Phaenomenologica – Research Center for Phenomenology “Enzo Melandri” established within the Department of Philosophy of the Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna to coordinate research in the theoretical-phenomenological field

Phaenomenologica aims to give recognition and visibility to the research lines and the dissemination of phenomenological philosophy initiated at the University of Bologna by Enzo Melandri (1926–1993) through his teaching, writings, and the founding of the Annali di Discipline Filosofiche dell’Università di Bologna, published until 1990, as well as the biannual journal Discipline Filosofiche in 1991. The center promotes studies that follow this path, investigating the historical and theoretical roots of phenomenology within the late 19th- and early 20th-century debates in logic and psychology, as well as its engagement with alternative currents such as empiriocriticism, neo-Kantianism, and logical empiricism. It also explores the developments of phenomenological philosophy, on the one hand, in existential and hermeneutic directions, and on the other, toward ontology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind in the analytic tradition. Furthermore, it supports research on the fruitful applications of the phenomenological method in epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, psychology and psychiatry, pedagogy, anthropology, and philosophy of religion.

Webpage of the Center on the website of the Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna