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Giorgio Pini

Associate Professor
Fordham University
Department of Philosophy
Collins Hall
441 E. Fordham Road
Bronx NY 10458
Tel: 718-817-2775
e-mail: pini@fordham.edu

 

EDUCATIONAL RECORD

  • Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto: Licentiate in Medieval Studies, 2002
  • Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy: PhD, Philosophy, 1997. Dissertation: “John Duns Scotus’s Logical Doctrine of the Categories”
  • Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy: Higher University Degree, Philosophy, 1992
  • University of Pisa, Italy: Laurea (= MA), Philosophy, 1992

TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

  • Associate Professor, Fordham University, 2005-
  • Reseach and teaching fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2001-2005
  • Post doctoral fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore, 1999-2000

SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS

  • Postdoctoral Mellon fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto (September 2000-May 2001)
  • Junior postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (April 1998-March 1999)
  • Recipient of a Short Mobility Grant from the Italian National Research Bureau (August-September, 1997)
  • Affiliate Research Student at University College London, Department of Philosophy (September, 1996 – June, 1997)
  • Recipient of a scholarship for graduate studies in the doctoral program at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy (November, 1992 – September, 1996)
  • Recipient of a scholarship for undergraduate studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy (November, 1987 – October, 1991)

PAPERS AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  1. “Scotistic Aristotelianism: Antonius Andreas’ Exposition and his Questions on Metaphysics.” International Scotistic Conference Via Scoti (Rome, 9-11 March 1993)
  2. “Scotus’s Literal Exposition on the Metaphysics.” International Conference Editori di Quaracchi, 100 anni dopo (Rome, 29-30 May 1995)
  3. “Sufficientia Praedicamentorum and deduction of the Categories in Duns Scotus.” XIIIth Europen Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics, Avignon 6-10 June 2000
  4. “Between Theology and Epistemology: Some Remarks on Henry of Ghent’s Doctrine of verbum.” International Colloquium Henry of Ghent and the Transformation of Scholastic Thought, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Hoger Instutuut voor Wijsbegeerte, Leuven 12-16 September 2001
  5. “Le species intelligibiles nelle Quaestiones de anima di Duns Scoto.” Convegno internazionale La “Nuova Fisica” tra ‘200 e ‘300, Padova, Centro Interdiparticmentale per Ricerche di Filosofia Medievale “C. Giacon”, June 7th-8th, 2002
  6. “Predication and Assertion in Duns Scotus.” 14th European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics Medieval Theories on Assertive and Non-Assertive Language, Rome, Department of Philosophical and Epistemological Studies, June 11th-15th, 2002
  7. “Substance and Accident in Scotus’s Treatment of the Eucharist.” International Conference 1302: Duns Scot à Paris, Paris September 2nd-4th, 2002
  8. “Ex defectu intellectualis luminis: ruolo e limiti della metafisica in Egidio Romano”. XIV Convegno della Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale, Metaphysica, Sapientia, Scientia Divina. Soggetto e statuto della filosofia Prima nel Medioevo, Bari, June 9-12, 2004
  9. “Le letture dei maestri dei frati Agostiniani: Egidio Romano e Giacomo da Viterbo”. Società Internazionale di Studi Francescani, 32° Convegno internazionale di studi “Libri, biblioteche e letture dei frati mendicanti (secoli XIII-XIV)”, Assisi, October 7-9, 2004
  10. “Scotus on Individuation.” ACPA Annual Conference (Satellite session, Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics), Notre Dame, IN, Oct. 28-30, 2005
  11. “Giles of Rome on Mental Representation.” APA Eastern Division Meeting (Group Session, Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale), New York, NY, December 27-30, 2005
  12. “Duns Scotus on Singular Concepts and Singular Terms.” Montreal Workshop on Nominalism: Singular Terms and Singular Concept in Late-Medieval Nominalism, Université du Quebec à Montreal, 12-13 May, 2006
  13. “Beatific Vision and the Mechanisms of Cognition from Thomas Aquinas to Henry of Ghent.” Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, Cornell University, 31 May – June 2, 2007
  14. “Substance: First Thing Known or Hidden Core? Late Medieval Debates on the Limits of Our Knowledge of the Sensible World.” XIIth International Congress of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM), Palermo, 16-22 September, 2007
  15. “Scotus’s Approach to Logic and Metaphysics: The Case of the Cognition of Substances.” Plenary Lecture at the International Conference “The Opera Philosophica of John Duns Scotus,” The Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure University, NY, 18-21 October 2007.

INVITED LECTURES

  1. “La dottrina dell’intentionalità in Duns Scoto.” Istituto di Filosofia, Università di Firenze, May 7, 1998
  2. “Henry of Ghent’s Doctrine of the Divine Word in Summa quaestionum ordinariarum, a. 58, q. 1.” De Wulf-Masion Centrum, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, March 20 1999
  3. “Scotus as an Aristotelian Commentator: the Case of the Notabilia super Metaphysicam.” Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, October 12, 2000
  4. “Scotus on Substance and Accident.” Department of Philosophy, Yale University, November 17, 2000
  5. “Scotus versus Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle’s Metaphysics.” Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, January 11, 2001
  6. “Scotus on Concepts.” Breadley Lecture in Medieval Philosophy, Boston College, April 20, 2001
  7. “Aquinas and Scotus on the Object of Understanding.” Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, March 14, 2002
  8. “Beatific Vision and Intentionality: The Theological Origins of the Notion of esse obiectivum in the Last Quarter of the Thirteenth Century”. Forschungkolloquium, Thomas Institut, Köln, June 22, 2004
  9. “Seeing God’s Essence: A Reconsideration of the Debate over Cognition from Thomas Aquinas to Henry of Ghent”. Hoger Instutuut voor Wijsbegeerte, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Ferbuary 9, 2005
  10. “L’univocité de l’êtant dans les Questions sur la Métaphysique de Duns Scot.” École pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences Religieuses, Paris, May 12, 2005
    11.      “Retrieving the Lost Scotus: A Story of Manuscripts, Institutions, and Ideas.” Fordham University, Center for Medieval Studies, December 4, 2006


PUBLICATIONS

Books

  1. Categories and Logic in Duns Scotus: An Interpretation of Aristotle’s Categories in the Late Thirteenth Century. Leiden-New York-København-Köln: E. J. Brill, 2002
  2. Scoto e l’analogia: logica e metafisica nei commenti aristotelici. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore, 2002

Articles

  1. “Una lettura scotista della «Metafisica» di Aristotele: l’«Expositio in libros Metaphysicorum» di Antonio Andrea.” Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 2.2 (1991): 529-586
  2. “La dottrina della creazione e la ricezione delle opere di Tommaso d’Aquino nelle «Quaestiones de esse et essentia» (qq. 1-7) di Egidio Romano. Parte I.” Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, 3.1 (1992): 271-304
  3. “La dottrina della creazione e la ricezione delle opere di Tommaso d’Aquino nelle «Quaestiones de esse et essentia» (qq. 1-7) di Egidio Romano. Parte II.” Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 3.2 (1992): 491-559
  4. “Scotistic Aristotelianism: Antonius Andreas’ Expositio and Quaestiones on the Metaphysics.” In Via Scoti. Methodologica ad mentem Joannis Duns Scoti. Atti del Congresso Scotistico internazionale, Roma 9-11 marzo 1993. A cura di L. Sileo, Roma 1995, I, 375-389
  5. “Sulla fortuna delle «Quaestiones super Metaphysicam» di Duns Scoto: le «Quaestiones super Metaphysicam» di Antonio Andrea.” Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 6 (1995): 281-361
  6. “Notabilia Scoti super Metaphysicam: una testimonianza ritrovata dell'insegna-mento di Duns Scoto sulla Metafisica.” Archivum franciscanum historicum 89 (1996): 137-180
  7. “Some Remarks on Duns Scotus’ Expositio on the Metaphysics.” In Editori di Quaracchi 100 anni dopo. Bilancio e prospettive. Atti del Colloquio Internazionale, Roma 29-30 maggio 1995, eds. A. Cacciotti - B. Faes de Mottoni, Roma 1997, pp. 171-186
  8. “Duns Scotus’s Metaphysics: The Critical Edition of his Quaestiones super libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis.” Recherches de théologie et philosophie médiévales 65.2 (1998): 384-399
  9. “Duns Scotus’ Commentary on the Topics: New Light on his Philosophical Teaching.” Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age 66 (1999): 225-243
  10. “Species, Concept and Thing: Theories of Signification in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century.” Medieval Philosophy and Theology 8, 2 (1999): 21-52
  11. “Being and Creation in Giles of Rome.” In Nach der Verurteilung von 1277. Philosophie und Theologie an der Universität von Paris im letzten Viertel des 13. Jahrhundersts. Studien und Texte, eds. J. A. Aertsen, K. Emery, Jr., and A. Speer (Miscellanea Mediaevalia 28). Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2001, 390-409
  12. “Signification of Names in Duns Scotus and Some of His Contemporaries.” Vivarium 39 (2001): 20-51
  13. “Henry of Ghent’s Doctrine of Verbum in Its Theological Context”. In Henry of Ghent and the Transformation of Scholastic Thought. Studies in Memory of Jos Decorte, Leuven 2003, 307-326
  14. “Scotus on Deducing Aristotle’s Categories.” In La tradition médiévale des Catégories (XIIe-XIVe siécles). XIIIe Symposium européen de logique et de sémantique médiévales. Avignon 6-10 juin 2000, eds. J. Biard et I. Rosier-Catach (Philosophes médiévaux, 45). Louvain-la-Neuve, Éditions de l’Institut supérieur de Philosophie, Louvain-Paris,  Louvain-Paris, Éditions Peeters, 2003, 23-35
  15. “The Transcendentals of Logic: Thirteenth-Century Discussions on the Subject Matter of Aristotle’s Categories”. In Die Logik des Transzendentalen. Festschrift für Jan A. Aertsen, hrsg. von M. Pickavé (Miscellanea Mediaevalia 30). Berlin-New York, de Gruyter 2003, 140-159
  16. “Scotus’s Essentialism. A Critique of Thomas Aquinas’s Doctrine of Essence in the Questions on the Metaphysics.” Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 14 (2003): 227-262
  17. “Absoluta consideratio naturae: Tommaso d’Aquino e la dottrina avicenniana dell’essenza.” Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 15 (2004): 387-438
  18. “Scotus on Assertion and the Copula: A Comparison with Aquinas.” In Medieval Theories on Assertive and Non-Assertive Language. Acts of the 14th European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics, Rome, June 11-15, 2002, eds. A. Maierù - L. Valente, Firenze, Olschki 2004, 307-331
  19. “Substance, Accident, and Inherence: Scotus and the Paris Debate on the Metaphysics of the Eucharist”. In Duns Scot à Paris 1302-2002. Actes du colloque de Paris 2-4 septembre 2002,eds. O. Boulnois - E. Karger - J.-L. Solère - G. Sondag,  Turnhout, Brepols 2004, 273-311
  20. “Il dibattito sulle specie intelligibili alla fine del tredicesimo secolo.” Medioevo 29 (2004): 267-306
  21.  “Scotus’s Realist Conception of the Categories: His Legacy to Late Medieval Debates.” Vivarium 43 (2005): 63-110
  22. “Le letture dei maestri dei frati Agostiniani: Egidio Romano e Giacomo da Viterbo”. In Libri, biblioteche e letture dei frati mendicanti (secoli XIII-XIV). Atti del XXXII Convegno internazionale, Assisi, 7-9 ottobre 2004. Spoleto, Centro Italiano di Studi sull’alto Medioevo, 2005, pp. 81-113
  23. “Univocity in Scotus’s Questions on the Metaphysics: The Solution to a Riddle.” Medioevo 30 (2005): 69-110
  24. “Ex defectu intellectualis luminis: Giles of Rome on the role and limits of metaphysics”. In Metaphysica, Sapientia, Scientia Divina. Soggetto e statuto della filosofia Prima nel Medioevo. Atti del XIV Convegno della Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale, Bari, June 9-12, 2004. Quaestio 5 (2005): 205-219
  25.  “Giles of Rome”. In Theological Quodlibeta in the Middle Ages, ed. C. Schabel, Leiden-New York-København-Köln, E. J. Brill, 2006, pp. 233-286
  26. “Scotus on Universals: A Reconsideration.” Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale - An International Journal on the Philosophical Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages 18 (2007): 395-409
  27. “Reading Aristotle’s Categories as an Introduction to Logic: Later Medieval Discussions about Its Place in the Aristotelian corpus.” In Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories, ed. L. Newton, Leiden-New York-København-Köln, E. J. Brill, forthcoming
  28. “How Is Scotus’s Logic Related to His Metaphysics? A Reply to Todd Bates.” In Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories, ed. L. Newton, Leiden-New York-København-Köln, E. J. Brill, forthcoming
  29. “Scotus on Thinking.” In Intentionality, Cognition and Representation in the Middle Ages, ed. G. Klima, New York, Fordham University Press, forthcoming.

Reviews and Short Notices

  1. “Duns Scotus' Literal Commentary on the «Metaphysics» and the «Notabilia Scoti super Metaphysicam» (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, C 62 Sup, ff.51r-98r).” Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 38 (1996): 141-142
  2. Richard Cross Duns Scotus. Great Medieval Thinkers (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). Religious Studies 37 (2001): 249-54
  3. Review of: Mary Beth Ingham and Mechthild Dreyer. The Philosophical Vision of John Duns Scotus. An Introduction (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004). Theological Studies 2005
  4. Review of: Richard Cross. Duns Scotus on God (BurlingtonVT: Ashgate, 2005). Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (2007): 497-498

Issues of Journals Edited and Co-edited

  1. Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, vol. VI, 1995
  2. Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, vol. VII, 1996
  3. Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofia medievale, vol. XII, 2001
  4. Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, vol. XVI (2005)

 

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