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Andrea Borghini
Curriculum Vitae

Department of Philosophy
College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street
Worcester, MA, 01610-2395

E-mail: aborghin@holycross.edu
Personal page: http://www.holycross.edu/faculty/aborghin

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PRESENT POSITION
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, Fall 2007-

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND OF COMPETENCE
AOS: Metaphysics and Ontology
AOC: Early Modern Philosophy; Philosophy of Science; Logic; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Action; Philosophy of Art; Interdisciplinary: Classics of Western Ethical and Political Thought

EDUCATION
Columbia University, New York, NY, 2001 - 2007
Ph.D. in Philosophy, May 2007
Dissertation Title: 'On the Necessity and Sufficiency of Universals'
Dissertation Committee : Achille C. Varzi (advisor); Christia Mercer; John D. Collins; Gyula Klima; Jan Westerhoff
M.Phil. in Philosophy, May 2004
M.A. in Philosophy, May 2002

Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy, 1996 - 2000
Laurea in Philosophy, October 2000
Dissertation Title: "David K. Lewis’s Theory of Possibility"
Main Advisor: prof. Massimo Mugnai
Honors: Summa Cum Laude

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses
Department of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Spring 2009, Philosophy of Biology
Spring 2009, How Then Shall We Eat?
Fall 2008, Metaphysics
Fall 2008, Food: What Is It?
Spring 2008, Introduction to Philosophy
Spring 2008, Theory of Knowledge
Spring 2008, Philosophy and Food (tutorial)
Fall 2007, Metaphysics
Fall 2007, Early Modern Philosophy
Fall 2007, Introduction to Philosophy

Columbia College Core Curriculum, Columbia University, New York, NY
Spring 2006, Contemporary Western Civilization II
Fall 2005, Contemporary Western Civilization I
Spring 2005, Contemporary Western Civilization II
Fall 2004, Contemporary Western Civilization I

Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, NY
Summer 2005, History of Philosophy: from Aquinas to Kant

Teaching Assistant
Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Fall 2006, Introduction to the Philosophy of Art, prof. Macalester Bell
Spring 2004, History of Philosophy: from Aquinas to Kant, prof. Christia Mercer
Fall 2003, Symbolic Logic, prof. Achille Varzi
Spring 2003, History of Philosophy: from Aquinas to Kant, prof. Christia Mercer

Barnard College, New York, NY
Fall 2003, Morality, Self and Society, prof. Andrew Cross

AWARDS
Vittorio Sainati Dissertation Prize, 2008 Edition, Special Mention
Charles and Rosanna Batchelor (Ford) Foundation Grant, Summer 2008, research grant awarded by the College of the Holy Cross for a project on 'The Adverbial Theory of Properties'
GSAS Fellowship, 2001-2007, awarded by the Department of Philosophy, Columbia University
Bowdery Fellowship, 2006-2007, Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Lina Kahn Essay Prize, 2005, yearly awarded by the Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, to the best essay in Metaphysics written by a graduate student of the Department
Core Curriculum Summer Fellowship, Summer 2005 and Summer of 2006, awarded by Columbia College, Columbia University
GSAS Summer Fellowship, Summer 2003, awarded by the Department of Philosophy, Columbia University
Class of 2000 Award, 2000, yearly awarded by Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence (Italy), to the earliest graduates in the class
High School Achievement Award, 1996, yearly awarded by Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence (Italy), to the freshmen entering with the highest grades

SERVICES TO THE PROFESSION

College of the Holy Cross
Philosophy Department Colloquia Coordinator, September 2008 - present
C.I.S.S. Committee, September 2008 - present
Phi Sigma Tau Chapter Representative, September 2007 - present
Philosophy Club Coordinator, September 2007 - present
Vegetable and Fruit Garden Coordinator, May 2008 - present

Referee
Synthese x2; Dialectica x4; INCP 2008 x5; CogSci05 (XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa (Italy), July 21-23 2005) x 2; Columbia-NYU Graduate Student Conferences (2003-2006)

Editor
Rescogitans [on-line journal: http://www.rescogitans.it], 2005-present

Editor Assistant
Call for Comments, SWIF (Italian Philosophy Portal), http://www.swif.it/biblioteca/cxc/, July 2006–May 2007

Editorial Advisor
Columbia Undergraduate Philosophy Review, 2004-2006

Conference organizer
Columbia-NYU Graduate Conference, 2003, New York (NY),

Professional Affiliations
American Philosophical Association
S.I.F.A. (Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy)
Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics
Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy
Terra Madre Consortium

PUBLICATIONS
Books
- Che cos'è la possibilità? [Possibility: What Is It?], Carocci Editore, Rome, forthcoming (January 2009)

- Saul Kripke (with C. Hughes, M. Santambrogio, and A.C. Varzi), , Carocci Editore, Rome, in preparation

Articles in English
[1] 'Dispositions and Their Intentions' in Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mind, Gregor Damschen, Robert Schnepf and Karsten R. Stueber (eds), Berlin: DeGruyter (forthcoming)
[2] 'Why I Am Not A Tropist', in M. Okada and B. Smith (eds.) Proceedings of the First Interdisciplinary Ontology
Meeting (InterOntology 2008), Tokyo, Japan, 2008: 93-98
[3] 'A Dispositional Theory of Possibility'(with Neil E. Williams), Dialectica 62 (2008): 21-41
[4] 'Counting Individuals with Leibniz', Studia Leibnitiana Supplementa, 2007
[5] 'Event Location and Vagueness' (with Achille C. Varzi), Philosophical Studies 128 (2006): 313-336
[6] 'Counterpart Theory Vindicated: A Reply to Merricks', Dialectica 59 (2005): 67-74

Articles in Italian
[7] 'La durata naturale di un genere naturale' ['The Natural Time of a Natural Kind'], Rivista di Estetica, forthcoming
[8] 'Ci sono proprietà intrinseche?' ['Are There Intrinsic Properties?'], Rivista di Estetica, forthcoming
[9] 'I marchi di origine e i miraggi del nominalismo legislativo' ['Labels of Protected Origin And The Mirage of Legal Nominalism'], Rescogitans, 5.2.2008
[10] 'Onestà intellettuale e globalizzazione: come cambierà la filosofia?' ['Intellectual Honesty and Globalization: How Philosophy Is Going to Change'], Rescogitans, 1.24.2008
[11] 'Generale e particolare' ['General and Particular'], in Chora V, 14 (2007): 27-36
[12] 'Introduzione' ['Introduction'], Annali del Dipartimento di Filosofia, XII (2007): 173-180
[13] 'Virtù e vizi del concretismo' ['Virtues and Vices of Concretism'], Annali del Dipartimento di Filosofia, XII (2007): 181-193
[14] 'Quante cose ci sono in Piazza dei Miracoli?' ['How Many Things Are There in Piazza dei Miracoli?'], Rescogitans, 12.17.2005
[15] 'Un Mondo di Possibilità. Realismo Modale Senza Mondi Possibili' ['One World of Possibilities. Modal Realism Without Possibile Worlds'], Rivista di estetica, XLIV (2004): 91-104
[16] 'Oggetti Possibili e Oggetti Esistenti. La teoria di David K. Lewis' ['Possible and Existent Objects: David K. Lewis’s Theory'], Kykeyon, March 2002: 67-77

Reviews
[17] 'Review of Y. Dolev, Time and Realism', Humana.mente 1, forthcoming
[18] 'Review of J. Westerhoof, Ontological Categories', 2R 3 (2006-2007): 113-124 (available at: http://lgxserve.ciseca.uniba.it/lei/2r/2R_3_7_westerhoff-borghini.pdf)
[19] 'Review of S. Morini and P. Perconti, E-mail Filosofiche', in Rivista di Estetica 32 (2006): 129-131

Encyclopedia Entries
'Dispositional properties', 'Extrinsic/intrinsic', 'Ontological Committment', 'Individual', 'Natural Law', 'Metaphysics', 'Necessity', 'Ontology', 'Formal Ontology', 'Possibility', 'Principle of individuation', 'Property', 'Possible World Semantics', 'Supervenience', 'Tropes', 'Universal-particolar', 'Dispute on Universals' in L. Floridi and G.P. Terravecchia (eds.), Breve dizionario di filosofia [A Short Philosophy Dictionary], Roma: Carocci Editore, forthcoming

Translations
Translated the following texts in Achille C. Varzi (ed.), La Metafisica Analitica: Antologia di Testi [Analytic Metaphysics: An Antology], Bari: Laterza, 2008:

D.M. Armstrong, 'Properties', in Kevin Mulligan (ed.), Language, Truth, and Ontology, Reidel, Dordrecht 1992: 14-27
D.K. Lewis, 'Composition as Identity', in Id., Parts of Classes, Blackwell, Oxford 1991: 75-87
D.K. Lewis, 'Against Overlap', in Id., On the Plurality of Worlds, Blackwell, Oxford 1986: 202-204
D.K. Lewis, 'Causation', Journal of Philosophy, 70 (1973): 556-567
T. Sider, 'All World’s a Stage', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 74 (1996): 433-453
D.C. Williams, 'The Elements of Being (I)', Review of Metaphysics, 7 (1953): 3-18

PRESENTATIONS

In English
[1] 'Memory and the Quest for Authentic Foods', Seminario Internacional: Segredo e Memoria na era da Informação, Porto, December 15-16, 2008
[2] Commentator of Jan Westerhoff's 'Philosophical Problems from Nāgārjuna's Vigrahavyāvartanī', Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy, New York, December 12, 2008
[3] 'Universalism and The Argument From Indifference', Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Creighton University, October 31-November 2, 2008
[4] 'Universalism and The Argument From Indifference', Eight National Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Bergamo (Italy), September 25-27, 2008
[5] 'General and Particular', Workshop on Meta-metaphysics, ECAP, Cracow, August 21-26, 2008
[6] 'The Natural Time Of A Natural Kind', INCP 2008, University of Idaho, March 15-17, 2008
[7] 'Why I am Not A Tropist', InterOntology08, Tokyo, February 26-27, 2008
[8] 'General and Particular', Fordham University, New York (USA), February 5, 2007
[9] 'General and Particular', College of the Holy Cross, Worcester (USA), January 30, 2007
[10] 'Counting Individuals with Leibniz', VIIIth International Leibniz Congress, Hannover (Germany), July 24-29, 2006
[11] Commentator of Carrie Figdor’s 'What Is an Extrinsic Property?', Meeting of the Long Island Philosophical Society, NYIT, Old Westbury (NY), October 16, 2004
[12] 'From Properties to Individuals', Sixth National Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Genova (Italy), September 23-25, 2004
[13] 'A Dispositional Theory of Possibility', Workshop on Relations, Variables and Order, Geneva (Switzerland), June 4-8, 2004
[14] 'The Relational Species Concept', UCSD Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Science, La Holla (CA), 11-13 April, 2003
[15] Commentator of Katherine Dunlop’s 'Berkeley Metaphysical Objections to the Calculus', Columbia-NYU Graduate Conference, New York (NY), March 29-30, 2003
[16] 'Vagueness and Event Names', Fifth National Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Bergamo (Italy), October 3-5, 2002

In Italian
[17] 'The Natural Time of a Natural Kind', Third Italian Conference on Analytic Ontology, Turin (Italy), November 15-16, 2007
[18] 'A World of Universals', Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua (Italy), February 19, 2007
[19] 'General and Particular', Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Bergamo (Italy), May 31, 2006
[20] 'Possible Worlds', Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence (Italy), May 25, 2006
[21] 'Are There Intrinsic Properties?', Second Italian Conference on Analytic Ontology, Pisa (Italy), July 5-7, 2005
[22] 'One World of Possibilities. Modal Realism Without Possible Worlds', First Italian Conference on Analytic Ontology, Padua (Italy), July 7-9, 2003
[23] 'Desires', LOA-CNR, Trento (Italy), May 21, 2003
[24] 'Parts and Participants', LOA-CNR, Trento (Italy), May 20, 2003
[25] 'What is 'Acquaintance'? ', Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua (Italy),May 6, 2001

Public Lectures
[26] 'Le stravaganze dell'ordinario' ('On the Oddities of the Ordinary'), Scuola Media "Domenico Cavalca", Vicopisano (Italy), December 18, 2008

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCES
Private Tutor
Spring 2003 – present, private Italian Language tutor, Columbia College, New York (U.S.A.)
Spring 2004, private Elementary Logic and Epistemology tutor, Columbia College, New York (U.S.A.)
Fall 2002, private Logic tutor, Columbia College, New York (U.S.A.)
Fall 1995-Spring2001, private tutor (multiple subjects), Florence and Pisa (Italy)

Translator
Spring 2004- Spring 2007, C.U.T.T.A. (Columbia University Tutoring and Translating Agency), New York (U.S.A.)
Spring 2004, private translations from Latin to English, New York (U.S.A.)

Officer and Co-founder
Fall 2001 - Spring 2007, Columbia University Metaphysics Club, New York (U.S.A.)
Fall 2006 - present, Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy, New York (U.S.A.)

Summer Schools
Language and Social Ontology, Scuola di Alta Formazione Filosofica, IV Cicle, May 19-23, Turin (Italy)
Existence Across Space, Time, and Worlds, Crans-Montana (Switzerland), July 28-August 2, 2003
Third Italian Summer School in Analytic Philosophy, Parma (Italy), July 2001

LANGUAGES
Italian (first language.) Fluent in written and spoken English. Some French, Spanish, and German. Read only: Latin.

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