Flavia Marcacci / Professoressa Associata

I earned my first Ph.D. at the Lateran University (Vatican State) and my second Ph.D. at the University of Urbino. I taught the History of Scientific Thought at Lateran University. I was also a Visiting Professor at the University of Lille, France, and an Assistant Professor at the Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway (USA/Italy).
I have been awarded the Italian National Scientific Qualification for Full Professor and Associate Professor of Logic, Philosophy, and History of Science. I have also been bestowed the Del Monte Medal for the History of Science by the International Center Urbino e la Prospettiva. 
I investigated the history of science, spanning from the Greek and Hellenistic ages to the history of physics and astronomy before Isaac Newton. About the first area, I am working on clarifying the birth of classic standards of logic by drawing on recent developments in formal logic. Concerning the second field, developing preceding research, I plan to study the intermediate geo-heliocentric systems and their epistemic consequences.   

1. Tychonic Worries on Newton: Comments from Book III of the 1822 Geneva Edition of Principia Mathematica. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, fothcoming.
2. (wirh P. Bussotti), How to use Kepler’s first and second laws in a geo-heliocentric system? Ask G.B. Riccioli. Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 79, 4 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-024-00343-3 
3. (with P. Allen, eds.), Divined explanation. The Theological and Philosophical Context for the Development of the Sciences (1600-2000). Book Series: Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion. Brill, 2024 (September). URL :https://brill.com/display/title/70063. 
4. (with P. Allen), Introduction. In P. Allen, F. Marcacci, Divined explanation. The Theological and Philosophical Context for the Development of the Sciences (1600-2000). Brill, 2024 (August), 1-12. URL : .
5. (with G. Tarozzi), Max Planck, Causality and the Necessity of God. In P. Allen, F. Marcacci, Divined explanation. The Theological and Philosophical Context for the Development of the Sciences (1600-2000). Brill, 2024 (August), 210-231.
6. Philoponus in Galileo’s Early Works. In E. Vimercati (ed.), The Reception of John Philoponus’ Natural Philosophy. Aristotelian Science from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, Bloomsbury Academic, London-New York, 2024. December 2024. URL:https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781350416307&pdfid=9781350416307.0022.pdf&tocid=b-9781350416307-chapter13  
7. G.B. Riccioli’s Geo-heliocentric Use of Epicepicycles, Ellipses, and Spirals. Journal for the History of Astronomy, May 2023, 1-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00218286231165331
8. La scienza e l’ipotesi assoluta. Metodologia e logica della ricerca in Giovanni Battista Riccioli. Les Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences, 70, 2021, 72-107.
9. Seeing at a Glance. The World-System Debate and the Role of the Comparative Tables in Giovanni Battista Riccioli’s Almagestum novum. Nuncius (36), 2021, 119-142. DOI 10.1163/18253911-bja10010
10. (with V. Fano, P. Graziani, M. Tagliaferri) Melissus as an Analytic Metaphysicist. Axiomathes, 2020. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-020-09507-6
11. Argumentation and counterfactual reasoning in Parmenides and Melissus. Archai. The origins of western thought 30, 2020. DOI: 10.14195/1984-249X_30_4
12. Cieli in contraddizione. Giovanni Battista Riccioli e il terzo sistema del mondo. Modena-Perugia: Accademia Nazionale di Scienze Lettere e Arti di Modena - Aguaplano L’Officina del Libro, 2018.