List of Italian philosophers
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This list of Italian philosophers
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Italian philosophy
Italy over the ages has had a vast influence on Western philosophy, beginning with the Greeks and Romans, and going onto Renaissance humanism, the Age of Enlightenment and modern philosophy.-Ancient Rome:...
contains a collection of philosophers who hail from Italy specifically or, more broadly, from the Italian peninsula
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The Italian Peninsula or Apennine Peninsula is one of the three large peninsulas of Southern Europe , spanning from the Po Valley in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south. The peninsula's shape gives it the nickname Lo Stivale...
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- Nicola AbbagnanoNicola AbbagnanoNicola Abbagnano was an Italian existential philosopher.- Life :Nicola Abbagnano was born in Salerno on 15 July 1901. He was the first born son of a middle-class professional family, his father was a practicing lawyer in the area...
- Torquato AccettoTorquato AccettoTorquato Accetto was an Italian writer in the first half of the 17th century born in Naples He is particularly remembered for his book on conformity and hypocrisy, titled .- References :*- External links :...
- Alessandro AchilliniAlessandro AchilliniAlessandro Achillini was an Italian philosopher and physician.-Biography:He was born and died in Bologna, and is buried in the Church of Saint Martin there...
- Giovanni Filoteo AchilliniGiovanni Filoteo AchilliniGiovanni Filoteo Achillini was an Italian philosopher.Born in Bologna, he was the younger brother of philosopher Alessandro.He applied himself to Greek, Latin, theology, philosophy, music, antiquities, jurisprudence, poetry, etc., but did not excel in any specific field...
- Jacob AcontiusJacob AcontiusJacob Acontius Aconcio; 7 September 1492 – around 1566) was an Italian jurist, theologian, philosopher and engineer. He is now known for his contribution to the history of religious toleration.-Life:...
- Francesco AcriFrancesco AcriFrancesco Acri was an Italian philosopher and historian of philosophy. Born in Bologna, he was an exponent of spiritualism and he was influenced by Antonio Rosmini-Serbati. He wrote , , and . He is best known for translating several of Plato's dialogues.-External links:...
- Giorgio AgambenGiorgio AgambenGiorgio Agamben is an Italian political philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception and homo sacer....
- Maria Gaetana AgnesiMaria Gaetana AgnesiMaria Gaetana Agnesi was an Italian linguist, mathematician, and philosopher. Agnesi is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. She was an honorary member of the faculty at the University of Bologna...
- Leon Battista Alberti
- Aldo GarganiAldo GarganiAldo Giorgio Gargani was an Italian philosopher.He studied Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Oxford University, and Queen's College. He was professor of Aesthetics and History of Philosophy at the University of Pisa.He is considered to be the most important Italian scholar of...
- Francesco AlgarottiFrancesco AlgarottiCount Francesco Algarotti was an Italian philosopher and art critic.He also completed engravings.He was born in Venice to a rich merchant. He studied at Rome for a year, and then Bologna, he studied natural sciences and mathematics...
- Thomas AquinasThomas AquinasThomas Aquinas, O.P. , also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, was an Italian Dominican priest of the Catholic Church, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Communis, or Doctor Universalis...
- Tullia d'AragonaTullia d'AragonaTullia d'Aragona was a 16th century Italian courtesan, author and philosopher in Venice. She had one daughter, Penelope d'Aragona, born in 1535, and a son, Celio, by Silvestro Guiccardi....
- Roberto ArdigòRoberto ArdigoRoberto Felice Ardigò was an Italian philosopher. He was an influential leader of Italian positivism and former Catholic priest....
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- Cesare, Marquis of BeccariaCesare, Marquis of BeccariaCesare, Marquis of Beccaria-Bonesana was an Italian jurist, philosopher and politician best known for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments , which condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology.-Birth and education:Beccaria was born in Milan on March...
- Emilio BettiEmilio BettiEmilio Betti was an Italian jurist, Roman Law scholar, philosopher and theologian. He is best known for his contributions to hermeneutics, part of a broad interest in interpretation...
- Mario BettinusMario BettinusMario Bettinus was an Italian Jesuit philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. The lunar crater Bettinus was named after him by Giovanni Riccioli in 1651. His Apiaria Universae Philosophiae Mathematicae is an encyclopedic collection of mathematical curiosities...
- Cristina BicchieriCristina BicchieriCristina Bicchieri is the S.J.P. Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics in the Philosophy Department at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program. She is also a Professor in the Legal Sudies department of the Wharton School,...
- Norberto BobbioNorberto BobbioNorberto Bobbio was an Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and a historian of political thought. He also wrote regularly for the Turin-based daily La Stampa....
- Remo BodeiRemo BodeiRemo Bodei is an Italian philosopher. He is Professor of the history of philosophy at the UCLA University, Los Angeles California, and also teaches at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa....
- Boncompagno da SignaBoncompagno da SignaBoncompagno da Signa was an Italian scholar, grammarian, historian, and philosopher....
- Andrea BonomìAndrea BonomìAndrea Bonomi is an Italian philosopher and logician. Born in Rome in 1940, he studied with Enzo Paci. After an initial interest in phenomenology , he decided to dedicate himself wholeheartedly to the study of analytic philosophy, particularly the philosophy of language...
- Giovanna BorradoriGiovanna BorradoriGiovanna Borradori is Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College. She has lived in the United States since 1989. Borradori is a specialist of Continental philosophy, Aesthetics, and the philosophy of terrorism...
- Cosimo BoscagliaCosimo BoscagliaCosimo Boscaglia was a professor of philosophy at the University of Pisa in Italy. He is the first person known to have accused Galileo of possible heresy for defending the heliocentric system of Copernicus, in 1613.-References:...
- Giordano BrunoGiordano BrunoGiordano Bruno , born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in proposing that the Sun was essentially a star, and moreover, that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited...
- Appiano BuonafedeAppiano BuonafedeAppiano Buonafede , Italian philosopher, was born in Comacchio, a Province of Ferrara, and died in Rome. He became a professor of theology while in Naples in 1740, and entering the religious body of the Celestines, rose to be general of the order....
- Ernesto BuonaiutiErnesto BuonaiutiErnesto Buonaiuti was an Italian historian, philosopher of religion, Christian priest and anti-fascist. He lost his chair at the University of Rome owing to his opposition to the Fascists and their Concordat with the Catholic Church....
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- Giorgio Bàrberi SquarottiGiorgio Bàrberi SquarottiGiorgio Bàrberi Squarotti was born in Turin in 1929.Since 1967 he has been teaching Italian literature at the University of Turin.He is one of the most important Italian literary critics.-Works:...
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- Niccolò CabeoNiccolo CabeoNiccolò Cabeo was an Italian Jesuit philosopher, theologian, engineer and mathematician.-Biography:He was born in Ferrara in 1586, and was educated at the Jesuit college in Parma beginning in 1602...
- Massimo CacciariMassimo CacciariMassimo Cacciari is an Italian philosopher and politician.Born in Venice, Massimo Cacciari graduated in philosophy from the University of Padua , where he also received his doctorate, writing a thesis on Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Judgment." In 1985, he became professor of Aesthetics at the...
- Giulio CamilloGiulio CamilloGiulio "Delminio" Camillo was an Italian philosopher. He is best known for his theatre, described in his posthumously published work L’Idea del Theatro.-Biography:...
- Tommaso CampanellaTommaso CampanellaTommaso Campanella OP , baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.-Biography:...
- Pantaleo CarabellesePantaleo CarabellesePantaleo Carabellese was an Italian philosopher.- Biography :Graduated from the University of Naples with a "laurea" in history and again from the University of Rome in philosophy , Carabellese taught philosophy in Palermo, Sicily and in Rome , marrying in 1936...
- Roberto CarifiRoberto CarifiRoberto Carifi, was born in 1948 in Pistoia.He is an Italian poet, philosopher, and translator.- Poetry collections :*Infanzia ;*L’obbedienza ;*Occidente ;...
- Armando CarliniArmando CarliniArmando Carlini was an Italian philosopher and author.He was born in Naples, Italy. Carlini was a follower of the Fascist philosopher Giovanni Gentile. In 1922 he replaced Gentile in the chair of theoretical philosophyat the University of Pisa. He died in Pisa, Italy.-References:...
- Carlo Cattaneo
- Cavalcante de' CavalcantiCavalcante de' CavalcantiCavalcante de' Cavalcanti was a Florentine Epicurean philosopher and father of Guido Cavalcanti, a close friend of Dante Alighieri.Cavalcanti was a wealthy member of the Guelph faction of Florentine aristocrats...
- Paola CavalieriPaola CavalieriPaola Cavalieri is an Italian philosopher, most known for her work arguing for extension of human rights to the other great apes. In addition to her books, she was the editor of Etica & Animali, a quarterly international philosophy journal that published nine volumes from 1988 to 1998.-Books:* The...
- Adriana CavareroAdriana CavareroAdriana Cavarero is an Italian philosopher and feminist thinker. She holds the title of Professor of Political Philosophy at the Università degli studi di Verona. She has also held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara, at the New York University and...
- Silvio CeccatoSilvio CeccatoSilvio Ceccato was an Italian philosopher and linguist.Born in Montecchio Maggiore, he studied law and music. In 1949 he founded the international magazine Methodos, which was published until 1964....
- Arrigo Cervetto
- Andrea CesalpinoAndrea CesalpinoAndrea Cesalpino was an Italian physician, philosopher and botanist....
- Michele CianciulliMichele CianciulliMichele Cianciulli was an Italian lawyer, historian and philosopher.Cianciulli, born in Montella, was charged with the teaching of philosophy at the University La Sapienza in Rome.He has written books in history and philosophy...
- Lucio CollettiLucio CollettiLucio Colletti was one of the most important Italian philosophers of the twentieth century, and one of a select few to be known also outside Italy...
- Giorgio ColliGiorgio ColliGiorgio Colli was an Italian philosopher, philologist and historian. A native of Turin, taught ancient philosophy at Pisa's university for thirty years; he edited and translated Aristotle's Organon and the first complete edition of Nietzsche's work , together with his friend Mazzino Montinari...
- Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)Cesare Cremonini, sometimes Cesare Cremonino , was an Italian professor of natural philosophy, working rationalism and Aristotelian materialism inside scholasticism...
- Susanna Creperio VerrattiSusanna Creperio VerrattiSusanna Creperio Verratti is an Italian political philosopher and journalist, whose views are influenced by classical liberalism and liberal conservatism....
- Benedetto CroceBenedetto CroceBenedetto Croce was an Italian idealist philosopher, and occasionally also politician. He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, methodology of history writing and aesthetics, and was a prominent liberal, although he opposed laissez-faire free trade...
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- Francesco D'AndreaFrancesco D'AndreaFrancesco D'Andrea was an Italian jurist and natural philosopher.Born to a patrician family in Naples, he worked as an advocate after obtaining his doctorate in law in 1641. He was active in philosophical circles, including in the Accademia degli Investiganti, which sought to promote modern...
- Mario De CaroMario De CaroMario De Caro is an Italian philosopher , who teaches Moral Philosophy at Università Roma Tre. Since 2000, he has also been teaching at Tufts University. He is interested in moral philosophy, the free-will controversy, theory of action, history of science, and Donald Davidson's and Hilary Putnam's...
- Francesco de Sanctis
- Guidobaldo del MonteGuidobaldo del MonteGuidobaldo del Monte , Marquis del Monte, was an Italian mathematician, philosopher and astronomer of the 16th century.- Biography :...
- Lanza del VastoLanza del VastoLanza del Vasto, , was a philosopher, poet, artist, catholic and nonviolent activist.He was born in San Vito dei Normanni, Italy and died in Elche de la Sierra, Spain....
- Galvano Della VolpeGalvano Della VolpeGalvano Della Volpe was an Italian professor of philosophy and Marxist theorist. In Italy, his work was seen by many as a 'scientific' alternative to the Gramscian Marxism which the PCI had claimed as its guide...
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- Umberto EcoUmberto EcoUmberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...
- Julius EvolaJulius EvolaBarone Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola also known as Julius Evola, was an Italian philosopher and esotericist...
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- Cornelio FabroCornelio FabroCornelio Fabro was an Italian Catholic priest and philosopher.He was the founder of the Institute for Higher Studies on Unbelief, Religion and Cultures. He is known for his prodigious philosophical production and his thomistic thought...
- Giuseppe FerrariGiuseppe FerrariGiuseppe Ferrari was an Italian philosopher, historian and politician.He was born at Milan, studied law at Pavia, and took the degree of doctor in 1831. A follower of Romagnosi and Giovan Battista Vico, his first works were an article in the Biblioteca Italiana Giuseppe Ferrari (7 March 1812 - 2...
- Luigi FerriLuigi FerriLuigi Ferri , Italian philosopher, was born at Bologna.His education was obtained mainly at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where his father, a painter and architect, was engaged in the construction of the Théâtre Italien. From his twenty-fifth year he began to lecture in the colleges of...
- Marsilio FicinoMarsilio FicinoMarsilio Ficino was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance, an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism who was in touch with every major academic thinker and writer of his day, and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin...
- Marianna Marquesa FlorenziMarianna Marquesa FlorenziMarianna Marquesa Florenzi , née Marianna Bacinetti, was an Italian noblewoman and translator of philosophical works...
- Luciano FloridiLuciano FloridiLuciano Floridi currently holds the Research Chair in philosophy of information and the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics, both at the University of Hertfordshire, Department of Philosophy...
- Franco BolelliFranco BolelliFranco Bolelli is one of the leading modern Italian philosophers. A very prolific writer with many books to his credit, he explores the most advanced areas of evolution in order to connect and enhance different creative worlds...
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- Achille GagliardiAchille GagliardiAchille Gagliardi, born at Padua, Italy, in 1537; died at Modena, 6 July 1607, was an ascetic writer and spiritual director; and a member of the Society of Jesus ....
- Giulio Cesare la GallaGiulio Cesare la GallaGiulio Cesare la Galla was a professor of philosophy at the Collegio Romano in Italy....
- Pasquale GalluppiPasquale GalluppiPasquale Galluppi was an Italian philosopher.-Biography and philosophy:Born at Tropea, Calabria, Galluppi from 1831 he was a professor at the University of Naples, where he died in 1846....
- Eugenio GarinEugenio GarinEugenio Garin was an Italian philosopher and Renaissance historian. He was recognised as an authority on the cultural history of the Renaissance...
- Leonardo GarzoniLeonardo GarzoniLeonardo Garzoni was a Jesuit natural philosopher.-Life:The little data we have about Garzoni’s life are the brief notices registered on official documents of the Society of Jesus. From these sources we know that Garzoni was born into a patrician family and that he began his philosophical studies...
- Antonio GenovesiAntonio GenovesiAntonio Genovesi was an Italian writer on philosophy and political economy.-Biography:Genovesi was born at Castiglione, near Salerno....
- Giovanni GentileGiovanni GentileGiovanni Gentile was an Italian neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher, a peer of Benedetto Croce. He described himself as 'the philosopher of Fascism', and ghostwrote A Doctrine of Fascism for Benito Mussolini. He also devised his own system of philosophy, Actual Idealism.- Life and thought :Giovanni...
- Marcantonio GenuaMarcantonio GenuaMarcantonio Genua was a Renaissance Aristotelian philosopher who taught at the University of Padua. He was a teacher and uncle of the great Renaissance philosopher Giacomo Zabarella.-References :...
- Ludovico GeymonatLudovico GeymonatLudovico Geymonat was an Italian Marxist philosopher, who gave an original turn to dialectical materialism....
- Vincenzo GiobertiVincenzo Giobertithumb|250px|Vincenzo Gioberti.Vincenzo Gioberti was an Italian philosopher, publicist and politician.-Biography:Gioberti was born in Turin....
- Melchiorre Gioia
- Antonio GramsciAntonio GramsciAntonio Gramsci was an Italian writer, politician, political philosopher, and linguist. He was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime...
- Luigi Guido Grandi
- Guido del GiudiceGuido del GiudiceGuido del Giudice is an Italian philosopher and writer.- Biography :Del Giudice was born in Naples, Italy, where he still lives. He obtained a degree in medicine from the University of Naples Federico II in 1982, but he continued to cultivate his literary and philosophical studies, becoming a...
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- Alberto JoriAlberto JoriAlberto Jori is an Italian Neo-Aristotelian philosopher.Born in Mantua, he studied in Padua, Cambridge and Heidelberg. In 2003 he won with his book on Aristotle the Prize of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences - International Academy of the History of Science...
- Judah Messer Leon (15th century)Judah Messer Leon (15th century)Judah ben Jehiel Rofe, , more usually called Judah Messer Leon, was an Italian rabbi, teacher, physician, and philosopher...
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- Antonio LabriolaAntonio LabriolaAntonio Labriola was an Italian Marxist theoretician. Although an academic philosopher and never an active member of any Marxist political party, his thought exerted influence on many political theorists in Italy during the early 20th century, including the founder of the Italian Liberal Party,...
- Brunetto LatiniBrunetto LatiniBrunetto Latini was an Italian philosopher, scholar and statesman.-Life:...
- Bruno LeoniBruno LeoniBruno Leoni was an Italian classical-liberal political philosopher and lawyer.Besides being editor for the political science journal Il Politico, Leoni was also involved as secretary and later president of the Mont Pelerin Society...
- Giacomo LeopardiGiacomo LeopardiGiacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist...
- Domenico LosurdoDomenico LosurdoDomenico Losurdo is an Italian philosopher, historian, political theorist and Marxist intellectual.- Life :Losurdo obtained his doctorate in 1963 from the University of Urbino. He is Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Urbino.- Thought :Losurdo criticizes the concept of...
- Carlo LottieriCarlo LottieriCarlo Lottieri is an Italian free-market anarchist philosopher.- Life :He studied philosophy in Genoa and sociology at the Institut Universitaire d’Etudes Européennes at the University of Geneva and in Paris, where he obtained a D.E.A. and a Ph.D. at the Paris-Sorbonne University...
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- Niccolò MachiavelliNiccolò MachiavelliNiccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He is one of the main founders of modern political science. He was a diplomat, political philosopher, playwright, and a civil servant of the Florentine Republic...
- Lorenzo MagnaniLorenzo MagnaniLorenzo Magnani , is an Italian philosopher who teaches philosophy of science in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pavia, where he directs the Computational Philosophy Laboratory. Currently he is a visiting professor at the Sun Yat-sen University in China...
- Terenzio, Count Mamiani della RovereTerenzio, Count Mamiani della RovereTerenzio, Count Mamiani della Rovere was an Italian writer and statesman.He was born in Pesaro. He took part in the outbreaks at Bologna arising out of the accession of Pope Gregory XVI, and was elected deputy for Pesaro to the assembly, and subsequently appointed minister of the interior; but on...
- Giacomo MarramaoGiacomo MarramaoGiacomo Marramao is an Italian philosopher.-Education:Marramao studied at the University of Florence where he graduated in philosophy under Eugenio Garin's guidance in 1969, and he was Fellow Scholar on behalf of the Italian CNR and the Humboldt Foundation at the Goethe University Frankfurt...
- Marsilius of PaduaMarsilius of PaduaMarsilius of Padua Marsilius of Padua Marsilius of Padua (Italian Marsilio or Marsiglio da Padova; (circa 1275 – circa 1342) was an Italian scholar, trained in medicine who practiced a variety of professions. He was also an important 14th century political figure...
- Philip MazzeiPhilip MazzeiPhilip Mazzei was an Italian physician and a promoter of liberty. He was a close friend of Thomas Jefferson and acted as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.-Biography :...
- Jacopo MazzoniJacopo MazzoniJacopo Mazzoni was an Italian philosopher. -Biography:Giacopo Mazzoni was born in Cesena, Italy in 1548...
- Carlo MichelstaedterCarlo MichelstaedterCarlo Michelstaedter was an Italian writer, philosopher, and man of letters.- Life :Carlo Michelstaedter was born in Gorizia, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian County of Gorizia and Gradisca, as the youngest of four children of Albert and Emma Michelstaedter Coen Luzzatto: Gino , Elda , Paula ...
- Gianfranco MiglioGianfranco Migliothumb|Gianfranco Miglio School Centre in [[Adro]].Gianfranco Miglio was an Italian jurist, political scientist and politician, founder of the Partito Federalista. For 30 years, he presided over the Political science Faculty of Milan's Università Cattolica...
- Rodolfo MondolfoRodolfo MondolfoRodolfo Mondolfo was an Italian philosopher who lived in Italy and Argentina.Born at Senigallia, he studied at University of Florence and the University of Siena...
- Maria MontessoriMaria MontessoriMaria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator, a noted humanitarian and devout Catholic best known for the philosophy of education which bears her name...
- Gaetano MoscaGaetano MoscaGaetano Mosca was an Italian political scientist, journalist and public servant. He is credited with developing the Theory of Elitism and the doctrine of the Political class and is one of the three members constituting the Italian School of Elitists together with Vilfredo Pareto and Robert...
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- Antonio NegriAntonio NegriAntonio Negri is an Italian Marxist sociologist and political philosopher.Negri is best-known for his co-authorship of Empire, and secondarily for his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political philosophy professor in his hometown university...
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- Nuccio OrdineNuccio OrdineNuccio Ordine is an Italian professor, philosopher and one of the world's top experts on Renaissance and the philosopher Giordano Bruno.-Biography and career:...
- Gloria OriggiGloria OriggiGloria Origgi is an Italian philosopher at the CNRS in Paris who works on the theory of mind, epistemology and cognitive sciences applied to new technology...
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- Giulio PaceGiulio PaceGiulio Pace of Beriga was a well-known Italian Aristotelian scholar and jurist.-Life:He was born in Vicenza, Italy, and studied law and philosophy in Padua....
- Vilfredo ParetoVilfredo ParetoVilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto , born Wilfried Fritz Pareto, was an Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist and philosopher. He made several important contributions to economics, particularly in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices....
- Luigi PareysonLuigi PareysonLuigi Pareysón was an Italian philosopher.-Biography:Luigi Pareyson was born on 4 February 1918, in Piasco, in the province of Cuneo...
- Franciscus Patricius
- Paul of VenicePaul of VenicePaul of Venice was a Roman Catholic Scholastic philosopher, theologian, and logician of the Hermits of the Order of Saint Augustine.-Life:...
- Giuseppe PeanoGiuseppe PeanoGiuseppe Peano was an Italian mathematician, whose work was of philosophical value. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation. The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named the Peano axioms in...
- Carlo PencoCarlo PencoCarlo Penco is an Italian analytic philosopher and full professor in philosophy of language at the University of Genoa in Italy.He received his Ph.D...
- Marcello PeraMarcello PeraMarcello Pera is an Italian philosopher and politician. He was the President of the Italian Senate from 2001 to 2006.-Career:...
- Paolo da PergolaPaolo da PergolaPaolo da Pergola was an Italian humanist philosopher, mathematician and logician. He was a pupil of Paul of Venice.His most important work was probably De sensu composito et diviso.His logical works were printed early....
- Mario PerniolaMario PerniolaMario Perniola is an internationally acclaimed Italian philosopher, professor of Aesthetics and author. Many of his works have been published in English.-Biography:...
- Giovanni Pico della MirandolaGiovanni Pico della MirandolaCount Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was an Italian Renaissance philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the famous Oration on the Dignity of...
- Giovanni Francesco Pico della MirandolaGiovanni Francesco Pico della MirandolaGiovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola was an Italian philosopher and nephew of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.Like his uncle he devoted himself chiefly to philosophy, but made it subject to the Bible, though in his treatises, De studio divinæ et humanæ sapientiæ and particularly in the six books...
- Pietro d'AbanoPietro d'AbanoPietro d'Abano also known as Petrus De Apono or Aponensis was an Italian philosopher, astrologer and professor of medicine in Padua. He was born in the Italian town from which he takes his name, now Abano Terme. He gained fame by writing Conciliator Differentiarum, quæ inter Philosophos et Medicos...
- Massimo PigliucciMassimo PigliucciMassimo Pigliucci is the chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY-Lehman College. He is also the editor in chief for the journal . He is known as an outspoken critic of creationism and advocate of science education.-Biography:...
- Pietro PomponazziPietro PomponazziPietro Pomponazzi was an Italian philosopher. He is sometimes known by his Latin name, Petrus Pomponatius.-Biography:...
- Boris PorenaBoris PorenaBoris Porena is an Italian thinker, music composer and didactical expert. He is married to Paola Bučan, a famous Croatian cellist and teacher, who is a tenured professor at the Perugia Conservatory....
- Simone PorzioSimone PorzioSimone Porzio was an Italian philosopher, born and died in Naples.Like his greater contemporary, Pomponazzi, he was a lecturer on medicine at Pisa , and in later life gave up purely scientific study for speculation on the nature of man...
- Costanzo PreveCostanzo PreveCostanzo Preve is an Italian philosopher and a political theoretician. Today is one of the most important anti-capitalist European thinkers and his thought is based on the Old Greek and Idealistic tradition philosophy...
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- Gian Domenico RomagnosiGian Domenico RomagnosiGian Domenico Romagnosi was an Italian philosopher, economist and jurist.-Biography:Gian Domenico Romagnosi was born in Salsomaggiore Terme....
- Antonio Rosmini-SerbatiAntonio Rosmini-SerbatiBlessed Antonio Rosmini-Serbati was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and philosopher. He founded the Rosminians, officially the Institute of Charity or Societas a charitate nuncupata.-Biography:...
- Carlo RosselliCarlo RosselliCarlo Rosselli was an Italian political leader, journalist, historian and anti-fascist activist, first in Italy then abroad...
- Gian-Carlo RotaGian-Carlo RotaGian-Carlo Rota was an Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher.-Life:Rota was born in Vigevano, Italy...
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- Gaetano SanseverinoGaetano SanseverinoGaetano Sanseverino was an Italian philosopher and theologian. He made a comparative study including the scholastics, particularly St...
- Lorenzo ScupoliLorenzo ScupoliLorenzo Scupoli was the author of Il combattimento spirituale , one of the most important works of Catholic spirituality.-Life:...
- Emanuele SeverinoEmanuele SeverinoEmanuele Severino is one of the most important contemporary Italian philosophers.Severino studied at the University of Pavia under Gustavo Bontadini, though he broke publicly from Bontadini in 1970 while both were on the faculty of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan...
- Manlio SgalambroManlio SgalambroManlio Sgalambro is an Italian philosopher and writer.- Biography :- Philosophical production :Sgalambro does not have titles or degrees for business cards: how he has become a writer of philosophy – whose books are translated in French, German and Spanish – is a mystery that he is not able to...
- Shemariah of NegropontShemariah of NegropontShemariah ben Elijah Ikriti of Negropont was an Jewish-Italian philosopher and Biblical exegete, contemporary of Dante and Immanuel. He was born probably at Rome, the descendant of a long line of Roman Jews...
- Nicola Antonio StigliolaNicola Antonio StigliolaNicola Antonio Stigliola was an Italian philosopher, printer, architect, and medical doctor...
- Palla StrozziPalla StrozziPalla di Onofrio Strozzi was an Italian banker, politician, writer, philosopher and philologist.-Biography:He was born in Florence into the rich family of the Strozzi. He was educated by humanists, learning Greek and Latin, and establishing an important collection of rare books...
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- Bernardino TelesioBernardino TelesioBernardino Telesio was an Italian philosopher and natural scientist.While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation made him the "first of the moderns" who eventually developed thescientific method.-Biography:...
- Adriano Tilgher (philosopher)Adriano Tilgher (philosopher)Adriano Tilgher was an Italian philosopher and essayist.-Biography:Tilgher was born in Resina ....
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- Pietro UbaldiPietro UbaldiPietro Ubaldi was an Italian philosopher.-Biography:Pietro de Alleori Ubaldi was born in Foligno/Italy and died in Sao Vicente/Brazil . He was graduated in Law and Music. Fluent in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese in addition to his native Italian, he also knew Latin and Greek...
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- Giovanni VailatiGiovanni VailatiGiovanni Vailati was an Italian proto-analytic philosopher, historian of science, and mathematician.- Life :Vailati was born in Crema, Lombardy, and studied engineering at the University of Turin. He went on to lecture in the history of mechanics there from 1896 to 1899, after working as assistant...
- Bernardino VariscoBernardino VariscoBernardino Varisco , was an Italian philosopher and a Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza from 1905 to 1925.-Life:...
- Nicla VassalloNicla VassalloNicla Vassallo , is an Italian philosopher with research and teaching interests in epistemology, philosophy of knowledge, theoretical philosophy, as well as feminist philosophy...
- Gianni VattimoGianni VattimoGianteresio Vattimo, also known as Gianni Vattimo is an internationally recognized Italian author, philosopher, and politician. Many of his works have been translated into English.-Biography:...
- Augusto VeraAugusto VeraAugusto Vera was an Italian philosopher who followed Hegel's theories and translated many of his works.-Life:Vera was born in Amelia in the province of Terni. He was educated in Rome and Paris, and, after teaching classics for some years in Geneva, held chairs of philosophy in various colleges in...
- Nicoletto VerniaNicoletto VerniaNicoletto Vernia was an Italian Averroist philosopher, at the University of Padua.-Life:He studied at Pavia, under Paolo da Pergola in Venice, and with Gaetano da Thiene in Padua, graduating with a doctorate in 1458...
- Pietro VerriPietro VerriPietro Verri was an Italian philosopher, economist, historian and writer.-Biography:Born in Milan, then under Austrian rule, to a conservative noble family, he received a strongly religious education, from which he began to rebel when he reached his twenties...
- Vittorio VettoriVittorio VettoriVittorio Vettori was an Italian poet, writer and humanist, passionate spokesperson of ‘’Toscana Europea’’.He has been author of more than 200 volumes of poetry, narrative, philosophy, literary criticism and Dante essays translated into diverse languages.-External links:* * Vittorio Vettori(1920...
- Giambattista VicoGiambattista VicoGiovanni Battista ' Vico or Vigo was an Italian political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist....
- Francesco VimercatoFrancesco VimercatoFrancesco Vimercato was an Italian Aristotelian scholar. He was a Royal Reader in Philosophy in Paris. He is known for his commentaries on Aristotle’s ethical and zoological works....
- Thomas CajetanThomas CajetanThomas Cajetan , also known as Gaetanus, commonly Tommaso de Vio , was an Italian cardinal. He is perhaps best known among Protestants for his opposition to the teachings of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation while he was the Pope's Legate in Wittenberg, and perhaps best known among...
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- Abraham YagelAbraham YagelAbraham Yagel was an Italian Jewish catechist, philosopher, and cabalist. He lived successively at Luzzara, Venice, Ferrara, and Sassuolo.-Life and identity:...
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- Jacopo ZabarellaJacopo ZabarellaGiacomo Zabarella was an Italian Aristotelian philosopher and logician. He was accused of atheism for the notable chapter "De inventione æterni motoris" in his De rebus naturalibus libri XXX....
- Giuseppe ZevolaGiuseppe ZevolaGiuseppe Zevola is a painter, philosopher and poet.He has taught courses on painting at the Academy of Art of Rome and Catania and Perception and Visual Communication at Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples, the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies...