Stefano Gattei

I graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan in 2003, with a thesis on the problem of foundationalism in contemporary philosophy, and earned a Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Science at the University of Bristol in 2004, with a dissertation on Thomas Kuhn's "linguistic turn" and the legacy of Logical Positivism. I have held teaching and research positions at the Universities of Milan, Padua and Pisa, at the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies (Lucca) and the California Institute ot Technology. I was a fellow at Columbia University, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Huntington Library.

I have specific interests in 19th- and 20th century philosophy of science, especially Karl Popper and critical rationalism, Thomas Kuhn, the dynamics of theoretical and conceptual change, the incommensurability thesis, truth, skepticism and relativism. In the past few years, I have worked mainly in the history of science, wih special focus on Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei, and the intellectual and cultural history of early-modern Europe.