De Monticelli Roberta
Full Professor of Philosophy of Person
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Faculty of Phiolosophy
San Raffaele University
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20031 Cesano Maderno (Mi)
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Curriculum vitae
Born in
1976 Laurea (First University Degree) in Philosophy, with a Thesis on Foundations of Mathematics in Husserl's early Work. (University of Pisa).
1976 Diplome of the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
1981 D.Phil thesis Dottrine dell'intelligenza - Saggio su Frege e Wittgenstein, submitted and discussed at the Scuola Normale Superiore. Judging Board: Professor Michael Dummett, Professor N. Badaloni.
1981-82 Appointed as Assistant Professor («Ricercatore confermato» at the Scuola Normale Superiore.
1982 –88 Assistant Professor at the
1982-87 Several research-stays at the University of Oxford, Wolfson College, and at other Universities or Research Institutes in Europe (University of Graz, Austria, Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel, Germany, University of Toulouse, France).
1989-2004 Full Professor (Professeur ordinaire) of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. 1990-94 Chair of the Department.
Present position
Full Professor of Philosophy of Person at the new Faculty of Philosophy – Università Vita Salute San Raffaele –
Domains of research
Phenomenology, Philosophy of Person and Mind, Ethics, Esthetics, History of Philosophy. Teaching Languages: Italian, French, English, German.
Teaching activities
Undergraduate teaching:
1° level: Philosophy of Person I (Elements of General Phenomenology; Elements of Theories of Person and History of the Problem);
2° level Philosophy of Person II (Individuality, Elements of its Ontology; Personal Identity).
Graduate teaching:
Mind and Person: contemporary issues.
Selected Publications
Books
(1982) Dottrine dell'intelligenza - Saggio su Frege e Wittgenstein, De Donato, Bari pp.212, with an introduction by Michael Dummett (pp. XI-XXX).
(A study on the notion of a thought in Frege and early Wittgenstein (Tractatus). Main question: what is the difference between a (Fregean) language theory denying and one (Wittgensteinian) mantaining that there can be also musical and pictorial, as well as conceptual, thoughts?)
(1984) Il problema dell'individuazione - Leibniz, Kant e la logica modale, Edizioni Unicopli, Milano, pp. 174 (in collaboration with M. Di Francesco)
(Modern possible world semantics compared with Leibniz metaphysics: what cannot be reduced to any model-theoretic thinking. Kant's criticism of Leibniz and Kantian arguments against a Realistic Ontology. God and the absolute individuals).
(1988) Il richiamo della persuasione. Lettere a Carlo Michelstaedter, Marietti, Genova,.
(In the form of a dialogue with C. Michelstaedter, an outstanding italian philosopher who committed suicide in 1910 after writing his main work, La persuasione e la rettorica. A meditation on the forms of "rhetoric" as forms of "non-authentic life", according to the platonic tradition of criticism. A research on the platonistic attitude toward rhetoric as opposed to philosophy, based on a free exegesis of the main texts of the concerned tradition: from Plato through Christian Neo-platonism to the Modern Age). Literary Prize "Rapallo" 1988.
(1995) L'ascesi filosofica, Feltrinelli, Milano, 232 pages
(A book applying phenomenology to the study of ethics, asthetics and psychology)
(1997) L'ascèse philosophique - Phénoménologie et Platonisme, Vrin, Paris, p. 255
(A french version of 34).
(1998) La conoscenza personale. Introduzione alla fenomenologia, Guerini e associati, Milano.
( Is there something as a knowledge of individuals ? And, in particular, of persons ? What is such a knowledge like ? Why a good epistemology of the subject does not yet exist ? On which ontology should it be based ? An answer from the point of view of phenomenology, also providing a living introduction to its main tenets). Philosophy prize "Castiglioncello" 1999.
(2000) L’avenir de la phénoménologie – Méditations sur la connaissance personnelle (An extended and revised french version of 1998) Aubier-Flammarion, Paris,
(2000) La persona : apparenza e realtà. Testi fenomenologici 1911-1933, Raffaello Cortina, Milano (A reading in classical phenomenology, with texts by some of the less known representatives of the phenomenological German tradition (Pfaender, Geiger, Stein, von Hildebrand…), in Italian translation with a Commentary, an Introduction and an Index).
(2002) El conoscimiento personal,
(2003) *L’ordine
(2003) Jeanne Hersch,
(2004) L’allegria della mente, Bruno Mondadori Editore, Milano, (Five chapters on some augustinian themes in XXth Century Philosophy: Memory, Attention, Free Will and Initial Causality, Time and Music, the Inner Master)
(2006) Nulla appare invano – Pause di filosofia – Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore, Milano.
(2006a) Esercizi di pensiero per apprendisti filosofi, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2006
(2007) Sullo spirito e l’ideologia – Lettera ai cristiani, Baldini Castoldi, Milano
(2008) Ontologia del nuovo – La rivoluzione fenomenologica e la sua attualità, con C. Conni, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2008
(2009) La novità di ognuno. Persona e libertà, Garzanti, Milano.
Articles in English
(2000) The « raisons du cœur ». Dante’s Hell and the phenomenology of a strange passion, in : «Psychopathology», monogr. issue «Anger and Fury from History to Psychopathology», (G. Stanghellini ed.), 33/4/00, July-August 2000, 171-181
(2000a) Individuality and Mind , Proceedings of the International Conference The Emergence of the Mind (Contributions by, among others : G. Rizzolati, E.Boncinelli, P. Churchland, J. Taylor, T. Crane, N. Block), Fondazione Carlo Erba, Milano, 2000
(2002a) Mario Luzi and the Powers of the Word – An Interpretation of the Last Poems, Yale Italian Poetry, Vol. V, Yale University 2002
(2004a) Leibniz on Essental Individuality, Proceedings of International Symposium on Leibniz (G. Tomasi, editor, M. Mugnai, A. Savile, H. Posen), Studia Leibnitiana Sonderheft 32, Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 61-85. [article]
(2006) The Feeling of Values - For a phenomenological theory of affectivity, in: Bagnara S. Crampton Smith G. (Eds.) Theories and practice in interaction design.
(2006) Personal Identity and Essential Individuality, in : A. Tymieniecka (ed.), Phenomenology World-Wide, «Phaenomenologica», Kluwer Publ., Dordrecht-Boston, [article]
(2007) The Phenomenological Revolution, Proceedings of the XXVII IHSRC, “Encyclopaideia”, 22, July-December, pp. 9-30 [article]
(2008a) Subjectivity and Essential Individuality - A Dialogue with Peter Van Inwagen and Lynne Baker, Phenomenology and Cognitive Science vol. VII, pp. 225-242 [article]
Translations (with Introduction and Commentary)
Agostino, Le confessioni, versione bilingue, Introduzione, Note, Bibliografia e Indice analitico, Garzanti,
L. Wittgenstein, Osservazioni sulla filosofia della psicologia, Introduzione e Note, Adelphi 1990.
Some Organized Conferences
1991-99 member of the «Comité» of the «Rencontres Internationales de Genève». Contribution to the organisation of following Conferences: 1991, XXXIII, L'Europe retrouvée?; 1993, XXXIV, Nos Identités; 1995, XXXV, Inquiétante Planète; 1997, XXXVI, Eux et nous; 1999, XXXVII, La violence.
1993 «Congrès de l'Association des Sociétés de Philosophie de Langue Française»,
1993, Avril, Atelier d'ontologie, Département de Philosophie, Université de Genève.
1998 International Conference Phénoménologie et psychopathologie, Universities of Geneva and Lausanne, Crêt-Bérard, Puidoux, 16-18/2/1998.
1999 Public Lectures of the Philosophy Department,
2000 Cycle de conférences dans le cadre du programme La phénoménologie et les approches cognitives de l’homme (in collaboration with the Philosophy Department of Lausanne, the Faculties of Mediciene of Geneva and
2000 Mario Luzi à Genève – In collaboration with the Department of Italian and the Società Dante Alighieri , februar 2000.
2000 Public Lectures of the Philosophy Department,
2001 DEA Lectures: Phenomenology and cognitivism (in collaboration with the Philosophy Department of Lausanne, the Faculties of Mediciene of Geneva and
2002 International Conference:
2003 DEA Lectures: Atelier sur l’identité personnelle – Workshop on Personal Identity (Invited speakers: D. Zahavi, A. Varzi, R. Casati, G. Soldati, M. Nieda-Ruemmelin).
2004 DEA Lectures: Workshop on Individuality and Persons (Invited Speakers: Peter Van Inwagen (NotreDame, USA) Lynne Rudder Baker (Amherst, USA), Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton, USA), Natalie Depraz (Paris) Bernard Baertschi (Genève).
2005, June 1, San Raffaele University, Cesano (
2007, May 28-29, San Raffaele University, Cesano (Milan): International Conference Are Persons More than Social Objects?The Emergence of Persons : Nature and Society (L. Baker, UMass Amherst, E. Runggalddier, Innsbruek university, Austria, Jean-Luc Petit, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg et Collège de France, S.Cappa, S Raffaele)
Recent Series of Lectures and Conferences, Research Projects
2000, 6-11 march: Invited Professor at the Fondazione Collegio San Carlo, Modena, Italy, to give a doctoral course, La fenomenologia e la rifondazione degli studi umanistici.
2001, February 19 – March 3:
1. Department of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese: Mario Luzi and the Power of the Word;
2. The Newberry Library – Lectura Dantis Newberriana – Phenomenology of a Strange Passion;
3. Arthur J. Schmitt Chair in Catholic Studies and the Institute for the Humanities – Time, Music and the Word: an Augustinian Theology of Poetry.
1. Newman Lectureship –
2. The Department of Italian – A Philosophical Meditation on Luzi’s Later Poems.
21-23.9.2001 Modena, «Festivalfilosofia», Fondazione Collegio San Carlo: Il buon demone. Ontologia della felicità.
4-7.01.2002 Università degli Studi di Roma, «La sapienza», Facoltà di Filosofia e Dipartimento di ricerche storico-filosofiche e pedagogiche, Colloque International «Enrico Castelli», Théologie négative: Le fleuve et le cercle. Edith Stein sur
2.04.2002 Université de Montréal, Département de philosophie, Cycle de conférences dirigé par le Prof. Christine Tappolet: Sur l’amour et la haine: phénoménologie des sentiments dynamiques.
17.10.2002
19/20.09.03 Modena, Festivalfilosofia. Educational: La vita della mente. Lezione magistrale: La vita e l’individualità essenziale.
15-20.07.04 Oxford, Whadam College, The Third World Congress of Phenomenology, organised by The World Phenomenology Institute, its centres and affiliated societies, as well as other phenomenology groups and societies.
10-11.12 .2004 Convegno Internazionale “Mente, Scienza, Società” – Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli.
5-7/03/2004 Colloque International Edith Stein, Une Femme pour l'Europe, lInstitut Catholique de Toulouse (ICT), Toulouse.
September 2005, Modena, Festivalfilosofia, Main Lecture: Vedere per credere.
13-16/12/2005 La imatge possibile: l’art i la memoria dels camps, Encontre internacional en commemoració del 60è aniversari de l’alliberament d’Auschwitz, organitzat per
February, 16-18, 2005
May 28- 29, 2007, San Raffaele University,
13-16/6/ 2007, International Human Science Research Conference 2007, Keynote Speaker, The Phenomenological Revolution and the emergence of persons 15-17/9/2007 Festivalfilosofia Modena-Sapere. Lezione magistrale:Il sapere del cuore
15-16 /10/2007, Facultat de Filosofia, Universitat de Barcelona, EL SEMINARI FILOSOFIA I GÈNERE (UB) (GRC Creació i Pensament de les Dones):
Pensadores del segle XX. Jeanne Hersch, Rachel Bespaloff, Iris Murdoch
Conferència “Il ruolo anti-idolatrico della filosofia”
17-19 /10/2007, Università di Roma, Tor vergata, Autonomy of Reason? - V Meeting Italian –American Philosophy, Lecture On the Very Concept od Acts
8-9/11/2007, Université Miséricorde, Fribourg, CH, sous l’égide du FNSR
Colloque international “L’humain et la personne”
Conférence: La personne: métaphysique et phénomenologie
15-17 /11/2007, Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di filosofia, Progetto di Ricerca di Ateneo “Natura, sé, persona: ricerche di antropologia genetica” - Convegnoi internazionale “Antropogenesi”, Relazione di apertura, L’emergere della novità umana, Polo Universitario, Portogruaro
17/01/08, Université de Lausanne, Journée Internationale “Le coeur a ses raisons... Conférence invitée, “Le rôle des émotions en éthique”, ISDC, Dorigny
September-December 2008 – Invited Researcher, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachussetts, Amherst
Acknowledgements and other activities
1990 "Premio Rapallo per la donna scrittrice" for Il richiamo della persuasione, Marietti, Genova, 1988.
1998 «Premio Nazionale di Poesia Walter Tobagi», Venezia, Ateneo Veneto.
1999 «Premio Nazionale di Filosofia Castiglioncello» for La conoscenza personale,
Member of the Common Room of the
1993, (summer term) Visiting Professor.
Member of the editorial boards of: "Pratica filosofica" (
Literary Supplements of newspapers, collaborations: «Il sole-24 Ore»; «Il Manifesto», «Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie», «Avvenire»
2000-2003 Research Director , Projet de Recherche Fond National Suisse «Jeanne Hersch – Une femme philosphe présente à son temps». Research Team: Francesca De Vecchi, Roberta Guccinelli, Stefania Tarantino, University of Geneva.
