Alberto Vanzo

BA (Padua), PhD (Venice)

Email: alberto.vanzo@otago.ac.nz

Before joining the Philosophy Department of Otago University, Alberto was a Junior Research Fellow at the Philosophy Department of the University of Essex and a Research Grantee at the Philosophy Department of the University of Padua.

Teaching

PHIL 231 and PHIL 331: Early Modern Philosophy A: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz

Research Interests

Alberto is currently working with Peter Anstey, Richard Serjeantson, Juan Manuel Gomez, and Kirsten Walsh on a Marsden-funded project (2009–2011) entitled 'Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism'. You can visit the blog for this project here.

Alberto's current research focuses on German experimental philosophy prior to Kant, and the origins of the notion of empiricism in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Alberto is also interested in Kant's views on concept acquisition, his conception of truth and logic, and his relation to Leibniz.

More information (including online papers) can be found on Alberto's personal website.

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