Francesca Biagioli

Francesca completed her PhD at the University of Turin, Italy, in 2012. Her dissertation was devoted to the debate about non-Euclidean geometry in neo-Kantianism. A reworked English version of her dissertation is under contract for publication under the title Helmholtz on Space, Number, and Geometry in the Springer series Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. She has been working on a research project about Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of science in connection with contemporary debates about the relativized a priori and structural realism as a DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Paderborn, Germany, in 2012-13, and, afterwards, in several multidisciplinary environments: the New Europe College in Bucharest, Romania, the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Research of the Aix-Marseille University, France, the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, UK. She is a Zukunftskolleg Incoming Fellow–Marie Curie at the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz since August 2014.

Her publications include: “Hermann Cohen and Alois Riehl on Geometrical Empiricism” HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (2014), “What Does It Mean That ‘Space Can Be Transcendental Without the Axioms Being So’? Helmholtz’s Claim in Context” Journal for General Philosophy of Science (2014), “Between Kantianism and Empiricism: Otto Hölder’s Philosophy of Geometry” Philosophia Scientiae (2013), Ernst Cassirer – Leonard Nelson: Una controversia sul metodo critico (Cassirer-Nelson selected writings translated and edited with an introductory essay by Francesca Biagioli) Brescia 2011.