Luca Filaci

(Tutor: Prof.ssa Gabriella Baptist, Prof. Felice Cimatti)

I am a Ph.D. student in ‘Philosophy, Epistemology and Human Sciences’ at the University of Cagliari. I obtained my Master’s Degree in Philosophy in 2021 at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome under the supervision of Prof. Furio Pesci, Prof. Silvano Zucal, and Prof. Mariano Luis Rodríguez González. For this Ph.D. the supervision will be of Prof. Gabriella Baptist and Prof. Felice Cimatti. The topic on which my research will focus is animality and its relevance within the current ecoclimatic crisis. The anthropocentric vision that characterizes Western culture will be investigated, also in light of the most recent discoveries in zoosemiotics and cognitive ethology. The intention is to offer a more integrated image of the human, less detached from the “natural“ world. Moving from categories of relationality and ecological interdependence, an anti-metaphysical representation will be proposed, which will try to overcome various dualisms that characterize our tradition, culturally and philosophically. This research will also be carried out by reconstructing the different philosophical perspectives that have addressed this issue within the history of ideas, bringing them up to date and discussing their centrality in our present.