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Nicla VassalloDepartment of Philosophy, University of Genova The Soul unto itself |
Background in a nutshell PhD in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy - University of Genoa, Italy.
Brief CVProf. Nicla Vassallo (Porto Maurizio-Imperia, 1963) studied philosophy at the University of Genova and at King’s College London – University of London. After receiving her Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science, she was appointed Research Fellow and then Researcher. In 2002 she qualified as Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science (Idoneità da Professore Associato in Logica e Filosofia della Scienza) at the University of Catania, and then in 2004 as Full Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (Idoneità da Professore Ordinario in Filosofia Teoretica) at the University of Bergamo. From 2003 to 2008 she was Visiting Professor at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, where she lectures on Epistemology in the Psychology Faculty. Since 2005 she has been a Full Professor (Professore Ordinario) in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Genova. She taught Philosophical Propaedeutics, Philosophy of Knowledge and Epistemology. She now teaches Theoretical Philosophy and is part of the teaching staff of the Doctorate in Philosophy. In recent years Nicla Vassallo has been responsible for seven research projects for the CNR (National Research Council). She has been a Board Member of SIFA (Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy), a Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Iride: Filosofia e discussione pubblica and the on-line dictionary Foldop, a Member of the Board of Referees of CIVR (Committee for Research Evaluation) for VTR (the first Italian Research Evaluation Exercise), and a Member of the Scientific Committee of 2-R - The Journal of Philosophical Reviews, and Readings – The Swif’s series of E-books. She currently is Book Review Editor for the journal Epistemologia: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia della Scienza, and an Affiliated Member of Associazione Festival della scienza, Centro Studi Urbani, and CRESA (Center of Research in Experimental and Applied Epistemology). She is a Member of the Advisory Board of the European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, the Institute for Scientific Methodology, and the journal Iride: Filosofia e discussione pubblica. She is a Member of the Boards of Directors of Fondazione per la Cultura, and a Member of the Editorial Board of Gender, Iris: European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate, the L&PS: Logic and Philosophy of Science - An Electronic Journal, the on–line journal Nordicum-Mediterraneum, and the on–line journal Rescogitans, and a Member of the contributors to the on–line journal Ingenere.it. Finally, she is a Member of the Scientific Committee of Evocamondi, Il Festival della Scienza, Il Festival per l'Economia Interculturale, O.N.DA (Osservatorio Nazionale sulla Salute della Donna), OspedaleDonna, Rivista di Estetica, and the on–line journal Scienza & Filosofia. Nicla Vassallo has served as Referee for the following publications, publishers, and conferences: Carocci, Codice Edizioni, Dialectica: International Journal of Philosophy, Editori Laterza, Epistemologia: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia della Scienza, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, FrancoAngeli, Giulio Einaudi Editore, Iride: Filosofia e discussione pubblica, Iris: European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate, Nordicum-Mediterraneum, Rivista di Estetica, Ulisse Biblioteca, "Wittgenstein Today" (Bologna 2001), "Representing and Inferring" (Bergamo 2002), "Philosophy and European Culture" (Genova 2004), "Brain, Persons, and Society" (Milano 2006), “Ontology, Mind and Language” (Bergamo 2008). She works mainly in the area of Analytic Philosophy. Her primary research and teaching areas are Philosophy of Knowledge and Epistemology. She also has serious research interests in Feminist Philosophies, Gender Studies, History and Philosophy of Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophical Naturalism and Scepticism. Nicla Vassallo has written more than sixty articles in Italian and in English that have appeared in philosophical journals, edited books, conference proceedings, and encyclopedias, and has published six books, edited three others, and co–edited six more. Her latest sole–authored work is Teoria della conoscenza (Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003; second edition 2008) and her latest co–authored work is Filosofia delle donne (Laterza, Roma-Bari 2007; second edition 2007). Her most recent edited book is Donna m'apparve (Codice Edizioni, Torino 2009), and her most recent co–edited book is Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation. On the Philosophy of Donald Davidson (Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt, 2008). Her writings have been extensively recorded in The Philosopher’s Index and her books have been reviewed in: Avanti!, Bibliographie de la Philosophie, Bollettino SFI, Corriere della Sera, Crítica, Diario, Diogene Filosofare Oggi, 2–R – The Journal of Philosophical Reviews, Epistemologia, Filosofia, Galileo - Giornale di scienza e problemi globali, Gender, Giornale di Brescia, Giornale di Filosofia, History and Philosophy of Logic, Il Manifesto, Il Sannio, Ilmondodisofia, Il Secolo XIX, Iride, Journal of Pragmatics, La Provincia, La Repubblica-Genova, L’Espresso, L’Indice, La Nuova, Lingua e Stile, Marie Claire, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Nuova Secondaria, Quotidiano di Bari, Ragion Pratica, Ref–Recensioni Filosofiche, Rinascita, Rivista dei Libri, Rivista di Filosofia, Rivista di Filosofia Neo–Scolastica, Rivista di Psicologia Analitica, Rivista di Storia della Filosofia, Sapere, Sunday Cultural Supplement of Sole–24 Ore, Swif–Recensioni, The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, TTL–La Stampa. Nicla Vassallo has given talks in many of the most important Italian Universities (Bergamo, Bologna, Cagliari, Firenze, Genova, Messina, Milano Cattolica, Milano San Raffaele, Milano Statale, Padova, Pisa, Reggio Emilia, Roma La Sapienza, Roma Tre, Salerno, Sassari, Torino, Trieste, Trento, Urbino, Venezia) and abroad in France, Denmark, Great Britain, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey. She contributes to various blogs, magazines, newspapers, and regularly writes for the Sunday Cultural Supplement of the newspaper Sole-24 Ore.
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