Matteo Vagelli
Biography
Matteo Vagelli holds a BA and an MA in philosophy from the Università degli Studi di Pisa. He obtained his PhD in philosophy from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Scuola Alti Studi Fondazione San Carlo (Modena) under the supervision of Jean-François Braunstein (Paris 1) and Arnold Davidson (Chicago).
He has done research at the University of Chicago, the Goethe Universität Frankfurt Am Main and the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin.
He coordinates the research network “Epistémologie historique : traditions and methods of historical epistemology”.
In 2017 he held the Chair “Pensées françaises contemporaines” at the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt Oder) as visiting lecturer.
Research projects
Matteo Vagelli is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Collège d’études mondiales, where he works, within the framework of the Chair Ethics and Finance, on the philosophical and ethical underpinnings of financial theories and practices.
Selective bibliography
Edited volumes
With BRAUNSTEIN Jean-François & MOYA DIEZ Ivan (eds.), Études sur l’épistémologie historique: commencements et enjeux actuels, accepted for publication by Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris, 2018.
With IENNA Gerardo (éd.), La ragione scientifica, Castelvecchi, Roma, 2017.
Book Chapters
"Is the Debate Over the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science Just One More Tempest in An Academic Teapot ?", in E. Herring et al. (eds.), The Past, The Present, The Future of Integrated History and Philosophy of Science, London, Routledge, 2018.
"Ian Hacking, de l’archéologie de la probabilité au façonnement des gens" dans J. F. Braunstein et al., Études sur l’épistémologie historique: commencements et enjeux actuels, accepted for publication by Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris, 2018.
"Ian Hacking e la scienza come “miscuglio variopinto di stili”" in I. Hacking, La ragione scientifica, M. Vagelli et G. Ienna (éd.), Castelvecchi, Rome, 2017, pp. 5-27.
"Bachelard, Hacking e il realismo tecnoscientifico" dans P. Donatiello et al. (dir.), Il senso della tecnica. Saggi su Bachelard, Esculapio, Bologna, 2017, pp. 121-136.
"Wittgenstein après Foucault: le sujet à la limite entre archéologie et littérature", in D. Lorenzini & P. Gillot (eds.), Foucault / Wittgenstein. Subjectivité, politique, éthique, Paris, Éditions du CNRS, 2016, pp. 77-103.
Special issue invited editor
Dossier "Canguilhem, l’histoire et les historiens", Intelligere. Revista de História Intellectual (Université de São Paolo, Brésil).
Journal Articles
"Le problème du fondement et l’épistémologie historique italienne", Archives de Philosophie, 78, 2015, pp. 509-515.
With MOYA DIEZ Ivan, "L’unità della filosofia di Georges Canguilhem. Dalla norma medica alla normatività storica", Lessico di Etica Pubblica, 1, 2015, pp. 85-95.
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