Actual Position at the DHIP

More info at: www.teorefilo.net

Being a skilled researcher and an associated member of the DHIP, Alessandro Sanmarchi collaborates with the DHIP both as Partner Research Fellow and IT Responsible. He is the programmer who has built and maintains the DHIP internet site. Official DHIP documents written using XeLaTeX are also composed by him.

Short Profile

After the PhD his Cursus Honorum began with a 3-years salaried specialisation as “Contract Professor” at the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome. He was then appointed Visiting Professor at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (PUST) in Rome, holding the course of Metaphysical Theology (in English) for a semester. Since many years he is also appointed as not-salaried expert in philosophy (“Cultore della materia”) at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. More recently he has become member of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family and of the Institutum S. Thomae Aquinatis et S. Iohannis a Cruce. Due to the difficulties in obtaining a stable and reasonably salaried academic position, he had always to maintain a parallel working career in the fields of Informatics and, more recently, also of Occupational Safety and Health. As researcher in Philosophy he is specialised in Theoretical Philosophy with a particular focus on Natural or Metaphysical Theology. However, in reason of taking seriously Saint Thomas Aquinas’ advise1, that Natural Theology represents the final mooring point to which the whole study of philosophy happens to be ordered, his research path is being developed through a stepwise deepening of all the necessary philosophical areas. The wished result is a solid foundation of what is needed in order to account for the true meaning of human life; not excluding the practical application of the reached theoretical conclusions as criteria for the hermeneutics of Western intellectual history.

More informations about his publications and researches can be found visiting Alessandro’s internet site.

  1. “Ad cognitionem enim eorum quae de Deo ratio investigare potest, multa praecognoscere oportet: cum fere totius philosophiae consideratio ad Dei cognitionem ordinetur; propter quod metaphysica, quae circa divina versatur, inter philosophiae partes ultima remanet addiscenda. Sic ergo non nisi cum magno labore studii ad praedictae veritatis inquisitionem perveniri potest” (Sancti Thomae Aquinatis Summa Contra Gentiles, I, 4). ↩︎

Interests

  • Natural or Metaphysical Theology
  • Metaphysics
  • Metaethics, Ethics, Bioethics
  • Intellectual History
  • History of Philosophy
  • History of Religion

Cursus Studiorum

  • Specialisation (with written thesis) as "Contract Professor", 2009-2011

    (Qualification peculiar of Vatican Universities)

    Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, State of the Vatican City

  • PhD in Philosophy, 2003-2006

    Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, State of the Vatican City

  • B.A. in Philosophy, 1999

    Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, Italy