Overview
Alessandro joined the Classics Department in 2021. Prior to that, he received his BA and MA in Classics from the University of Florence. During his MA, he spent a year at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where alongside Greek philosophy, he studied also Sanskrit philosophy.
At Cornell, he joined the Ancient Philosophy concentration, focusing primarily on Greek and Sanskrit philosophy. His dissertation, tentatively titled “Metaphysics and Structure: Plato and Aristotle in Plotinus’ Metaphysics of Being”, examines topics from Plotinus’ treatise On the Genera of Being (Ennead VI 1-3) to determine the different influence of Platonic and Aristotelian doctrines on Plotinus’ theory of genera and its function within the hypostasis of Nous. Further interests include Plato’s late metaphysics, Aristotle’s metaphysics and theory of categories, and Alexander’s anti-determinism. In Sanskrit philosophy, interests include Vasubandhu’s Viṃśika, Kumārila’s Ślokavarttika (mainly Nirālambanavāda and Śunyavāda), and, in general, idealism-realism debates and mereology.
Ancient Philosophy Concentration