Giorgio Baruchello

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Giorgio Baruchello (3 August 1974 - )

Baruchello is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Akureyri in Iceland.

He was born in Genoa, Italy, the son of Sergio Baruchello, a bank manager, and Francesca Agostina Dolente, a clerk at the City Mayor’s office and daughter of the self-taught historian, painter and inventor Severino Domenico Dolente.

In 1998, Baruchello completed his Laureate in philosophy at the University of Genoa, writing his dissertation on Richard Rorty’s neo-pragmatism. In 1995 and 1998 he attended courses at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík. Between 1999 and 2002 he read philosophy at the University of Guelph, where he wrote a Ph. D. thesis on the understanding of cruelty in Western thought from the Middle Ages to the end of the twentieth century.

In 2003 the University of Guelph awarded him the D. F. Forster Medal, the highest convocation award for graduate students. Named for the late Donald Forster, a former president of the University of Guelph, the medal recognises academic achievement, motivation, leadership, and citizenship.

Baruchello is married to Rachael Lorna Johnstone, a Scottish legal scholar, and they have a son, Kieran Logi Baruchello.

He works in the fields of ethics, social and political philosophy, axiology, the history of philosophy and ideas, and the philosophy of science, particularly of the social sciences.

Baruchello's most recent publications include essays on cruelty, death, Arthur Schopenhauer, and the origins of modern science. He has recently contributed two essays to UNESCO’s Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, one of which is a comprehensive survey of the history of Western philosophy from a life-grounded perspective.

Given his overall emphasis on human life-needs and healthy self-development, physical as well as spiritual and mental, Baruchello could be described as a personalist, although the most noticeable influence on his outlook derives from the "life-value turn" of Canada’s John McMurtry, a social philosopher and ethicist.

"Personalism is usually theistic but does not need to be so," he has written, citing an online overview by Kevin Schmiesing.

In addition to having taught at the universities of Genoa and Rennes within the context of the Socrates-Erasmus programme, he has been a visiting fellow at the International Study Centre of Queen’s University at Herstmonceux Castle in England and has delivered scholarly papers at several other universities, including Laval University in Canada and China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing.

Together with Maurizio Tani of the University of Iceland he is the founder and editor of the first Icelandic e-journal in Nordic and Mediterranean Studies, Nordicum-Mediterraneum.

Writings

A. Contributions to Books (book chapters, collected essays, encyclopaedia entries)

2008

1. Chapter, "Deadly Economics: Reflections on the Neoclassical Paradigm," in Tandy, C. (ed.), Death and Anti-Death, Volume 5, Palo Alto: Ria University Press, forthcoming

2007

2. "Cesare Beccaria and the Liberal Cruelty" (republication), 20th Anniversary of the University of Akureyri, forthcoming

3-7. Biography and four in-depth commentaries (in Italian), "Schopenhauer", Il Sole 24 Ore, Milan, 9-42, 48-55, 76-81, 94-9, 118-25

8. Article-level entry, "Life Responsibility versus Mechanical Reductionism: Western World-Views of Nature from Pantheism to Positivism" (with Dr Richard T. Allen), EOLSS, UNESCO, Paris and Oxford (currently available in electronic format only)

9. Topic-level entry, "Western Philosophy and the Life-Ground," Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), UNESCO, Paris and Oxford (id.)

10. Chapter, "Mechanism, Galileo’s Animale and Heidegger’s Gestell: Reflections on the Lifelessness of Modern Science", in Tandy, C. (ed.), Death and Anti-Death, Volume 4: Twenty Years After De Beauvoir, Thirty Years After Heidegger, Palo Alto: Ria University Press, 29-66

2006

11. Chapter, "Death and Life Support Systems: A Novel Cultural Exploration", in Tandy, C. (ed.), Death and Anti-Death Volume 3: Fifty Years After Einstein, One Hundred Fifty Years After Kierkegaard, Palo Alto: Ria University Press, 31-58

2004

12. Entry, Vico, in Baggini, J. and Stangroom, J. (eds.), Great Philosophers A-Z, London: Continuum, 242-4

2003

13. Chapter, "Death and Anti-Anti-Death. A Cultural Exploration", in Tandy, C. (ed.), Death and Anti-Death Volume 1: One Hundred Years After N. F. Fedorov (1829-1903), Palo Alto: Ria University Press, 131-70

B. Refereed Articles (blind peer-reviewed, peer-reviewed, editor-reviewed)

1. "Philosophy of Cruelty" (in Icelandic), Hugur [University of Iceland], forthcoming

2007

2. "Scepticism, Science and Social Science," Philosophical Investigations [Academy of Philosophical Sciences of Georgia], XI, 35-45

2005

3. "Bridging Between Mind and Language. A Phenomenological Reading of Davidson’s Philosophy," Philosophical Investigations, IX, 317-38

4. "Notes on Pessimism," Appraisal, [SPCPS], 5(3), 148—50 and 159—60

2004

5. "Cesare Beccaria and the Liberal Cruelty," Philosophy and Social Criticism [Boston College], 30/03, 303-13

2003

6. "The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay on Sade and Nietzsche," Appraisal, 4(4), 165-74

7. "Pietist Prejudice in Gadamer’s Reading of Vico," Filosofia Oggi [University of Genoa], XXVI/03/III, 291-306

8. "Irony and Its Limits. An Essay on Richard Rorty", Appraisal, 4(3), 127-31 and 137

2002

9. "On David Lewis’ Pluralist Ontology" (in Italian), Teoria [University of Pisa], XXII/2002/2, 17-30

10. "Rorty’s Painful Liberalism," Bijdragen International Journal in Philosophy and Theology [KTU], 63(1), 22-45

11. "Linguistic Phenomenology" (in Italian), Fenomenologia e società [University of Padua], 1/2002, XXV, 17-39

2001

12. "Montaigne and Nietzsche: Ancient and Future Wisdom," Symposium [CSH], 6(1), 79-91

13. "Vertical and Horizontal Ontology," Philosophical Investigations, VI, 389-401

14-5. "Deleuze’s Humour," Estetika [Czech Academy of Science], XXVII, 4/2001, 213-52 and (due to editors’ error) Existentia An International Journal of Philosophy, XII, 2002, 3-4, 445-70

16. "Nominalism and Antirepresentationalism in Hacking’s Social Construction of What?," Appraisal, 3(4), 151-6

2000

17. "Richard Rorty: A Sophist Without A Soap-Box," Agora [University of Santiago de Compostela], 19(2), 139-52

18. "Citizenship - A Practical Notion," Philosophical Investigations, V, 62-74

1998

19. "Richard Rorty: A Philosophy Between Conversation and Politics" (in Italian), Iride [Gramsci Institute], XI, 25, 457-8

C. Invited Articles

2008

1. "On Cruelty—Grimmdin," Trúin og lífið, forthcoming

2. "The Life-Ground of Sustainable Development. Reflections on Ecology, Social Sciences and Politics in Honour of Sergi Avaliani", Philosophical Investigations, Special Issue, In Honour of Sergi Avaliani’s 80th Birthday, forthcoming

2007

3. "From Lobsters to the joie de vivre—Conceptions of Cruelty in the History of Western Thought" (in Italian), Nuova secondaria, 7, XXIV, 87-94

2006

4. "The Disappearance of Buttons—A Philosopher’s Look at Ergonomics" (with A. Barden), Wrong, 1(2), 13-4

2005

5. "On Cruelty and Nietzsche’s Drive to Distinction (with Dr C. Pearce), Appraisal, 5(4), 187-9 and 199-200

6. "Can Existence be Cruel?" (with Prof W. Hamblet), Appraisal, 5(3), 138-40

2004

7. "Is Violence Always Cruel?" (with Prof W. Hamblet), Appraisal, 5(2), 91-4

8. "What is Cruelty?" (with Prof W. Hamblet), Appraisal, 5(1), 33-8 and 56

2003

9. "On Globalisation," Philosophical Investigations, VII, 83-94

2002

10. "Debate on Cruelty" (with Dr A. Casado da Rocha, in Spanish), biTARTE [University of San Sebastian], 27, 5-22

D. Non-refereed Articles

2002

1. "Assessing Lewis’ Materialism, Sic et Non" [Forum for Philosophy and Culture], 06/02, www.sicetnon.cogito.de/artikel/historie/materialism.htm

E. Refereed Abstracts

2002

1. "Understanding Cruelty. From Dante to Rorty," Gateway University of Saskatchewan, 7,

F. Critical Notices

2003

1. "John McMurtry, Value Wars," Appraisal , 4(3), 147-52

2001

2. "John McMurtry, The Cancer Stage of Capitalism," Canadian Journal of Development Studies [University of Ottawa], 22(1), 255-69

3. Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What? Symposium , V, 1, 103-14

G. Translations

1. Jacques LeGoff, Document/Monument" (It. Into Engl.), in John Keefe, Physical Theatres, Routledge, forthcoming

2006

2-3. "Maurizio Lorenzatto, Good praxis, Local Experiences" (It. into Engl.), in Sean O Miadhachain and Elizabeth Fern (eds.), In PRAISE of practice: Social Work Case Studies for ELearning, UHI Press, 31-5, 43-56, available electronically

4. "Mauro Barindi, A Promoter of Italian Language and Culture in Iceland" (It. Into Engl.), Nordicum-Mediterraneum 1(2)

5. "Maurizio Tani, Italo Balbo, Iceland and a Short Story by Halldor Laxness" (It. Into Engl.), Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 1(1)

2000

6. "M. Passerin d’Entrèves, Legitimacy and Deliberative Democracy" (Engl. into It.), Ragion pratica, 7:12, 211-22

H. Book Reviews

2008

1. Andrew Crisell, "A Study on Modern Television: Thinking Inside the Box," The European Legacy, 13:4, forthcoming

2. Jeff Noonan, "Democratic Society and Human Needs," The European Legacy, 13:3, forthcoming

3. Denis Veiras, "The History of the Sevarambians. A Utopian Novel," The European Legacy, 13:2, forthcoming

4. Alan D. Morrison and William J. Wilhelm, Jr., "Investment Banking: Institutions, Law and Politics," The European Legacy, 13:2, forthcoming

5. Joseph V. Femia, "Pareto and Political Theory," The European Legacy, 13:1, forthcoming

2007

6. Pertti Joenniemi, "The Changing Face of European Conscription," The European Legacy, 12:5, 623-4

7. Javier Fernández Sebastián and Joёlle Chassin (eds.), "L’avènement de l’opinion publique. Europe et Amérique XVIIIe-XIXe siècles," The European Legacy, 12:4, 499-500

8. Alva Noё, "Action in Perception," The European Legacy, 12:3, 367-8

9. Andrew Glyn, "Capitalism Unleashed. Finance, Globalization, and Welfare," The European Legacy, 12:2, 251

2006

10. Michael Oakeshott, "What is History? and other essays," The European Legacy, 11:7, 749

2005

11. J.W.E. Sheptycki, "In Search of Transnational Policing," The European Legacy, 10:2, 83

2004

12. Tzvetan Todorov, "Frail Happiness. An Essay on Rousseau," Symposium, 8(1), 150-2

13. S. Berger et al., "Italy: Resilient and Vulnerable" (Vol. II Daedalus, 130, 3, II), The European Legacy, 9:114-6

14. Gabriella Slomp, "Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory," The European Legacy, 8:6, 803-4

15. Paul Fairfield, "Moral Selfhood in the Liberal Tradition," Philosophical Books, January 2004, 78-80

2003

16. Angela Ales Bello, "Edith Stein. Saint Patron of Europe", Symposium, VII, 2, 246-50

2002

17. Terry Nardin, "The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott," Bijdragen, 4/2002, 506-7

18. Dudley Knowles, "Political Philosophy," Symposium, VI, 2, 237-9

19. C.J. Nederman, "Worlds of Difference. European Discourses of Toleration c.1100 – c.1550," Dialogue [CPA], 41:4, 802-4

20. Peter Singer, "A Darwinian Left," American Catholic Philosophy Quarterly [University of Dallas], 76:2, 356-60

21. Angela Ales Bello, "Phenomenology of the Human Being," Symposium, VI, 1, 100-5

2001

22. Kelly Oliver (ed.), "The Portable Kristeva," Symposium, V, 1, 120-3

23. Catriona Hanley, "Being and God in Aristotle and Heidegger," Symposium, V, 1, 123-6

24. John D. Caputo, "More Radical Hermeneutics," Symposium, V, 1, 137-9

I. Select Further Publications

1. Four short notes on Caravaggio, CD-ROM of G. C. Argan, History of Art (in Italian), Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1999

2. Short story, "Poor Michael’s Legend" (in Italian), adapted for the play “King Kong vs. The Harbour Workers”, 1997

3. Short note, "New Scholarly Journals," Geostorie [Italian centre for Historical-Geographic Studies], XIV, nos. 1-2, Jan.-Aug. 2006

4. "Heideggerian Aphorisms," Existentia. An International Journal of Philosophy, XVI / 2006 / Fasc. 5—6. 471-2

5. University of Iceland, 17.1.2007 “Irony” (in Icelandic), reply on Vísindavefurinn (The Sciences’ Web)