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CURRICULUM VITAE

2018

Allegra de Laurentiis, Associate Professor

Department of Philosophy

State University of New York at Stony Brook

<allegra.delaurentiis@stonybrook.edu>

EDUCATION

1982 Ph.D. in Philosophy. Wolfgang von Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany.

1978 MA in Philosophy. Wolfgang von Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany.

1975 Laurea in Filosofia. Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italy.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND CONCENTRATION

Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, especially Hegel’s system.

Ancient Greek Philosophy, especially Aristotle.

The reception of ancient Greek philosophy by nineteenth-century European philosophers.

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

History of Modern Philosophy; Logic; Marxism; The Frankfurt School; Global Studies.

POSITIONS

2006-present Stony Brook University, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

2015-2016 Stony Brook University, Doctoral Program Director, Dept. of Philosophy

2008 - 2013 Stony Brook University, Faculty Director of the College of Global Studies.

2001-2006 Stony Brook University, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy.

1994-2001 Stony Brook University, Senior Research Associate and Lecturer, Dept. of

Philosophy.

1990-1994 Miami University of Ohio, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy.

1987-1990 Villanova University (PA), Instructor, Dept. of Philosophy.

1983-1987 Pädagogische Arbeitsstelle des Deutschen Volkshochschulverbandes, Frankfurt,

Germany. Researcher, Department of Applied Linguistics.

BOOKS

1. Marx' und Engels' Rezeption der Hegelschen Kantkritik. Ein Widerspruch im Materialismus.

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[Marx’ and Engels’ Appropriation of Hegel’s Kant Criticism. A Contradiction in Materialism.]

Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1983. (Dissertation published in the series Europäische Hochschulschriften,

XX/108; 158 pages. Reviewed in Kant-Studien, 1985.)

2. Subjects in the Ancient and Modern World. On Hegel’s Theory of Subjectivity Basingstoke, UK:

Palgrave-MacMillan, 2005. 227 pages.

http://us.macmillan.com/subjectsintheancientandmodernworld/AllegradeLaurentiis

3. The Bloomsbury Companion to Hegel. Co-edited with Jeffrey Edwards. London/NY:

Bloomsbury, 20131, 2015.

2 408 pages.

http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-bloomsbury-companion-to-hegel-9781441195128/

4. Hegel and Metaphysics. On Logic and Ontology in the System. Edited with the collaboration of

Soren Whited. Hegel Jahrbuch Sonderband 7. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. 225 pp.

5. Life and Psyche in Hegel’s Anthropology (monograph; forthcoming with Northwestern UP, 2019).

6. Hegel etc. , vol. 3 of Manfred Baums kleine Schriften (co-editorship; forthcoming with W.

DeGruyter, 2019).

ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS

"A Prophet Turned Backwards: Materialism and Mysticism in Walter Benjamin's Notion of

History." Rethinking Marxism, 7:4, 1994, pp. 28-43.

" 'And Yet it Moves': Hegel on Zeno's Arrow." The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 9: 4, 1995,

pp. 256-278.

"Logic and History of Consciousness in the Introduction to Hegel's Encyclopaedia." Southwest

Philosophy Review, 14:2, 1998, pp. 17-28.

"Silenced Subjectivity. Remarks on Hegel's View of Plato's World." Studies in Practical Philosophy,

2:1, 2000, pp. 64-79.

"Aristotle in the Nineteenth Century: the Case of Goethe's Study of Life." Idealistic Studies, 30:2,

2000, pp. 107-119.

"Kant's Shameful Proposition. A Hegel-Inspired Criticism of Kant's Theory of Domestic Right."

International Philosophical Quarterly, XL:3, no. 159, 2000, pp. 297-312.

“Hegel’s Legacy in Marx’s Conception of Right.” Southwest Philosophy Review, 17:2, 2001, pp. 25-

42.

“On Hegel’s Concept of Thinking.” Book chapter in Societas Rationis. Festschrift. D. Huening, G.

Stiening, U. Vogel eds. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2002, pp. 263-285.

“The Place of Rousseau in Hegel’s System.” Book chapter in Hegel’s History of Philosophy: New

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Interpretations. David Duquette ed. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003, pp. 121-141.

“The Tenacity of Contradiction. Hegel on Ancient and Modern Views of Paradox.” Book chapter in

Aufklärung und Spekulation. Festschrift für Manfred Baum zum 65. Geburtstag. D. Huening, K.

Michel eds. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2004, pp. 405-438.

“The One and the Concept: On Hegel’s Reading of Plato’s ‘Parmenides.’” Cardozo Public Law,

Policy and Ethics Journal vol. 3:1, 2004, pp. 61-79.

“Wie aus dem Begriff des Ich dessen Realität vernünftig herauszuklauben sei.” [“How the Reality of

the Ego May Be Rationally Extracted from its Concept.”] Hegel-Jahrbuch 2005. Glauben und

Wissen. Dritter Teil. A. Arndt, K. Bal, H. Ottmann eds. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2005, pp. 198-

203.

“On the Difference Between Understanding and Reason. Aspects of Hegel’s Kant-Criticism and of

Contemporary Forms of Understanding.” Book chapter in System and Context: Early Romantic and

Early Idealistic Constellations. R. Ahlers, ed. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, New Athenaeum

vol. 7, 2005, pp. 47-92.

“Metaphysical Foundations of the History of Philosophy. Hegel’s 1820 Introduction to the Lectures

on the History of Philosophy.” Review of Metaphysics, vol. 59:1, 2005, pp. 3-32.

“The One and the Concept: On Hegel’s Reading of Plato’s ‘Parmenides.’” Book chapter in Hegel’s

Theory of the Subject, D. G. Carlson ed. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave-McMillan, 2006, pp. 44-59.

[Reprint of 2004 article in the Cardozo Law Journal, see above.]

“ On Hegel’s Interpretation of Aristotle’s De Anima: a Qualified Defense.” Book chapter in Hegel:

New Directions. Katerina Deligiorgi ed. Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2006, pp. 227-242.

“The Parmenides and De Anima from Hegel’s Perspective.”(Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great

Britain, vol. 54, 2006, pp. 51-68.

“Not Hegel’s Tales: Applied Concepts, Negotiated Truths, and the Reciprocity of Un-equals.”

Philosophy and Social Criticism, E. Mendieta, R. Eason eds., vol. 33:1, 2007, pp. 83-98.

“Absolute Knowing: the Conclusion of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.” Book chapter in The

Blackwell Guide to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Kenneth R. Westphal editor. Oxford, UK:

Blackwell, 2009, pp. 246-264.

“Spirit Without the Form of Self. On Hegel’s Reading of Greek Antiquity.” Book chapter in Hegel

and History. W. C. Dudley ed. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009, pp. 135-153.

“Universal Historiography and World History According to Hegel.” Book chapter in Historiae

Mundi. Studies in Universal Historiography. P. Liddel, A. Fear eds. London, UK: Duckworth

Publishers, 2010, pp. 207-220.

“Race in Hegel: Text and Context.” Book chapter in Philosophie nach Kant. Neue Wege zum

Verständnis von Kants Transzendental- und Moralphilosophie. Mario Egger ed., De Gruyter, March

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2014, pp. 607-639.

“Rights-Pragmatism and the Right of Humanity. International Politics in Kant’s and Hegel’s

Perspectives.” In Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 102, 2016/1. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag,

pp. 22-39.

“Hylemorphism and Hegel’s Account of the Soul.” In Jahrbuch für Hegelforschung 18-20 (2012-

14), Helmut Schneider, ed., Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2017, pp. 247-265.

“Sentience and Feeling in the Anthropology.” Book chapter in Palgrave Hegel Handbook, Marina

Bykova and K.R. Westphal, eds. Palgrave, 2017 (28 pp., forthcoming).

“The Aristotelian Metaphysics of Hegel’s ‘Soul’.” Book chapter in Hegel and Ancient Philosophy. A

Re-Examination. Glenn A. Magee, ed. London: Routledge, 2018 (31 pp., forthcoming).

“Derangements of the Soul.” Book chapter in the Cambridge Critical Guide to Hegel’s Philosophy

of Spirit, Marina Bykova ed. Cambridge UP, 2018 (30 pp., forthcoming).

BOOK REVIEWS

Th. W. Adorno. Critical Models. Interventions and Catchwords. (Teaching Philosophy, 23:1, 2000,

pp. 82 - 85.)

John McCumber. Metaphysics and Oppression: Heidegger's Challenge to Western Philosophy.

(Teaching Philosophy, 24:2, 2001, pp. 169 - 175.)

Karl Ameriks, editor. The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism. (Philosophical Inquiry,

XIV:4, 2002, pp. 133 – 137.)

Leslie J. Kavanaugh. The Architectonic of Philosophy. Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz. (Review of

Metaphysics, 62:2, December 2008, pp. 406 – 409.)

Peter Carravetta. Del Postmoderno. (Forum Italicum 45:2, Fall 2011, pp. 515-518).

Richard D. Winfield. Hegel’s Science of Logic. A Critical Rethinking in Thirty Lectures. (The

Review of Metaphysics 67:1, 2013: 202-204).

TRANSLATIONS

Luca Renzi. “Winckelmann and Nietzsche on the Apollonian and the Dionysian”. From the German,

with Ingrid Toelg. (New Nietzsche Studies, 4:1/2, 2000, pp. 123 – 140.)

Michael Wolff, “Science of Logic.” Co-translated with J. Edwards from the German. (Bloomsbury

Companion to Hegel, A. de Laurentiis and J. Edwards, eds, February 2013, pp. 71 -101).

Manfred Baum, “Dialectic.” Translated from the German. (Bloomsbury Companion to Hegel,

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February 2013, pp. 279-287).

Martin Bondeli, “Hegel in Tübingen, Bern and Frankfurt: 1788-1800. ” Co-trans. with W. Nolan

from the German. (Bloomsbury Companion to Hegel, February 2013, pp. 11 – 20).

Martin Bondeli, “The Jena years: 1801-1806.” Co-trans. with F. Bottenberg from the German.

(Bloomsbury Companion to Hegel, February 2013, pp. 21-38).

COURSES TAUGHT

Graduate

Aristotle’s De Anima; Critical Theory (the Frankfurt School); Doctoral Teaching Practicum; Hegel’s

‘Anthropology’; Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics; Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit; Hegel’s

Philosophy of Right; Hegel’s Science of Logic; Marx’s Grundrisse and Kapital; Social and Political

Philosophy; Twentieth century Marxisms.

Undergraduate

PHI Ancient Greek Philosophy; Concepts of the Person; Feminist Theory (introductory, cross-listed

WST/PHI); Feminist Theory (advanced, cross-listed WST/PHI); German Idealism; Hegel’s

Philosophy of Right; Historical Introduction to Western Philosophy; Logical and Critical Reasoning;

Marxism; Metaphysics; Nineteenth Century Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion; The Philosophy of

J.-J. Rousseau; Social and Political Philosophy (cross-listed POL/PHI); Juniors’ Seminar: Aristotle’s

De anima.

GLS (Global Studies) Chomsky’s Failed States; Jihadists at MacDonald’s: a Crash Course in Globalization;

Skepticism and Belief.

ADVISOR OF DISSERTATIONS

Paul Humphrey: “Metaphysics of Mind: Hylomorphism and Eternality in Aristotle and Hegel.”

Stony Brook and Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Degree

conferred March 2007.

Karen I. Burke: “The Idea of Organism in Hegel’s System.” Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation.

Proposal defended May 2007. M. Phil. conferred posthumously, Dec. 2007.

Senem Saner: “System and Critique. The Relation between Reason and Actuality in Hegel’s Logik

and Realphilosophie.” Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Co-Director: prof. Manfred Baum,

Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Degree conferred August 2008.

Christopher Manno: “The Utopian dimension: Eudaimonia and Marx’s Critique of Capital.”

Proposal defended February 2015.

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Miles Hentrup: “Hegel and Skepticism.” Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Degree conferred

December 2016.

Harrison Fluss: “The Specter of Spinoza: On the Legacy of the Pantheism Controversy in Hegel’s

Thought.” Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Degree conferred December 2016.

Wakagi Takahashi: “Hegel and Arendt on the French Revolution.” Collegium Transatlanticum

dissertation. Degree conferred December 2017.

Hamad Al-Rayes: “Thinking Counterintuitively: the Beginning of Philosophical Cognition in Light

of Hegel’s Critique of Construction.” Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Dissertation defense

scheduled for May 2018.

MEMBER OF DISSERTATION COMMITTEES

Rod Burns: “Levelling Up: Class and Machine Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century Fiction and

Film.” S. B. Department of English. Degree conferred 1999.

Tanja Staehler: “Das natürliche Bewusstsein auf dem Weg zur Philosophie–Eine vergleichende

Studie zu Hegels und Husserls ‘Phänomenologie’.” Stony Brook and Bergische Universität

Gesamthochschule Wuppertal. Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Degree conferred 2001.

Rita D. Alfonso: “How Sexual Difference Acquires Ontological Import in Plato’s Timaeus.” Degree

conferred 2002.

Aaron P. Smith: “Kierkegaard, Hegel and the Return of the Victorious Hermit.” Degree conferred

2006.

Chris Johns: “The Science of Right in Leibniz’s Practical Philosophy.” Stony Brook and Bergische

Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal. Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Degree

conferred 2007.

Chad Kautzer: “Colonialism, Natural Law and the Problem of Jurisdiction: Modern Natural Law

Theory and Hegel’s Critique.” Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Degree conferred 2008.

Adam Wilkins: “Modes, Monads and Nomads: Individuals in Spinoza, Leibniz and Deleuze.”

Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Degree conferred 2008.

Ethan Kosmider: “Hegel’s Philosophy of History in the Work of the Frankfurt School.” Degree

conferred 2010.

Caroline Arruda: “What We Can Intend: Recognition and Collective Intentionality.”

Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Degree conferred 2010.

Meghant Sudan: “Matter and Motion in Kant’s Philosophy of Science.” Collegium Transtlanticum

dissertation. Degree conferred 2010.

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David Landon Frim: “Monism, Pluralism and the Politics of Toleration. An Analysis of Spinoza’s

Rationalist Political Philosophy and its 20th

Century Critics.” Collegium Transatlanticum

dissertation. Degree conferred 2012.

Soren Withed: “Historical Change in Philosophic Conceptions of Theory and Practice.” Proposal

defense scheduled for May 2018.

Patrick Welsh: “Being at Home in the Modern World. Critical Reconciliation in Literary Art.”

Proposal defended Dec. 18, 2013. Dissertation defense scheduled for May 2018.

MASTER’S THESES

As Director

Harrison Fluss: “Marx Without the Beard: A Critical Essay on Spinoza’s Role in the History of

Marxism.” Degree conferred 2010.

As Reader

Antonio Pellegrino: “Art and Cognition: A Methodological Critique of the Pre-Atonal Arnold

Schoenberg.” Department of Art History and Criticism, Stony Brook University. Degree conferred

May 2014.

Dyvia Menon: “Melancholia in Modernity: A Study in Romantic and Decadent Literatures.”

Department of English, Stony Brook University. Degree conferred 2017.

GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE INDEPENDENT STUDIES DIRECTED

- "Schopenhauer on Kant: the Will to Live" (Miami University 1991-92). [G]

- "Selected topics from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" (Miami University 1991-92). [U]

- "Dialectic and Paradox in Post-Modern Architectural Theory" (Miami University, 1992). [G]

- “Concepts of Revolution in the 20th Century” (Miami University 1992-93). [G]

- "The 19th Century Industrial Novel" (Stony Brook 1994-95).[G]

- "Readings and Research in Methodology" (Stony Brook 1997-98). [U]

- "Undergraduate Teaching Practicum" (Stony Brook 1998, 1999, 2000). [U]

- "Selected topics from Aristotle’s De Anima" (Stony Brook 1998-99). [G]

- "Feuerbach's and Freud's Critiques of Religion" (Stony Brook 1999). [G]

- “A Comparison of Hegel’s and Husserl’s uses of ‘phenomenology’” (Stony Brook 1999-

2000). [G]

- “Plato’s Timaeus” (Stony Brook 2000). [G]

- “Hegel and Heidegger on Time” (Stony Brook 2001). [G]

- “From Discourse to Labor: Capitalism and Theory Now” (Stony Brook 2002). [U]

- “Christianity from a Philosophical Standpoint” (Stony Brook 2002). [U]

- “Time in Hegel’s Philosophy of the Subjective Spirit” (Stony Brook 2002). [G]

- “A Marxist Analysis of the Theory of Social Development in Empire” (Stony Brook 2002).[U]

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- “Aspects of Hegel’s Logic” (Stony Brook 2003) [G]

- “Montesquieu’s Esprit des Lois” (Stony Brook 2006) [G]

- “On sense certainty in Hegel’s Phenomenology” (Stony Brook 2009) [U]

- Global Studies Undergraduate Internship (GLS 488-T01): Spring 2011 and Summer 2011.

- two Global Studies Undergraduate Internships (GLS 488-T01): Spring 2012.

- “Heidegger’s interpretation of Aristotle’s De Anima” (Stony Brook 2013) [U]

- Global Studies Undergraduate Internships (3) (GLS 488-T01): Spring 2013.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Locke's Concept of Property." February 10, 1989 at California State University, Hayward, CA.

Philosophy Department Lecture Series.

"Concepts of Man and Nature in Hegel and Marx." March 17, 1989 at LaSalle University,

Philadelphia, PA. Philosophy Department Lecture Series.

" And Yet it Moves: Hegel on Zeno's Arrow." January 30, 1991 at the Greater Philadelphia

Philosophy Consortium Working Group, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.

“Messianism and Marxism in W. Benjamin.” Respondent at the "Walter Benjamin Across Borders"

Symposium, April 17-18, 1992, Miami University, Oxford, OH.

"Walter Benjamin's Meditations on History." October 7, 1992 at the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy

Consortium Working Group, Villanova University, Villanova, PA.

“On Wittgenstein and Rainer Maria Rilke.” Respondent at the Ohio Philosophical Association

annual meeting, April 9, 1994, Ohio University - Zanesville, OH.

"A Prophet Turned Backwards. Walter Benjamin's Notion of History." May 4, 1994 at the

International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Alberta, Canada.

"Urphänomen and Idee: Hegel's Concept of the Idea in the Context of Goethe's Philosophy of the

Organic World." November 19, 1994, at the New Jersey Regional Philosophy Association Meeting,

Rutgers University.

"Goethe's Archetypal Phenomenon and Hegel's Idea: Why Freedom Exists Despite Nature." April

20, 1996, at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.

"Kant's 'Shameful Proposition': Hegel's Judgment on Kant's Contractual Interpretation of the

Family". Spring 1996, State University of New York-Stony Brook, Faculty Colloquium, Philosophy

Department.

“Hegel’s Concept of Right in the Marxian Critique.” November 18, 1996, State University of New

York- Stony Brook, Faculty Colloquium, Philosophy Department.

"The Hegelian Language of Rights". December 6, 1996, at the Languages and Politics of

Contemporary Marxism Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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“Integrating a Study of Ethics in the Science Curriculum.” School and University Partnerships in

Biology Conference, State University of New York at Stony Brook, May 14, 1997.

“Kant on Marriage Right: Does the Right of Humanity Extend to Persons' Bodies?” November 15,

1997, Long Island Philosophical Society, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus.

“Philosophy With a Grain of Salt: the Use of Images in Philosophers’ Theories.” November 19,

1997, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Philosophy Department..

“A Hegel-Inspired Analysis of Kant's Theory of Domestic Right.” Twentieth World Congress of

Philosophy, Boston, August 10, 1998.

“Some Considerations on the Kinship of Thought and History in Hegel's Philosophy.” Long Island

Philosophic Society, State University of New York at Stony Brook, April 24, 1999.

“Persons and Agency.” Respondent at the conference “Persons: Mind, Body and Agency,” State

University of New York’s Suffolk Community College, May 6, 2000.

“The Place of Rousseau in the Logic of the Concept.” Hegel Society of America, 16th

Biennial

Meeting, Fordham University, New York, Oct. 21, 2000.

“Rousseau’s Place in Hegel’s Logic.” State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of

Philosophy Lecture Series, April 27, 2001.

“On Hegel’s Concept of Thinking.” Third Annual Conference of the Transatlantic Collegium of

Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, January 17, 2002.

“Do We Need a Critique of Feminist Reason?” Two-part workshop at the Conference on Gender and

Moral Subjectivity: Feminist Dimensions of Practical Philosophy. Phillips Universität Marburg,

Germany, June 8, 2002.

“Wie aus dem Begriff des Ich seine Realität vernünftig auszuklauben sei” [How the Reality of the

Ego May Be Rationally Extracted from its Concept.] 24th

Congress of the International Hegel

Society, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, Aug. 30, 2002.

“Not Hegel’s Tales: Applied Concepts, Negotiated Truths, and the Reciprocity of Un-equals.” R.

Brandon-Symposium: Pragmatism and the History of Philosophy. SUNY Stony Brook, Department

of Philosophy, Nov. 15, 2003.

“The One and the Concept. On Hegel’s Reading of Plato’s ‘Parmenides.’” Conference: Hegel’s

Logic of the Subject. Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, NY. March 28, 2004.

“Mortall Gods. A Reply to Andrew Buchwalter’s ‘Hegel’s Conception of a Situated

Cosmopolitanism.’” American Philosophical Association/Pacific Meeting, San Francisco, March 25,

2005.

“The Parmenides and De Anima from Hegel’s Perspective.” Conference: Hegel and the Greeks.

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Hegel Society of Great Britain, Oxford, UK. September 1-2, 2005.

“La soluzione aristotelica del dualismo da parte di Hegel” [Hegel’s Aristotelian Solution of the

Mind-Body Problem]. Conference: Terza Conferenza Mondiale sulla Metafisica, Istituto Idente,

Università Urbano VIII. Città del Vaticano, Italy. July 6 – 9, 2006.

“Impassive yet Receptive. On Hegel’s Interpretation of nous.” Conference: Reading Aristotle’s De

Anima. Canadian Philosophical Association/Association canadienne de philosophie, Bishop’s

University, Quebec. September 28-Oct. 1, 2006.

“Spirit Without the Form of Self. On Hegel’s Reading of Greek Antiquity.” Conference: XIX

Biennial Conference of the Hegel Society of America, Chicago. October 6-8, 2006.

“Hegel, the Greeks and the Idea of History.” Conference: Universal History. Department of Classics

and Ancient History. University of Manchester, UK. June 21 – 22, 2007.

“The Last Chapter of Hegel’s Phenomenology. A Conclusion and a Beginning.” International

Conference on the Phenomenology of Spirit—200th

anniversary of the publication. Institute of

Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. June 3 – 6, 2007 (delivered in absentia

for lack of funding).

“Morals vs. Expediency in International Politics. Kant and Hegel on Torture Warrants and Pre-

Emptive Attacks.” American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Group Meeting

Panel “Hegel and Global Justice.” Philadelphia, PA. December 28, 2008 (delivered in absentia for

family reasons.)

“Hegel and the Idea of Philosophy. Comments on W. Bristow’s Hegel and the Transformation of

Philosophical Critique.” Author-Meets-Critics Session at the American Philosophical Association

Central Division Meeting, Chicago. February 18, 2009.

“Etica politica nei rapporti internazionali: Kant e Hegel sull’ipocrisia del filantropismo” [Political

Ethics in International Relations: Kant and Hegel on the Hypocrisy of Philanthropy]. NISA

(Network of Italian Scholars Abroad) Conference on ‘Democracy’s Destiny. Relativism and

Universalization,’ Castel dell’Ovo e Palazzo Cavalcanti, Naples, Italy. May 20 – 24, 2009.

“Kant and Hegel on the Right and the Useful in International politics.” New York German Idealism

Workshop, The New School, October 16, 2009.

“Methode und Strategie für ein Hegel-Handbuch” [Method and Strategy for a Hegel-Handbook].

Continuum Hegel Companion Editorial Board Conference, Herzog August Bibliothek,

Wolfenbuettel, Germany. October 26, 2009.

“A Developmental Sketch of Hegel’s System.” Fordham University, NY (invited lecture). March

21, 2011.

“Why Thought Must Think Itself: Aristotle and Hegel on Psyche’s Activity.” Long Island

Philosophical Society Conference. St. Francis College, NY. April 16, 2011.

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“Race in Hegel: Text and Context.” New York German Idealism Workshop, Columbia University.

September 30, 2011.

“Blumenbach, Hegel and the Modern Anthropology of Race.” XXIX International Hegel Congress

of the Internationale Hegel Gesellschaft, Boghasici Universitesi, Istanbul, Turkey. October 3-6,

2012.

“Kant’s and Hegel’s Political Critique of Moralism.” Society for German Idealism, Author-Meets-

Critic Colloquium, APA Pacific Division, San Diego (CA). April 17, 2014.

“Hylemorphism and Hegel’s account of the Soul.” Congresso Internazionale sulla Filosofia dello

Spirito Oggi. Universita’ degli Studi di urbino (IT). Nov. 27, 2015.

“The Aristotelian Metaphysics of Hegel’s Seele.” Twenty Fourth Biennial Conference of the Hegel

Society of America. Concordia University, Montreal, CA. Nov. 4-6, 2016.

“La concettualità aristotelica dell’Antropologia di Hegel.” Congresso Internazionale ‘Il Pensiero

Filosofico e la Sua Storia.’ Università degli Studi Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy. Dec. 1, 2016.

“Finite Souls and Infinite Self-Knowledge in Hegel’s Anthropology.” Conference: ‘Infinite and

Finite Cognition in German Philosophy,’ Fordham University, April 14, 2018.

“Self-confinement to a life of feeling: Hegel on mental alienation.” Conferenza Internazionale ‘Il

volo della nottola. L’eredità di Hegel con voce differente.’ Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italy.

September 26-28, 2018.

“Comedy and Tragedy in Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics.” Key-note Lecture. Twenty-Fifth Biennial

Conference of the Hegel Society of America. Boston College, October 26-28, 2018.

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Executive memberships and offices held

Founding member of the Collegium Philosophiae Transatlanticum (first German-American

Graduate Program in Philosophy, founded in 1999).

Member of the Executive Council of the Hegel Society of America, October 2006 - 2010.

Member of the Editorial Panel of the Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, Sept. 2009 -

present.

Member of the Editorial Board of the ‘Hegelian Research Studies Series’ of Clio: A Journal of

Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History. 2010 – present.

Vice President of the Hegel Society of America, 2012 – 2016.

Member of the Scientific Committee, Amartya Sen Research Center, Passo Fundo, Brazil, 2014-.

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Member of the SUNY Press Editorial Board, 2015 – present.

President of the Hegel Society of America, 2016 - 2018.

Referee

Articles referee for the journal Rethinking Marxism. 1996-1997.

Articles referee for Continental Philosophy Review. 1999-2000.

Book manuscript referee for Kluwer Academic Publishers’s book series Philosophical Studies in

Contemporary Culture. 2000-2001.

Articles referee for Journal for the History of Philosophy. 2003.

Articles referee for the Owl of Minerva, Journal of the American Hegel Society, 2009-present.

Submissions referee for the Hegel Society of America 21st Biennial Meeting ‘Hegel, Religion and

Politics,’ October 2010.

Articles referee for Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History. 2010,

2011, 2013.

Articles referee for the Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain. 2013.

Referee for the Hegel Society of America 23rd Biennial Meeting ‘Hegel Without Metaphysics?’

2014.

Book manuscripts referee (Editorial Board) for SUNY Press (about twelve per year). 2015 - present.

Chair of conference sessions

Chair of session (“Virtual Bodies, Virtual Texts”) at the annual meeting of the International

Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL). Villanova University, May 10-13, 1995,

Chair of session (“Undermining Patriarchal Law”) at the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP),

Eastern Division Annual Conference. Stony Brook U. March 8-10, 1996.

Host of the Long Island Philosophical Society’s annual conference, Stony Brook U. April 24th,

1999.

Chair of session (“Feminist Aesthetics”) at the annual meeting of the International Association for

Philosophy and Literature (IAPL), Stony Brook U. May 9-13, 2000.

Chair of session at the Spindel Conference: The Contemporary Relevance of Hegel’s Philosophy of

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Right. University of Memphis, Memphis. Sept. 21-23, 2000.

Chair of session (“Critical Theory, Heidegger and the Dialectic of Modernity”) at the 40th

Annual

Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Goucher College,

Baltimore. Oct. 4-6, 2001.

Chair of session IV at the Twentieth Biennial Meeting of the Hegel Society of America: “The

Philosophy of Subjective Spirit,” University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. October 24-26, 2008.

Chair of session at the Conference ‘How Class Works,’ Stony Brook U. June 4, 2010.

Chair of session at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the Hegel Society of America. Session on

Philosophy and Religion. St. Norbert’s College, WI. October 8-10, 2010.

Chair of session at the conference ‘Italy from Without,’ Oct. 14-15, 2011. Session on ‘Italy from the

Muslim World.’ Stony Brook University.

Chair of session at the XXII Biennial Meeting of the Hegel Society of America: ‘Hegel and

Capitalism’. DePaul University, Chicago. Oct. 26-28, 2012.

Chair of Colloquium at the 2014 American Philosophical Association Division: “Foucault and the

Possibility of Anti-foundationalist Critique”. Westin Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, CA. April 17,

2014.

Invited conference commentator

Commentator at the American Philosophical Association (Session: ‘Hegel’s Political Philosophy’),

Pacific Meeting, San Francisco. March 25, 2005 (see Conference Presentations 2005).

Commentator of the Round Table discussion at the Conference Altreitalie: cittadinanza e diritto al

voto. Italian Citizenship and Vote Abroad. Center for Italian Studies, Stony Brook U. October 6,

2007.

Commentator on Peter Carravetta’s Del Postmoderno. Center for Italian Studies, Stony Brook U.

March 23, 2010.

Commentator on John McCumber’s Understanding Hegel’s Mature Critique of Kant, Stanford UP,

2014. APA Pacific Division, San Diego. April 17, 2014.

Conference program organizer

Hegel Companion Editorial Board Meeting Conference, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel,

Germany. October 26-28, 2009.

The 23rd

Biennial Conference of the Hegel Society of America, Northwestern University, Evanston,

IL, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2014.

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SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT

Member of the Executive Committee (2001 – 2002; 2004 – 2006; 2015 – 2016)

Co-PI for the Collegium Philosophiae Transatlanticum (2001 – present)

Department’s Library Liaison (2002; 2008 - present)

Member of the Hiring Committee for the Assistant to the Chair (2004)

Member of the Metaphilosophy Lectures Committee (2004 – 2007)

Member of the History of Philosophy Exam Committee (2006 – 2008; 2011 – 2012)

Tenure-file coordinator for junior faculty (2008-2010)

Presenter at four meetings of the S.B. Undergraduate Philosophy Society (Fall 2006, Spring 2007,

April 2010, March 2013)

Organizer of the Collegium Transatlanticum Lecture Series 2007 “Karl Marx as a Moral

Philosopher” by Prof. Manfred Baum, Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, March

8, 15, 22 and 29, 2007.

Organizer of the Lecture Series “Post-Modernism Inside Modernism? The Strange Case of J. L.

Schmied and G. Barbier.” Lecturer: Prof. Mauro Nasti, Università di Salerno, Italy. Stony Brook-

Manhattan, Sept. 15 and 18, 2009.

Organizer of the Philosophy Collegium Transatlanticum workshops (doctoral students presenters) at

Stony Brook, Department of Philosophy, 2008/09; 2009/10; 2010/11; 2011/12; 2012/13; 2013/14;

2015/16 (three workshops per academic year).

Member of the Philosophy Department Graduate Programs Committee (2001-2002; 2006-2007;

2010-2013).

Chair, Philosophy Search Committee for two junior faculty positions, 2012/13.

Presenter at the Philosophy Faculty-Graduate Student Colloquium. “Rights-Pragmatism and the

Right of Humanity. International Politics in Kant’s and Hegel’s Perspectives.” Commentator:

Christopher Fremaux. Dept. of Philosophy, Sept. 30, 2015.

Faculty mentor of Junior Philosophy Faculty, 2013 – present.

Doctoral Program Director, Department of Philosophy, 2015 – 2016.

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

Member of the Joint Labor-Management Part Time Concerns Committee (2000-2001)

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Faculty Advisor for the student organization Social Justice Alliance (2001-2013)

SUNY-Stony Brook (Phil. Dept.) representative at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Evaluative session of the Transatlantic Collegium of Philosophy, Bonn, Germany, September 2002.

Member of the University Graduate Council (2004 – 2010)

Member of the University Graduate Council’s Appeals and Grievances Committee (2005 – 2006)

Academic UUP Delegate for the Stony Brook campus (2005 – 2007)

Chair of the University Graduate Council’s Appeals and Grievances Committee (2006 – 2007)

Member of the A. D’Amato Endowed Chair Search Committee. Italian Studies, Department of

European Languages (2006-2007)

Faculty Director of the Global Studies College (2008-2013)

Member of the University Undergraduate Council (2008-2013)

Instructor and Mentor for the Center for Inclusive Education: Dissertation Writers’ Workshop, Stony

Brook University (Jan. 18-24, 2011).

Presenter at one meeting of the Undergraduate S.B. Freethinkers Society: ‘The God Issue.’ (April

23, 2012).

Co-founder of the AAAS/PHI Joint MA Program “History of Philosophies-East and West.”

Approved by SUNY Albany in 2015. Starting date: September 2018.

Faculty Advisor for the student organization Young Democratic Socialists of America (2016- )

Member of the University Undergraduate Council (2017- )

SERVICE TO THE CAMPUS COMMUNITY

Provost Lectures organized

March 10, 2010: “Afghanistan: The Long War.”

Provost Lecture co-sponsored by the College of Global Studies and the School of Journalism.

Speaker: Ann Jones, writer (Kabul in Winter) and photographer (National Geographic).

March 5, 2014: “The Importance of History in Peace Making.”

Provost Lecture co-sponsored by the following Departments and Programs: Philosophy, History,

Political Science, Sociology, D’Amato Chair in Italian & Italian-American Studies, UG College of

Leadership and Service, UG College of Global Studies.

Speaker: Dr. Michael van Walt van Praag, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

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Global Studies events

October 8, 2008: “The War in Iraq. An Insider’s Experience.”

Speaker: Kris Goldsmith, Iraq Veterans Against the War.

February 2, 2009: “War Without End. The Iraq War in Context.”

Speaker: Prof. Michael Schwartz, Dept. of Sociology, Stony Brook.

March 9, 2009: “Seeking Global Zero: the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons.”

Speaker: Distinguished Service Prof. Lester Paldy, Technology and Society Program, Stony Brook

University.

April 1, 2009: “US – Latin American Relations: the View from the School of the Americas’ Watch

(SOAW).”

Speaker: Roy Bourgeois, founder and director of SOAW.

April 15, 2009: “Nation Building, the UN and East Timor.”

Speakers: UN Ambassador Nelson Santos, East Timor, and Prof. Jakob Schmidt, Professor

Emeritus, Stony Brook.

Feb. 8, 2010: “Seeking Global Zero: the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons.”

Speaker: Distinguished Service Prof. Lester Paldy, Technology and Society Program, Stony Brook

University.

April 28, 2010: “From Latin America to Long Island: The Immigrant Experience on Both Sides of

the Border.”

Speaker: Sandra Dunn, Exec. Director, Organizaciòn Latino Americana; Director, Hagedorn

Foundation.

Oct. 25, 2010: “Breaking the Silence on Anti-Gay Bullying.” (Film and discussion for GLS

freshmen with the Vice Provost for Undegraduate Education Charles Robbins.)

Dec. 8, 2010: “The Global Sex Trade Industry: Reality and Solutions.”

Speaker: Joel Usher, Love 146 Long Island Task Force.

Feb. 23, 2011: “A Tale of Two Contaminants”

Speaker: Prof. Richard Reeder, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook U.

March 14, 2011: “Migration as the Engine of History.”

Speaker: Prof. Peter Carravetta, A. D’Amato Chair, European Languages, Stony Brook U.

March 24, 2011: “Women’s World Bank. An Approach to Microfinancing.”

Speaker: Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO, Women’s World Bank.

April 15, 2011: “Nuclear Risk Reduction: a Step-By-Step Approach.”

Speaker: Distinguished Service Prof. Lester Paldy, Technology and Society Program, Stony Brook

University.

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December 7, 2011: “Militarized Foreign Policy and the Cost of Going to College.”

Speaker: prof. Michael Zweig, Economics, Stony Brook University.

February 15, 2012: “They Too Shall Remember: A Holocaust Survivor’s Story.”

Speaker: Mr. Stanley Ronnell, Huntigton, LI.

March 7, 2012: “Nuclear Risk Reduction.”

Speaker: Distinguished Service Emeritus Prof. Lester Paldy, Technology and Society Program,

Stony Brook University.

March 20, 2012: “Environmental Art and Ecological Activism.”

Speaker: Prof. Marc Fasanella, Sustainability Studies, Stony Brook University.

March 21, 2012: “A Tale of Two Contaminants.”

Speaker: Prof. Richard Reeder, Geosciences, Stony Brook University.

April 18, 2012: “Why Do We Have So Many Wars?”

Speaker: Prof. Michael Schwartz, Sociology, Stony Brook University.

February 20, 2013: “Who Really Invented Googlemaps?”

Speaker: Prof. Ayesha Ramachandran, Dept. of English, Stony Brook University.

February 27, 2013: “World Hunger and Famine: Are They Inevitable?”

Speaker: Tom Lyon, Founder of ‘Food and Dignity for All’ and speaker for ‘Heifer International.’

March 6, 2013: “Global Zero: Can or Should Nations Outlaw and Eliminate Nuclear Weapons?”

Speaker: Prof. Lester Paldy, Stony Brook Emeritus and Distinguished Service Professor.

April 24, 2013: “The Philosophy and Politics of Human Rights.”

Speaker: Prof. Chad Kautzer, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Denver.

MEMBERSHIP IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Philosophical Association (APA)

Hegel Society of America (HSA)

Hegel Society of Great Britain (HSGB)

Société Philosophique Canadienne/Canadian Philosophical Society (SPC/CPS)

Network of Italian Scholars Abroad—Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (NISA/Fondazione SUM)

Amartya Sen Research Center, Passo Fundo, Brazil.

GRANTS

1991-92: Miami University Liberal Education Enrichment Grant. Interdisciplinary Curriculum

Project in the Humanities for the Middletown Regional Campus. $ 1,000

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1993: Miami University Summer Research Grant. Miami U., OH. $ 3,000

1993: Committee on the Improvement of Instruction Grant. Miami University, OH.

$ 2,000

1994: Miami University Research Grant. $ 17,500

2005: Max Kade Foundation grant for US - German three-year co-operative project in legal and

political philosophy (not distributed for lack of matching funds). $45,000

2007: UUP Stony Brook’s Individual Development Award. $ 400

2010-11: three Max Kade Foundation Fellowships for S.B. Philosophy doctoral students. Grant

proposal co-authored with Jeffrey Edwards (Phi). $ 40,500

2011-12: three Max-Kade Foundation Fellowships for S.B. Philosophy doctoral students (two in

Philosophy, one in History). Grant proposal co-authored with Jeffrey Edwards (Phi).

$ 40,500

2012-13: two Max-Kade Foundation Fellowships for S.B. Philosophy doctoral students. Grant

proposal co-authored with Jeffrey Edwards (Phi). $ 27,000

2012-13: Simons Foundation matching funds for the Collegium Transatlanticum Kade Fellowships

for philosophy doctoral students in 2012/13. Grant proposal co-authored with Jeffrey Edwards (Phi).

$ 27,000

2013-14: three Max-Kade Foundation Fellowships for S.B. Philosophy doctoral students. Grant

proposal co-authored with Jeffrey Edwards (Phi). $ 40,500

2014-15: one Max-Kade Foundation fellowship for S. B. Philosophy doctoral student. Grant

proposal co-authored with Jeffrey Edwards (Phi). $ 18,000

2015-16: two Max-Kade Foundation fellowships for S.B. Philosophy doctoral students. Grant

proposal co-authored with Jeffrey Edwards (Phi). $ 36,000

2016-17: three Max-Kade Foundation fellowships for S.B. Philosophy doctoral students. Grant

proposal co-authored with Jeffrey Edwards (Phi). $ 54,000

2017-18: three Max-Kade Foundation fellowships for S.B. Philosophy doctoral students. Grant

proposal co-authored with Jeffrey Edwards (Phi). $ 54,000

AWARDS/HONORS

2001 – 2002: Department Teaching Award for Undergraduate Teaching. Department of Philosophy,

SBU.

2002: President’s Certificate of Special Commendation for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. SBU.

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2014: Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching by a Faculty Member. SBU.

LANGUAGES

Italian and German: mother tongues.

English and French: fluent.

Greek and Latin: reading proficiency.