Honorary degree in educational sciences to Joseph Cacciatore

On Wednesday, December 2, 2015, Professor Giuseppe Cacciatore, professor of History of Philosophy at the Federico II University, will receive an honorary degree in Pedagogical Sciences from the University of Salerno.

The ceremony is scheduled for 11 a.m. in the Aula Magna "Vincenzo Buonocore" on the Fisciano Campus, and will be presided over by Aurelio Tommasetti, Rector of the University of Salerno.

The introductory laudation is by Fulvio Tessitore, former Rector of Federico II.

"The Future of Philosophy in its Past," this is the title of the lectio magistralis by Giuseppe Cacciatore.

Full professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Federico II, Giuseppe Cacciatore is the author of a vast bibliography on nineteenth- and twentieth-century historicism and neighboring currents of thought in the German, Italian, Iberian and Ibero-American areas. His research interests focus on the themes of historical knowledge, imagination, the relationship between poetry and philosophy, individual action and its ethical-political dimension. For several years, he has also been working on problems related to interculturality and the philosophical categories involved in such problems (identity, recognition, universalism, citizenship, secularism, democracy, human rights, intersubjectivity, common sense). He has directed the Center for Vichiani Studies of the CNR and the Department of Philosophy "Antonio Aliotta" of the Federico II University. He has been a Corresponding Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei since 2007.