Pietro Gori

Holding a Ph.D. in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, I am currently senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy/Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University of Lisbon (IFILNOVA/FCSH), where I also am in charge for the chairs of Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Knowledge. 

I am member of the "Association HyperNietzsche"; the "Ibero-American Network of Nietzsche Studies"; the "Iberian Network of Philosophy of Science"; and collaborator of the "Internationale Nietzscheforschungsgruppe Stuttgart". Also, I have been the coordinator of the "Lisbon Nietzsche Group", between 2017 and 2022.

Since 2019, I am also member of the Association of Italian Reserchers in Portugal (Hipácia).

My fields of academic interest are History of Philosophy and History and Philosophy of Science. Within them, I work most extensively on Friedrich Nietzsche's view of truth and his engagement with modern science; Ernst Mach’s epistemology; William James’s pragmatism and radical empiricism; and Mary B. Hesse's post-empiricist epistemology. On these topics, I published several books and papers in peer-reviewed international journals and volumes. 

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RECENT AND ONGOING PROJECTS:

Since January 2022, I have been PI of a two-years FCT-funded research project devoted to the philosopher of science Mary B. Hesse. The project, hosted by IFILNOVA, dealt with the post-empiricist view of scientific knowledge that Hesse outlined, and with her "new epistemology". We aimed to put her reflections on the metaphorical value of scientific language in dialogue with contemporary conceptions which recently revitalized notions such as "perspectivism" and "fictionalism" within the history and philosophy of science debate.

Take a look at the updates in the project website

As an outcome of the research project, a volume on Mary Hesse will be pubished in 2024, in the Springer series "Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences".

Along with Rachel Cristy, I am editing a special issue of the open-access European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, devoted to "Pragmatism and/on Science and Scientism".

See the CFP
The issue is supposed to be published in April 2024

Together with Lorenzo Serini, in october 2023 I have published the collective volume Practices of Truth in Philosophy: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Routledge), The book provides a geographically and historically diverse overview of philosophical approaches that establish a deep connection between truth and practice, or even see truth itself as a kind of practice.

Together with María de Paz, I have recently edited a special issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science, devoted to "Classic Methodologies in the Philosophy of Science". 

See the Issue here

I have also edited an introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche that has been published in 2023, in open-access. will collect papers written by the members of the Lisbon Nietzsche Group. 

The essays collected in this volume explore Nietzsche’s philosophical journey, revealing the unitary articulation within which the various issues he tackled fit into the thematic context of an investigation on modern culture whose primary aim is to genealogically reconstruct the origin of moral evaluations, observe their anthropological effects on mankind, and show us the path for further developments.

Read the book here

I would also like to publish a book on Ernst Mach which includes the results of my recentest studies. The book shall be devoted to Mach's contribution to fundamental issues of the history and philosophy of science, with particular attention to his critic engagement with scientific realism and other contemporary perspectives on the philosophy of science.

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contacts

Instituto de Filosofia
FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Campus de Campolide
Colégio Almada Negreiros
1099-032 Lisboa, Portugal

tel. +351 217 908 300 

email: pgori@fcsh.unl.pt