I am an independent researcher with a Ph.D. in Humanistic Studies from the University of Palermo. My work starts from a simple question: what can the earliest Greek thinkers still tell us about the problems that contemporary science keeps running into? The Presocratics asked what it means for something to be, how unity relates to multiplicity, and how order emerges from change. These questions resurface today in theoretical philosophy, complexity science, cognitive theories and cosmology. Focusing in particular on Parmenides, I use these contemporary frameworks to reread the ancient texts, and the ancient texts in turn to bring new conceptual…
Palermo, Italy
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