Matteo COLLODEL

Positions

• Subject Expert in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2007-2008, 2020-present
• Research Fellow, Institut Wiener Kreis (Universität Wien), 2024-2025
• High School Teacher of Philosophy and History, Liceo "Flaminio" (Vittorio Veneto), 2016-present
• Substitute High School Teacher of Philosophy, History and the Human Sciences, 2013-2016 (tenured position since 2015) 
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut für Philosophie, Humbodt-Universität zu Berlin, 2008-2012

Education

• Teaching qualifications for Philosophy, History and the Human Sciences, Postgraduate School of Teaching and Learning for Secondary Education Teachers, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2009
• PhD in Philosophy (Logic and Philosophy of Science), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2007
• MA (Diploma di Laurea V.O.) in Philosophy, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2001

Academic Publications

Journal papers

• “Ehrenhaft’s Experiments on Magnetic Monopoles: Reconsidering the Feyerabend-Ehrenhaft Connection”, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 35: 1 (2022), 69-94
• “Was Feyerabend a Popperian? Methodological Issues in the History of the Philosophy of Science”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 57 (June 2016), 27-56

Contributions to volumes

• "Popperian Roots of Feyerabend’s Theoretical Pluralism: Popper and Feyerabend on Empirical Content, Pluralism and Incommensurability" in Feyerabend and Austrian Philosophy: Feyerabend’s Formative Years in Postwar Vienna and Early Intellectual Development, M. Collodel – D. Kuby – F. Stadler (eds.). Cham (CH): Springer (forthcoming, 2025)
• "Introduction: Feyerabend’s Philosophical Breakthrough" in Feyerabend and Austrian Philosophy: Feyerabend’s Formative Years in Postwar Vienna and Early Intellectual Development, M. Collodel – D. Kuby – F. Stadler (eds.). Cham (CH): Springer (forthcoming, 2025)
• “Critical Rationalism and the Debate Over the Rationality of Science” in Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science, Flavia Padovani and Ádám T. Tuboly (eds.), Routledge (forthcoming, 2025)
• (with Daniel Kuby) “Carnap and Feyerabend” in Carnap Handbook, Christian Damböck and Georg Schiemer (eds.), J. B. Metzler Verlag (forthcoming, 2025)

Edited volumes and papers

• Feyerabend and Austrian Philosophy: Feyerabend’s Formative Years in Postwar Vienna and Early Intellectual Development, M. Collodel – D. Kuby – F. Stadler (eds.). Cham (CH): Springer (in corso di pubblicazione, 2025)
• P. K. Feyerabend, Conoscenza e libertà: scritti anarco-dadaisti, M. Collodel e L. Guzzardi (eds.), elèuthera: Milan 2024.
• Feyerabend Formative Years. Vol. 2. Feyerabend, Logical Empiricism, Bohm, and Kuhn, M. Collodel and E. Oberheim (eds.), Springer Nature: Cham (CH) 2024.
• Paul K. Feyerabend, “Single Magnetic Northpoles and Southpoles and Their Importance for Science”, M. Collodel (ed.), International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 35: 1 (2022), 95-117.
• Feyerabend’s Formative Years. Vol 1. Feyerabend and Popper, M. Collodel and E. Oberheim (eds.), Springer Nature: Cham (CH) 2020

Invited lectures and talks

• “Feyerabend’s Anti-Authoritarian Life and Thought: Towards a Research Proposal”, Institute Vienna Circle Seminar, 4 April 2025
• “Popper on Testability, Empirical Content, Incommensurability”, 9th Popper Conference, 22 March 2025 (online event)
• “Paul Feyerabend, Conoscenza e libertà: scritti anarco-dadaisti”, book presentation with P. Adamo, R. Festa, L. Tambolo, organised by Lodi Liberale, 3 February 2025 (online event)
• “Popper and Feyerabend on Incommensurability”, Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna, Vienna (Austria), 17 January 2025 (doctoral seminar)
• “The Popperian Conundrum in Feyerabend's Trajectory”, 5th 24hr Transcontinental Popper Meet ‘n Greet, 11 January 2025 (online event)
• “Against the Tyranny of Truth: Feyerabend's Anti-authoritarian Thinking”, Paul Feyerabend Centennial 2024 - Proliferating Dialogues, Brazilian Center for Physics Research (CBPF) & State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 4 December 2024 (keynote lecture)
• “Criticism, Misrepresentation, and Decline: Feyerabend and Logical Empiricism”, Philosophy of Science Colloquium, University of Vienna, Vienna (Austria), 21 November 2024
• “Paul Feyerabend: tra scienza e filosofia”, Società Filosofica Italiana - Sezione FVG, book presentation with Francesco de Stefano e D. Bertacco, Udine (Italy), 15 November 2024
• “Truth and Knowledge in Crisis: Anything Goes? In Honor of Paul Feyerabend 100”, chat with Josef Mitterer, Michael Schorner, and Jennifer Zeller within the 2024 European Forum Alpbach, Alpbach (Austria), 29 August 2024 (roundtable discussion)
• “Funarchism: Feyerabend’s Dadaist Theory of Knowledge as a Humanism”, Paul Feyerabend’s Philosophy of Science 100th, symposium within the XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome (Italy), 5 August 2024
• “Feyerabend's Philosophical Breakthrough: Origins, Reception, and Development of Feyerabend's Theoretical Pluralism”, Paul Feyerabend and Austrian Philosophy - His Formative Years in Postwar Vienna, international conference, University of Vienna, Vienna (Austria), 5 July 2024
• “How The Book was Born and Where it ‘Left’ Us: On the Making and Reception of Against Method”, Paul K. Feyerabend: A Centennial Celebration, international conference, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas (USA), 23 May 2024
• “Note sulla composizione e ricezione di Contro il metodo: tra New Left e nuovo liberalismo”, Cinquant'anni dopo Contro il Metodo -
  Convegno interdisciplinare in occasione del centenario della nascita di Paul K. Feyerabend, Museo Pasqualino and Steri & University of Palermo, Palermo (Italy), 10 May 2024
• “Feyerabend's Farewell to Critical Rationalism: Chronicle of a Long Goodbye”, The Karl Popper Archives (University of Klagenfurt) & the Philosophische Gesellschaft Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt (Austria), 25 April 2024
• “Feyerabend and his Time in Weimar”, Wissenschaft als Kunst - Paul K. Feyerabend und die Ästhetik der Erkenntnis, international conference, Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche, Weimar (Germany), 20 April 2024
• “Funarchism: Feyerabend’s Critical Humanism”, Exploring Paul Feyerabend’s legacy in the context of the reconstruction of the High Atlas region, symposium within the Science Week 2024, UM6P Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, Ben-Guerir (Morocco), 15 February 2024
• “Il piacere della contraddizione. L’edonismo critico di Paul Feyerabend”, La passione dell'intelligenza. A trent’anni dalle “lezioni trentine” di Paul K. Feyerabend (1992-2022), convegno, Università di Trento, Trento (Italy), 4 November 2022
• “On the Origins of Feyerabend’s Anarchism: from Cohn-Bendit through Mill to Stirner”, Anarchism in Culture. Re-assessing the Influence of a Manifold Libertarian Concept on European Modernity (1820s−1930s), workshop internazionale, Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom / Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma, Rome (Italy), 8 September 2016
• “Flippant Anarchism: Feyerabend and the Student Movement”, Feyerabend 2015 - Forty Years ‘Against Method’, conferenza internationale, St. John’s College, Durham University, Durham (UK), 15 July 2015
• “Salute e malattia: una distinzione concettuale”, lezione introduttiva alla filosofia della medicina all’interno del corso di Filosofia della scienza, anno accademico 2014-15 (Prof. Montuschi), Università “Ca’ Foscari” Venezia, Venice (Italy), 16 April 2015
• “Salute e malattia: una distinzione concettuale”, Fondazione Stefanini, Treviso (Italy), May 2014
• “Salute e malattia: una distinzione concettuale”, lezione introduttiva alla filosofia della medicina all’interno del corso di Filosofia della scienza, anno accademico 2013-14 (Prof. Montuschi), Università “Ca’ Foscari” Venezia, Venice (Italy), 7 March 2014
• “Comment on John Worrall’s paper ‘Really Real (Scientific) Realism: Selective, Structural, Non-Referential and Chaste!’”, Realism and Antirealism in Philosophy, Università “Ca’ Foscari” Venezia, Venice (Italy), 5 September 2013
• “Feyerabend, Popper and the ‘Popperian School’ – Methodological Issues in the History of the Philosophy of Science”, FEYERABEND 2012, international conference, Humboldt-Universität of Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 27 September 2012
• “Between Logic and History: The Development of Feyerabend’s Idea of Incommensurability”, Incommensurability 50, international conference, National Taiwan University, Taipei (Taiwan), 2 June 2012
• “The Development of Feyerabend’s Idea of Incommensurability”, Kolloquium für philosophische Forschungsarbeiten, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hanover (Germany), 30 November 2011
• “The Neurath-Carnap Disputes: Carnap’s Final Attempt at Their Dissolution”, Wissenschaftsphilosophisches Kolloquium, Institut Wiener Kreis, Universität Wien, Vienna (Austria), 13 May 2010
• “The Feyerabend-Carnap Controversies”, Wissenschaftsphilosophisches Kolloquium, Institute Vienna Cirlce, University of Vienna, Vienna (Austria), 25 June 2007

Peer-reviewed presentations at international conferences

• “On the Past, Present, and Future Significance of Feyerabend’s Thought”, 11th Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy, University of Graz, Graz (Austria), 26 February 2025
• “Feyerabend's Farewell to Critical Rationalism: Chronicle of a Long Goodbye”, Feyerabend Symposium, XVIIth Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (Argentina), 26 July 2023
• “Feyerabend, Hempel and the Later Reception and Decline of Logical Empiricism”, HOPOS 2022: Fourteenth International Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine (USA), 22 June 2022
• “‘The Sheer Joy of Contradiction’: Feyerabend’s Critical Hedonism”, Open Epistemologies: Mach, Bachelard, Feyerabend – Workshop, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbona (Portugal), 21 September 2019
• “Feyerabend and the Reception and Development of Logical Empiricism”, XVIth Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Czech Technical University, Prague (Repubblica Ceca), 6 August 2019
• “Popperian Roots of Feyerabend’s Theoretical Pluralism”, HOPOS 2018: Twelfth International Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen (NL), 10 July 2018
• “‘Philosophical Schools’ in the Context of Professionalized Philosophy: Sharpening an Old Historiographical Tool”, Workshop on "Comparative History of Philosophy", Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano (Italy), 9 June 2017
• “‘Flippant Anarchism’: Feyerabend and the Student Movement”, HOPOS 2016: Eleventh International Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (USA), 25 giugno 2016
• “A Sorcerer’s Apprentice or How Feyerabend Transmuted Popper’s Critical Rationalism into Theoretical Pluralism and Got Cursed with Incommensurability”, Symposium on “Feyerabend Theoretical Pluralism vs. Popper’s Critical Rationalism – Continuities and Ruptures”, 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Helsingin yliopisto / Helsingfors universitet, Helsinki (Finland), 7 August 2015
• “Intention vs. Position in HOPOS: The Instructive Case of Paul K. Feyerabend (1924-1994)”, HOPOS 2014: Tenth International Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Universiteit Gent, Gent (Belgium), 4 July 2014
• “Intention vs. Position: The Instructive Case of Paul K. Feyerabend (1924-1994)”, Intellectual Hinterlands (International Society for Intellectual History), Victoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto (Canada), 27 June 2014
• “The Neurath-Carnap Disputes: Carnap’s Final Attempt at Their Dissolution”, HOPOS 2012: Ninth International Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Dalhousie University / The University of King’s College / Saint Mary’s University / Cape Breton University, Halifax (Canada), 23 June 2012
• “Between Logic and History: The Development of Feyerabend’s Idea of Incommensurability”, HOPOS 2012: Ninth International Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Dalhousie University / The University of King’s College / Saint Mary’s University / Cape Breton University, Halifax (Canada), 22 June 2012
• “Carnap’s Vision or: How We Can Learn from the Past and Enlighten the Future of the Philosophy of Science”, 14th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Université Henri-Poincaré, Nancy (France), 22 July 2011
• “Wasn’t Feyerabend Really a Popperian After All? – Methodological Issues in the History of the Philosophy of Science”, HOPOS 2010: Eighth International Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary), 26 June 2010
• “Carnap’s Way Between Philosophy and Science – Understanding the Past to Illuminate the Future of the Philosophy of Science”, The Future of Philosophy of Science: Third Sydney-Tilburg Conference, Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (Tilburg University), Tilburg (NL), 15 April 2010
• “The Feyerabend-Frank Connection: A Neglected Link Between Neo- and Post-Positivism”, HOPOS 2008: Seventh International Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada), 21 June 2008
• “The Last ‘Viennese’: Feyerabend, Logical Empiricism and the Vienna Circle”, EPSA 2007: First Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid (Spain), 17 November 2007