Known languages: Italiano (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Francese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Tedesco (scritto: avanzato parlato: intermedio)

Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series: - Membro dell'Advisory Board della collana “Philosophica”, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari.
- Membro del Comitato Editoriale del progetto: “LCA – Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances. Intellectual networks, themes, individuals”.
- Membro del Comitato Editoriale della rivista JOLMA – Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts.
- Membro del Comitato Editoriale della rivista Studi Lockiani. Ricerche sull’età moderna.
- Membro del Comitato Editoriale della rivista Synthesis: Journal for Philosophy.
- Membro della Redazione Nordorientale della rivista Filosofia e Teologia.
- (Dal 2026) Membro del Comitato Scientifico della Rivista di Storia della Filosofia.

Participation as referees of national and international research projects: - Czech Science Foundation (2018).
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Cofund 2019).
- Austrian Science Fund (2025).

Main departmental research areas and fields: Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Filosofia moderna e contemporanea
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Storia della filosofia
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali

Research skills

Filosofia del linguaggio e della comunicazione

Description:: Philosophy of language and communication

Storia della filosofia moderna da Descartes a Kant

Description:: History of early modern philosophy from Descartes to Kant

Completed and pending researches

Concezioni dell'ignoranza tra tarda scolastica e pensiero moderno

Elementi spinoziani in Leibniz e Wolff

Galenismo e meccanicismo tra XVII e XVIII secolo

Il dibattito sull'immortalità da Leibniz a Kant

La tradizione razionalista

Logica e teoria della cognizione tra XVII e XVIII secolo

Matematizzazione della filosofia e quantificazione delle qualità in Leibniz e Wolff

Obiettivismo morale e essenzialismo metafisico nel primo Illuminismo tedesco

Occasionalismo moderno e scienze naturali

Ontologia moderna e metafisica cartesiana in Johannes Clauberg

Platone nella filosofia tedesca del XVIII secolo

Teorie del soprannaturale tra XVII e XVIII secolo

Funds

Atlante della ragione europea (XV-XVIII secolo). Tra Oriente e Occidente.

Funding body:: MIUR e Ateneo

Type:: PRIN

Role in the project:: NS

Starting date:: Year: 2010 Length in months: 36

Nuovi approcci al pensiero della prima età moderna: forme, caratteri e finalità del metodo costellatorio.

Funding body:: MIUR e Ateneo

Type:: PRIN

Role in the project:: NS

Starting date:: Year: 2015 Length in months: 36

Percorsi dell’ontologia: Linguaggio, socialità e forme della politica.

Funding body:: MIUR e Ateneo

Type:: PRIN

Role in the project:: NS

Starting date:: Year: 2009 Length in months: 24

Philosophical Reviews in German Territories (1668-1799)

Funding body:: MUR

Type:: PRIN

Role in the project:: NS

Starting date:: Year: 2023 Length in months: 24

Other members of the research group:: Marco SGARBI

Publication highlights

Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero Christian Wolff on the Mathematization of Ontology, Psychology, and Practical Philosophy in ARCHIV FÜR GESCHICHTE DER PHILOSOPHIE, vol. 108 (ISSN 0003-9101)
DOI - URL correlato In press, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5105167

Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero “Natural Wonders Are Greater than Miracles”: Christian Wolff on Supernatural Events in JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS, vol. 87, pp. 497-525 (ISSN 0022-5037)
DOI - URL correlato 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5105169

Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero False Ideas: Leibniz and Aquinas in STUDIA LEIBNITIANA, vol. 54 (2022), pp. 205-224 (ISSN 0039-3185)
DOI - URL correlato 2024, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5045944

Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero The Boundaries of Existence: Mendelssohn’s Proof in Light of Wolff and Boscovich in JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, vol. 62, pp. 75-99 (ISSN 0022-5053)
DOI - URL correlato 2024, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5045945

Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero Immortal Animals, Subtle Bodies, or Separated Souls: The Afterlife in Leibniz, Wolff, and Their Followers in INTELLECTUAL HISTORY REVIEW, vol. 33, pp. 651-671 (ISSN 1749-6977)
DOI - URL correlato 2023, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5041000

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Curriculum vitae

Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, PhD, is Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Language at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

His research focuses on early modern philosophy from Descartes to Kant with a special interest in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, logic, rational theology, the philosophy of biology and medicine, the mind-body problem, the theory of knowledge, and modalities.

He is currently director of the CREMT – Center for Renaissance and Early Modern Thought (Ca’ Foscari University) and vice-president of the Sodalitas Leibnitiana.

In 2021, he won the annual essay contest of the Leibniz Society of North America with a paper on “Leibniz’s Appropriation of Spinoza’s Argument against Mind-Body Causation”.

His publications include 3 authored books, 8 edited books, more than 35 book chapters, and more than 30 research articles in the following journals:

Alvearium
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
Aufklärung
Blityri. Studi di storia delle idee sui segni e le lingue
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Dianoia
Dix-huitième siècle
Estudos Kantianos
Intellectual History Review
Journal of the History of Ideas
Journal of the History of Philosophy
Kant-Studien
Lumières
Odradek: Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy
Perspectives on Science
Quaestio
Revue Roumaine de Philosophie
Rivista di Filosofia
Rivista di Storia della Filosofia
Society and Politics
Studia Leibnitiana
Studi Lockiani
The Leibniz Review
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