Keynote Speaker
Paolo Pagani
Paolo Pagani is Full Professor of Moral Philosophy at “Ca’ Foscari” University of Venice. He is also director of the Centro Interuniversitario per gli Studi sull’Etica (CISE) [Interuniversity Center for Studies on Ethics] and member of the Centro di Etica Generale e Applicata (CEGA) [Center of General and Applied Ethics] at the Almo Collegio Borromeo of Pavia. From 1997 to 2002 he directed the Antonio Rosmini Chair at the Theological Faculty of Lugano (Switzerland).
His research focuses on the topic of the first principles between ontology, metaphysics, logic, and ethics, to which devoted several publications. These include Contraddizione performativa e ontologia [Performative Contradiction and Ontology] (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 1999), Libertà e non-contraddizione in Jules Lequier [Jules Lequier on Freedom and Non-Contradiction] (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2000), L’essere è persona. Considerazioni su ontologia e antropologia filosofica in Gustavo Bontadini [The Being is Person. On Ontology and Philosophical Anthropology in Gustavo Bontadini’s Thought] (Salerno-Neaples: Orthotes, 2016).