Professors

Deputy Director of the Institute of Philosophy (ISFI) in Lugano, where he also directs the Bachelor in Philosophy (BAF) and the Master in Philosophy (MAP), which he helped establishing in 2017. After earning his PhD at the University of Geneva (2014), he taught at the Universities of Fribourg (2014/17), Geneva (2015/17), and Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford (2019). He was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in the City of New York (2013/14) and Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford (2019/20). He is a specialist in analytic metaphysics, and his interests also include medieval philosophy and philosophy of science. On these topics, he has given around 70 lectures or public talks in various countries and authored one monograph and several articles published in top international philosophy journals, such as The Journal of Philosophy, The Philosophical Quarterly, and Synthese. In 2022, his research project “Temporal Existence” received a 1.8 million CHF grant over five years within the prestigious Swiss National Science Foundation “Starting Grant” scheme.

Researcher at ISFI within the SNSF project “Equivalence in Metaphysics”, he studied Philosophy in Lugano and Geneva. In 2023, he obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Geneva.

Luigi Marco Bassani (Chicago, 1963) is full professor of History of Political Thought at Pegaso Telematic University. He teaches History of Political Theory and History of Contemporary Political Thought.

His research fields are American political thought from the Revolution to the Civil War, revolutionary syndicalism, classical liberalism, Machiavellian historiography, and the social philosophy of the Austrian School of economics.

Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews (UK), Arché Research Centre, and Honorary Member of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam (NL). He has also worked at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Notre Dame (US), at the Sorbonne-Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris (FR), at and at the Universities of Aberdeen (UK), Venice, Padua, Milan-San Raffaele (IT). He works on logic, metaphysics and formal epistemology and has published a number of papers and books on these subjects. He co-edits four entries of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and currently serves as editor-in-chief of The Philosophical Quarterly.

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan. After completing her PhD in Philosophy of Language (University of Eastern Piedmont), she conducted research abroad at Northwestern University in Chicago, Kansas State University, Bilkent University, UC Davis, Ohio State University, Oslo University, and the School of Advanced Study (London). She was also a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bristol. She works in the philosophy of mathematics, particularly Fregean logicism and, more generally, the abstractionist approach to the foundations of mathematics. She has published in various journals (e.g., Studia Logica, Erkenntnis, Philosophia Mathematica, The Review of Symbolic Logic, The Journal of Philosophical Logic) and international collections (Springer, Routledge, Oxford University Press). She is a founding member of the Italian Network for the Philosophy of Mathematics (FilMat).

Full Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bergamo, Visiting Professor of Logic and Ontology at the San Raffaele University in Milan, and a member of the doctoral board of the FINO program. He has taught and conducted research at the Universities of Genoa, Urbino, Fribourg, and Neuchâtel. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London, Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York, a board member of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, President of the Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy, and founding member of SIFIT. At Bergamo, he served on the Academic Senate and as Director of several departments. He is the author of two monographs, over sixty articles and book chapters, and editor of nine collected volumes.

Full Professor of Logic at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA) – University of Padua and Teaching Fellow at Bocconi University in Milan. He was for several years Visiting Professor at Renmin University of China (Beijing, China). Previously, he was Visiting Researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Visiting Scholar at Hokkaido University in Sapporo (Japan), and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York (US).

Annalisa Coliva è professore ordinario all’Università della California, Irvine.
Precedenti posizioni: Ricercatore universitario (2005), Professore associato (2010) Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italia).
Titoli accademici: PhD St. Andrews (UK), Dottorato in Filosofia del linguaggio, Vercelli (Italy), M.Litt. St. Andrews (UK), Laurea in Filosofia Bologna (Italy).
Interessi di ricerca: epistemologia generale, sociale e applicata, specialmente: scetticismo, relativismo, disaccordo, testimonianza, fiducia epistemica anche nei confronti dell’intelligenza artificiale, ingiustizia epistemica; filosofia della mente, in particolare: conoscenza dei nostri stati mentali, filosofia della percezione, concetti, pensieri indicali e dimostrativi; storia della filosofia analitica, con particolare attenzione al pensiero di Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. Moore, Susan Stebbing e Friedrich Waismann.
Principali pubblicazioni: Wittgenstein Rehinged. The Significance of On Certainty for Contemporary Epistemology (Anthem, 2022); Skepticism (con D. Pritchard, Routledge 2022), Relativism (con M. Baghramian, Routledge 2020), The Varieties of Self-knowledge (Palgrave, 2016), Extended Rationality. A Hinge Epistemology (Palgrave, 2015).

Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Faculty of Economics of the Catholic University of Milan. He deals with the relationship between formal knowledge and classical philosophical themes, especially ontological and epistemological ones. Specifically, he is interested in the ontologic relevance of higher-order systems of logic, the characterization of the domain of natural numbers, the formalization of the logical consequence nexus, and the formal treatment of the truth predicate. Currently, his research paths concern: systems of pragmatic logic of illocutionary acts; characterization of the nexus of conceptual grounding and abstraction principles; temporal logic models for the discussion of the compatibility of omniscience and freedom.

Researcher in Political and Law Philosophy. She has published articles on federalism and the Middle East and has delivered conference talks in Italy, Switzerland, Israel, and Abu Dhabi. She is currently completing a research project on religious minorities within Swiss federalism.

As Referente di Rettorato e Decanato of the FTL, she is responsible for academic administration and relations with USI services.  In this role, she also acts as the FTL’s liaison with the Agenzia della Santa Sede per la Valutazione e la Promozione della Qualità delle Università e Facoltà Ecclesiastiche (AVEPRO), with which she actively collaborates.

She earned a BA from the Institute of Philosophy of the FTL, an MA in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Milan, a PhD in Philosophy from the Pontificia Università Lateranense in Rome, and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the School of Political Science of the University of Haifa (Israel).

Research interests: the political and constitutional history and the relationship between politics and religion in Middle Eastern countries; Swiss federalism and Swiss history.

Professor of Aesthetics at the Catholic University of Milan. He has dealt with the relationship between aesthetics and ontology in modern and contemporary times, the relationship between philosophy and certain artistic operations, and the relationship between aesthetics and new technologies. Among other things, he has published: Sub specie aeternitatis. Luoghi dell’ontologia spinoziana (Milano 2011), Estetica dei media e della comunicazione (Bologna 2011, with A. Somaini), Aesthetics of the Virtual (Albany-New York 2012), The Sensible Invisible (Milan-London, 2015), Vermeer, Góngora, Spinoza. L'esthétique comme science intuitive (Paris 2016), Decostruzionismo (Milan 2016), Imagine, Art and Virtuality  (Cham 2021), Logos esthétique (Paris 2021).

He graduated from the University of Pisa under the guidance of Vittorio Sainati. In 1981, he received the scholarship DAAD (Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst) for the Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg (under the guidance of H.G. Gadamer). In 1987, he completed his postgraduate studies in Philosophy at the University of Genoa under the guidance of Alberto Caracciolo. He became lecturer in Philosophy of Religions in 1991, associate professor of Theoretical Philosophy in 1998, and full professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Pisa in 2001. He was a speaker at the National Ecclesial Convention in Verona in 2006 and, in 2015, at the National Ecclesial Convention in Florence, both organised by the Episcopal Conference of Italy (C.E.I.) He has been working regularly with the Social Communications Office of the C.E.I. Since 2014, he has been a member of the Ministerial Committee for the promotion of technical-scientific culture in Italy. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Catholic University Centre of the C.E.I.

Researcher and lecturer at USI-FTL, Paolo’s interest lies in theoretical philosophy (primarily metaphysics), both in its historical development (primarily in Ancient Greece) and in the contemporary debate. He earned his PhD from the University of Geneva with a thesis on change in Plato’s Theaetetus, his MA from USI and his BA from the University of Bologna. During his PhD, he visited the University of Oxford. At USI, Paolo is also the coordinator of the Bachelor (BAF) and Master in Philosophy (MAP), and tutors students of the Institute of Philosophy (ISFI). He has taught Introduction to Philosophy and Ancient Philosophy (at BA level), Logic and Methodology of research in Philosophy (at BA and MA level).

Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Neuchâtel. Koslicki is originally from Munich, Germany, and moved to the United States when she was 20 years old. She completed her B.A. in philosophy at the State University of New York (SUNY Stony Brook) in 1990 and her Ph.D. at MIT in 1995. Before moving to Switzerland in 2020, she was a professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Epistemology and Metaphysics at the University of Alberta, Canada, and held faculty and invited lecturer positions in many parts of the United States. Koslicki's research interests are metaphysics, philosophy of language and the philosophy of ancient Greece, particularly Aristotle. In her first book, The Structure of Objects (Oxford University Press, 2008), Koslicki defends a neo-Aristotelian theory of parts and wholes. In her second book, Form, Matter, Substance, (Oxford University Press, 2018), she further develops her defence of the Aristotelian doctrine of hylomorphism, according to which the entities that fall under it are compounds of matter (hulē) and form (morphē or eidos).

Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Theology in Lugano. He is Director of the Antonio Rosmini Chair at FTL and of the VideoCattedra Rosmini. He is an invited professor at the Pontificia Università Lateranense in Rome and Lecturer at the S. Francesco Theological Studio (Milan) affiliated to the Pontificia Università Antonianum in Rome. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, Rome, and editor of the collection La Rosminiana. He is scientifically and culturally committed as a member of the Scientific Council of the Rivista Rosminiana and the online journal L'Ircocervo, and as a member of the Scientific Committee of the yearbook Anthropolica and the yearbook Veritas et Jus. He also holds the position of ordinary member of the Centro Studi Jacques Maritain, Portogruaro. Since 2013, Prof. Krienke has been a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Marco Lamanna is qualified as an Associate Professor of History of Philosophy. From 2014 to 2019 he gave courses, mostly on ontology, ontology of law, history of philosophy, and history of psychology at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) and, in the capacity of Lecturer, at the ISFI. From 2016 to 2023 Lamanna was a SNF-Forschungsmitarbeiter at the Universität Luzern, serving as a Master Coordinator and Lecturer of the Program PhilTheR. He has been Fellow at various German research centers. In October 2017 he was awarded the Natalie Zemon Davis Prize in Toronto (Canada). During the 2019–2020 academic year, he was Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Lamanna has edited over 100 titles with publishers such as Brepols, Brill, De Gruyter, Olms, Schwabe, and Vrin. He is currently serving at the Cattedra Eugenio Corecco of the Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano.

Carlo Lottieri is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Department of Law of the Pegaso Telematic University, after teaching in Siena and Verona. He is director of the Department of Political Theory at the Bruno Leoni Institute. A graduate in Theoretical Philosophy in Genoa under Alberto Caracciolo, he continued his studies in Geneva and Paris, where he earned a PhD under Raymond Boudon. He is on the editorial board of several journals and collaborates with some international academic institutions. In Italy, he has obtained first-rank eligibility in the Philosophy of Law class.

Emeritus Professors at the Faculty of Theology of Lugano, he studied at the Catholic University of Milan and the Université Catholique de Louvain. Since 1989 he has continuously held courses and seminars at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy and occasionally or temporarily at the Institute for the Family (Lateran, Rome), the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences in Milan, the Pontifical Faculty of St. Thomas (Angelicum, Rome). Since 2012 he has been an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas. Since the beginning of the 1980s, in collaboration with Inos Biffi, he has directed the series ‘Biblioteca di cultura medievale’ at Jaca Book (about 150 volumes published, several of which he edited directly). He also conceived and directed another series, Eredità medievale, which later evolved into the 6-volume work Figure del pensiero medievale (Città Nuova-Jaca Book). As a member of the FTL Institute for the History of Theology, he organised three international conferences on the early modern era and edited the proceedings of two of them. Since 1988, he has also been in charge of the Latin-Italian edition of the works of Anselm of Aosta (7 volumes published so far) and in the context of this commitment has taken charge of two international conferences (1988 and 2002) and edited the proceedings.

Fellow of the British Academy, Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland), and Honorary Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Cambridge (UK). His interests cover the whole breadth of philosophy in the Long Middle Ages (c. 200 – c. 1700), in the Latin and Greek Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions. He is one of the leaders of the project 'Immateriality, Thinking and the Self in the Philosophy of the Long Middle Ages', a joint project of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge and the Department of Philosophy, Peking University, financed by the British Academy through an International Partnership and Mobility Grant, March 2015 – February 2016.

SNSF Ambition Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy (ISFI) in Lugano since October 2022. Previously, he carried out research activities at the University of Milan (where he also obtained his PhD), the Universitat de Barcelona, and the Institut Néel in Grenoble. His main areas of research are philosophy of science, physics in particular, and analytical metaphysics. Through his SNSF Ambition research project, which is partly based on his previous work, he is working on the development of a theory of quantum indeterminacy.

Anna Marmodoro has been Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University (US) since 2024. She is concomitantly an Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Durham University (UK). She previously held the Chair of Metaphysics in the Philosophy Department of Durham University (2016-2024), after having spent a decade at the University of Oxford, affiliated with Corpus Christi College (2007-2017). At the Universities of Oxford and later Durham, Marmodoro directed a large-scale multidisciplinary research group with successively staged funding from the European Research Council, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Art and Humanities Research Council. Marmodoro has held visiting positions internationally, in Europe, the U.S., Mexico, and Australia. She is the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi for Edinburgh University Press. Her research interests are primarily in ancient, late antiquity and medieval philosophy, and contemporary analytic metaphysics.

Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology of the University of Padua where he teaches Philosophy of Language and Epistemology. He is a teaching fellow at Bocconi University where he collaborates in the Critical Thinking seminar. He has spent research periods at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Oxford. He mainly deals with philosophy of logic, metaphysics and philosophy of language with particular reference to modal issues. He has published several articles in international journals (Erkenntnis, Inquiry, Analytic Philosophy, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Logique & Analyse) and two monographs in Italian, respectively on the metaphysics and semantics of modality (Modalità e Mondi Possibili) and on deontic logic (Obblighi, Permessi e Divieti).

Director of Research at the Institute of Philosophy (ISFI), he has been Full Professor of Philosophy at the Università della Svizzera Italiana. From 1986 to 2016 he was Full Professor of Analytical Philosophy at the University of Geneva, and since 2016 Emeritus Professor at this University. From 2002 to 2010 he was Visiting Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne. He was Deputy Director of the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences and the Centre interfacultaire des sciences affectives from 2005 to 2012. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy for Letters and History and the Accademia Europaea. Kevin Mulligan is director of two Lugano-based research projects funded by the SNF. He has taught in Hamburg and Constance as an adjunct professor. He has taught in Umea, Trento, Freiburg, Rome, Venice, Florence, Pennsylvania, Aix, Sorbonne, Sydney, Santiago de Compostela, Barcelona, Innsbruck and Lucerne as an invited professor. He has worked on analytic ontology, philosophy of mind, Austrian thought from Bolzano to Wittgenstein and Musil. In 2010, he held the “Conférences Hugues Leblanc” (Montreal) and the Lezioni Veneziane.

Paolo Natali studied Classics (BA) and Philosophy (MA) in Pisa. He earned his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Geneva with the dissertation ‘Doxa and Its Ontology. Appearances in Plato’s Early Dialogues’, written under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Crivelli. He has been a PostDoc in two SNSF projects: ‘Réalismes: Universaux, relations et états de choses dans les traditions austro-allemande et médiévale’ (Geneva) and ‘The Genealogy of Modes of Being’ (Lugano). His research focusses on issues in metaphysics, logic and philosophy of mind in Ancient philosophy (Plato and Aristotle), Austro-German philosophy (in particular Bernard Bolzano) and some contemporary debates (notably on existence, universals, and states of affairs). He has taught or teaches BA and MA courses at the Universities of Geneva, Lugano, Neuchâtel and (beginning September 2025) Fribourg.

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) since 1999. She was a full professor in Munich (Germany) from 2001 to 2004. She studied philosophy, mathematics, psychology and political science at the University of Munich. In 1994 she won the German Society for Analytic Philosophy prize (Wolfgang-Stegmüller Preis) for her doctoral thesis “Farbes und phänomenales Wissen”. During a six-month stay in the USA in 1991, she was a student of Roderick M. Chisholm (Providence, Rhode Island) and Tyler Burge (UCLA, California). She has directed several research projects funded by the National Science Foundation of Switzerland: "Normative Phenomenology" (since 10/2014); "First Person Access, Phenomenological Reflection and Phenomenal Concepts" (5/2009-5/2012); "The phenomenology of Agency" (10/2010-10/2014); "Can reasons be seen?" (1/2007-12/2007); "Philosophy and Colour Vision Science" (2002-2008).

Lecturer at the Faculty of Theology in Lugano (2023) and Adjunct Lecturer in Theology at the Catholic University of Milan (since 2017). He holds a PhD in Theology from the Faculty of Theology in Lugano (2010) and a PhD in Late Antiquity, Medieval and Humanistic Philosophy from the University of Salerno (2014), where he is an afferent member of the FiTMU Interdepartmental Centre (since 2015). Invited professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University Antonianum and at the Marco Arosio Chair of High Medieval Studies of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum (Rome), where he held courses in the History of Medieval Philosophy, he is the author of numerous researches and publications on theologians and philosophers of the 12th-14th centuries, particularly of the Franciscan area. In 2009, he was awarded the prestigious Prix Littéraire Balmas - Vallée d'Aoste for the volume Anselmo d'Aosta, Nel ricordo dei discepoli. Parole, detti, miracoli. (Milan 2009). He is a corresponding member of the Pontifical International Marian Academy (since 2019).

Emeritus professor of philosophy at the Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). He studied at the University of Manchester, and has held teaching posts at the University of Bolton, the University of Salzburg (where he is Honorary Professor of Philosophy), and the University of Leeds. He has been President of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy and is the current director of the Franz Brentano Foundation. His research interests include metaphysics and ontology, the history of logic, the history of Central European Philosophy, particularly in Austria and Poland in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the application of metaphysics to engineering and other non-philosophical disciplines. He is the author of two books and over 200 articles. He is currently working on a project supported by the British Academy to chart the metaphysics of quantity.

Scientific referee of the Centro Internazionale di Studi Rosminiani in Stresa, Lecturer in Philosophy (History of Philosophy) at the Faculty of Theology in Lugano, Director of the ‘Rivista Rosminiana di Filosofia e di Cultura’ and of the international journal ‘The Rosmini Society’ of the Rosmini Institute in Varese. Previous achievement: Degree in Philosophy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, Doctorate in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Verona, Permanent Researcher at the Centro Internazionale di Studi Rosminiani of Stresa, Senior Fellow of the Rosmini Institute of Varese, National Scientific Qualification as Professor of II level (Senior Lecturer) in History of Philosophy. Research interests: Rosminian philosophy, Platonic tradition in modernity, with a particular regard to the Italian and Anglo-American area, history of metaphysics, and chrono-theoretical investigation methodology (philosophical historiography).