VENANZIO RASPA is full professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Department of Humanities at the University of Urbino, where he currently teaches Theoretical Philosophy and Aesthetics. In 1991 he graduated in philosophy at the University of Urbino and in 1996 he obtained his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Bari. In 1996 he was awarded by the “Stichting ter bevordering van de studie in de dialektische filosofie” from the Rijkuniversiteit Groningen. He has carried out research in Urbino, Berlin, Reading, London, Graz, Leuven and Amsterdam. In 1994 he was fellow researcher at the University of Graz and between 1997-98 at the Kath…
VENANZIO RASPA is full professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Department of Humanities at the University of Urbino, where he currently teaches Theoretical Philosophy and Aesthetics. In 1991 he graduated in philosophy at the University of Urbino and in 1996 he obtained his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Bari. In 1996 he was awarded by the “Stichting ter bevordering van de studie in de dialektische filosofie” from the Rijkuniversiteit Groningen. He has carried out research in Urbino, Berlin, Reading, London, Graz, Leuven and Amsterdam. In 1994 he was fellow researcher at the University of Graz and between 1997-98 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Between 1998-2000 he did a post-doctorate at the University of Urbino, where he worked between March 2001 to February 2014 as researcher in Theoretical Philosophy. In 2009 he was a visiting scholar of the NWO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) at the Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte della Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In Urbino he has held courses in Theoretical Philosophy, Philosophical Propaedeutics, History and Philosophy of Logic and Asthetics. He has also taught at the University of Ljubljana, Gdańsk, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
He is engaged in ontology and questions concerning its relationships with logic, history and philosophy of logic, aesthetics, the Austrian and classical German philosophy. In the book In-contraddizione (1999) he examined some concepts of the principle of contradiction, both classical (Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Trendelenburg, Husserl) and contemporary (Lukasiewicz, Vasil’ev, Peirce), assuming as a work hypothesis different notions of object (individuals, incomplete objects, impossibilia, continua). He has continued his researches on ontology with the study of Meinong’s object theory (by editing an anthology of texts of the Austrian philosopher and three books of writings on him) and of other representatives of Austrian philosophy (Bolzano and Twardowski), and his researches on logic with the study of the imaginary logic by N. A. Vasil’ev.
He is the author and editor of several volumes of philosophy in Italian, English, French and German, as well as of articles and essays published in journals and volumes. He is also a member of the editorial board of Meinong Studies / Meinong Studien (De Gruyter), Discipline filosofiche (Quodlibet), Studi Urbinati. B. Scienze umane e sociali (University of Urbino), and Isonomia (on-line review).
