GIORDANO Giuseppe

CURRICULUM VITAE

Giuseppe Giordano (Messina, March 15, 1961), started his academic career in 1998 as Assistant Professor and is currently Full Professor of History of Philosophy (SSD M-Fil/06 ). He teaches History of Contemporary Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy and Philosophy of Science in the DICAM (Department of Ancient and Modern Civilization s), University of Messina (Italy). He is a member of the Academic Board of the PhD in Philosophical Methodologies (University of Messina) and of the PhD in Philosophy (University of Messina, Catania and Palermo).
His research interests focus on the analysis of the relationship between philosophy and science. His works range from the study of 20th century epistemology (neo-positivsim, Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, etc.) to the philosophy of contemporary scientists (Einstein, Eddington, Bohr, Heisenberg, Pauli and others), including the theoretical complexity of philosopher and scientist such as Ilya Prigogine and Humberto Maturana who, from a scientific perspective, have produced “real” philosophies, and thinkers such as Edgar Morin, who is the most representative philosopher of complexity.
Giordano’s historical-philosophical approach clearly emerges in his interests for Italian philosophy (e.g. Croce, Vailati, Timpanaro, Franchini, Vaccarino), mostly investigated from the perspective of the relationship between philosophy and science.
The originality of Giuseppe Giordano’s research is linked to his education , an academic background in which Vico, Hegel and Croce stand out as milestones.
He is series editor for the publishing houses “Le Lettere”, “Rubbettino” and “Armando Siciliano”; he is chief editor of the international journal “Complessità” and also co-coordinates the editorial board of the “Bollettino della Società Filosofica Italiana”. He is a member of the section of Arts, Humanities and Fine Arts of the “Academia Peloritana dei Pericolanti" and of the Società Italiana di Storia della Filosofia. He is...