Tullio Viola

Tullio Viola
CURRENT POSITION
Ph.D. candidate in philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Research Fellow, Exzellenz-Cluster “Image – Knowledge – Gestaltung: An Interdisciplinary Laboratory”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
EDUCATION
Diploma di licenza (second level degree) in philosophy, Scuola Normale Superiore,
70/70 cum laude.
2011
Thesis: Peirce and Panofsky: Habitus, Embodiment, and the Analogy between Art and
Philosophy.
Laurea specialistica (MA) in Philosophy, University of Pisa, 110/110 cum laude.
2009
Thesis: Mediazione, incarnazione, dialogo. Il pensiero di Charles S. Peirce alla luce della
teoria delle categorie [Mediation, Embodiment, Dialogue. The Thought of Charles S.
Peirce in Light of His Theory of Categories].
2007
First level degree in philosophy, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Laurea triennale (BA) in philosophy, University of Pisa (Italy), 110/110 cum laude.
Thesis: Fatti, Valori, Linguaggio ordinario: Aspetti e problemi della filosofia di J. L.
Austin [Facts, Values, Ordinary Language: Issues and Shortcomings of J. L. Austin’s
Philosophy].
2004
High school degree (liberal arts area), Liceo Classico “Umberto I”, Palermo (Italy),
100/100.
VISITING SCHOLARSHIPS
2011-12
Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, Sept. to March.
2008-9
Freie Universität zu Berlin (Germany), Oct. to Feb.
2006
École Normale Supérieure - Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon (France), Oct. to Dec.
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FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, TUITIONS
2014-15
Research Fellowship, Exzellenz-Cluster “Image– Knowledge – Gestaltung: An Interdisciplinary Laboratory”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2011
Emilio Bocca prize for MA thesis in philosophy, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
2010-14
Research Fellowship, Kolleg-Forschergruppe Bildakt und Verkörperung, HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin.
2004-9
Full tuition, board, lodging and stipend, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
PUBLICATIONS
1.
2012
2.
Edited books
(With F. Engel and M. Queisner) Das bildnerische Denken: Charles S. Peirce, Berlin:
Akademie Verlag.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
2012
“Peirce and Iconology: Habitus, Embodiment, and the Analogy between Philosophy
and Architecture”, European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, 4/1
(June):6-31.
2011
“Philosophy and the Second Person: Peirce, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Benveniste, and
Personal Pronouns as Universals of Communication”, Transactions of the Charles S.
Peirce Society, 47/4 (Fall):389-420.
3.
2012
Other articles, book chapters, etc.
(With F. Engel and M. Queisner) Einleitung, in F. Engel, M. Queisner, T. Viola (eds.),
Das bildnerische Denken: Charles S. Peirce, Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
“Pragmatism, Bistable Images and the Serpentine Line. A Chapter in the Prehistory of
the Duck-Rabbit”, ibid.
“The Serpentine Life of Félix Ravaisson. Art, Drawing, Scholarship, Philosophy”, in U.
Feist, M. Rath (eds.), Et in imagine ego. Facetten von Bildakt und Verkörperung,
Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
2011
(With H. Bredekamp, J. Fingerhut, M. Lauschke) Vorwort, in J. M. Krois, Bildkörper
und Körperschema. Zur Verkörperungstheorie ikonischer Formen, ed. by H.
Bredekamp and M. Lauschke, Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
2008
“Le marche del locativo in ayoreo: iji e aja”, Quaderni del laboratorio di linguistica
della Scuola Normale Superiore, 7 (2007-2008).
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2013
5.
2007
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Reviews
“The Importance of Being at Variance”, Rev. of R. Frega, Practice, Judgment, and the
Challenge of Moral and Political Disagreement. A Pragmatist Account (Lanham
2012), Human Affairs 23/3 (Jul.), pp. 458-468.
Translations
(From English) S. Rosen, La produzione platonica [Platonic Production], in A.
Ferrarin (ed.), La realtà del pensiero. Essenze, ragione, temporalità in Platone, Hegel
e Husserl, Pisa: ETS.
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TEACHING
2013-4
Images, Theory of Action, Rationality, Graduate Seminar, 30 hrs., IMT Lucca (Italy),
Ph.D. Program in Management and Development of Cultural Heritage.
2013-4
[With Franz Engel] Das Formproblem in John Deweys “Kunst als Erfahrung” [The
problem of Form in John Dewey’s “Art as Experience”], Pro-Seminar, 30 hrs.,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Philosophy.
TALKS
2014
Book Presentation of M. L.Catoni, C. Ginzburg, L. Giuliani, S. Settis, Tre Figure.
Achille, Meleagro, Cristo, Milan 2013.
“Open IMT” Conference, IMT Lucca (Italy), February 7th.
2013
“Peirce’s Philosophy of Action and the Iconological Method”
Picture Act and Embodiment: The Bildakt-Project at the Humboldt University in Berlin,
The Warburg Institute, London, January 25th.
“Situation ou Disposition? Sur la philosophie de l’action de Peirce”
Emotions, disposition, action: le pragmatisme et sa posterité, ENS de Lyon, Université
Jean-Moulin Lyon 3, February 15th.
2012
Respondent to Carlo Ginzburg (“Schema and Bias. A Historian’s Reflection on Doubleblind Experiments”)
InteR-La+B, International Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory, Fondazione
internazionale premio Balzan, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, Accademia
Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, November 12th-13th.
“Proclamer et trahir: Peirce et l’iconologie”
Pragmatisme et sciences sociales, colloque international, Institut d'études avancées, Paris,
September 22nd-23th.
“Two Aristotelians: Peirce and Ravaisson”
Mind in Motion & the Body of the Sign. Peirce's Semiotical Pragmatism, KollegForschergruppe Bildakt und Verkörperung, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, March 15th17th.
Invited talk, Center for Semiotics Research Seminar, University of Aarhus (Denmark),
April 26th.
The First European Pragmatism Conference, Nordic Pragmatism Network, Associazione
Culturale Pragma, Università Roma Tre, Rome, September 19th-21st.
2011
“Habitus. Aristotelian Theories of Embodiment”
Figuren – Modelle – Schemata. Antike Grundlagen von Bildakt und Verkörperung,
internationale Tagung, Kolleg-Forschergruppe Bildakt und Verkörperung, HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin, September 9th-10th.
2010
“Philosophy and the Second Person”
Me, myself and I. Exploring Philosophical notions of self”, The 12th University of
Southampton Annual Graduate Conference, University of Southampton (UK), June 12th.
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OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Conferences Organized:
2012
(with F. Engel, M. Queisner, H. Pape) Mind in Motion & the Body of the Sign. Peirce’s
Semiotical Pragmatism, Kolleg-Forschergruppe Bildakt und Verkörperung,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mar. 15th-17th.
2011
(with J.-K. Schröder, M. Rath, P. Ruch) Figuren – Modelle – Schemata. Antike
Grundlagen von Bildakt und Verkörperung, internationale Tagung, Kolleg-Forschergruppe Bildakt und Verkörperung, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sept. 9th-10th.
Committees:
2013-14
Publicity Committeee, The Charles S. Peirce International Centennial Congress,
University of Massachusets at Lowell, July 16th-19th, 2014.
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCIES
Italian: mother tongue;
English, German: fluent;
French: good;
Spanish: reading;
Latin, ancient Greek: basic reading.
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