Matteo COSCI

CONTACT: matteo.cosci[@]unive.it

EDUCATION:

• 22-09-2014 / 01-01-2016: Master of Arts in History of Philosophy, with merit. King's College, London, UK.
• 03-11-2013 / 06-02-2014: visiting PhD holder at the University of Oxford.
• 02-01-2009 / 30-03-2012: Dottorato (PhD) in Philosophy, with distinctions. Curriculum: "History of ideas and compared philosophies". Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Padova. (Vistinig PhD student at Oxford University in 2010).
• 13-10-2006 / 21-10-2008: Laurea Specialistica in Philosophy, (110/110 cum laude). Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Padova.
• 20-09-2004 / 12-10-2006: Laurea Triennale in Philosophy (110/110 cum laude). Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Padova. (Completed in two years).

EXTRA-ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• 15-09-2007 / 15-06-2009: Diploma in Oriental and Comparative Philosophy, Scuola di Filosofia Orientale e Comparativa, Istituto di Scienze dell'Uomo, Rimini.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

• History of Philosophy; History of Ancient Philosophy (mainly: Aristotle; History of Aristotelianism; Galileo Galilei).

CURRENT POSITION:

• 01-01-2021 / 31-12-2023: Research fellow (Rtd-b), Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, University Ca' Foscari, Venice.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:

• 02-01-2019 / 31-12-2020: Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Padua.
• 15-01-2016 / 01-01-2019: Post-doctoral researcher at the University Ca' Foscari, Venice.

ROLES AND ASSIGNMENTS:

• 08-03-2021 - today: DFBC Department’s Delegate for Erasmus exchanges with (1) University of Groningen, Faculty of Philosophy; (2) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; (3) University of Warwick, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Department of Italian Studies.
• 01-01-2017 - today: Assistant editor of Philosophical Readings journal (https://philosophicalreadings.org/).
• 15-04-2011 / 22-03-2012: Former editor of Universa. Recensioni di Filosofia online journal. 
• 01-01-2009 / 31-12-2009: Assistant Librarian as National Voluntary Service at Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Padova.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

• 24-09-2022 / 09-11-2022: Workshop on Philosophical Writing (Attività sostitutiva di tirocinio), DFBC, Ca' Foscari Venice.
• 24-02-2021 / 4-10-2021: Tutor at the annual workshop “L'edizione del testo filosofico” (Attività sostitutiva di tirocinio) in collaboration with: prof. S. Maso, PhaVe, and SFI of Venice, at DFBC, Ca' Foscari Venice.
• 15-10-2017 / 30-10-2017: Teaching assistance for the Introduction to Philosophy undergrad. classes, at the University Ca' Foscari, Venice.

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:

• 01-01-2021 / 31-12-2023: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship (Individual action).
• 16-01-2019 / 31-12-2020: Postdoctoral Fellowship (Assegno di ricerca su progetto di ateneo).
• 15-01-2016 / 15-01-2019: ERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (Assegno di ricerca su progetto europeo).
• 02-01-2009 / 30-03-2012: PhD Full Scholarship (borsa di studio triennale).

AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:

• 10-11-2016 - today: Member of the Aristotelian Society.
• 27-11-2017 - today: Member of the Society for the History of Astronomy.

CO-ORGANIZED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS:

• 12/14-10-2022: with. P. Omodeo and D. McOmish, "Scientific Cosmopolitanism in the University Culture of Early Modern Padua", International Conference, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, ca' Foscari Venice, in partnership with Centro Per la Storia dell'Università di Padova, Palazzo Bo', Padua, and Palazzo Malacanton Marcorà, Venice.
• 29/30-11-2018: with F. G. Masi, “Aristotele, Fisica VIII, 2-4”, Inter-universities Seminar on Ancient Philosophy's meeting at the Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Università Ca' Foscari, Venice.
• 03/04-12-2019: with  M. Sgarbi, “New Paradigms of the History of Knowledge”, International Conference, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Ca' Foscari Esposizioni, Università Ca' Foscari, Venice.

CONFERENCES AND TALKS:

• 11-11-2022: "Galileo before the Sidereus Nuncius (1606-1609): Reaccreditation and Pseudonymity", Brown Bag Seminar, Department of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Oklahoma; Norman, Oklahoma (invited).
• 30-09-2022: Introduction to the theatrical staging of "Galileo e il Dialogo di Cecco di Ronchitti", new production of the Galileian comedy on the "new star" by BelTeatro theatre company (artistic direction: B. Lovadina, scientific consultancy: M. Cosci), Ca’ Foscari Santa Marta Theatre, Researcher's Night Venezia.
• 15-07-2022: "Galileo's pseudonymous project for his treatise on the 'Stella Nova' of 1604", Department of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Oklahoma; Norman, Oklahoma.
• 08-07-2022: "Tycho and Tadeáš Hájek's treatise on the 'new star' of 1572", Department of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Oklahoma; Norman, Oklahoma.
• 29-06-2022: "The Dialexis on the 'new star' by Tadeáš Hájek", Susan Manning Workshop, IASH, University of Edinburgh / Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Supernovae, Comets, and Aristotelian Cosmology: a collapse of philosophical paradigms and the birth of the new sciences in the 16th and 17th centuries?, Department of Philosophy and cultural Heritage, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
• 12-05-2022: "Libertà e responsabilità nel dopoguerra di J-P. Sartre", ciclo di Lettura e analisi di testi filosofici, edizione 2022: "Libertà e responsabilità", Società filosofica italiana, sezione di Venezia, Department of Philosophy and cultural Heritage, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
• 24-03-2022: "Galileo alias Aliberto Mauri: nuove evidenze documentarie per una nuova edizione delle Considerazioni", Marie Curie workshop "Teorie e pratiche astrologiche al tempo di Galileo Galilei, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Venice.
• 16-02-2022: discussant of: Michele Abbate, "Tra libertà e responsabilità: il destino del filosofo nel mito della cavernia di Platone", PhAVe and SFI 2022 conferences series "Libertà e responsabilità", day one, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Venice.
• 03-02-2022: "Astronomia e astrologia a Padova: dalla convergenza alla divergenza nel corso della rivoluzione scientifica", XXXVIII Corso “Conosci la tua città”, Ctg – Gruppo La Specola: "Il lungo cammino dell'Università di Padova dall'Astrologia alle missioni spaziali", Sala Paladin, Palazzo Moroni, Padua.
• 23-11-2021: "Presentazione di Éclairs, volume realizzato con gli studenti di Edizione del testo filosofico 2021", at "Filosofi al lavoro" meeting, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Venice.
• 27-11-2019: "Galileo under cover: Pseudonymous Writings on the New Star", ERC Workshop on Early Modern Cosmology (Discussant: David Juste), Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Università Ca’ Foscari Venice.
• 15-10-2019: "Historical Documents on Kepler’s Supernova: a Typological Inventory", Historical Supernovae, Novae and Other Transient Events interdisciplinary workshop, Lorentz Centre, Leiden (Netherlands).
• 09-03-2019: "Esalazioni terrestri e vapori atmosferici tra neostoicismo e aristotelismo vernacolare", convegno conclusivo del progetto ERC "I confini dell’aristotelismo vernacolare", Warwick University in Venice, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava.
• 26-02-2019: "On Kepler’s Supernova: a Work in progress and a Research Proposal", seminario interdisciplinare, INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova presso La Specola, Padua.
• 19-01-2019: "Galileo Galilei, "Cecco di Ronchitti" e la disputa sulla stella nuova", XVII Giornata Galileiana presso l’Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Padua.
• 11-01-2019: "Galilei, Keplero e la supernova: una controversia epistemologica", Idee in Bozza: Seminari Filosofici, Università degli Studi di Parma. 
  29-11-2018: "Aristotle, Physics, VIII, 3-4", seminar meeting of the intra-university research group on Aristotle’s Physics, Università Ca' Foscari, Venice.
• 22-08-2018: "Galileo's account on Kepler's Supernova (SN1604): a Copernican assessement", at the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (Terra-Astronomy Focus Meeting 5: Understanding historical observations to study transient phenomena), Vienna, Austria.
• 11-05-2018: "Il Dialogo di Cecco da Ronchitti between, comedy, satire and astronomical disputatio", at the international conference "I generi letterari nell'aristotelismo volgare rinascimentale", Università Ca' Foscari, Venice.
• 09-10-2017: "Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI: General Overwiew", at the class of "Introduction to Philosophy" within the Philosophy, International and Economic Studies program (academic year: 2017-'18). Università Ca' Foscari, Venice.
• 23-10-2017: "Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book VI (E): General Overview", Philosophy, International and Economic Studies, Università Ca' Foscari,  at the class of "Introduction to Philosophy" within the Philosophy, International and Economic Studies program (academic year: 2017-'18). Università Ca' Foscari, Venice.
• 11-05-2017: "Aristotelian Cometary Theory in translation: Ideas on Comets' consequences from mid. XVI century vernacular prose to Galileo Galilei's reception", at the international conference "In Other Words: Translating Philosophy  in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries", University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
• 29-03-2017: "The oikonomiké and its instruments. Aristotle, Politics I 4", PhD seminar on Aristotelian Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Padua.
• 15-09-2016: "From the indivisibility of the instant to the temporality of movement. Aristot., Phys. VI 3", at the Intra-university research seminar on Aristotle's Physics, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Palazzo dei Cavalieri.
• 04-05-2016: "Substance and the relationship between whole and its parts. Aristot., Metaph. Z 10", PhD seminar on Aristotelian Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Padua.
• 18-02-2016: "Non-being as different. Negation in Plato's Sophist", Workshop on the history of the concept of negation, Department of Philosophy, University of Padua.
• 06-10-2015: "In which sense intellective knowledge is said "more true" than scientific knowledge? (Aristot., Post An. II 19)", at the international conference on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts of the University of Maribor, Slovenia.
• 25-06-2014: "The intellection of principles of demonstration. Aristot., Post. An. Post. II 3-5", PhD seminar on Aristotelian Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Padua.
• 27-02-2013: "Truth, cause and being in Aristotle, Metaph. alpha elatton 1", at the PhD seminar on Aristotelian Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Padua.
• 16-02-2012: "'There is a moment for everything'. The time of the body according to Qohèlet", at the PhD seminar on Late Ancient Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Padua.
• 06-04-2011: The role of the hypothesis within demonstration: Aristotle, An. Post. I 10, at the PhD seminar on Aristotelian Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Padua.
• 28-09-2009: "The notion of aletheia within Aristotle's comparative logic", at the Joined seminar of the Italian Institute of Human Sciences for the national coordination of PhDs in Philosophy, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi.
• 04-06-2009: "Physical happiness in M.C. Nussbaum's Aristotle", at the PhD seminar on Late Ancient Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Padua.
• 04-05-2009: "The categories of 'forerun', 'overcoming' and 'unity' in the Italian Philosophical Historiagraphy", at the PhD seminar of metodology for reading philosophical texts, Department of Philosophy, University of Padua.
• 06-03-2009: "Forms and numbers in Aristotle, Metaph. N 3, 1090a16 - b32", at the PhD seminar on Aristotelian Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Padua.

HABILITATION:

• 11/11/2020: National Scientific Qualification (ASN) 2018-2020, 5th call, as associate professorship ("seconda fascia") in History of Philosophy (11/C5 disciplinary sector).

PUBLICATIONS:

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