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Dr. Giovanna Giardina

Presidential Fellow
Education:
PhD in Philosophy (University of Catania)
MA in Classics (University of Catania)

Biography

Giovanna R. Giardina is Full Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the Department of Humanistic Sciences at the University of Catania. She is Director of the Master’s Program in Classics, Editor-in-Chief of the book series Symbolon – Collana di Testi e Studi di Filosofia Antica e Medievale (Academia Verlag, Baden-Baden, Germany), and a Corresponding Member of the Accademia Gioenia. Her current research focuses on the history of ancient physics and the philosophy of mathematics, with particular attention to Aristotle and Neoplatonism. She is the author of more than one hundred scholarly publications, including books and articles, some of which are listed in the bibliography below.

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

Aristotle on the Continuum in Presocratic Thought, London 2025, Routledge.
Le mouvement semble faire partie des continus”. Les Commentateurs anciens sur Aristote, Phys. III 1, 200b16-17, “Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie”, 106/3 (2024), pp. 411-430.
(with D. Struppa), Tre algebristi all’Accademia Gioenia: Cipolla, Scorza, e Spampinato, “Bollettino dell’Accademia Gioenia”, 57/388 (2024), pp. 41-57.
(with M. Panza and D. Struppa), Many infinities, or only one?, “Bollettino dell’Accademia Gioenia”, 56/386 (2023), pp. 28-41.
Homoiosis Theôi (Plato, Tht. 176b1) in Late Neoplatonism, in D. Zucca (ed. by), New exploration in Plato’s Theaetetus, Brill series ‘Plato's Studies’, Leiden-Boston 2022, pp. 325-352.
Harmonia in Philoponus’ Commentary on Nicomachus’ Introduction to Arithmetic, in F. Pelosi and F. Petrucci (ed.), Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire, Cambridge 2020, CUP, pp. 286-302.
Questions de mesure et de mesurabilité chez Aristote, Phys. VI, 7, in R. Giardina (Textes réunis et publiés par), To Metron. Sur la notion de Mesure dans la Philosophie d’Aristote, Paris–Bruxelle 2020, pp. 101-114, Librairie Philosophique VRIN.
Platone, Eutidemo294e2–3, “Museum Helveticum”, 75/2 (2018), pp. 129-137.
Empedocles and the Other Physiologists in Aristotle’s Physics II 8, “Peitho. Examina Antiqua», 1/7 (2016), pp.13-23.
Providence in John Philoponus’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, “CHORA”, 13 (2015), pp. 149-172.

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