Giovanni Maddalena

Giovanni Maddalena is full professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Bologna, Italy. He works on American philosophy, especially focusing on Charles Sanders Peirce and classic pragmatists.

Career He proposes a new paradigm of reasoning in The Philosophy of Gesture (Montreal, McGill-Queen’s 2015). According to this philosophy a gesture "any performed act with a beginning and an end that carries on a meaning (from the Latin gero=to bear, to carry on)".

He is Senior Fellow of the Institute of American Thought (IUPUI, Indianapolis) and Member of the scientific board of the Philosophy Department at École normale supérieure (Paris). Maddalena has been Fulbright Research Scholar (2010), Professeur Invité at École Normale Supérieure (2015), invited professor at University of Sao Paulo (Brasil), Santa Fe (Argentina),

He is founder and executive editor of the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, founder and president of the Associazione Pragma, founder and co-director of the Vasily Grossman Study Center .He directs the series Biblioteca del Leonardo at Editore Carabba and collaborates with the newspapers Il Foglio, Tempi, Zafferano.news.