Paolo Pecere

Università Roma Tre (Italy)

The autonomy of mind and reason: a neglected philosophical legacy in cognitive neuroscience

2024–2025: Fall

Paolo Pecere is associate professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Roma Tre. He was a Fulbright Research Scholar at New York University (2016–17). His research ranges from early modern to contemporary philosophy, natural science and psychology, with a main focus on Kant and the Kantian legacy. His books include: La filosofia della natura in Kant (2009), Meccanica quantistica rappresentazione realtà (2012, con A. Bassi e N. Argentieri), Dalla parte di Alice. La coscienza e l’immaginario (2015), Soul, Mind and Brain from Descartes to Cognitive Science. A Critical History (2020), and La natura della mente (2023). He is also a writer of fiction and non-fiction: he published two novels (La vita lontana, 2018; Risorgere, 2019), and the narrative essay Il dio che danza. Viaggi, trance, trasformazioni (2021). The new narrative essay Il senso della natura. Sette sentieri per la Terra (Sellerio, 2024) deals with ecology and our relationship with landscape and other living beings in the contemporary world. A translation will be published in Spain by Anagrama, and more translations are being planned.