Education and Training
01/01/2009–19/03/2012
Dottore di ricerca
Università degli Studi di Padova
Theoretical and Practical Philosophy
01/01/2003–18/04/2008
Doktor der Philosophie
Bergische Universität Wuppertal & Università degli Studi di Torino
Philosophy and Philosophical Hermeneutics
01/01/2002–30/11/2002
Master in Intercultural Studies
Università degli Studi di Padova
Philosophy of Interculturality; Chinese Philosophy and Culture
01/09/1995–15/03/2001
Diploma di Laurea in Filosofia
Università degli Studi di Milano
Theoretical Philosophy

Academic Teaching and Research Experience
30/04/2022 - Ongoing
Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy
University of Padova
30/04/2019–29/04/2022
Senior Researcher of Theoretical Philosophy
University of Padova
01/04/2019–Ongoing
Visiting Professor/Foreign Expert of Philosophy
China University of Political Science and Law
01/03/2017–28/02/2019
Special Appointed Professor of Philosophy
China University of Political Science and Law
01/04/2016–31/03/2017
Special Appointed Lecturer
Hokkaido University
01/11/2013–30/11/2015
JSPS Research Fellow
Hokkaido University
22/11/2010–01/04/2011
Teaching assistant and Translator
Scuola di Alta Formazione Filosofica – Torino
01/11/2008–31/10/2009
post-doc Research Fellow
Universität zu Köln - Husserl Archiv (Germany)

Qualifications
2023: National Academic Qualification as Full Professor (Theoretical Philosophy) – Italy
2015: National Academic Qualification as Associate Professor (Theoretical Philosophy) – Italy

Involvement in International Research Groups
"International Network Genetic Phenomenology and the Human Sciences", University of Cologne. Scientific coordinator: Prof. Jagna Brudzinska
"Phenomenology and Japanese Philosophy", Hokkaido University. Scientific coordinator: Prof. Shigeru Taguchi

Referee Assignments for Scientific Journals
- Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
- Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
- Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics
- Journal of Japanese Philosophy
- Paradigmi
- Archivio di filosofia
- Rivista di Metafisica
- Social Imaginaries
- Verifiche

Executive Editor of "Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy"

Individual Research Grants:
- Nankai One Hundred Young Academic Leaders Program Award (refused). Duration: 6 years
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Visiting Research Fellowship, Nov. 2013 - Oct. 2015
- University of Padua, Senior Research Grant, (refused), Jan. 2014 - Dec. 2015
- Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation, Post-doc Fellowship, Nov. 2008 – Oct. 2015
- University of Milan, post-lauream Research Abroad Grant, Dec. 2004 – Nov. 2006
- DAAD, research scholarship, Oct. 2004 – Aug. 2005

Group Research Grants:
"The Comparative Study of Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy" - Qualification: Foreign Expert. PI: Prof. Haojun Zhang (CUPL), supported by The National Social Science Fund of China (NSSFC)
"Disagreement. A Pluralistic Approach". PI: Prof. Massimiliano Carrara (University of Padua). University of Padua, Progetto di Ateneo.
"Individuality-consciousness, community, well-being and nothingness”. PI: Prof. Shigeru Taguchi (Hokkaido Univeristy). Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kakenhi grant-in-aid, 2013-2015.

Elenco completo:
https://www.research.unipd.it/simple-search?query=&location=&filter_field_1=author&filter_type_1=contains&filter_value_1=Altobrando&sort_by=bi_sort_2_sort&order=asc&rpp=10&etal=0&start=0#.YIaPJKHOM2w

Books

(2013), Esperienza e infinito. Contributo per una fenomenologia dell'origine e dell'idea di infinito a partire da Husserl (Experience and the Infinite. Contribution to a phenomenology of the idea of infinity outgoing from Husserl), Verifiche, Trento.

(2013), Il mito come forma e contenuto (Myth as Form and Content), Cleup, Padova.

(2010), Husserl e il problema della monade (Husserl and the problem of the monad), Trauben, Torino.


Articles (selection)

(2021), (with L. Zaninotto), «Four core concepts in psychiatric diagnosis», Psychopathology. International Journal of Descriptive and Experimental Psychopathology, Phenomenology and Psychiatric Diagnosis

(2021), «Über die technische Selbstbestimmung des Menschen. Ein begrifflicher und phänomenologischer Beitrag zur Erklärung der Fragen nach Eugenik, Transhumanismus, und dgl.», Kriterion - Revista de Filosofia.

(2020), «Monad», in B. Hopkins, C. Majolino, D. De Santis (eds.), Handbook of Phenomenology, Routledge.

(2020), «Il furore e la speranza», in L. Illetterati, A. Manchisi, M. Quante, A. Esposito, B. Santini (eds.), Morale, etica, religione [...] Studi in onore di Francesca Menegoni, PUP.

(2019), «Somewhere this Side of the View from Nowhere. On the Phenomenological Prepredicative Grounding of the Idea of Objectivity», 学术界.

(2019), «The Phenomenology of the Pure Ego, and its dialectical Actuality», in A. Ferrarin, D. Manca, E. Magrì, D. Moran (eds.), Hegel and the Phenomenological Tradition, Springer.

(2018), (with G. Strawson), «Muddling Through: An Episodic Conversation on Self, Narrativity, Transcience, and Other Pleasentries», in The Realizations of the Self, Palgrave MacMillan.

(2017), «La negazione: dal rifiuto al contrasto. Brentano e Husserl sul giudizio negativo» (Negation: from rejection to contrast. Brentano and Husserl on negative judgement), Verifiche, II/2017.

(2017), «Imagining Oneself», in T. Fuchs, M. Summa, L. Vanzago (eds.), Imagination and Social P
(eds.), Investigating Subjectivity: Classical and New Perspectives, Brill, Leiden.

(2017), «Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmungsperspektivität und Alterität», in C. Asmuth and Q. Landenne (eds.), Perspektivität, Königshausen und Neumann.

(2016), «Kitarō Nishida and the Essence of Individuality», in G. Campagnolo (ed.), Liberalism and East Asian/Chinese economic development: Perspectives from Europe and Asia, Routledge.

(2015), «The Limits of the Absolute Consciousness», Husserl Studies in Japan.

(2015), «Dalla coscienza anonima all'io senza qualità» (From the Anonymous Consciousness to the Ego without Qualities), in D. Ciolino, F. Grigenti, Il soggetto possibile, Cleup, Padova.

(2014), (with P. Biasetti), «Some Remarks on Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit», Hegel-Jahrbuch, 2014.

(2014), «I “soggetti" di Husserl e la questione del soggettivismo» (Husserl's “Subjects" and the Question of Subjectivism), Paradigmi, n. 1, 2014.


Edited volumes

(2020) with P. Biasetti (eds), Natural Born Monads. On the Metaphysics of Organisms and Human Individuals, De Gruyter.

(2019) with S. Taguchi (eds), ​Phenomenology and Japanese Philosophy​, Springer.

(2018) with R. Stone and T. Niikawa (eds),The Realizations of the Self, Palgrave MacMillan.

(2006) with G. Turus, Biodifferenze, Esedra, Padova.

Fenomenologia, Metafisica, Filosofia della mente, Epistemologia

Sono particolarmente benvenute richieste di tesi sui seguenti argomenti:
- l'io, la soggettività, la mente e la coscienza;
- percezione;
- immaginazione;
- questioni fenomenologiche;
- la metafisica e l'epistemologia di Cartesio;
- questioni relative alla filosofia di Husserl;
- questioni relative alla filosofia di Sartre (specialmente la sua teoria della soggettività e della coscienza);
- teorie del giudizio (specialmente nella tradizione brentaniana e in quella fenomenologica).