Massimiliano Spano

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Address

c/o Pontifical University of Sardinia
Dept of Philosophy
Via Sanjust, 13
09129 Cagliari (Italy)

Telephone/Fax: +39 070 4071551
Email:massimilianospano@pfts.it

Current Position:

Professor of “History of Philosophy” and “Logic”

Education:

B.A. in Theology (Pontifical Faculty of Theology – Cagliari 1993)
M.A. in Philosophy (Gregorian University – Rome 1994)
M.A. in Philosophy (University of Rome II, 1997)
Post-graduated Degree in the “Twentieth Century Philosophy” (University of Rome II, 1998)

Academic Experiences

-Associate Professor in “History of Philosophy” and “Logic”

Department of Philosophy and  Human Sciences, Pontifical Faculty of Theology, 09129 Cagliari, Italy (2009-2015)

-Assistant Professor in “History of philosophy” and “Logic”

Department of Philosophy and  Human Sciences, Pontifical Faculty of Theology, 09129 Cagliari, Italy (2004-2009)

-Lecturer in “History of Philosophy”

Department of Philosophy and  Human Sciences, Pontifical Faculty Of Theology, 09129 Cagliari, Italy (2003-2004)

Area of competences:

Analytic Philosophy, Logic, Pragmatism, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Hermeneutics.

Conferences and seminars:

   -speaker at the conference “Organ transplants, samples, donations. Ethical, technical and social facets”, paper entitled “Some ethical issues on organ donation”; Cagliari “Cittadella Universitaria” 2002

   -conference organiser (with D. Vinci): “The Man and Word. ‘Dialogical Thought’ and Contemporary Philosophy”; speakers: E. Baccarini (Rome II), P. Ciccarelli (Cagliari), M. Giuliani (Trento), P. Plata (Cagliari – Theology), M. Spano (Cagliari – Theology), S. Zucal (Trento); Pontifical Faculty of Theology, 09129 Cagliari, Italy (2006)
-speaker at the seminar “Logic, Values and Freedom: the American Pragmatism” organised by A.M. Nieddu (Cagliari), paper entitled “Abduction in Ch. S. Peirce” (Faculty of Philosophy, Cagliari 2006)
-conference organiser (with D. Vinci): “The Right Word. Language and Communication between Ethics and Hermeneutics”; speakers: A. Fabris (Pisa), D. Murgia (Cagliari), M. Giuliani (Trento), G. Rossi (Cagliari - Theology), S. Zucal (Trento); Pontifical Faculty of Theology, 09129 Cagliari, Italy (2007)
-speaker at the conference “At the Origins of the Mediterranean Europe: the Order of St. John’s Knights”, paper entitled “A Presence at Limits”; ISEM CNR (National Research Council), Cagliari 2007
-conference organiser (with D. Vinci and G. Tilocca): “The Man and his Environment. The Reasons of a Crisis”: speakers: I. K. Joshtrom (UPS – Rome), S. Morandini (Venice), A.M. Nieddu (Cagliari), N. Russo (Naples); Pontifical Faculty of Theology, 09129 Cagliari, Italy (2008)
-speaker at the seminar “Personalism and ‘Personalitarism’ ” organised by A.M. Nieddu (Cagliari), paper entitled “L. Pareyson’s Ontological Personalism” (Faculty of Philosophy, Cagliari 2008)
-speaker at the conference "Is The Man his Brain?", paper entitled: "Can the H. Putnam's Functionalism still be Relevant?" (promoted by "Philosophy and Science Association of Sassari", Faculty of Philosophy, Sassari 2011)
- speaker at the international conference “Pavel Florensky beyond Amleto”, paper entitled: “Mathematics and Theology in P.A. Florensky. Analysis of Growing Complexity” (promoted by prof. Silvano Tagliagambe, speakers: S. Tagliagambe, G. Safra [Univ. of Sao Paulo], A. Oppo (Faculty of Theology, Cagliari], D. Antiseri, N. Valentini [ISSR Rimini, Univ. Urbino], F. José López Sáez [Faculty of Theology, Madrid], A. Dell'Asta, V. Rizzo, V. Shaposhnikov [Moscow], O.V. Marchenko [Moscow], N. Pavljuchenkov [Un. St. Tikhon, Moscow], D. Ferrari Bravo [Pisa], M.E. Cerrigone [Modena], P. Zellini [Pisa, Roma].  University of Cagliari, Cagliari 2017)
- conference organiser: “Christianity and Europe”: speakers: Silvano Zucal (Trento), Andrea Aguti (Urbino), Vincent Billot (Leuven); Pontifical Faculty of Theology, 09129 Cagliari, Italy (2019)
- conference organiser: “The Natural Moral Law: Today's Perspectives between Science and Theology”: speakers: L. Mauro (Genoa), Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti (Rome, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross), Stefano Zamboni (Rome, Accademia Alfonsiana); Pontifical Faculty of Theology, 09129 Cagliari, Italy (2021)

Editorial experiences

-  co-founder and co-editor (with D. Vinci) of “Limine”, series of the Department of Philosophy and Human Sciences of the Pontifical Faculty of Theology (Cagliari, 2006-2013)

-  Editor of Claves, series of PFTS University Press (Cagliari, 2013- )

Publications

Books:

- M. Spano (2008). Lessico di filosofia contemporanea. Temi e percorsi della contemporaneità [Lexicon of Contemporary Philosophy. Themes and Ways of the Contemporaneity]. Ortacesus [CA]: NGP Editore.

-  M. Spano – D. Vinci (eds.) (2007). L’uomo e la parola. Pensiero dialogico e filosofia contemporanea [The Man and Word. ‘Dialogical Thought’ and Contemporary Philosophy]. Trapani: Il Pozzo di Giacobbe.

-         S. Tagliagambe – M. Spano – A. Oppo (eds) (2018), Il pensiero polifonico di Pavel Florenskij. Una risposta alle sfide del presente [The Polyphonic Thought of Pavel Florenskij. An Answer to the Challenges of the Present], Proceedings of the conference for the 80th anniversary of death (Cagliari, 25-26 ottobre 2017), Cagliari: PFTS University Press.

Book Editions and Translations:

-  (with Andrea Oppo), P. Florensky, Imaginaries in Geometry, English Translation by Anna Maiorova and Karen Turnbull (Milan, Mimesis International, 2021)

-  (with Andrea Oppo), P. Florenskij, Gli immaginari in geometria, Milano, Mimesis 2021

Articles:

-   (2007). «Tra le righe. Derrida e il silenzio della parola» [Between the Lines. Derrida and the Silent of the Word], in M. Spano – D. Vinci (edd.), L’uomo e la parola. Pensiero dialogico e filosofia contemporanea. Trapani: Il Pozzo di Giacobbe, pp. 99-124.

-   (2007). «La “Facoltà di Filosofia” presso la “Pontificia Facoltà Teologica del Sacro Cuore” (1927-1932)» [The Faculty of Philosophy at the "Sacred Hearth" Pontifical Faculty of Theology (1927-1932)], in T. Cabizzosu – L. Armando (eds.), Iuventuti docendae ac educandae. Cagliari: Aìsara, pp. 401-419.

-  (2007). «Una presenza ai “limiti”. L’ordine dei Cavalieri di S. Giovanni» [A Presence at Limits. The Order of the Knights of St. John], in: Orientamenti sociali sardi, XII/2, 156-165.

-   (2009). «Non è la società che contiene le persone, ma è la persona che contiene la società. Il tema della “società” nel personalismo di L. Pareyson» [It is not the Society that contains the Persons but it is the Person that contains the Society. The Topic of the Society in the Personalism of L. Pareyson], in Theologica et Historica, XVIII, 205-226.

-   (2010). «Natura/etica: una trama spezzata. L’intreccio di fatto e valore in H. Putnam» [Nature/Ethics: a broken Texture. The Tangle of Fact and Value in H. Putnam], in M. Signore (ed.), Natura ed Etica. Lecce: Pensa Multimedia, pp. 187-203.

-   (2011). «Funzionalismo à la Putnam o senza fondazione» [Functionalism à la Putnam or Without Foundation], in Mathesis 16, 53-55. 

-   (2012). «”L’occhio di Dio”. Analisi di un’argomentazione sull’impossibilità di una prospettiva assoluta nel pensiero di Hilary Putnam» [«The “God’s-Eye View”. An Argument against an Absolute Point of View in Hilary Putnam’s Thought»], in Theologica et Historica, XXI, 195-214.  

-   (2016). «L'eredità del funzionalismo nella filosofia della mente. Quando il come è più importante del cosa. In ricordo di Hilary Putnam». [«The Heritage of Functionalism in the Philosophy of Mind. When the How is more Important than the What. In Memory of Hilary Putnam»], in Theologica et Historica, XXI, 195-214.  

-         (2018).«Matematica e teologia in Florenskij. Analisi di una complessità crescente» [Mathematics and Theology in P.A. Florensky. Analysis of a Growing Complexity], in S. Tagliagambe – M. Spano – A. Oppo (eds), Il pensiero polifonico di Pavel Florenskij. Una risposta alle sfide del presente [The Polyphonic Thought of Pavel Florenskij. An Answer to the Challenges of the Present], Proceedings of the conference for the 80th anniversary of death(Cagliari, 25-26 ottobre 2017), Cagliari: PFTS University Press, pp. 71-123.

-  (2021) «Pavel Florensky’s “Complex” Universe», afterword to P. Florensky, Imaginaries in Geometry, Mimesis International, Milano 2021, pp. 79-110.