Marco Signori

Researcher @PhiBorUnit (@IMTLucca). PhD in Medieval Arabic philosophy. Alumnus @scuolanormale. Metaphysician of little things, in love with poetry and much else

[Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations @PhiBorUnit]

🚨 The call for applications for @IMTLucca PhD program in Mind, Brain, and Human Thought (MBHT) 2026/27 is now open! 🚨

Two tracks are available, one of which (HT, Human Thought) is exquisitely philosophical. Applications from medievalists are especially welcome!

Check here ⤵️

[Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations @PhiBorUnit]

We are glad to invite you to the next appointment of #PhiBorSeminars: Asad Q. Ahmed (@UCBerkeley) will present on "Simple Generation and the Semantics of Impossible Objects:  Some Discussions from Late Arabic Logic" tomorrow (May 19th, 10 am) at @IMTLucca, San Francesco, Aula 2.

[Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations @PhiBorUnit]

Great day for PhiBor, as our very own Ginevra Tozzi defends at @IMTLucca her wonderful PhD thesis on Avicenna’s (Ibn Sīnā) De interpretatione ('Ibāra), between philology and logic. ⤵️

[la_lettura @La_Lettura]

La giustizia di Dante: il caso Bonconte. Nell’App de «la Lettura», il focus di Alberto Casadei in occasione del Dantedì, che si celebra oggi. E altri articoli sul poeta nel supplemento in edicola e in digitale https://t.co/qcOl0donos

[Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca @IMTLucca]

📣2026/2027 IMT School #PhDCall for applications is OPEN!
⌛ Duration: 3 years
💼 6 scholarship + free on-campus accomodation and meals + research and mobility budget
🔥 Application deadline: June 29, 2026
🔜 Starting November 1st, 2026
ℹ️ https://t.co/ks8PcAiqS2

[la_lettura @La_Lettura]

L’IA immaginata dagli scrittori (Asimov, Clarke, Dick, McEwan…): il focus di @idaBozzi nell’App. In edicola e digitale, l’intervista di @msventicinque a @bruceholsinger, autore di «Colpevolezza» (e/o) sui dilemmi morali dell’intelligenza artificiale https://t.co/wq95AZcagl

[Marco Signori @msventicinque]

My English translation and commentary of al-Ġazālī’s Intentions of the Philosophers is finally out, and I could not be happier! I poured a lot of myself into this book, and I am so very glad and grateful to see it in print (all the more so in the gorgeous green of SGA!).

[Marco Signori @msventicinque]

@ali_golbaz @PhiBorUnit Thank you Ali!

[Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations @PhiBorUnit]

Check out the final program of our days together

[Marco Signori @msventicinque]

Shahab Khademi and I are glad to welcome you in Leuven and online for our international conference on Avicenna’s Dānešnāme — the first of its kind!

[Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations @PhiBorUnit]

We just kicked off our international conference on The Dānešnāme and It’s Structural Aftermath at KU Leuven, co-sponsored by FIS Project SPACE. You can also join us online (links below) to learn about exciting new research about Avicenna’s Persian production and its legacy

[Marco Signori @msventicinque]

Oggi su @La_Lettura una mia intervista a Wolfram Eilenberger in occasione dell’uscita del suo ultimo libro per @feltrinellied. Grazie ad @al_rastelli, e a WE per la bella conversazione :)

[Marco Signori @msventicinque]

Also did the poster for this one! ✨

[Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations @PhiBorUnit]

We are very glad to share with you the news of the upcoming conference "Thinking About the Future in the Middle Ages", the final instalment of our PRIN PNRR 2022 research project on medieval prognostication and its philosophical underpinnings. It's in Florence on 15-17th Sept!

[Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations @PhiBorUnit]

The deadline of the cfp for the international conference on "The DN and Its Structural Aftermath" (KU Leuven, 15-17 October 2025) is postponed to July 31st!

[Marco Signori @msventicinque]

There is still time to apply to our conference “The Dānešnāme and Its Structural Aftermath”, which will take place at KU Leuven on 15-17 Oct 2025. Send us an abstract by July 15th. We look forward to reading your proposals!

[Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations @PhiBorUnit]

An international conference on Avicenna's Persian summa, the Book of Science for ʿAlà al-Dawla (Dānešnāme-ye ʿAlāʾī), will take place at KU Leuven on 15-17 October 2025. If you are interested, please consider applying by July 15th! ⤵️

[Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations @PhiBorUnit]

There's exciting news!

PhiBor Unit is advertising a 3-year Assistant Professor position (RTD-a, fixed-term research-cum-teaching position) in the framework of our SPACE project on Avicenna's summae (https://t.co/TL7yOFG9D0), led by @AmosBertolacci.

[Amos Bertolacci @AmosBertolacci]

Grateful to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for the publication of the substantive revision of the entry “Arabic and Islamic Metaphysics” (Jun 30, 2025)
https://t.co/anPAjZfaOk

[Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations @PhiBorUnit]

Our webinar was a success!

🔴 210 subscribers
🔴 145 active participants
🔴 250+ questions asked and answered

We really hope that we have satisfied your curiosities on the new doctoral program MBHT at @IMTLucca. But if you still have questions, do not hesitate to get in touch!

[Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca @IMTLucca]

Join us on Monday, June 16th at 3:00 PM (CEST) for a live online presentation of the PhD in Mind, Brain and Human Thought (MBHT).

✅Participation is free but registration is required: register at https://t.co/a8BSVqGma0

[Marco Signori @msventicinque]

Call for papers for a forthcoming conference in Leuven! Very happy and excited to be doing this :)

[Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations @PhiBorUnit]

An international conference on Avicenna's Persian summa, the Book of Science for ʿAlà al-Dawla (Dānešnāme-ye ʿAlāʾī), will take place at KU Leuven on 15-17 October 2025. If you are interested, please consider applying by July 15th! ⤵️

[Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations @PhiBorUnit]

We are glad to announce the International Conference of our #PRIN Project "Itineraries of Philosophy", on Albert the Great, his sources and his legacies, which will take place on June 10-12 in Naples. Join us for three days of exciting new research on medieval philosophy!