration in Paris (Paris IV-Sorbonne and ICP) and at the Universität Trier. He worked for the Bibliographie de Philosophie of the Institut International de Philosophie in Paris.

He completed the two-year QUID course at Sapienza University of Rome on innovative teaching methodologies. He has repeatedly held the 'Philosophical Writing and Research' practicum at the Philosophy degree course at La Sapienza University.

He has also been Professor of History and Philosophy at the Licei "Vittoria Colonna" in Rome and the Liceo Classico e scientifico "Socrate" in Rome.

He has been Project Manager of the ACLI in Rome and Member of the ACLI National Youth Secretariat. He has been collaborator of the scientific secretariat of the international Nova Spes Foundation and editor of the journals ParadoXa and Nuovi Studi Politici.

In 2008 he obtained the Qualification to the functions of Maître de conférences from the French Ministry of Universities, in 2018 he was placed second in the final shortlist for an Associate Professor position (W2) in Philosophy of Religion at LMU München, and he was placed second in the final shortlist for tenure track Associate Professor in History of Philosophy at the University of Milan (2017) and the University of Turin (2016) as well as for an Assistant Professor position at the Kore University of Enna (2012). In 2011 he obtained the qualification as researcher in Philosophical Sciences at the CNR.

From 2006 to 2010 he was Mentor of PhD students in History of Philosophy and History of Ideas at the Sapienza University of Rome.

He graduated in Philosophy from the Sapienza University of Rome (1999/2000). In the same place he obtained his PhD (AA 2004/2005) in "History of Philosophy and History of Ideas" with a work on the genesis and meaning of Kant's transcendental philosophy, under the guidance of Marco Maria Olivetti and Norbert Hinske.

His publications include the monographs "Philosophia transcendentalis. La questione antepredicativa e l'analogia tra la Scolastica e Kant" (Olschki 2008), "L'analogia della persona in Edith Stein" (Serra 2012), "Umanesimo profetico. La complicata relazione tra cattolicesimo e cultura" (San Paolo 2015). He edited the critical edition, together with Andreas Speer, of Edith Stein's translations of Thomas Aquinas' works for the Edith Stein Gesamtausgabe (four volumes at Herder 2008-2013). He has edited some ten collective volumes, including "Questioni di metafisica nel Settecento tedesco" (Archivio di Filosofia 2019), "Der Zyklop in der Wissenschaft. Kant und die anthropologia transcendentalis" (Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte 2018), "L'analogia" (Archivio di Filosofia 2016), "Incontro di civiltà" (Rubbettino 2012). He translated into Italian "Métamorphoses de la finitude" by E. Falque (San Paolo 2014). The full list of his publications is on the IRIS portal