Members

Martino Rossi Monti is the project manager and a Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, Croatia. His research interests include cultural pessimism, the problem of evil, suffering, and violence in the history of ideas, Renaissance philosophy, and the Platonic tradition. To these topics he has dedicated several essays, one volume and five edited and co-edited collections.

Roberto Bondì is an Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Calabria, Italy. A leading expert on the thought of Bernardino Telesio, he has also written on the Cambridge Platonists and especially on Henry More. His research extends to exploring the intersection of philosophy, theology, and science in early modernity. More recently, he has worked on the thought of the English chemist James Lovelock, focusing on the scientific and philosophical debate about the Gaia hypothesis. Bondì has authored three books on this subject, the latest of which deals with the place of the Gaia theory in the history of the idea of the Earth as a living being.

Fabio Dei is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Pisa, Italy. His research revolves around several key areas: 1) epistemology and history of anthropological studies; 2) popular culture and mass culture in contemporary Italian and European society; 3) anthropology of violence, particularly focusing on mass violence and genocide in contemporary history; 4) medical anthropology, with specific interests in alternative medicine and New Age therapies in Tuscany, the spread of magic across television broadcasts, and the interplay between official, alternative, and popular medicine in the region. To these topics Dei has dedicated several books, essays, and articles.

Roberto Gronda is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pisa, Italy. His research encompasses the philosophy of science, the philosophy of social sciences and humanities, the philosophy of scientific competence, and pragmatism. Gronda is the author of two monographs on the thought of John Dewey and has contributed numerous essays and chapters to both Italian and international journals and collections.

Darko Polšek is a Full Professor of Anthropology at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. His areas of expertise include sociobiology, social philosophy, sociology of science, epistemology, philosophy of science, as well as the analysis and critique of political phenomena and doctrines. He has been involved in several international research projects and has authored numerous papers and books in these fields. Additionally, he has extensive experience in higher education and regularly collaborates to media outlets by writing columns and articles on topics related to sociology and science.

Federico Scarpelli is a Research Fellow at the University of Salerno, Italy. His scientific activity encompasses theoretical-epistemological production as well as research work in Italy, primarily focusing on the relationship between cultural heritage and territorial identity and the field of “urban anthropology”. In the study of social science epistemology, he has examined John Searle’s “social ontology” through the lens of cultural anthropology. Also, he has recently explored the so-called “ontological turn”, an influential theoretical perspective bridging anthropology and philosophy.