Paolo Valore

Paolo Valore (Milan, 10 June 1972) is an Italian philosopher and academic who deals with metaphysics, general ontology and the ontological implications of formal theories. He is also interested in projects of artificial languages and auxiliary languages. Graduated in Philosophy in 1997 at University of Milan, in 2000 he obtained his PhD with a study on Reference, representation and reality in Hilary Putnam . After a year of specialization at King's College London, in 2002 he became researcher at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan, where he taught History of contemporary philosophy. His first production was mainly devoted to studies on nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy and the rehabilitation of a neo transcendentalist perspective especially in metaphysics. He participated in the founding group of magazine Problemata. Quaderni di Filosofia , of which he was editor in chief. Since 2004, when the faculty of Industrial Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano entrusted him with a course in "Truth and correspondence theory", his research has shifted to increasingly theoretical themes, linked to analytic philosophy, metaphysics and analytic ontology. In 2006 he organized and curated the project Topics on general and formal ontology , which took shape in the homonymous volume. He then becomes professor aggregate of History of Contemporary Metaphysics at the University of Milan, of Theoretical Philosophy at the Polytechnic with courses dedicated to formal ontology and, in 2010–2011, of Philosophy of Social Objects (social ontology) at the Luigi Bocconi Commercial University in Milan. In 2010 he founded with Massimo Rizzardini and Federico Gobbo the multilingual newspaper InKoj. Interlingvistikaj Kajeroj , free access journal of "study and academic discussion on artificial languages", of which he is director. He was a member of the international research group EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) funded by the European Science Foundation and since 2010 he is the head of the project "Classical Paradigms and Theoretical Foundations in Contemporary Research on Formal and Material Ontology ”for the EuroScholars USA (European Undergraduates Research Opportunities) program.