Giovanni Ventimiglia
Giovanni Ventimiglia is Swiss–Italian philosopher. He is full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lucerne. Vice Dean of its Faculty of Theology. He is Visiting Professor of Medieval Philosophy in philosophy at the University of Italian Switzerland and Honorary President of Aristotle College, Lugano.
From 2004 to 2016 he was ordinary professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Faculty of Theology, Lugano, where he founded the in 2003.
Giovanni Ventimiglia works primarily on Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, often at the intersections of the continental and analytical traditions of philosophy. His main interests lie in classical ontology, and its relation to contemporary debates in analytic metaphysics. He also works on the reception of Plato’s “unwritten” doctrines in medieval commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, the reception of Aristotle’s philosophy in medieval theology and philosophy, and the reception of Aquinas in contemporary philosophy. He has also worked on the ontology of material, digital objects and of cyberspace and the relation between philosophy and psychoanalysis.
