Phd in PHILOSOPHY

email: stefano.velotti@uniroma1.it
phone: 06-4991-7392
building: Dipartimento di Filosofia (Villa Mirafiori)
room: 202A

Stefano VELOTTI
Curriculum Vitae
Stefano Velotti (Roma, 1961) is Full Professor of Philosophy (Aesthetics) at “Sapienza, Università di Roma”.
He earned his laurea in Philosophy at “Sapienza” in 1984, under the direction of Emilio Garroni, and received his “Dottorato di Ricerca in Philosophy” (Ph.D) from the University of Bologna in 1992.
Since 1990, he has taught as Visiting Professor at the University of Stanford and University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), and has been “Speroni Chair Professor” at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) for two terms. He also served as Assistant Professor at Yale University (1994-97), where he declined his confirmation in order to accept a post as Researcher in Philosophy at “Sapienza”.
He has been the recipient of diverse fellowships, in Italy and abroad (among others, a Morse fellowship from Yale University, financing from “Sapienza” as principal investigator, and for his participation in PRIN and “Europe4Citizens”).
Since 2010 he is faculty member of the Ph.D. program in Philosophy at “Sapienza” and, since 2016, Senior Fellow at SSAS. He was Fellow of “Ezra Stiles College” at Yale University (from 1995 to 1999). He is member of SIE (Italian Society of Aesthetics) and SIFA (Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy). Since 2008 he is the president of the “Emilio Garroni International Chair” (CiEG, www.cieg.info). He is member of the scientific committee of Rivista di estetica and Filosofia.it, editor of the philosophy section of SUE (“Sapienza Università Editrice”), and visiting faculty member at the “Istituto freudiano di Roma”.
He has worked for Italian publishing houses, for the Italian Public Radio (Radio 3) and educational TV programs, and has been contributing regularly to some cultural supplements of national newspapers and periodicals (among others, “Domus”, “ExibArt”, “il Manifesto”, “Lo Straniero”, “L’Unità”, “Micromega”, “Gli asini”).
Besides the traditional issues of analytic and continental aesthetics (the status of art, the nature of judgment, the relationships between art, society and politics, and between aesthetic and epistemology) he is interested in philosophical and socio-political problems related to contemporary art and culture, and the new media. His research has focused on two main fields: on the one hand, on the roots of modernity (from Machiavelli to Bruno and Vico, on whose work he has written several studies and a book), up to the Enlightenment (particularly Kant and his Critique of Judgement, the main focus of his book Philosophical History of Ignorance, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003). On the other hand, he is interested in contemporary philosophy and art (Philosophy and the Arts. Feeling, Thinking, Imagining, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012), about which he has published widely.