Riccardo Strobino
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Tufts University
Departments of Classics and Philosophy
328 Eaton Hall
5 the Green
Medford, MA 02155
United States


Email: [email protected]
         

Areas of specialization and areas of competence

AOS: History and Philosophy of Logic, Arabic-Islamic Philosophy, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Avicenna, Aristotle

AOC: Epistemology, Metaphysics


Education

2009, Ph.D. in Philosophy, magna cum laude, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 
Dissertation: “Concedere, negare, dubitare: Peter of Mantua’s Treatise on Obligations”
Advisor: M. Mugnai. Committee: C. Normore, E. J. Ashworth, C. Dutilh Novaes

2004, M.Sc. in Economics (Organization), Università "L. Bocconi", Milan 

2003, M.A. in Philosophy, magna cum laude, Università degli Studi di Milano
Thesis: “Quorum ultima unum. Logic and the continuum” (in Italian)


Academic positions

2015-present, Tufts University
Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor, Department of Classics
Department of Philosophy

2014 Winter,  University of California, Los Angeles
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Philosophy

2012-2015,  University of Cambridge, Clare Hall College
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

2012-2015, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Research Associate

2010-2012,  Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

2009-2010, Centro di Ricerca Matematica "E. De Giorgi", Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Assistant Editor, Project: Edizione Nazionale Mathematica Italiana


Non-academic positions

2005, Deutsche Bank
HR deputy-head, Northern Italy

2005, Hewlett-Packard
HR operations department, Italy

2004, Bayer
HR intern, Italy


Teaching

2015-present, Tufts University
Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor

2019 Fall: Paradoxes and Dilemmas; Ancient Philosophy
2019 Spring: Aristotle on Rationality (with C. Olfert); Medieval Latin
2017 Spring: Medieval Latin; Philosophy in the Greek, Latin, and Arabic-Islamic Traditions
2016 Fall: Paradoxes and Dilemmas
2016 Spring: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy of Science
2015 Fall: Philosophy in the Greek, Latin, and Arabic-Islamic Traditions


2014,Winter, University of California, Los Angeles          
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Philosophy

 Phil 104: Topics in Islamic Philosophy (From al-Kindī to Averroes)
 Phil 107: Topics in Medieval Philosophy (Medieval Theories of Modalities)


2011-2014, University of Cambridge, Trinity College 
Medieval Philosophy and Science Reading Group
Coordination of undergraduate-graduate seminars:

 2014 Fall, Aquinas, De ente et essentia (metaphysics) 
 2014 Spring, Aquinas, Liber de causis (metaphysics)          
 2013 Fall, Avicenna, Deliverance (theory of the soul)
 2013 Spring, Al-Juwaynī, Guide (epistemology in Islamic theology) 
 2013 Winter, Aquinas and Boethius of Dacia (eternity of the world)      
 2012 Fall, Averroes, Incoherence of the Incoherence (causality, eternity of the world)
 2012 Fall, Al-Ghazālī, Incoherence of the Philosophers (causality, creation, God’s knowledge)
 
2012 Spring, Suárez, Disputationes (identity and individuation)
 2012 Winter, Scotus, Ordinatio (identity and individuation)          
 2011 Fall, Buridan, Summulae de dialectica (logic)       


2012 Spring, Ruhr-Universität Bochum           
Lecturer          
 
Avicenna: Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology


2012 Fall, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa   
Visiting Lectuer

Aristotle, Avicenna, Averroes: the Posterior Analytics in the Arabic-Islamic tradition


2005-2009, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa   
Graduate Research Seminars (selection)

Aristotle’s logic and natural philosophy; Topics in medieval logic (theory of inference, theory of  obligations, paradoxes); Frege; Topics in contemporary philosophical logic and metaphysics (vagueness, multi-valued logic, possible worlds)


Fellowships, Awards, and Grants

2017-2018, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies - Villa I Tatti                   
1-year fellowship

2010, “E. Bocca” Prize, Scuola Normale Superiore and University of Turin 
           
Award for Best Ph.D. Dissertation of the Year in Philosophy

2012, Junior Research Grant, Scuola Normale Superiore           
Medieval Theories of Disputation Project                    

2011, Junior Research Grant, Scuola Normale Superiore          
Damascus, Syria, Avicenna Manuscripts Project

2011, Travel Grant, Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale 18th Annual Colloquium, University of Łódz, Poland 

2011, University of California, Los Angeles          
Department of Philosophy, Visiting Postdoctoral Student

2007, University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College          
Visiting Graduate Student

2005-2008, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 
3-Year Ph.D. Scholarship in Philosophy

2000, Université de Paris IV–Sorbonne        
Erasmus Scholarship


Talks

Avicenna's criticism of induction
The University of Sydney (invited speaker)
Essence and definition from Aristotle to Kant
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Avicenna on conditionals, reductio ad impossibile and monotonicity
The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem

The Reception and Impact of Aristotelian Logic in Medieval Jewish Culture

Definition, Composition, and Induction
Apr 2018, Georgetown University, Demonstration, Experience, and Science in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
                             
The Arabic Porphyry: Essential (ḏātī) and Accidental (ʿaraḍī)              
in Avicenna’s Theory of the Predicables

Nov 2017, University of Padua, GrAL, XII Workshop    

The Reception of the Analytics in Avicenna’s Logic                    
Oct 2017, Providence College, Dialectic and Analytics in the Aristotelian tradition                    


Sine quibus non: Arabic Philosophy of Science and                   
the Impact of Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations

Sep 2017, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence           

Theory of Science in the Arabic-Islamic Tradition: Avicenna and the Posterior Analytics 
Jun 2017, 2nd World Congress on Logic and Religion (Warsaw), invited plenary speaker       

Probatio and Expositio in Peter of Mantua’s Logica                 
May 2017, University of St Andrews, Workshop on the proof of propositions

Theory of Science in the Arabic-Islamic Tradition: Avicenna and the Posterior Analytics                
May 2017, Princeton University, Ancient Philosophy in Early Modern Europe conference

Temporal Modalities in Avicenna’s Logic and Epistemology 
Apr 2017, Seattle, APA Pacific    

Inseparability, Containment, Implication:                          
Avicenna’s account of per se between Posterior Analytics and Isagoge

Jul 2016, Scuola Normale Superiore, 21st European Symposium of Medieval Logic and Semantics
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Translation Alignment: Aristotle in Greek, Arabic and Latin                  
Apr 2016, Sunoikisis - Digital Humanities Tufts-Leipzig, with U. Gad (Heidelberg)            

What is the History of Logic Again? And Why Should We Care?            
Apr 2016, Tufts University                                       

Comments on The Metaphysics of Conserving Causation in Avicenna           
and Its Reception in Post-Classical Islamic Philosophy
 (E. Allebban)
Mar 2016, San Francisco, APA Pacific                                 

Innovations in Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Burhān      
Dec 2015, Bochum, Ruhr-Universität
Conference on Arabic Logic and Philosophy of Language

Time, Reference and Modality in Arabic Logic                      
Oct 2015, New York, Fordham University 
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy 33rd Annual Meeting

Avicenna's Kitāb al-Burhān and its Translation by Gundissalinus: Text and Content
July 2015, Scuola Normale Superiore, A Crossroad between East and West: The Latin Medieval Translations of the Kitāb al-Shifāʾ (Book of the Cure) of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā)

Avicenna on Absolute and Necessity Propositions in Prior and Posterior Analytics
June 2015, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Conference on Modal Syllogistic

Conception, Definition and Logical Consequence in Avicenna’s Theory Science
Apr 2015, University of Gothenburg, Representation and Reality Research Workshop 9: Meaning, Concept and Conception in the Arabic Tradition


It couldn't Be Otherwise: Necessity in the Greek, Latin and Arabic Tradition
February 2015, Tufts University

Necessity in Avicenna’s Theory of Science
October 2014, Harvard University, Workshop on Arabic-Islamic Philosophy

Al-Fārābī on Per Se Predicates and Demonstrative Compositions
May 2014, University of Cambridge, 3rd Workshop on Later Arabic Logic and Philosophy of Language

Avicenna on Necessity in Demonstrative Syllogism
March 2014, UCLA, 17th Moody Conference in Medieval Philosophy and Logic: Articulating Medieval Logic

Developments of Demonstrative Theory in Arabic Logic from Al-Fārābī to Ibn Sīnā
November 2013, Lumbini, Nepal, International Conference on the of History of Logic in Asia

Taxonomy of Assent in Avicenna’s Theory of Scientific Knowledge, or: On the Ways Things are Acknowledged to Be True
November 2013, University of Cambridge

Logical Consequence in Arabic Logic
July 2013, University of Manchester, 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Principles of Scientific Knowledge and the Psychology of (their) Intellection in Avicenna
May 2013, University of Helsinki

Someone I believe to Have Quantified in: Identity and Opacity in Late Medieval Thought 
March 2013, UCLA, 16th Moody Conference in Medieval Philosophy and Logic: Unity and Identity before 1700

On Knowing and Doubting (in Medieval Logic)
February 2013, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg 

Having One Without the Other? Inseparability and Logical Consequence
November 2012, University of St Andrews, Arché, Workshop on Modal Logic in the Middle Ages

The Theory of Demonstration in Avicenna’s Pointers and Reminders
November 2012, University of Cambridge, 2nd Workshop on Later Arabic Logic and Philosophy of Language

From Themistius to Al-Fārābī (and beyond): Avicenna’s Sources for his Commentary on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
November 2012, The Warburg Institute, London, 2nd Medieval Philosophy in the UK Meeting

Late 14th-Century Theories of Propositions: John Buridan and Paul of Venice on complexe significabilia
September 2012, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Universals in the 14th Century

Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Burhān
August 2012, Freising, 13th International S.I.E.P.M. Congress 

Formaliter sequi: A Discussion of Logical Consequence in the Late 14th Century
June 2012, University of Geneva, 19th European Symposium of Medieval Logic and Semantics

Avicenna on Posterior Analytics B1-10    
April 2012, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Graduate Research Seminar

Euclid’s Elements in Avicenna’s Geometry (Book of the Cure)
November 2011, The Warburg Institute, London, Seminar on Euclid in the Arabic Tradition

Avicenna on Demonstration in Kitāb aš-Šifāʾ 
November 2011, University of Cambridge, 1st Workshop on Later Arabic Logic

Peter of Mantua’s Logica      
October 2011, Trinity College,  Cambridge, Medieval Philosophy Workshop

Truth, Inference and Obligations in Albert of Saxony and Marsilius of Inghen
September 2011, University of  Łódz, Poland, 18th Annual S.I.E.P.M. Colloquium

Degrees of Truth? Peter of Mantua on Self-Reference  
May 2011, UCLA, Graduate Seminar in Medieval Philosophy

Truth and Paradox in 14th-Century Logic
Apr 2011, UCLA, 14th Moody Conference in Medieval Philosophy and Logic
Medieval Conceptions of Truth 

Pragmatic Paradoxes in 14th-Century Logic     
Jun 2010, University of Bologna, 19th European Symposium of Medieval Logic and Semantics 

Avicenna on Definition and Demonstration in An. Post. B4 
July 2008, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Workshop on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics and the Commentary Tradition

The Relationship between Paul of Venice’s and Peter of Mantua’s Treatises on Obligations
September 2007, University of Palermo, 12th International S.I.E.P.M. Congress


Service

2016-present, Tufts University, School of Arts and Sciences, Academic awards committee
2016-present, Tufts University, Department of Classics, Coordinator for the Latin track

2016 June-July, 21st European Symposium of Medieval Logic and Semantics, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Organizer  (with. M. Mugnai and F. Amerini)

2014 June, 20th European Symposium of Medieval Logic and Semantics, University of Cambridge (supported by the Mind Association, the British Society for the History of Philosophy, the Aristotelian Society, the British Logic Colloquium)
Organizer (with J. Marenbon and T. Street) 

2012-2015, Clare Hall College, Cambridge
Governing Body

2013-2015, Clare Hall College, Cambridge        
Official Fellowship Committee  


Member

APA, American Philosophical Association
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
British Logic Colloquium
British Society for the History of Philosophy
SIEPM, Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale
SISHPAI, International Society for the History of Arabic and Islamic Science and Philosophy 


Research Languages

Classical Arabic, Greek, Latin, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish


Paleography 

Latin and Arabic
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