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The Philosophy Department at the University of Malta is proud to host Professor Tiziana Andina and Professor Maurizio Ferraris (University of Turin/Labont) for two back to back talks dealing with aspects of social reality.

Tiziana Andina is Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin (Italy) and the director of Labont – Center for Ontology at the University of Turin. Previously, she has been a fellow at Columbia University (2008–2009) and Käte Hamburger Kolleg, University of Bonn (2015) – as well as Visiting Professor at ITMO University, Russia (2014), University of Nanjing and Wuhan, China (2018, 2019). She has published articles on social philosophy and the philosophy of art and her recent works concern the definition of art and social ontology. Her publications include: The Philosophy of Art: The Question of Definition. From Hegel to Post-Dantian Theories (Bloomsbury Academy 2013), An Ontology for Social Reality (Palgrave Macmillan 2016), What is Art? The Question of Definition Reloaded (Brill 2017), A Philosophy for Future Generations (Bloomsbury Academic 2022) and the edited volumes Post-Truth: Philosophy and Law (Routledge 2019) and Institutions in Actions: The Nature and Rule of the Institutions in the Real World (Springer Nature 2020).

Maurizio Ferraris is Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin (Italy). He wrote more than sixty books that have been translated into several languages. He is the President of the , a columnist for ‘Corriere della sera’ and for ‘Neue Zürcher Zeitung’, and the director of ““. His most recent publications include: History of Hermeneutics (Humanities Press, 1996); A Taste for the Secret (with Jacques Derrida – Blackwell, 2001); Documentality or Why it is Necessary to Leave Traces (Fordham UP, 2012); Goodbye Kant! (SUNY UP, 2013); Where Are You? An Ontology of the Cell Phone (Fordham UP, 2014); Manifesto of New Realism (SUNY UP, 2014); Introduction to New Realism (Bloomsbury, 2014); Positive Realism (Zer0 Books, 2015); Learning to Live: Six Essays on Marcel Proust (Brill – 2020); Doc-humanity (2022, Mohr Siebeck) and Hysteresis (forthcoming, University of Edinburgh Press). In his long career, Maurizio Ferraris has determined a new course of thought and studies in at least four areas: hermeneutics, aesthetics, ontology and the philosophy of technology, attaching his name to the theory of Documentality and contemporary New Realism.