Gianluca Bocchi

Gianluca Bocchi (born 19 December 1954) is an Italian philosopher. Gianluca Bocchi studied Philosophy at the University of Milan where he graduated in Philosophy of Science in 1978, discussing a dissertation entitled "Conditions and rules in the context of contemporary scientific epistemology" (supervisors: Ludwig Geymonat and Giulio Giorello). From 1983 to 1988, he taught Philosophy and worked as researcher at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Geneva, carrying on his research within the scientific team coordinated by Alberto Munari, one of the main exponents of the Piagetian school of genetic epistemology; and has worked extensively with Edgar Morin in Paris on the themes of complexity and complex thinking. Apart from its academic research and teaching engagements at the University, he has also been working as author, lecturer, scientific consultant and trainer. He has been working as project manager and scientific trainer within a number of training projects promoted by leading Italian companies (such as Omnitel, ISVOR-FIAT, Telespazio, RAI, Unilever, ENEL, ENI, IBM, HP, Unicredit, Banca Intesa, Banca Mediolanum, Publitalia, etc.) as well as within training courses for teachers, psychotherapists, and managers of "human systems". He has been giving a number of lecturers and seminars in various post-graduate Master courses, and he has especially been working with the TSM-Trento School of Management. He lectured and lectures extensively for managerial audiences on the political and cultural international landscapes in the age of globalization; on human evolution; on scientific and philosophical themes of complexity and change (how the understanding of patterns of change in natural and human history can help us in facing the ubiquitous challenge of change in human organizations). He has been guiding a number of "study tours", especially to Berlin and the United States, devoted to managers and students and mainly concerning the topic of innovation and identity.