Professional Career

Andrea taught at the Universities of Milan and Freiburg, before coming to Boston College in 2009 as an assistant professor with an area of specialization in Husserlian Phenomenology.

Fields of Interest

• Transcendental Phenomenology (Husserl)
• Neokantianism (Rickert, Lask)
• Philosophy of the Human Sciences (Dilthey, Simmel)
• German Idealism (Fichte)
• Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind
• The possibility of thinking beyond the opposition analytic/continental philosophy

Current Teaching

• 19th and 20th Century Philosophy (undergraduate)
• Perspectives on Western Culture I: Athens and Jerusalem (undergraduate)
• Husserl (graduate)

Recent Publications

• "Unforgivable Sinners? Epistemological and Psychological Naturalism in Husserl’s Philosophy as a Rigorous Science", Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 3/2 (2012), 147-160.
• "The Ideen and Neo-Kantianism", in L. Embree/T. Nenon (eds.), Husserl’s Ideen, (Dordrecht: Springer 2012), 71-90.
• "Different Worlds and Tendency to Concordance. Towards a New Perspective on Husserl’s Phenomenology of Culture", The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy X (2010), 127-143.
• Geistigkeit, Leben und geschichtliche Welt in der Transzendentalphänomenologie Husserls (Ergon: Würzburg, 2010).
• "The Primacy of the Present. Metaphysical Ballast or Phenomenological Finding?", Research in Phenomenology 40/1 (2010), 34-54.