Maria Rosa Antognazza #

Obituary, King's College London

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Curriculum Vitae#

Current Employment

Professor of Philosophy, King's College London

Education

• 1993 Dottorato di Ricerca in Filosofia (PhD), Catholic University of Milan
  
• 1988 Laurea in Filosofia (Four-year degree in Philosophy), Catholic University of Milan

Research Interests

History of Philosophy; Epistemology; Philosophy of Religion

Current Main Research Project

Thinking with Assent: Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief. Oxford: Oxford University Press (c. 130,000 words monograph, draft completed)

Honours and Awards

• 2021 Scots Philosophical Association Centenary Fellow (University of St Andrews)
  
• 2016 Leibniz-Professor (University of Leipzig)
  
• 2010 Pfizer Award

Grants (selection)

• 2019 - 2020 Mind Senior Research Fellowship
  
• 2019 - 2020 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (declined)
  
• 2020 Senior Research Fellowship, University of Milan
  
• 2003 - 2005 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
  
• 2000 and 1999 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (Research Grants)
  
• 1997 - 2000 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship

Lectures (selection):

• 2018 Westfall Lecture in the History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
  
• 2018 Beierwaltes Lecture, Centre for the Study of Platonism, University of Cambridge
  
• 2016 Academy of the Sciences of Turin (tercentenary of Leibniz’s death)
  
• 2016 November, 14th Leipzig (official commemoration of Leibniz’s death on 14 November 1716)
  
• 2016 Saxony Academy of the Sciences (tercentenary of Leibniz’s death)
  
• 2016 Inaugural lecture as Leibniz-Professor, Leipzig
  
• 2013 Inaugural lecture at King’s College London

Co-editor of book series: BSHP New Texts in the History of Philosophy (Oxford University Press)

Public engagement:

• Contributor to ‘Philosophy in Prison’ videos (2020); speaker at the OUP-Blackwell’s Philosophy Festival (Oxford, November 2017); speaker at the Oxford Literary Festival (April 2017)
  
• Consulted by Media representatives (from the BBC Religion and Ethics Department; BBC4 agents; Channel 4; the Times Higher Education Supplement) for input on the history of philosophy, and on religious – ethical issues. Interviewed by the RAI (the Italian equivalent of the BBC) for the main national news programme (August 2009); by the BBC World Service, programme on ‘Reporting Religion’ (October 2005); by Italian newspapers and magazines (Il Giorno; La Provincia; Avvenire; Benessere), by Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) (North German Broadcasting), by the Swiss Radio and Television (January and September 2016); and by Voice of Islam (Radio Station)
  
• Online contributions to open-access culture platforms and magazines, including Faculti (https://faculti.net); Simply Charly (https://www.simplycharly.com); OUP Blog (http://blog.oup.com); Aeon (https://aeon.co).