Collaborators and Students

Alberto Benetti is a graduate student in Philosophical Sciences at the University of Bologna. His interests range from Spinozism to contemporary French philosophy and psychoanalysis, with particular focus on the works of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan.

Lorenzo D’Errico was born in Lecce in 1999 and has been attending the Faculty of Philosophy at Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna since the 2018/19 academic year. In 2022, he obtained his Bachelor's degree in Philosophy with a thesis on the role of art in Spinoza's philosophy, under the supervision of Professor Lorenzo Vinciguerra. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Philosophical Sciences at Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna and is particularly interested in art as a form of expression of the body's power.

Valerio Mangiacotti is a philosophy student at the University of Bologna. His interests include analytic philosophy, particularly logic, the history of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and epistemology.

Giovanni Paolo Pilloni attends philosophy at the Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna. Interested in Spinoza and moral philosophy, especially in its interactions and implications with modern psychology. Also passionate about existentialism, natural sciences, literature and cinema.Got it, thanks!Thank you!Got it!Questi suggerimenti sono stati utili?

Paola Pia Santoro studies Philosophy at the University of Bologna. She is mainly interested in political philosophy, particularly in Marxist interpretations of Spinozism and the feminist movement.

Giacomo Tore is pursuing a Master's degree in Philosophical Sciences at the University of Bologna. He completed his Bachelor's degree with a thesis in the History of Philosophy under Professor Elisabetta Scapparone on the problem of language in Baruch Spinoza's thought. His interests range from the history of ancient philosophy to medieval, Renaissance, and modern philosophy, with a particular focus on ontological and epistemological themes and their ethical-political implications.

Marco Di Ganci is pursuing a Master's degree in Philosophical Sciences at the University of Bologna. His areas of interest range from the history of medieval philosophy to modern philosophy. In particular, he focuses on themes related to God, religion, and ethics in Spinoza.

Federica Melis is an undergraduate student at the University of Bologna. Her interests revolve around ancient, humanistic-Renaissance, and modern thought, focusing on certain philosophical topics. These include the relationship between perception and representation, both conceptual and artistic, imaginative activity and depiction, the connections between sense and truth, experience, and the a priori.

Silvia Lusenti is an undergraduate student of Philosophy and Languages and Literature at the University of Bologna. During her studies, she has developed an interest in the philosophy of language, ethics, logic, and the study of foreign languages such as German, Dutch, French, and English.

Eduardo Serna is a graduate student at the University of Bologna “Alma Mater Studiorum.” He collaborates with the research center “Sive Natura” and has always been oriented towards a transdisciplinary approach to research. His interests focus on ontology and the theory of imagination in Spinoza’s philosophy, particularly on issues concerning the constitution of subjectivity and identity, as well as the connections with its multiple semiological, neuroscientific, and psychological facets.

Olmo Ubaldi was born in 2002 in Urbino and is in the final year of his Bachelor's degree in Philosophy in Bologna. Since his first year, he has been drawn to Spinoza's thought in all its aspects.

Margherita Bovo graduated in Philosophy in July 2023 and is currently enrolled in the Master's degree program in Philosophical Sciences at the University of Bologna. Her interests primarily focus on the influence and interpretations of Spinoza and the manipulations of the doctrine of causa sui during the Enlightenment, particularly concerning the issue of atheism.