The Department of Philosophy and Education is one of only two philosophy departments in Italy recognized as “excellent” by the Italian Ministry of Education. It is home to distinguished senior researchers of international fame as well as rising stars with a highly active research profile. Research and teaching activities are carried out in a lively and open environment, drawing from an unusually wide scope of philosophical traditions and fostering their active and fruitful interaction.
During term time, there is rarely a week without a seminar with a guest speaker, a public lecture, a reading group, or an international conference or workshop. Students are welcome to participate in these activities and to experience the spirit of philosophical research in Turin. The meetings are open to everybody.
Check out the websites below to be informed about the current activities. Many groups are also present on Facebook and other social media.
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- Center for Logic, Language, and Cognition (LLC)
- Topics: logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, epistemology, cognition, philosophy of mind
- direct link to calendar (reverse temporal order)
- Laboratory for Ontology (LabOnt)
- Topics: ontology, philosophy of art, philosophy of technology
- direct link to calendar
- The LabOnt also lists events of the new Scienza Nuova institute, described below
- “Scienza Nuova”—Italian Institute for Advanced Studies “Umberto Eco”
- Joint program with the Polytechnic University of Turin
- direct link to calendar
- Aesthetics Research Torino (ART)
- Topics: aesthetics and philosophy of art
- direct link to calendar
- Distant Reading and Data-Driven Research in the History of Philosophy (DR2)
- Topics: history of ideas, history of philosophy, philosophical methods, computation
- History of Early Modern Philosophical and Scientific Thought (fMod)
- Topics: history of philosophy, history of science
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication (CIRCE)
- Topics: semiotics, philosophy of language
- Center for Logic, Language, and Cognition (LLC)