Department of Philosophy, Sapienza/Università di Roma, Via Carlo Fea 2, 00161 Roma, Italy.

Tel.: (+39) 06-49917235; e-mail: emidio.spinelli[at]uniroma1.it

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Emidio Spinelli is currently Full Professor at "Sapienza"-Università di Roma (‘History of Ancient Philosophy’/Department of Philosophy), Vice-Rector for Right to Study and Didactic Quality at the same University, and National President of "Società Filosofica Italiana" (2016-2025). He has been Junior Fellow at the "Center for Hellenic Studies"/Harvard University (Washington DC); Research Fellow at the "Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung" (Universität Konstanz) and Visiting Scholar at many Universities, as for example: the "Humboldt Universität-Berlin"; the ‘École Normale Supérieure’-Lyon; the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i.B.; the ‘Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies’, Universität Hamburg.

Chief editor of the “Bollettino della Società Filosofica Italiana” and co-editor of the Journal "Elenchos" (Rivista di studi sul pensiero antico), he was and/or still is member of the editorial staff of many national and international Journals.

Besides many articles on different topics in ancient philosophy (Presocratics, Atomists, Socrates/minor Socratics, Plato, Stoics, Epicureans, literary and philosophical papyry) and apart his work in the field of electronic editions of ancient texts, his main publications are on ancient skepticisms. In addition, since 1998 he actively works on Hans Jonas and some of his unpublished texts; in this area of research, besides many articles in national and international Journals or books, he has edited or published many books (for more details on all these publications see: https://research.uniroma1.it/researcher/8d7416bace26304dfd8c7ce5b6bceda9fe6e587aec82ecc1e7ec63c9).