Research Associate

Luca Illetterati is a full professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Padua. Former President of the Italian Society of Theoretical Philosophy, he is now President of the Italian Scientific Society for the Teaching of Philosophy. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Internationale Hegel Vereinigung and the Internationale Schelling Gesellschaft. In the a.y. 2023/2024, he was awarded the Leibniz Professorship at the University of Leipzig. He is the scientific coordinator of the Research Group on Classical German Philosophy at the University of Padua (www.hegelpd.it).

Illetterati is a specialist in philosophical discourse on the concept of nature. On this topic, he has focused on Aristotle, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Heidegger. In addition to this, he deals with issues of the philosophy of translation (he directs PHILTRA – Research Center for the Philosophy of Translation at the University of Padua) and issues of metaphilosophy relating to the status of philosophical knowledge.

Selected publications:

(2020), “Being Rational: Hegel on the Human Way of Being”. In A. Altobrando, P. Biasetti (eds.) Natural Born Monads. De Gruyter, 89-110.

(2021), “Nature’s Externality. Hegel Non-Naturalistic Naturalism”. Problemi International, 1, 51-72.

(2022), The Relevance of Hegel’s Concept of Philosophy. From Classical German Philosophy to Contemporary Metaphilosophy, Bloomsbury. With G. Miolli.

(2023), “Per un naturalismo non naturalistico. Pensare la natura fra epistemologia e ontologia”. Filosofia politica, 1, 391-410.