CURRENT OCCUPATION:
Full Professor for the Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy
of the University of Rome 3 since 01.10.2005
EDUCATIONThe Johns Hopkins University
— Ph. D. (May 1992)
— Diploma from the Center for History and Philosophy of Science (1989)
— M.A. in Philosophy (1988)
The University of Rome “La Sapienza”
— Laurea (i.e., BS+MS) in Mathematics (27 Jan. 1993)
— Laurea (i.e., BA+MA) in Philosophy (6 Dec. 1982)
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AS VISITING SCHOLAR
Summer 2015
Visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftgeschichte for a project on the history of cosmology
Summer 2014
Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Time, University of Sydney
Fall 2013
Declined Offer for a Visiting Fellowship Center for History and Philosophy of Sciencecof the University of Pittsburgh
Summer 2012
Visiting professor Department of Philosophy University of Bielefeld
Fall 1995
Visiting scholar at the Center for History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh.
FELLOWSHIPS
1995-1997 Post-doc scholar at the University of Padua
1986-87: Fullbright scholar at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Deputy editor of the European Journal for Philosophy of Science, (EJPS), Springer, 1 issue came in 2011
From the beginning of 2012 co-editor of the same journal with Carl Hoefer (UWO, London)
Member of the Scientific Board of the following journal
Epistemologia, Rivista di Filosofia Colloqium Philosophicu, Epistemologia, Reti, Saperi, linguaggi. Italian journal of cognitive sciences, Axiomates
ACTIVITY AS PEER REVIEWER FOR SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS:
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Dialectica, International Studies for Philosophy of Science, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Epistemologia, Erkenntnis The Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy of Science, Foundations of Physics, European Journal for Analytic Philosophy, Foundations of Science, Synthese. New York academy of science
ACTIVITY AS PEER REVIEWER FOR PUBLISHING HOUSES
Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Routledge
ACTIVITY AS EXPERT FOR REVIEWING APPLICATION GRANTS
Swiss National Science Foundation, British Research Council AHRS, National Science Foundation (USA), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch Research Council)
Fund for Scientific Research-FNRS (F.R.S.-FNRS) Belgium
MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES
Former member of the steering committee of the European Philosophy of Science Association (created in 2007).http://www.ucm.es/info/epsa07/
Co-chair of the Program Committee for the first conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, to be held in Madrid in November 9-11 2007http://www.ucm.es/info/epsa07/
Member of the steering committee of the International Society for the study of spacetime (Concordia University, Montreal)
Member of the Program Committee for the series of international conferences The ontology of spacetime (Concordia University, Montreal)
Since 2008 Corresponding member of the Academie Internationale des Philosophie des Sciences. Nominated ordinary member in 2011
Since 2010 Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)
From 2008 to 2011 member of the steering committee of the Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS)
Since April 30 2011 until June 2014, President of the Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS)
ADMINISTRATIVE JOBS
Director of the PH.D joint program of Roma3 University and Tor Vergata University
DIRECTION OF GRANT PROJECTS
from 2000 until 2012
Participant in various research projects financed by the Italian Ministry of Public Education
2014-2017
Director of the Local Research Team in the research project Models and Inference in science (Units belonging to the team University of Rome Roma 3, University of Milan La Bicocca, University of Bologna
See attachment for full CV