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ANDREA ALTOBRANDO
Position
Professore Associato
Address
PIAZZA CAPITANIATO, 3 - PALAZZO DEL CAPITANIO - PADOVA
Telephone
0498274711
Education and Training
01/01/2009–19/03/2012
Dottore di ricerca
Università degli Studi di Padova
Theoretical and Practical Philosophy
01/01/2003–18/04/2008
Doktor der Philosophie
Bergische Universität Wuppertal & Università degli Studi di Torino
Philosophy and Philosophical Hermeneutics
01/01/2002–30/11/2002
Master in Intercultural Studies
Università degli Studi di Padova
Philosophy of Interculturality; Chinese Philosophy and Culture
01/09/1995–15/03/2001
Diploma di Laurea in Filosofia
Università degli Studi di Milano
Theoretical Philosophy
Academic Teaching and Research Experience
30/04/2022 - Ongoing
Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy
University of Padova
30/04/2019–29/04/2022
Senior Researcher of Theoretical Philosophy
University of Padova
01/04/2019–Ongoing
Visiting Professor/Foreign Expert of Philosophy
China University of Political Science and Law
01/03/2017–28/02/2019
Special Appointed Professor of Philosophy
China University of Political Science and Law
01/04/2016–31/03/2017
Special Appointed Lecturer
Hokkaido University
01/11/2013–30/11/2015
JSPS Research Fellow
Hokkaido University
22/11/2010–01/04/2011
Teaching assistant and Translator
Scuola di Alta Formazione Filosofica – Torino
01/11/2008–31/10/2009
post-doc Research Fellow
Universität zu Köln - Husserl Archiv (Germany)
Qualifications
2023: National Academic Qualification as Full Professor (Theoretical Philosophy) – Italy
2015: National Academic Qualification as Associate Professor (Theoretical Philosophy) – Italy
Involvement in International Research Groups
"International Network Genetic Phenomenology and the Human Sciences", University of Cologne. Scientific coordinator: Prof. Jagna Brudzinska
"Phenomenology and Japanese Philosophy", Hokkaido University. Scientific coordinator: Prof. Shigeru Taguchi
Referee Assignments for Scientific Journals
- Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
- Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
- Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics
- Journal of Japanese Philosophy
- Paradigmi
- Archivio di filosofia
- Rivista di Metafisica
- Social Imaginaries
- Verifiche
Executive Editor of "Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy"
Individual Research Grants:
- Nankai One Hundred Young Academic Leaders Program Award (refused). Duration: 6 years
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Visiting Research Fellowship, Nov. 2013 - Oct. 2015
- University of Padua, Senior Research Grant, (refused), Jan. 2014 - Dec. 2015
- Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation, Post-doc Fellowship, Nov. 2008 – Oct. 2015
- University of Milan, post-lauream Research Abroad Grant, Dec. 2004 – Nov. 2006
- DAAD, research scholarship, Oct. 2004 – Aug. 2005
Group Research Grants:
"The Comparative Study of Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy" - Qualification: Foreign Expert. PI: Prof. Haojun Zhang (CUPL), supported by The National Social Science Fund of China (NSSFC)
"Disagreement. A Pluralistic Approach". PI: Prof. Massimiliano Carrara (University of Padua). University of Padua, Progetto di Ateneo.
"Individuality-consciousness, community, well-being and nothingness”. PI: Prof. Shigeru Taguchi (Hokkaido Univeristy). Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kakenhi grant-in-aid, 2013-2015.
Notices
Office hours
Thursday from 14:00 to 19:00
at Palazzo del Capitanio, secondo piano (quello della biblioteca)
Si invita a prendere sempre previamente appuntamento con il docente via e-mail. E' teoricamente possibile fissare appuntamenti anche per altri giorni e orari. Per i ricevimenti telematici, questo è il link: https://unipd.zoom.us/j/5132011779
Publications
Books
(2013), Esperienza e infinito. Contributo per una fenomenologia dell'origine e dell'idea di infinito a partire da Husserl (Experience and the Infinite. Contribution to a phenomenology of the idea of infinity outgoing from Husserl), Verifiche, Trento.
(2013), Il mito come forma e contenuto (Myth as Form and Content), Cleup, Padova.
(2010), Husserl e il problema della monade (Husserl and the problem of the monad), Trauben, Torino.
Articles (selection)
(2025), «Monad, as a Concept in Phenomenology», in T. Toadvine, N. De Warren (eds.), Springer Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, Springer.
(2025), «Limited Access. Reflections on the Husserlian Monad», in: I. Apostolescu and M. Shafiei (eds.), Husserl and Leibniz - Metaphysics, Monadology and Phenomenology, Springer.
(2024), (with T. Gholami), «A Phenomenological Assessment of Mulla Sadra’s View of the Individual Mind», Journal of Philosophical Theological Research
(2024), «Giudizio e realtà. Dalla kantiana confutazione dell’idealismo alla fenomenologia trascendentale», Bollettino filosofico
(2023), «The Resistance of the Given», Review of Metaphysics
(2023), «Observing Mythical Entities. A Husserlian Journey through Sellars’ Stories of Inner Episodes, Impressions, and Sense Data», Grazer Philosophische Studien
(2023), «Sketch of a Phenomenological Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Infinite», Discipline filosofiche
(2023), «On Husserl’s so-called Reduction to the Real Component (Reduktion auf den reellen Bestand)», Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
(2023), (with R. Stone), «Pure Experience Revisited. A Critical Reassessment of Nishida Kitaro’s Radicalization of William James’ Empiricism», The Philosophical Forum
(2023), (with S. Villani), «Realizing the Imaginary: Mental Images and the Instruments of Freedom», Studia Phaenomenologica
Edited volumes
(2024) with S. Aurora (eds.), Phenomenology and the Sciences, Thematic issue of “Studia Phaenomenologica”.
(2023) with A. Pugliese (eds.), Beyond Consciousness. Paths of Phenomenological Research. Thematic issue of “Discipline filosofiche”, XXXIII, 2, 2023.
(2022) with H. Zhang (eds.), Demystifying the Given. Synthese Topical Collection.
(2020) with P. Biasetti (eds), Natural Born Monads. On the Metaphysics of Organisms and Human Individuals, De Gruyter.
(2019) with S. Taguchi (eds), Phenomenology and Japanese Philosophy, Springer.
(2018) with R. Stone and T. Niikawa (eds), The Realizations of the Self, Palgrave MacMillan.
(2006) with G. Turus (eds), Biodifferenze, Esedra, Padova.
Complet list:
https://www.research.unipd.it/simple-search?query=&location=&filter_field_1=author&filter_type_1=contains&filter_value_1=Altobrando&sort_by=bi_sort_2_sort&order=asc&rpp=10&etal=0&start=0#.YIaPJKHOM2w
Research Area
Phenomenology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology
Thesis proposals
I particularly welcome theses on the following subjects:
- the self, subjectivity, mind, and consciousness;
- perception;
- imagination;
- phenomenological topics;
- Descartes' Metaphysics and Epistemology;
- issues in Husserl's philosophy;
- issues in Sartre's philosophy (especially his theory of imagination, subjectivity, and consciousness);
- theories of judgement (especially in the Brentanian and phenomenological tradition).
