Francesco Molinarolo

Francesco Molinarolo is a current Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Siegen. His research focuses on the history of Renaissance and Early Modern philosophy, with expertise in Platonism, Aristotelianism, theories of causality, epistemology, and intersections between philosophy and theology. He has held positions at institutions including the University of Trento (via the PRIN project Italy Outside Italy), University of Pennsylvania, Warburg Institute, and University of Pisa.

• Current Role: Research Associate (Post-doc), University of Siegen
• Education: PhD in Philosophy (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2019-2024); MA and BA in Philosophy (University of Pisa, 2014-2019)

Research Interests:

• Divine causality in 16th-century Aristotelianism
• Epistemological debates in Early Modernity
• Philosophical dialogues in Vico’s New Science
• Political dimensions of philosophical historiography

Teaching: Courses on Giambattista Vico and philosophical utopias in Early Modernity.