Carola Barbero is a philosopher of language and literature and works mainly on empty names, on the metaphysics and ontology of fictional entities, aesthetics and emotions, the paradox of fiction, the phenomenology of reading, the distinction between literary and ordinary language. She has been visiting at the University of Auckland (2007) and visiting professor at ETH Zurich (2020). She has been member of the Steering Committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (2010-2012). She is the author of many papers published in international reviews, and among her books are Madame Bovary: Something Like a Melody (Milan, 2005), Who fears Mr. Hyde? (in Italian - Genoa, 2010), Philosophy of Literature (in Italian - Rome, 2013), Meaning (in Italian, with S. Caputo - Rome 2018), The door of Phantasy (in Italian – Bologna 2019).

Marta Benenti received her PhD in philosophy at the University of Turin, FINO Consortium. She’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Murcia, where she carries out the project LEAP – Learning to Appreciate Aesthetic Values. Previously, she held research positions at the Italian Academy (New York), the University of Turin, the San Raffaele University (Milan), and the University of Eastern Piedmont, and teaching positions at the Politecnico of Turin. She has published on the topics of expressiveness, aesthetic values, emotions, fictional narratives, and tourism. 

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turin, specializing in philosophy of mind with additional interests and competence in metaphysics and philosophy of language. My research focuses on metaphysical questions concerning the nature and the structure of consciousness. My general goal is to offer a comprehensive account of conscious phenomena and their place within the mind and nature. So far, my research has concentrated on three core themes: (i) the relation between consciousness and intentionality; (ii) affective states (in particular, emotions and moods); and (iii) the experience of time. Currently, I am working on two projects. The first concerns the the role of basic inner awareness in consciousness and intentionality. The second focuses on perception of so-called high-level properties, their perceivability conditions, and their contribution to the phenomenal character of perceptual experience. I obtained my PhD from the University of Milan. During my PhD, I was visiting scholar at the University of Arizona in Tucson and a visiting student at the Institut Jean Nicod (École Normale Supérieure) in Paris. On both occasions, I worked under the supervision of Prof. Uriah Kriegel. Before coming to Turin, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher the University of Fribourg, at the University of Liège, at the Centre for Philosophy of Time in Milan, and at the University of Macau. . 

Elisa Caldarola (PhD University of Padua, 2011) is tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Turin.  She specializes in aesthetics and philosophy of art, and has research interests in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of language. A former Fulbright scholar (University of Maryland, 2015/2016), she has been a visiting research student at The Queen's College, Oxford (2008-2010), in addition to holding a series of postdoctoral positions at the University of Padua, which awarded her a STARS Starting Grant (2018-2020). Between August 2023 and July 2026, she will be working as Marie Sklodowska Curie Global Fellow at the University of Turin and at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, on a project titled "The role of imagination in the experience of installation art". Her main topics of research are: the metaphysics and phenomenology of contemporary visual art forms, theories of depiction, metaphor in the visual arts, and issues at the intersection between environmental aesthetics and philosophy of art.

Fabrizio Calzavarini is an tenure-track Assistant Professor (rtd-b) at University of Turin, Italy. His research is organized into two interrelated streams. One stream falls at the intersection between the philosophy and neuroscience of semantics, focusing on the neural substrates of lexical competence and mental imagery. The other stream addresses philosophical issues in neuroscience more generally (neurophilosophy and philosophy of neuroscience). He has been visiting at the Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit (Manchester, 2015-2016) and the Brain Language Laboratory (Berlin, 2015). He is the Information vice-President of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM) and the co-founder (with M. Viola) of Neural Mechanisms Online, a series of web-conferences in the philosophy of neuroscience. He is the author of Brain and the Lexicon (Springer 2020) and several papers in international and national journals, as well as the co-editor of Neural Mechanisms. New Challenges in the Philosophy of Neuroscience (Springer 2021) 

Daniele Cassaghi (PhD, 2020, University of Milan) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turin and is currently involved in the FIS/ATMOS project led by Prof. Elvira Di Bona. His main field of research focuses on temporal perception, explored in two key aspects: the perception of changes occurring over time and the perception of time's passage itself. And he disagrees with his supervisor, prof. Giuliano Torrengo, on both points. In addition to his work on temporal perception, Cassaghi has also published on affective states, specifically moods, and dedicated his MA dissertation to mental contents. In 2019, he was a visiting PhD student at the University of Warwick under the supervision of Prof. Christoph Hoerl, and in 2014, he was a visiting student at King’s College London. He was also affiliated with the Centre for Philosophy of Time and was part of Torrengo’s TIME-Frame project in Milan.

My main research interests are in the philosophy of mind and aesthetics. I also work on a number of topics in the philosophy of laguage and philosophy of music. I am currently focusing on perception and its connection to memory. I published extensilvely on auditory perception, the metaphysics of sound, and the content of perceptual experience. I obtained my Ph.D. in Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Milan) and the Institut Jean Nicod (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris). During my Ph.D. course, I spent research periods at the New York University, as a Fulbright Scholar, and the University of Sydney, as an ARIA (Association for Research between Italy and Australasia) Grantee. Before joining the Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences in Turin as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Mind, I spent more that four years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Polonsky Academy at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (Israel). Before that, I held postoctoral positions at the Italian Academy of Columbia University (NYC), Freie Universität Berlin (sponsored by DAAD), and University of Turin (sponsored by Franco and Marilisa Caligara Foundation). I completed the “High Specialization Course in Music Studies – Solo Violin Performance” at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia (Rome) in 2008. I performed in concerts of classical and jazz music—in solo performances, and chamber and symphonic orchestras—in the U.S., the U.K., Italy, Germany, France, Romania, Croatia, and Venezuela.

Mariaenrica Giannuzzi received her PhD in German Studies from Cornell University, Ithaca NY (2016-2023). She was DAAD Fellow at Humboldt Universität Berlin (2021-22) and Visiting Researcher at the ERC Project An-Icon at the University of Milan (2022-2023). Her research interests include landscape aesthetics, new-phenomenology, natural histories, literature, and narratives of the environment. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turin in the framework of the PRIN-PNRR Project ATMOS: "(Atmospheres) What they are and how they can be grasped" in which she develops studies on the spatial perception of the landscape.  

I am a philosopher of perception and mind at the University of Dortmund. I am currently working on the international project 'Naive realism under pressure', which explores some new challenges to naive realist views of perceptual experience. Previously, I was a postdoc at the Universities of Salzburg, Turin, Tübingen, and Konstanz. I received my PhD from the University of Warwick in 2020. I am interested in what we perceive, how we perceive it, and how we talk about that. A good chunk of my recent work has focused on olfaction. I have argued that, in spite of the variations in how things smell across contexts and subjects, smells are objective qualities. Moreover, I have argued that we can smell odorous things, like cookies, a cup of coffee, and cake burning, and not just their smells. Building on work in linguistics, I have advanced an answer to the question of how we manage to talk about smells, given their supposed ineffability. More broadly, I have been working on perceptual variation, illusions, and the metaphysics of perceivable entities.

Currently Research Fellow [borsista di ricerca] at the University of Turin. I completed my PhD at Ca' Foscari University Venice in 2020 under the supervision of Luigi Perissinotto. During my PhD I went to Valencia as a visiting student in 2018 and I worked on Ryle's philosophy under the supervision of Chon Tejedor. I wrote a thesis on Wittgenstein and disposition; in particular, I tried to provide a Wittgensteinian inspired normative account of human dispositions. My current research at the University of Turin focuses on Wittgenstein's methodological use of imagination in his later philosophy and the connection with current debates on imagination.  My main interests include Wittgenstein's philosophy of language and mind (in particular, his anthropological perspective), the limits of scientific Naturalism, Representationalism and the epistemic role of imagination in philosophy. 

I am currently a PhD student at the University of Turin. My primary areas of research include philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of perception and philosophy of emotions. My Phd project investigates how the multimodal interactions between different sense modalities shape the representational content of perception. I obtained my Master’s Degree from the University of Italian Switzerland with a thesis on perceptual theories of mindreading. 

Born in Trieste, 1961.

Full CV at https://filosofialm.campusnet.unito.it/persone/pietro.kobau

Fields of interest: theories of perception, aesthetic experience and judgments, metaphysics and ontology of art, praxis and normativity in aesthetics, aesthetics and digital humanities
 

Donald Oxtoby is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turin (Italy). His research focuses primarily on philosophy of mind, especially perceptual learning, non-visual sense modalities, and multimodal perception. He has published on spatial perception, and is the editor of a book in comparative philosophy (Logic and Metaphysics, 2014). He completed a master’s thesis on auditory perception and sound at McMaster University (Canada), and a dissertation on which properties are presented in perceptual experience at Rice University (USA) under the supervision of Charles Siewert.

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of  Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Turin. My primary research interests are in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and philosophy of psychology. I mainly work on sensorimotor theories of cognition and meaning. I received my PhD from FINO Consortium (University of Turin) and Institut Jean Nicod (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris). My research focuses on the notion of mental representation within the Embodied Cognition paradigm. More broadly, I am interested in understanding the extent to which our cogitations are intertwined with perception and action systems. 

Matteo Plebani is Associate Professor at the University of Turin. He obtained his PhD in 2011 from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and did postdoctoral research at the Universities  of Padoa, Santiago de Compostela and Amsterdam, before moving to Turin. His research focuses on topics at the intersection of the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mathematics: theories of aboutness, counterpossibles in relative computability theory, truthmaker semantics, semantic paradoxes, and structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics.

Andrea Tortoreto is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turin, Italy. He received his PhD at the University of Perugia. His research focusses on Philosophy of mind, perception, pragmatism and Sellars. He published a book on the relation between mind and reality in the history of analytic philosophy (Mente e realtà. Oltre il mito del dato, Mimesis 2015) and edited the Italian edition of Sellars’ book Naturalism and Ontology (Naturalismo e ontologia, Mimesis 2019). He also works on the intersections between philosophy and science fiction literature (Filosofia della fantascienza, Mimesis 2018). 

Currently Research Fellow [borsista di ricerca] at Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Turin, she received her Ph.D. in Logic and Epistemology from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2007. From 2013 to 2019, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Philosophy Department of the University of Turin, where she worked on a project on gender categories and social kinds. Before taking up her post in Turin, she was a Fellow at CAS SEE (Center for Advanced Studies, Southeast Europe) at the University of Rijeka and a Post-doctoral Researcher with the Logos Group at the University of Barcelona. Before that, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at STK (Centre for Gender Research) at the University of Oslo and a Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University in New York. She specializes in Feminist Philosophy and Ethics, Social Ontology, Bioethics, and Ethics of Technology. She also has research interests in epistemic injustice and discrimination, gender biases and the underrepresentation of women in philosophy. She is Founding Member and Vice President of the SWIP ITALIA (The Society for Women in Philosophy – Italy) and Associate Editor at APhEx (Analytical and Philosophical Explanation).--- 

Alberto Voltolini (PhD Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 1989) is a philosopher of language and mind whose works have focused mainly on intentionality, depiction and fiction, perception and Wittgenstein. He is currently Full Professor in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Turin (Italy). He has got scholarships at the Universities of Geneva and Sussex. He has been visiting professor at the University of California, Riverside (1998), University of Auckland (2007, 2018), Australian National University, Canberra (2007), University of Barcelona (2010-2011), University of London (2015), University of Antwerp (2019). He has been a member of the Steering Committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (2002-2008) and of the Board of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2009-2012). His publications include How Ficta Follow Fiction (Springer, 2006), A Syncretistic Theory of Depiction (Palgrave, 2015), plus the two SEP entries "Fictional Entities" and "Fiction" coauthored with Fred Kroon.