Phd in PHILOSOPHY

email: nunzio.allocca@uniroma1.it
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building: Dipartimento di Filosofia (Villa Mirafiori)
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PhD in Philosophy, he taught History of Science and Technology from 2001 to 2006 at Prima Facoltà di Architettura L. Quaroni (Dipartimento di Urbanistica e Sistemi Informativi Territoriali), Sapienza, Università di Roma. Since March 2007 he is researcher at Sapienza, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, where he now teaches History History of Science and Technology (Laurea) and History of brain and mind sciences (Laurea Magistrale). His research interests have focused on the theories of mind and perception in the modern and contemporary age. His current research encompasses: 1) the discussion in the medical and philosophical discourse of the Cartesian theory of mind-body relationship (Claude Perrault, Buffon, La Mettrie), and of the Galileian biomedicine; (Borelli, Malpighi, Baglivi); 2) the modern redefinition of the notion of emotion, mental illness, and the Contemporary debate on the Mind-Body Problem (Philosophy, Arts and Neuroscience); 3) dialogues between Philosophy, Science and Arts in Italy, the impact of Galileo's epistemology on literature (Giacomo Leopardi and Italo Calvino). He led the research unit (2009-2011) on Machine and Life. Epistemological Models and Moral Implications (XVII-XIX c.), former Ateneo federato della Scienza e della Tecnologia; Università; di Roma (http://w3.uniroma1.it/convegnomacchinaevita/default.html). He is member of the University Paris VIII ANR research unit (http://www.philomed.univ-paris8.fr), which studies the impact of medical discoveries on the constitution of philosophical anthropology in the 17th and 18th century. He was the responsible for the Italian équipe taking part to the cycle of Italian-French-German research conferences (2011-2013) "Refounding man. Medical empiricism and philosophy of the human nature in the 17th and 18th century", Villa Vigoni, Deutsch-italienisches Zentrum für europäische Exzellenz (http://www.villavigoni.it). He is involved in the research project "O conceito de natureza no pensamento medico-filosofico na transiçao do seculo XVII ao XVIII", coordinated by A. Cardoso, Centro de Historia da Cultura da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Since June 2013 he is co-director of the Italian Language and Culture Sapienza Summer School, since October 2014 he is member of the Sapienza MLAC (Museo Laboratorio d'Arte Contemporanea) Scientific Committee. He took part to national and international conferences (Montreal - Concordia University; Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne; Université de Paris 8 - Saint Denis; Cres - Croatian Philosophical Society; Berlin, Von Humboldt-Universitaet; Madrid, Universidad Complutense; La Habana, Universidad de La Habana; Lisboa, Universidade Nova; Lyon - Ecole Normale Supérieure; Warsaw - Widzial Artes Liberales).