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Angela Vettese studied Philosophy (Università degli Studi di Milano) and Art History (Università Cattolica di Milano). She teaches Contemporary Art as an Associate Professor at the Università Iuav di Venezia, where she has founded and directs since 2001 the Graduate Course in Visual Arts. She coordinates the Ph.D Section for the Arts in the Ph.D program of the Iuav University.
She has been teaching at the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan (2000-2007 and 2011-2013) , and at the Art Academies in Venice and Bergamo. She has founded and directed the Master in Photography at the Iuav University and has co-founded the Master in Film and Photography at the Venice International University, The Study in Venice Summer School (with Ca’ Foscari Univeristy) and the Film in Venice Summer School (Venice International University). She’s a mentor for the Free Univeristy of Bozen. She has been an expert and a member of the Brussels commissions at the European Research Council (2012-13).

Antonio M. Nunziante is Associate Professor at the University of Padua (Italy). His main area of research involves epistemology, naturalism, and history of ideas. He has worked on modern thought (Leibniz, Hegel), and on early American naturalism and phenomenology (M. Farber, W. Sellars). He is currently writing a book on the topic of Naturalism and Civilization.

Giovanna Miolli is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Padua and the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (Buenos Aires). She is a member of the International Research Group on Classical German Philosophy Hegelpd at the University of Padua and of the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Estudios Hegelianos (SEH). She has studied and carried out research projects at the University of Padua, Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Sydney and the University of Münster. Her research areas include classical German philosophy (especially Hegel), contemporary metaphilosophy, feminist philosophies and the philosophy of education. Since 2017 she has been Educational Project Manager at the Association of Philosophical Studies “Verifiche” (www.verificheonline.net/progetti/). Her position includes the design and implementation of philosophical workshops for children and adolescents. Among her publications are: the book Il pensiero della cosa. Wahrheit hegeliana e Identity Theory of Truth (Verifiche, 2016), the co-edited volume The Relevance of Hegel’s Concept of Philosophy: From Classical German Philosophy to Contemporary Metaphilosophy (Bloomsbury, 2022), and the co-edited special issue Feminist Metaphilosophy (Verifiche, 2021).

Giuseppe Fusco is Associate Professor of Zoology in the Department of Biology of the University of Padova. His research is in the area of evolutionary biology, with a focus on the variation produced in each generation through reproduction and development, the ‘raw material’ on which natural selection and other mechanisms of evolutionary change operate. He is author of the graduate textbook ‘The Biology of Reproduction’ (CUP, 2019) and the popular science book ”Understanding Reproduction’ (CUP, 2023). G. Fusco teaches Evolutionary Biology at the University of Padova.

Luigi Garaffa (Palermo, 1994) is a PhD student at the University of Padua (PhD programme in biosciences) and at the university of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (doctoral school of philosophy).
His main field of interest is the philosophy of science and in particular the philosophy of biology. His research project focuses on the debate on the so-called ‘Extended Evolutionary Synthesis’ and aims to analyse the theoretical changes that have taken place in evolutionary biology in recent decades and assess their theoretical implications. His research focuses in particular on the phenomenon of phenotypic plasticity (i.e. the ability of a genotype to produce different phenotypes in response to environmental variation) and how this process is changing how we view the relationship between environment, developmental system and evolution.”

Paolo Pecere is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Roma Tre.  He works on the relationship between science and philosophy in the modern age. Among his publications : La filosofia dellanatura in Kant (Page 2009), Meccanica quantistica rappresentazione realtà. Un dialogo tra fisica e filosofia (with A. Bassi and N. Argentieri, Bibliopolis 2011), Dalla parte di Alice. La coscienza e l’immaginario (Mimesis 2015), Soul, Mind and Brain from Descartes to Cognitive Science. A Critical History (Springer 2020), La natura della mente. Da Cartesio alle scienze cognitive (Carocci 2023). He is also  the author of novels as well as the narrative essays Il dio che danza. Viaggi, trance, trasformazioni (Nottetempo 2021) and Il senso della natura. Sette sentieri per la Terra (Sellerio 2024). Paulo Pecere is also the author of high school textbooks of philosophy, including Vivere la conoscenza and Filosofia in dialogo  (Mondadori 2022 and 2023, with R. Chiaradonna). In 2024  he is Fellow at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies at Columbia University.

Sofia Belardinelli holds a PhD in Environmental Ethics from the “Federico II” University of Naples and is a Research Fellow for the seventh Global Environment Outlook of UNEP. Her research topics range from biocultural diversity to relational ethics and evolutionary biology. She is a science journalist and contributes to several outlets, including Il Bo Live, Micromega, and Il Tascabile. She covers topics such as the environmental crisis, biodiversity, and environmental justice, as well as social and current issues.