Erminia Di Iulio
CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL INFORMATION
First name/Surname: Erminia Di Iulio
Address: Via di Vigna Fabbri, 28 - 00179, Roma, Italy
Telephone: +39 3486702859
Email: erminia.di.iulio@uniroma2.it
Nationality: Italian
Date of birth: 24/08/1991
Gender: female (she/her)
AoE: Ancient Philosophy; Ancient Epistemology; Contemporary Epistemology; Philosophy of perception.
AoI: Ontology; Philosophy of Language; Metaphysics.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
12/2023 MIUR – ASN II FASCIA
27/11/2023 LA SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY– Cultrice della materia per Storia della Filosofia (M-FIL 06)
1/01/2021-31/12/2021 ITALIAN INSTITUTE FOR PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES (IISF)– Research Fellow
16/01/2020 TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY– PhD in Philosophy with the evaluation ‘excellent cum laude’. Thesis: ‘Fatti’ e ‘Parole’: l’Apologia di Palamedee la dimensione epistemologica del pensiero di Gorgia di Lentini (Facts and words: the Apology of Palamedes and the epistemological dimension of Gorgias’ thought).
1/11/2017-28/02/2018 SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY – Visiting PhD student
2016-2019 TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY – PhD Student in Philosophy. Supervisor: prof. F. Aronadio
2016 TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY – Master of Arts with Honors in Philosophy
Teaching experiences
2023-2024 ITALIAN INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES (IISC): Adjunct professor – History of Ancient Philosophy
2021-2025 TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY: Adjunct professor – History of ontological thought
Honors, awards and fundings
June 2020 Beyond Bordersproject – PI Anselmo Aportone (Tor Vergata University).
July 2020 ‘Leonardo Da Vinci Medal’ by the MUR (Ministry of University and Research) and the CRUI (Conference of Italian Universities’ rectors).
Publications
Books
3/08/2022 Gorgias’s thought: an epistemological reading, Issues in Ancient Philosophy, Routledge.
Edited Collections
2024 (forthcoming): Having experience in view. On the judgmental and pre-judgmental conditions for viewing the world, Synthesis – Journal for Philosophy. Co-edited with Anselmo Aportone, Pierluigi D’Agostino.
2023 Ancient Philosophy in Dialogue, Synthesis – Journal for Philosophy. Co-edited with Francesco Aronadio.
2022 La natura corporea delle immagini. Da Empedocle a Lucrezio (The corporeal nature of ‘images’. From Empedocles to Lucretius), Dynamis. Collana di testi e studi sul pensiero antico, IISF Press. Co-edited with Francesco Aronadio, Francesca G. Masi.
Articles
2023 Gorgias and Plato’s Sophist, Rhizomata, 11, 2.
2023 Epistemology of testimony in early Greek thought, Ancient Philosophy in Dialogue, Synthesis – Journal for Philosophy.
2023 Antiphon’s Against the Stepmother on ‘justification’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘truth’, Fogli di Filosofia, 15, 2023.
2023 ‘Mythos’ e ‘Logos’: percorsi della ‘autorità poetico-epistemica’ nella grecia pre-platonica (‘Mythos’ and ‘logos’: poetic-epistemic authority in pre-platonic thought), RIFL, 16, 2, 2023.
2023 Tekmairomai, Aronadio F. (ed.), Platone e l’esperienza. Sette studi lessicologici, ΔΗΛΟΜΑ. Studi di Lessicologia Antica, Bibliopolis, pp. 139-169.
2023 L’Encomio di Elena di Gorgia tra ‘fisiologia’ e ‘materialismo’ (Gorgias’s Encomium of Helen between ‘physiology’ and ‘materialism’), ANTIQVORVM PHILOSOPHIA. An International Journal, 2023.
2022 ‘Gorgias’s account(s) of seeing in the Palamedes’, Ewegen, Zoller (eds.), Gorgias/Gorgias: The Sicilian Orator and the Platonic Dialogue, (Siracusa, Sicily: Parnassos Books, 2022), 155-173.
2022 Gorgia e il materialismo empedocleo. ‘Homologia’, ‘percezione’ e ‘pensiero’ nel Trattato sul non essere (Gorgias and the Empedoclean materialism. ‘Homologia’, ‘perception’ and ‘thought’ in On not being), Aronadio, F., Di Iulio, E., Masi, F., (eds.) La natura corporea delle immagini. Da Empedocle a Lucrezio, Dynamis. Collana di testi e studi sul pensiero antico, IISF Press.
2022 What is Gorgias’ ‘not being’? A brief journey through the Treatise, the Apology of Palamedes and the Encomium of Helen, Giombini, S., Pulpito M. (eds.) Peri tou (me) ontos, Archai.
2021 Gorgia e la dimensione epistemica del vedere: il Trattato (Gorgias and the epistemological dimension of seeing: the Treatise), Aronadio, F. (ed.), Variazioni sul tema del vedere. Saggi sui verba videndi nella Grecità classica, ΔΗΛΟΜΑ. Studi di Lessicologia Antica, Bibliopolis.
2021 Gorgia e la dimensione epistemica del vedere: le orazioni (Gorgias and the epistemological dimension of seeing: the speeches), Aronadio, F. (ed.), Variazioni sul tema del vedere. Saggi sui verba videndi nella Grecità classica, ΔΗΛΟΜΑ. Studi di Lessicologia Antica, Bibliopolis.
2021 Parmenides on ‘naming’ and ‘meaning’: a disjunctivism reading of the Poem, Philosophy, 96(2), 205-227, Cambridge University Press.
2020 À Rebours: dal Sofista a Parmenide. Platone tra ‘corrispondenza’ e ‘identità’ (À Rebours: from the Sophist to Parmenides. Plato between ‘correspondence’ and ‘identity’), Rivista di Filosofia Neoscolastica, 1, 2020, 111-125.
2020 Identity’s Sustainability. Parmenides on einai and noein, Giovannetti, L. (ed.) The Sustainability of Thought: an itinerary through the history of philosophy, Bibliopolis, 2020, 19-43.
2019 Gorgias’ account of truth. Mourelatos and Bermudez between behaviourism and coherence, Fogli di Filosofia, 11, 2019, 73-91.
2018 Dai Postulati alla Confutazione dell’argomento ontologico: la modalità come anti-ontologia (From the Postulates to the Refutation of ontological argument: modality as anti-ontology), Fogli di Filosofia, 10, 2018, 83-117.
2017 Tradurre: Parastatikon e Menytikon in Contro i Logici di Sesto Empirico (Translating: parastatikon and menytikon in Sextus Empiricus’s Against the Logicians), Fogli di Filosofia, 9, 2017, 21-52.
2017 Kairos: linee dell’evoluzione semantica del termine (Kairos: the semantic evolution of the term), Dialegesthai, 19, 2017.
Journals and editorial series
2023-in progress Co-editor in chief of ΔΗΛΩΜΑ. Studi di Lessicologia Antica (Bibliopolis: Napoli)
2021-in progress Referee (RIFL, Elenchos, TOPOI)
2020-in progress Co-founder and member of the Editorial Board of Synthesis – Journal forPhilosophy edited by Francesco Aronadio and Francesco Fronterotta
2020-in progress Member of the Editorial Staff of Fogli di Filosofia
dissemination
2024 IISC - “Menzogne simili al vero”. L’autorità poetica nel pensiero arcaico(Lies resembling truth. Poetic authority in early Greek thought)
2023 IISC - “Voglio liberare dall’accusa questa donna diffamata”. La figura di Elena nel pensiero di Gorgia (“I aim to clear the calumniated woman from all charges”. Helen of Sparta in Gorgias’s thought)
2020 TURIN UNIVERSITY – PHILOSPHY BYTES PROJECT: Eyewitnesses and not being: on Gorgias’s Apology of Palamedes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxILKR4TMaQ)
Work-in-progress Book on the myth of Helen of Sparta and Gorgias’s Encomium of Helen
Selected conferences and talks
Invited speaker
24-27/09/2023 XIII ELEATICA – Gorgia, erede e avversario degli Eleati
25-26/05/2023 UCA– ‘Colloque International Les Sophistes et le langage’ Talk: Gorgias and Plato’s Sophist
26/07/2022 MUSAPH– Colloquium Talk: What is Gorgias’s not being?
08/03/2022 IISF– Retorica e filosofia nel Gorgia di Platone Talk: Platone, Gorgia e il Gorgia (Plato, Gorgias and the Gorgias)
22/02/2022 TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY– Having experience in view. On the judgemental and pre-judgemental conditions for viewing the world Talk: ‘It is not possible to dianoeisthai a colour, but only to see it’: Gorgias on perceiving and thinking
29/03/2021 TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY– Linguaggio, rappresentazione, mondo –Cose, fatti, proposizioni. Alcune riflessioni su Realismo e Idealismo (Objects, facts, propositions. Some remarks on Realism and Idealism)
19/01/2021 IISF– La natura corporea dell’immagine Talk: La corporeità del percepito: il rapporto problematico di Gorgia con la tradizione materialistica (The corporeality of what is perceived: Gorgias’s problematic relatioship to the materialistic tradition)
13/06/2019 TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY: The sustainability of thought (PHISU project) – Parmenide: l’(in)sostenibile leggerezza dell’essere. Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” (Parmenides: the (un)beareable lightness of being).
*2019 Symposium Platonicum XII – International Plato Society, Plato’s Parmenides (auditor)
*2019 Gargnano International Conference Grasping the Philosopher in Plato’s Academy (discussant)
Organization
11/2023-4/2024 IISC: ‘LOGOS, ETHOS, PHYSIS. Temi del pensiero antico e della sua tradizione’. Speakers: Francesco Fronterotta, Mauro Serra, Giorgio Piras, Angela Longo, Roberta Ioli, Fiorinda Li Vigni
10-12/12/2022 IISF: ‘Cosa significa pensare (qualcosa)? Figure dell’intenzionalità dopo Brentano’ (‘What does “thinking” mean? “Intentionality” after Brentano’). Speakers: Simone Gozzano, Michela Summa, Jocelyn Benoist.
7-10/03/2022 IISF: ‘Retorica e filosofia nel Gorgia di Platone’ (Rhetoric and philosophy in Plato’s Gorgias). Speakers: Mauro Tulli, Carlotta Capuccino, Erminia Di Iulio, Diego Zucca, Mauro Bonazzi, Alessandra Fussi.
21-24/02/2022 TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY: ‘Having experience in view. On the judgemental and pre-judgemental conditions for viewing the world’. Speakers: Erminia Di Iulio Lorenzo Giovannetti, Christof Rapp, Elena Baltuta, Simone Guidi, José Filipe Pereira da Silva, Dietmar Heidemann, Anselmo, Pierluigi D’Agostino, Frank Hofmann, Stephanie Grüne, José Luis Bermudez.
January-May 2022 TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY: ‘Ancient Philosophy in Dialogue’. Speakers: Maddalena Bonelli, Francesco Aronadio, Susan Sauvé Meyer, Diego Machuca, Nicholas D. Smith.
18-21/01/2021 IISF: ‘La natura corporea dell’immagine’ (The corporeal nature of the images). Speakers: Filippo Forcignanò, Pierre-Marie Morel, Federico Petrucci, Giulia Mingucci, Giuliana Leone, Stefano Maso, Francesca Masi.
Linguistic Skills
Italian; English; French; Latin; Ancient Greek.