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Caterina Del Sordo
PhD
Biography
Born 1986 in Empoli (Florence), Italy
Studied Philosophy at the University of Florence, with a focus on history and philosophy of science, phenomenology, and mathematical logic, graduating in 2014. In 2021, completed a double international PhD: one in Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (Spain) and one in Basic Sciences and Applications at the University of Urbino (Italy). In 2025, received the Italian National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for Associate Professor in Theoretical Philosophy (2025-2037).
From 2021 to 2024, served as Margarita Salas Research Fellow at the University of the Basque Country, Spain, funded by the NextGenerationEU program. Teaching Associate at the Department of Literature and Philosophy (DiLeF), University of Florence, since 2021, and at the Faculty of Humanities, Niccolò Cusano University, Rome, since 2024. Fellow at the Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna, in 2024–2025, and currently Research Associate at the Institute for Culture Studies (IKW) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) in Vienna.
Areas of Specialization
History and philosophy of science; logical empiricism; Early Rudolf Carnap
Publications
Monography
Neutralità e rappresentazione. Ricerca di Filosofia scientifica, Epistemologica, Milano: Mimesis, 2024.
Edited volumes (3)
(with L. Cipriani) Multifaceted Embodiment. A (Meta-)Philosophical Assessment, in Azimuth: Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age, 2026.
(with F. Masi) (forthcoming 2026) Analysis of Meta-Ontology: An Issue for Contemporary Philosophy, in Philosophical Inquiries, forthcoming 2026
Reconstructing the Aufbau, in HUMAMA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies, (forthcoming 2026)
Translation
Carnap, R., Quasi-analysis: A Method to Order Non-homogeneous Sets by Means of the Theory of Relations. Archives of Scientific Philosophy (ASP), Hillman Library, Carnap Papers, University of Pittsburgh (RC-081-04-01). Translated by C. Del Sordo and T. Mormann. Philosophical Inquiries, 10(1), 231–253. Online first, 2022.
Papers (12)
Idee di deflazionismo [Ideas of Deflationism]. In R. Lanfredini, L. Handjaras, L. Luporini, & A. Fortuna (eds.), Volume in memoria di Luciano Handjaras. Florence: Clinamen, forthcoming.
“The Naturalistic Predicament: Structure, Origin, and Linguistic Regimentation in Early Carnap’s Philosophy and Husserl’s Phenomenology.” In D. Manca & G. Turbanti (eds.), Husserl and the Analytic Turn: Logic, Ontology, and the Philosophy of Language, Rivista di Filosofia, 2025.
“Il paradosso dell’analisi. Una nuova ipotesi di soluzione [The Paradox of Analysis: A New Hypothesis for a Solution].” Iride. Rivista di filosofia e discussione pubblica, 269–285, 2024.
“Ontology Reconstructed: Another Way of Being Neo-Carnapian.” In Y. Kappes, A. Passinsky, J. De Rizzo, & B. Schnieder (eds.), Facets of Reality – Contemporary Debates. Beiträge der Österreichischen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft / Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Vol. XXX. Kirchberg am Wechsel: ALWS, 185–195, 2024.
“Carnap and Husserl in Debate: A Perspective from Florence.” In R. Lanfredini & S. Zipoli Caiani (eds.), The Third Way of Paolo Parrini, HUMANA.MENTE. Journal of Philosophical Studies, 275–291. Online first, 2024.
“Fenomenologia e filosofia (neo-)carnapiana: il dato tra sedimentazione e determinazione [Phenomenology and (Neo-)Carnapian Philosophy].” Segni e Comprensione, 107, 291–305, 2024.
“Classifiers: Doing Philosophy with Chinese Grammar.” Philosophy Kitchen. Rivista di Filosofia Contemporanea, 19(2), 71–87. DOI: 10.13135/2385-1945/9377, 2023.
“Matter at a Crossroads: Given vs. Forceful Qualities.” In P. Di Lucia & L. Passerini Glazel (eds.), The Truth, the Valid, the Normative, Phenomenology and Mind, 24, 240–247, 2023.
(with T. Mormann) “The Significance of Quasizerlegung for Carnap’s Aufbau and Scientific Philosophy in General.” Philosophical Inquiries, 10(1), 231–253, 2022.
“Nelson Goodman. La struttura dell’apparenza (1951).” In G. Bonino, C. Gabbani, & P. Tripodi (eds.), Biblioteca Analitica. I testi fondamentali. Linguaggio, conoscenza, mente. Rome: Carocci, 167–178, 2020.
“The Difficulty of Neutrality: A Graph-Theoretical Solution.” In A. Peruzzi & S. Zipoli Caiani (eds.), Structures Mères: Semantics, Mathematics, and Cognitive Science. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, Vol. 52. Springer, 153–163. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-51821-9_8, 2020.
“Commentary. Die Quasizerlegung.” In R. Lanfredini, A. Pace Giannotta, E. Pagni, & N. Liberati (eds.), The Enactive Approach to Qualitative Ontology: In Search of New Categories, HUMANA.MENTE. Journal of Philosophical Studies, 205–210, 2016.