Coordinators

Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (SSD PHIL-01/A) at the Department of Education, Psychology, and Philosophy of the University of Cagliari. His research interests include philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. His publications primarily concern meaning, normativity, representation, and truth. He received his PhD in Philosophical Disciplines in Cagliari in 2006 with a dissertation on semantic inferentialism entitled “Concepts, Inferences, Representations” and an MA in Philosophy of Mind from Warwick in 2009. In 2018, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh.

Gabriella Baptist – Deputy Coordinator

Gabriella Baptist is an associate professor of Moral Philosophy (11/PHIL-03) at the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy of the University of Cagliari since 31 December 2014. Previously, she was a researcher at the same university (since 1 March 2002). She teaches Philosophical Anthropology, Social Ethics, Ethics for Education, Applied Ethics and Bioethics in the philosophical and pedagogical degree courses of the Faculty of Humanities. She was a research fellow at the University of Roma Tre (2001-’02); a scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung at the Ruhr University of Bochum (1997-’99); a post-doc fellow at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome (1992-’94); DAAD scholarship holder at Ruhr University Bochum (June-September 1992 and 1985-86). She has received scholarships and research grants at the Universities of Zurich, Leuven, Cologne, Berlin, and Freiburg.
She graduated in Philosophy with honors from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (July 1982); she earned a PhD in History of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (second cycle, 1985-89, with scholarship).
She obtained the National Scientific Qualification for the second band in the competitive sector 11/C3 (Moral Philosophy) on February 27, 2014, and won the competition announced with Rectoral Decree no. 84 on October 29, 2014. She has published in various languages for national and international journals and publishing houses, and has translated philosophical texts from German, French, and English. She has participated in and organized numerous conferences, seminars, and research initiatives in Italy and abroad. She serves as an anonymous reviewer for journals, editorial series, and research institutions. She is a member of numerous research societies and associations and is on the editorial committee of prestigious scientific journals. Having won the competitive exam, she taught Human Sciences and Philosophy and History from 1985 to 2002.
Research areas: Classical German philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, contemporary French and German philosophy.