Biography:Maria Rosa Antognazza
Maria Rosa Antognazza | |
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Born | Tradate, Italy |
Died | 28 March 2023 Oxford, UK | (aged 58)
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Spouse(s) | Howard Hotson |
Awards | Member of the Academia Europaea (MEA), 2022 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
Doctoral advisor | Mario Sina |
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Discipline | Philosophy |
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Main interests | History of philosophy, especially Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; epistemology, especially knowledge and belief; philosophy of religion |
Maria Rosa Antognazza (10 September 1964 – 28 March 2023) was an Italian-British philosopher,[2] who served as professor of philosophy at King's College London.[3]
Life and career
Antognazza was educated at the Catholic University of Milan. She held research fellowships and visiting professorships in Italy, Germany, Israel, Great Britain, Switzerland, and the US. Among these were a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, a two-year Leverhulme Trust research fellowship, and in 2016 she was the Leibniz-Professor at the University of Leipzig. She held the 2019–2020 Mind Senior Research Fellowship for work on her book Thinking with Assent: Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief.[4]
Antognazza served as head of the King's philosophy department from 2011/12 to 2014/15. She was the chair of the British Society for the History of Philosophy and the president of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.[5]
In 2010 Antognazza won the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society for the best recently published book in the history of science: Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2008). She was elected to Leibniz Professorship at Leipzig University for the 300th Anniversary of Leibniz’s death in 2016. In 2021 she was the Scots Philosophical Association Centenary Fellow at the University of St Andrews. In 2022 she was elected Member of the Academia Europaea, Europe's transnational academic of the arts and sciences.[6]
Antognazza was married to British historian Howard Hotson with whom she raised three children : John, Sophia, and Francesca.[7](pv) She died on 28 March 2023.[8][9]
Selected publications
Single-authored
- Thinking with Assent: Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief (Oxford University Press)
- Leibniz: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
- Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press , 2009; winner of the 2010 Pfizer Award)
- Leibniz on the Trinity and the Incarnation: Reason and Revelation in the Seventeenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).
Edited volume
- The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
References
- ↑ "Maria Rosa Antognazza | King's College London - Academia.edu". http://kcl.academia.edu/MariaRosaAntognazza/CurriculumVitae.
- ↑ Gallardo, Cristina (28 February 2018). "My Brexit Story: From Italian to British Citizen". Research Fortnight. https://www.researchresearch.com/news/article/?articleId=1373476.
- ↑ "King's College London - Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza". Kcl.ac.uk. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-maria-rosa-antognazza. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
- ↑ London, King's College (15 June 2022). "Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964-2023)" (in en). https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/maria-rosa-antognazza.
- ↑ "King's College London - Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza". Kcl.ac.uk. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-maria-rosa-antognazza. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ↑ "MEA member page: Maria Rosa Antognazza". https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Antognazza_Maria_Rosa.
- ↑ Antognazza, Maria Rosa (6 October 2008). Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography (1 ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139012805. ISBN 978-0-521-80619-0. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781139012805/type/book.
- ↑ Weinberg, Justin (30 March 2023). "Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964-2023) - Daily Nous". https://dailynous.com/2023/03/30/maria-rosa-antognazza-1964-2023/,%20https://dailynous.com/2023/03/30/maria-rosa-antognazza-1964-2023/.
- ↑ "Maria Rosa Antognazza". kingsphilosophy.com. 29 March 2023. https://kingsphilosophy.com/2023/03/29/maria-rosa-antognazza/.
Professional and academic associations | ||
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Preceded by Yujin Nagasawa |
President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion 2019–2023 |
Succeeded by Vacant |
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Preceded by Harold J. Cook |
Pfizer Award 2010 |
Succeeded by Eleanor Robson |
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