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ANTONIO MARIA NUNZIANTE
Position
Professore Associato
Address
PIAZZA CAPITANIATO, 3 - PALAZZO DEL CAPITANIO - PADOVA
Telephone
0498274508
I am Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Padua, Italy. My research focuses on naturalism and the history of metaphysics. I initially worked on Leibniz—especially on the concepts of “life” and “organism”—and on the relationship between Leibniz and Hegel. Over the past fifteen years, I have focused on American philosophical naturalism, with particular attention to Wilfrid Sellars and his relation to the history of modern Western philosophy. My forthcoming book, Naturalism and Civilization: The Evolutionary Way to History, Culture, and Religion (Springer Nature, 2026), examines naturalistic approaches to human civilization and culture. My current research investigates the ways in which naturalism reshapes key concepts of Western civilization, such as history, culture, and religion.
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Pubblicazioni
More recent publications:
2024 – Placing Culture in Nature. Notes from the Mid-Twentieth Century American Anthropological Debate, “European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy”, XVI/2.
https://doi.org/10.4000/12yvj
2024 - Naturalism and Civilization (1927-1947), “Cogent Arts & Humanities”, 11/1 https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2024.2352216
2023 – American Gods. Debunking the Symbolic Dimension of Early American Naturalism. “American Journal of Theology and Philosophy” 44 (1), pp. 47-69 -
https://doi.org/10.5406/21564795.44.1.03
2023 – Husserl’s Legacy in Sellars’s Philosophical Strategy, in Daniele De Santis, Danilo Manca (eds.), Sellars and Phenomenology, Athens: Ohio University Press, pp. 14-36.
2022 – Both Natural and Supernatural: Leibniz’s Integrated Model of Life – Springer Forthcoming
2021 - Tropes Variations: the Topic of Particulars beyond Sellars’s Myth of the Given. “Synthese”, 199, pp. 12019-12043 -
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03322-1
2020 – Marvin Farber e il progetto di una naturalizzazione della fenomenologia, “Discipline Filosofiche” XXX/1, pp. 135-157.
2020 - Between Laws and Norms. Genesis of the Concept of Organism in Leibniz and in the Early Modern Western Philosophy, in Natural Born Monads. On the Metaphysics of Organisms and Human Individuals, ed. by A. Altrobrando, P. Biasetti, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 11-32.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110604665-002
2018 - The lingua franca of Nominalism. Sellars on Leibniz, Routledge, New York, pp. 36-58.
Area di ricerca
Philosophy of Nature; History of Metaphysics; American Philosophical Naturalism, Early American Phenomenology, Sellars and Sellarsian Studies,Early modern Philosophy (Leibniz), Classical German philosophy (Kant, Hegel).
Tesi proposte
I am available to follow thesis works on the following topics: philosophical naturalism, twentieth century American philosophy, history of phenomenology in the United States, contemporary metaphilosophy.
