Phd in PHILOSOPHY

email: francesco.verde@uniroma1.it
phone: 06/49917291
building: Dipartimento di Filosofia (Villa Mirafiori)
room: 315

Francesco Verde (Rome 1983) achieved in 2011 the Ph.D. degree (Philosophy) from Sapienza University of Rome’s Department of Philosophy with a doctoral dissertation about the Epicurean doctrine of minimal parts, published by Leuven University Press (Leuven 2013) in the Series “Ancient and Medieval Philosophy” (vol. XLVIII). In 2014 he was awarded from Sapienza University of Rome (on the occasion of the 30 years of PhD programs) a Certificate of Merit for his special scientific and professional merits and recognitions. He was (2011-2014) a post-doctoral researcher in the History of Ancient Philosophy at the “Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee” (ILIESI-CNR/Rome). Finally, he acquired from the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) the National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor of the History of Philosophy (Periods: 2015-2024 and 2018-2027 / Scientific Disciplinary Sector 11C/5) and as Full Professor of the History of Philosophy (Periods: 2020-2029 / Scientific Disciplinary Sector 11C/5). In 2014-2015 he was a post-doctoral researcher in the History of Ancient Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome’s Department of Philosophy. From 2016 he is adjunct professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy and History of Ancient Scientific Thought at the same Department. In December 2016 he has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (18 months / University of Würzburg, Germany / Institut für Klassische Philologie).
From 01.04.2019 to 31.03.2022 he was tenure-track Assistant Professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy (M-FIL/07) at the Department of Philosophy of Sapienza University of Rome. In the same Department he is member of the Teaching Board of the Ph.D. course in Philosophy.
From 01.04.2022 he is Associate Professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy (M-FIL/07) at the same Sapienza Department.
His scholarly interests focus mainly on History of Ancient Philosophy, especially on Ancient Atomism (Leucippus and Democritus), Ancient Physics from Aristotle to Epicurus, Hellenistic Philosophies, and Herculaneum Papyrology. In addition to some papers devoted to Ancient Scepticism and Epicureanism, he published an Italian translation with a detailed commentary of Epicurus’ Letter to Herodotus (Rome 2010; with E. Spinelli’s Introduction), and an anthology of texts on the notions of Freedom, Fate and Grace from the Stoics to Augustine (Rome 2010). He is also the editor of the Italian edition of D. Sedley’s book (Berkeley 2007) on “Creationism” in Antiquity (Rome 2011).
He published a volume on the Hellenistic Peripatos on some specific topics such as time, knowledge and soul (Berlin-Boston 2022).
Moreover, he published an introduction to Epicurus’ philosophy (Rome 2013). He edited (with Stéphane Marchand) a volume on Épicurisme et Scepticisme (Rome 2013), (with D. De Sanctis, E. Spinelli, and M. Tulli) Questioni epicuree (Sankt Augustin 2015), (with F. G. Masi, and S. Maso) the special section of Elenchos (2018) on the Materialistic Pathe, and (with M. Catapano) the special issue of Lexicon Philosophicum (2018) on the Hellenistic Theories of Knowledge. Finally, together with M. Tulli, D. De Sanctis and Francesca G. Masi, he edited a new Italian edition with historical-philosophical commentary of the Epicurus’ Letter to Pythocles (Baden-Baden 2022).
He has two children.

Sapienza web page: https://corsidilaurea.uniroma1.it/user/29398
Academia web page: https://uniroma.academia.edu/FrancescoVerde
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3249-7133