2025
I am thrilled to announce that, starting December 1, 2025, I will be appointed Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Insubria, in Italy’s Lake Como region. The university’s main campuses are located in Como and Varese, both about an hour from downtown Milan by car or train. This appointment is part of the Italian government’s Rientro dei Cervelli program, a “brain gain” initiative aimed at attracting academics working abroad back to Italy. Nankai University, where I am currently working in China, has offered me a position as an International Affiliated Professor, which I gladly accepted with the agreement of the University of Insubria. I am very pleased to maintain a professional connection with China and Asia, and I am deeply grateful to both the University of Insubria and Nankai University for making this possible.
2019
Professor Daniel Little (University of Michigan-Dearborn) posted an entry on the Asian Conference on the Philosophy of the Social Science on his blog “Understanding Society”
2019
I am the organizer of the Asian Conference on the Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
2018
I have been invited to join the editorial board of the journal Philosophy of the Social Sciences. This is a wonderful honor.
2017
I am organizing the Nankai University Workshop on the Philosophy of Economics and the Social Sciences that will be held at Nankai University College of Philosophy on September 25-26, 2017. The workshop focuses on topics that are central to Western philosophy, but still relatively unexplored by Chinese philosophers, i.e. the study of the ontology and methodology of the social sciences from a philosophical and historical perspective. The workshop brings together some of the most prominent Asian and Western scholars involved in this research field such as Bruce Caldwell (Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University), Chor-yung Cheung (City University of Hong Kong), Paul Dumouchel (Ritsumeikan University), Uskali Maki (Director of the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences), Jean Petitot (École des hautes études en sciences sociales), Barry Smith (State University of New York at Buffalo, Director of the National Center for Ontological Research), and Stephen Turner (University of South Florida).
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Francesco Di Iorio 