Dr. Paolo Crivelli

Biography

Paolo Crivelli is an Honorary Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Geneva. He received his degree from the University of Florence in 1988 and completed his doctorate at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1992. Following a brief period of research at St John's College, Oxford, he became a Lecturer in 1992 and then a Senior Lecturer in 1998 in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. In 2002, he was elected as the Herbert Nicholas Fellow in Classical Philosophy at New College, Oxford. He has held his current position since moving to Geneva in 2011. Crivelli's primary research interests include the philosophy of language, logic, and ontology in the context of classical antiquity, particularly focusing on the works of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics. His approach often involves posing modern philosophical questions to ancient texts, seeking rigorously argued answers supported by philological analysis.

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