AREAS OF COMPETENCE: Science and Technology Studies, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Culture, Philosophy of Religion. COURSES TAUGHT: Introductory: The Classical Mind, The Modern Mind. Upper Division: Reasoning and Argumentation, Philosophy of Knowledge, Ethics, Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Human Nature, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Religion, Methodology of the History of Concepts, Senior Seminar. Graduate Seminars: Aristotle’s Categories (three times), Aristotle’s De Interpretatione (three times), Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Aristotle’s Poetics, Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Aristotle’s De anima, Stoic Ethics, Plotinus’s Enneads, Porphirius’s Isagoge in Categorias (twice), Ficinus’s Theologia Platonica, Ficinus’s Pimander, Bruno’s De l’universo, Bruno’s De la causa, Spinoza’s Ethica (three times), Locke’s Essay, Wolff’s Logic, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (five times), Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason (twice), Kant’s Critique of Judgment (twice), Kant’s Anthropology, Kant, Reimarus, and Fichte on Intellectual Property, Fichte’s Doctrine of Science (twice), Hegel’s Phenomenology (three times), Hegel’s Science of Logic (five times), Hegel’s Encyclopedia (four times), Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (twice), Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism (twice), Freud’s Writings on Art, Cassirer’s Essay on Man, Heidegger’s Being and Time (three times), Gadamer’s Truth and Method, Arendt’s Human Condition, Klibansky’s Saturn and Melancholy, Habermas’s Knowledge and Interest, History of Concepts (eight times), Social and Cultural Innovation (three times). AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Innovation Studies, Reflective Society, Migration Studies. RECENT RESEARCH WORK: Social and Cultural Innovation: The focus is on the introduction of the notion of cultural innovation, which requires adapting the process of co-creation, as it is pivotal for the theoretical framework. The argument starts with a first conceptualisation of cultural innovation as an additional and autonomous dimension of the complex processes of innovation. Here, the dimension of cultural innovation is contrasted against other forms of innovation. Based on such conceptualisation, in a second step, the research makes an unprecedented attempt in pointing out processes and outcomes of cultural innovation while showing their operationalisation in some empirical case studies. Policy implications and verification strategies result from the final proposed definition. History of Philosophy and the Reflective Society: Like many other disciplines, today also the history of philosophy is taking a global perspective. The research hast the ambition of providing new impulses to research in the history of philosophy by showing possibilities and limits of new approaches that are common to diverse philosophical traditions. It aims to break ground for rethinking the discipline of the history of philosophy within a global framework. It offers new definitions and stocktaking of best practices focused on European-Chinese cultural interactions, which can be taken as the start for extending the model to other cultures—China being the most populous country in the world and the fourth country of origin of non-nationals in EU member states.This research is about innovation, reflection and inclusion. Cultural innovation is something real that tops up social and technological innovation by providing the reflective society with spaces of exchange in which citizens engage in the process of sharing their experiences while appropriating common goods content. We are talking of public spaces such as universities, academies, libraries, museums, science-centres, but also of any place in which co-creation activities may occur, e.g. research infrastructures such as DARIAH-Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and the Humanities. At this level, social innovation becomes reflective and generates cultural innovation. Research and Innovation Agenda on Migration: Migration has become a benchmark of political decision-making and a decisive segment of the economical, environmental, ethical, sanitary and cultural development of society. Research on migration finds a place at the frontiers of science in as far as it integrates technological innovation with social innovation and eventually with cultural innovation, thus providing substantial added value to citizens of a global community. The migrant crisis poses to Europe a challenge whose dimensions are comparable to those of the ecological crisis of the last quarter of the last century, whose icon were the acid rains, and was overcome by means of an epochal effort in research that brought about an industrial reconversion and a change in the mind-set of the citizens. Today, the migrant crisis requires once again a research agenda that is cross-disciplinary and involves the whole domains of social sciences, humanities and cultural heritage together with mathematics, physics, chemistry, life-sciences and medicine, environmental sciences, logistics, agro-food and ICT. Migration asks for a change of paradigm that involves all disciplines in the direction of a new hybrid consideration in which top-down modelling of phenomena finds a new synthesis with the discovery of new cognitions bottom-up, which emerge from the big masses of available data. It proposes a holistic approach that embraces the sectors of cultural, social, environmental and economic sustainability. The idea is to aggregate research performing organizations, universities, research infrastructures and cultural institutions for actions on migrations, cultural heritage, interreligious and intercultural dialogue, security, agro-food, health. The main goal is to deal with every aspect of science and technology related to migration.