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.    (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>.
2.    (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 : <https://brill.com/display/title/70063>.
3.    (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. URL : <https://brill.com/display/title/70063>.
4.    “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, forthcoming December 2024. URL: <https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/reception-of-john-philoponus-natural-philosophy-9781350416277/ >.
5.   "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
6.   "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.
7.    "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
8.    (with V. Fano, P. Graziani, M. Tagliaferri) "Melissus as an Analytic Metaphysicist." Axiomathes, 2020. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-020-09507-6
9.    "Argumentation and counterfactual reasoning in Parmenides and Melissus." Archai. The origins of western thought 30, 2020. DOI: 10.14195/1984-249X_30_4
10.    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.