CURRICULUM VITÆ
Richard William DAVIES
Dipartimento di Lettere, filosofia, comunicazioni,
Università degli Studi,
via Pignolo, 123,
Bergamo
I-24121
Italy
Tel: +035 2052 417
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Short profile
Richard Davies studied and taught Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge (PhD 1992). He has written two books and several articles on Descartes and on other topics in the History of Philosophy. He currently teaches Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bergamo (Italy) and researches a range of topics in Logic, Ethics and Metaphysics.
1981 - 1984
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Trinity College, Cambridge.
1984 - 1989
British Academy grant for research in Philosophy directed by Renford Bambrough; PhD, Cambridge University, 1992: Method and History: Descartes.
1984-9: Supervision in (almost) all subjects of the Philosophy Tripos for many colleges of the University of Cambridge.
1987-9: University Seminars in Metaphysics and Logic, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.
1988-9: Director of Studies, Philosophy, Christ's College, Cambridge; Acting Director of Studies, Philosophy, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
1989-1991
Lecturer in Philosophy, School of Philosophy and Theology, University of Birmingham, England.
1991 - 2003
Collaborator, Centre for Research in Metaphysics, Catholic University of Milan (director: Giovanni Reale).
1992-2003 Lecturer (Lettore), English, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bergamo, Italy.
2000-2003 Lecturer (Professore a contratto), History of Philosophy, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bergamo, Italy.
2004 - present
Researcher (Ricercatore) and Aggregate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Department of Letters, Philosophy and Communication, University of Bergamo, Italy.
Principal philosophical publications
Monographs
Descartes’ Cultivation of the Intellect: A Reading of his Theory of Enquiry, Bergamo University Press, Bergamo, 1999 (304 pp.)
Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 2001 (371 pp.)
Gli oggetti della logica, Mimesis , Milan, 2009 (609 pp.)
Articles
‘Teorie, prassi e critiche’, Quaderni del dipartimento di linguistica e letterature comparate del Università di Bergamo, 10, (1994) pp. 185-211.
‘Lowe on conditionals’, Philosophical Quarterly, 45,N° 181 (1995), pp. 477-86.
‘Introduzione’ to Italian edition of Terence Irwin, I princìpi primi di Aristotele (Aristotle’s First Principles), Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 1996. pp. xiii – xxxviii.
‘Some Quodlibets on the Virtues’, The Modern Schoolman, LXXVI (Nov. 1998), pp. 43-60.
‘L’ora di filosofare’, afterword to Italian edition of Martha Nussbaum, La terapia del desiderio (The Therapy of Desire), Vita e Pensiero, 1998 pp. 617-61.
‘Descartes’ Letters’, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 83/3 (2001), pp. 308-23.
‘The Demon and the Scientist’, Epistemologia. XXVII (2004) pp. 299-318.
‘Introduzione’ (with A. Bottani), Ontologia della Proprietà Intellettuale: Aspetti e Problemi, (edited with A. Bottani) Franco Angeli, Milan, 2005, pp. 7-20.
‘Controllare i gettoni: i limiti del nominalismo e gli oggetti della proprietà intellettuale’, in Ontologia della Proprietà Intellettuale: Aspetti e Problemi, ed. A. Bottani and R. Davies, Franco Angeli, Milan, 2005, pp. 70-102
‘Credibilità relativa’, afterword to D. Hume and J. Douglas, Disputa sui miracoli, Medusa, Milan, 2005, pp. 89-124.
‘Introduction’ (co-authored with A. Bottani), Modes of Existence: Essays in Ontology and Philosophical Logic, (edited with A. Bottani), Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt, 2006
‘Tipi e gettoni: i limiti del nominalismo e gli oggetti della proprietà intellettuale’, in L’ontologia della proprietà intellettuale: aspetti e problemi, ed. A. Bottani andR. Davies, Franco Angeli, Milan, 2005, pp. 70-102.
‘Ragionare con persone’, in Scienze della persona: perché?, ed. G. Bertagna, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2006, pp. 133-43.
‘Come fare cose con le cose: un esercizio di ontologia ingenua’, in Ontologia/Ontology, ed. M. Benzi, Networks, N° 6 (2006) pp. 90-126.
‘Sorte: Quando una cosa è una cosa’ in Ontologie regionali, ed. A.Bottani and R. Davies, Mimesis, Milan, 2007, pp. 57-81.
‘Trust and the Past in Lost’s State of Nature’, in Lost and Philosophy, ed. S. Kaye, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 2008, pp. 177-90 (reprinted inIntroducing Philosophy Through Popular Culture ed. W. Irwin and D.K. Johnson, Wiley-Blackwell, (Mass.), 2010, pp. 249-59; and in The Ultimate Lost and Philosophy ed. W. Irwin and S. Kaye, Wiley-Blackwell, (Mass.), 2010, pp. 145-63)
‘Should Philosophy Books Be Treated as Fiction?’ Knowledge Organization, 36 (2009), pp. 121-9
‘The Phenomenology of Time and the Retreat of Reason’ Humana.mente, 8 (2009), pp. 131-55.
‘Giocattoli filosofici’ Locus Solus, N° 8 (ed. A. Violi), Mondadori, Milan, 2010, pp. 77-106.
‘Intellectual Propriety’, The Monist, vol. 93 no. 3, (2010) pp. 339-53.
‘Lost in Lost’s Times’ in The Ultimate Lost and Philosophy ed. W. Irwin and S. Kaye, Wiley-Blackwell, Boston (Mass.), 2010, pp. 9-31
‘I nodi da sciogliere: un sondaggio di alcune criticità dell’analisi filosofica’ in Analisi: Annuario della Società Italiana di Filsoofia Analitica, ed. R. Davies, Mimesis, Milan, 2011, pp. 13-43.
‘Collocare le fallacie’, in Dibattito, didattica, fallacie e altri campi dell'argomentazione ed. A. Cattani and M. De Conti, Loffredo, Naples, 2012, pp. 71-88.
‘Better Wed than Read: Marriage as a Paradigm Case for the Theory for Documentallity’, Rivista di Estetica, 50(2012), pp. 53-72
‘Cartesio e le accademie’ Mosacio franceseed. J. Schiavini Trezzi, Moretti & Vitali, Bergamo, 2012, pp. 169-92.
‘Can We Have aTheory of Fallacies?’,Rivista italiana di filosofia del linguaggio, 6 (2012), pp. 25-40.
‘”Impact” and “Overrule”: Two models of belief-assessment in Hume’s essay “Of Miracles”’, Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, CVI, 1 (2014), pp. 95-130.
‘Why Society is Not Made of Documents’, in Metaphysics and Ontology Without Myths, ed. F. Bacchini, S. Caputo, M. Dell’Utri, Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle (UK), 2014, pp. 125-138.
‘L’attualità di Cesare Beccaria’, in Un fortunato libriccino: L’attualità di Cesare Beccaria, ed. R. Davies and P. Tincani, L’Ornitorinco, Milan, 2014, pp. 9-22
‘Newtoncini tra lumi e tenebre: Beccaria e Facchinei’, in Un fortunato libriccino: L’attualità di Cesare Beccaria, ed. R. Davies and P. Tincani, L’Ornitorinco, Milan, 2014, pp. 79-127.
‘What documents cannot do’, Philosophical Readings, VI (2014), pp. 41-52.
‘Limiting the Death Penalty: Beccaria’s Polemical Styles’, Philosophical Inquiry, II (2014), pp. 87-106.
‘Eristic dialectic: The fencing master’s judgment’, Eris, I, (2015), pp. 20-33.
‘La recezione delle argomentazioni etiche di Eudosso di Cnido tra l’Accademia e il Liceo’, in Seconda Navigazione ed. R. Radice and G. Tiengo, Vita e Pensiero, Milan, 2015, pp. 157-99.
‘Mysterious Mixtures: Descartes on Mind and Body’, Journal of Early Modern Studies, 4 (2015), pp. 47-78.
‘How to point a philosophical armchair’, Discipline filosofiche, XXV, 1 (2015), pp. 173-90.
‘The Modes of Descartes’ First Meditation’ in Academic Scepticism in Early Modern Philosophy ed. S. Charles and P. Junquiero Smith, Springer, Dordrecht, 2016, pp. 201-42.
Translations of philosophical books
J.N. Findlay, Platone: Le dottrine scritte e non scritte (Plato, the Written and Unwritten Doctrines), Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 1994.
Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings (Dei delitti e delle pene), (ed. R. Bellamy) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,1995.
Giovanni Reale, Towards a New Interpretation of Plato (Platone: verso una nuova interpretazione), (in collaboration with J.R. Catan) Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 1997.
Maurizio Ferraris, Goodbye Kant! What Remains of the Critque of Pure Reason, (Goodbye Kant! Cosa resta oggi della Critica della Ragion Pura) State University of New York Press, New York, 2013
Maurizio Ferraris, Documentality: Why it is necessary to leave traces (Documentalità: Perché è necessario lasciare tracce), Fordham University Press, New York, 2013
Edited volumes
In collaboration with R. Radice, Aristotle’s Metaphysics: Annotated Bibliography of the Twentieth-Century Literature, Koninklijke Brill, Leiden, 1997.
In collaboration with A. Bottani, Ontologia della Proprietà Intellettuale: Aspetti e Problemi, Franco Angeli, Milan, 2005.
In collaboration with A. Bottani, Modes of Existence: Essays in Ontology and Philosophical Logic, Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt, 2006.
In collaboration with A. Bottani, Ontologie regionali, Mimesis, Milan, 2007.
Special number on Intellectual Property of The Monist, vol. 93 no. 3, 2010.
Analisi: Annuario della Società Italiana di Filsoofia Analitica, Mimesis, Milan, 2011.
In collaboration with Ivana Bianchi, How Things Look: Paolo Bozzi’s Experimental Phenomenology: An Annotated Anthology (forthcoming)