Associate Professor

PAST ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2020-23: Assistant Professor (3yrs–tenure track), University of Padua, IT
2019-23: Marie-Curie Global Fellow, (3yrs), University of Padua, IT/ University of Chicago, US/University of Paris-I Sorbonne, FR.
2016-18: FCT Post-Doc Research Fellowship, Mind, Language, Action Group (MLAG), University of Porto (PT), International Center for Philosophy, University of Bonn (DE)
2017-19: Marie-Curie Move-in Post-doc Fellowship, UCLouvain, BE (Declined)
2017-19: Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, University College Dublin, IR (Declined)
2017-18: Swiss Excellence Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Zurich, CH (Declined)
2016: DAAD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institut für Philosophie, IZPH, University of Bonn, DE.
2015: Post-Doc Fellow, “Young promising researcher”, Hegel-Archive/Research Center on Classical German Philosophy, Bochum, DE.

FUNDED RESAERCH PROJECTS AND GRANTS (AS P.I.)
2025-27: Horizon Europe Marie-Curie Project TONES (ER: Yady Oren)
2024-26: Unipd Starting Grant “Towards and Autonomist Theory of Biological Normativity”
2023: PRIN Project (Project of National Interest), “Understanding Natural History: Nature, Evolution and Human Beings”. Padua\Polito\IUAV. nathistories.com
2022-25: DFG-Project “Classical German Anthropologies”, (co-PI J. Peters, J. G. Schülein) (classicalgermananthropologies.com)
2020-23: Marie-Curie Project NINA, ‘Norms in Nature’ Padua\Chicago\ ParisI-Sorbonne
2017-20: DAAD project ‘Rethinking Nature. Naturalism, Human Subjectivity, and Cognition’ (rethinkingnature.com) (co-PI: J.-G. Schülein)

2024: Thyssen Stiftung Grant, conference “Recovering Nature” (Potsdam)
2022: Arqus-Alliance Grant:' Norms and Evolution' (with Andrea Kern)
2021: DFG Grant. Ws: Human Nature. Classical German Anthropologies, Villa Vigoni, Italia-German Center for European Studies
2020: DFG Grant. Ws: “Rediscovering Hegel’s Anthropology: Human Nature, Empirical Science, and the Claims of Reason”, Villa Vigoni (Co-PI: Julia Peters).


VISITING FELLOWSHIPS
2024: Vistiing Fellow, Universidad Nacional de San Martin (UNSAM), Buenos Aires.
2022: Visiting Fellow, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST) & Center “Norme, Societé, Philosophie”, Université Paris I-Sorbonne.
2021: DAAD Visiting Fellow, Humboldt-Universität Berlin.
2016: Visiting Scholar, University of Bochum
2013-14: Visiting Researcher, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago.
2009: Fellow, Italian Cultural Institute, Hamburg, DE.


PEER-REVIEWER
Synthèse, European Journal of Philosophy, Topoi, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Hegel Bulletin, Constellations, Inquiry, Idealistic Studies, Giornale di Metafisica, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Journal of Metaphysics, Argumenta, Estudos Hegelianos

Publications and other details (see the attached CV and academia website: https://unipd.academia.edu/LucaCorti)

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EDITED VOLUMES
2023. Life, Organism and Cognition, Springer, New York.
2022. Nature and Naturalism in Classical German Philosophy, Routledge, New York. 2018. Sellars and the History of Modern Philosophy, Routledge, New York.

EDITED SPECIAL ISSUES
2021. History And Philosophy of The Life Sciences. 2021 Topical Collection: ‘Normativity and the Life Sciences: Analytical and Continental Perspectives’ co-ed with Vagelli, M., Moya-Diez.
2020. Hegel Bulletin, Special Issue: Hegel and Aristotle on the Metaphysics of Mind, Cambridge University Press (co-ed.with S. Stein and H. Plevrakis)
2019. Giornale di Metafisica, Special Issue: Metafilosofia. Pensare la filosofia tra attività e disciplina 2018 (co-edited with L. Illetterati and G. Miolli)

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
2023: ‘Organisational teleology and normativity: a critique’, Synthèse.
2023 ‘The Logical Form of a Living Organism: Hegel, Naturalism and Biological Autonomy’. In Corti, L. & Schülein, J.G. (eds.) Nature and Naturalism in Classical German Philosophy, NY: Routledge, pp. 227-245, 2023.
2022. ‘Demytsyfing the Myth of Sensation’, Synthèse.
2022. ‘The ‘is’ and ‘ought’ of animal organism’, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 2022 ‘Neo-Hegelian Metaphilosophy from Pittsburgh’, in Hegel’s Metaphilosophy, ed. by Giovanna Miolli and Luca Illetterati, Bloomsbury.
2022. ‘The logical form of a living organism’, in Nature and Naturalism in Classical German Philosophy, ed. Schülein,JG.-Corti,L, Routledge, NY 2022.
2021. ‘The Notion of Sensation in Sellars’ Theory of Perception’, European Journal of Philosophy.
2019) ‘Between Causes and Reasons’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 27/3: 422-447.
2018 ‘Senses and Sensations: on Hegel’s Later Picture of Perceptual Experience’, in Hegel and McDowell: Perceptual Experience, Thought and Action, A.J. Abath – F. Sanguinetti (eds.), Springer, 2018: 97-116

AOS:
Classical German Philosophy (Hegel, Kant)
Naturalism and Naturalisation
Philosophy of Nature and Biology
Evolutions of Norms
Theories of Normativity
History of Analytic Philosophy.

AOC:
Philosophy of mind and perception