CURRICULUM VITAE ANNA BONCOMPAGNI Updated October 31, 2020 PERSONAL AND CONTACT DETAILS _____________________________________________________________________________________ Affiliation Department of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine Institutional Address University of California, Irvine Department of Philosophy 75 Humanities Instructional Building Irvine, CA 92697-4555, USA Email and website anna.boncompagni@uci.edu https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=6596 Areas of research Theoretical Philosophy, Epistemology, Wittgenstein, Pragmatism Qualifications Italian National Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for Associate Professor in: Theoretical Philosophy; Aesthetics and Philosophy of Language CAREER _____________________________________________________________________________________ Jul 2019 – present Sep 2018 – Jun 2019 Jan 2015 – Aug 2018 Oct 2011 – Dec 2014 Assistant Professor University of California, Irvine, Department of Philosophy Chancellor’s ADVANCE Postdoctoral Fellow University of California, Irvine, Department of Philosophy Research and Teaching Assistant (Theoretical Philosophy) University of Florence, Italy, Department of Humanities Research and Teaching Assistant (Theoretical Philosophy, Philosophy of Knowledge) University of Roma Tre, Department of Philosophy EDUCATION _____________________________________________________________________________________ 2011 – 2014 2005 – 2010 2003 – 2004 1992 – 1998 University of Roma Tre, Italy, PhD in Philosophy and Theories of Humanities University of Florence, Italy, MA in Theoretical Philosophy (with honors) University of Florence, Italy, Specialization School “Science and Philosophy: Themes in General and Applied Epistemology” University of Siena, Italy, BA and MA in Communication Studies (with honors) 1 PUBLICATIONS _____________________________________________________________________________________ Authored Books [Forthcoming] Wittgenstein on Forms of Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (under contract) B2 Wittgenstein and Pragmatism. On Certainty in the Light of Peirce and James. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 B3 Wittgenstein. Lo sguardo e il limite. Milan: Mimesis, 2012 Edited Works E2 Pragmatism Today, IX (2), 2018, Special issue: “The Varieties of Immediate Experience. Between Wittgenstein and Pragmatism” (co-edited with R. Dreon) E1 Philosophical Inquiries, V (2), 2017, Focus: “Practicing William James”, pp. 57-148 Articles [Forthcoming], Title TBA, Humana.Mente – Journal of Philosophical Studies, special issue “The Social Dimension of the Ethics of Knowledge. Intellectual Virtues and Intellectual Vices in Epistemic Practices”, ed. L. Candiotto (in preparation) [Forthcoming] “On Contexts, Hinges, and Impossible Mistakes”, (Critical Notice on N. Venturinha’s Description of Situations), Logos & Episteme, XI (4), December 2020 (delivered) A13 “Enactivism and Normativity. The Case of Aesthetic Gestures”, The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, I (2), 2020 (forthcoming, accepted) A12 “Hinges, Prejudices and Radical Doubters”, Wittgenstein-Studien, Internationales Jahrbuch für Wittgenstein-Forschung, 10 (1): 165-181, 2019 A11 “Wittgenstein’s Pragmatism? Some Notes on Cheryl Misak’s Reading”, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 54 (2): 368-377, 2018 A10 “Immediacy and Experience in Wittgenstein’s Notion of ‘Imponderable Evidence’”, Pragmatism Today, IX (2): 94-106, 2018 A9 Introduction to the Special Issue “The Varieties of Immediate Experience”, Pragmatism Today, IX (2): 5-8, 2018 (co-authored with R. Dreon) A8 “Religious Experience, Psychology, and Healing in a Pragmatist Perspective. Introduction to the Focus ‘Practicing William James’”, Philosophical Inquiries, V (2): 57-62, 2017 A7 “‘I’ll Show you Something We Humans Do’. Facts of Life in Wittgenstein and Peirce”. Paradigmi. Rivista di Filosofia, XXXIV (3): 51-65, 2016 A6 “Elucidating Forms of Life. The Evolution of a Philosophical Tool”, in Nordic Wittgenstein Review, (S.I.): 155-175, 2015 A5 “‘On Trying to Say What ‘Goes without Saying’. Wittgenstein on Certainty and Ineffability”, Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica – Journal of Theories and Research in Education, IX (1): 5168, 2014 A4 “Enactivism and the ‘Explanatory Trap’. A Wittgensteinian Perspective”, Methode - Analytic Perspectives, II (2): 27-49, 2013 A3 “Streams and River-Beds. James’ Stream of Thought in Wittgenstein’s Manuscripts 165 and 129”, European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, IV (2): 36-53, 2012 A2 “‘The Mother-Tongue of Thought’. James and Wittgenstein on Common Sense”, Cognitio. Revista de Filosofia (São Paulo, Brazil), XIII (1): 37-59, 2012 A1 “From the Ground to the Background. Forms of Life as ‘the Given’ in Wittgenstein”, L&PS – Logic and Philosophy of Science, IX (1): 451-460, 2011 2 Book Chapters [Forthcoming] “Moral Certainty and Prejudice: A Slippery Boundary”, in Perspectives on Moral Certainty, eds. C. Eriksen, J. Hermann, N. O’Hara and N. Pleasants (book proposal submitted) [Forthcoming] “Sense and Common Sense in William James”, in The Jamesian Mind, ed. S. Marchetti, London: Routledge, 2021 [Forthcoming] “Portraying Norms”, in Wittgenstein and Normativity, ed. P. Philie, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021 (delivered) C12 “Tradizione analitica e pragmatismo: per una filosofia dell’attenzione”, in Esperienza, contingenza, valori. Saggi in onore di Rosa M. Calcaterra, eds. G. Maddalena, G. Baggio, M. Bella and M. Santarelli, Macerata: Quodlibet C11 “Relativism and Pragmatism”, in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Relativism, ed. M. Kusch, London: Routledge, 2019 C10 “William James and Wittgenstein”, in The Oxford Handbook of William James, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ed. A. Klein (published online Jan 2019, hardback in print) C9 “Wittgenstein on Meaning, Use and Linguistic Commitment”, in D.G. Stern, ed. Wittgenstein in the 1930s: Between the Tractatus and the Investigations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018 C8 “Common Sense, Philosophy, and Mental Disturbance: A Wittgensteinian Outlook”, in Schizophrenia and Common Sense. Explaining the Relation between Madness and Social Values, eds. J. Gonçalves, I.V. Hipólito and J. Pereira, London: Springer Nature, 2018 C7 “Wittgenstein and Pragmatism: a Neglected Remark in Manuscript 107”, in Pragmatism and the European Traditions: Encounters with Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology before the Great Divide, ed. M. Baghramian and S. Marchetti, London: Routledge, 2017 C6 “The ‘Middle’ Wittgenstein (and the ‘Later’ Ramsey) on the Pragmatist Conception of Truth”, in The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long 20th Century, eds. C. Misak and H. Price, Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 210, 2017 (published as a volume by Oxford University Press) C5 “Parole che ‘ingranano’. Le radici pragmatiste di un concetto wittgensteiniano”, in Nuovi usi per vecchi concetti. Contributi per la filosofia e le scienze sociali, eds. S. Oliverio, M. Santarelli, and M. Striano, Milan: Mimesis, 2015 C4 “Il naturalismo esteso di Sidney Hook e Morton White”, in Pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi contemporanei, eds. R.M. Calcaterra, G. Maddalena and G. Marchetti Rome: Carocci, 2015 C3 “From Wheels Turning Idly to Meaning as Use. Pragmatist Tendencies in the ‘Middle’ Wittgenstein”, in Realism, Relativism, Constructivism. Contributions of the 38th International Wittgenstein Symposium (pre-proceedings), eds. C. Kanzian, J. Mitterer, K. Neges. Kirchberg am Wechsel: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 2015 C2 “‘Le mie proposizioni illustrano così’. Scrittura e Mistico in Wittgenstein”, in Scrivere di Dio, eds. F. Bazzani, R. Lanfredini and S. Vitale, Florence: Clinamen, 2014 C1 “The ‘Pragmatic Maxim’ in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty”, in Mind, Language and Action. Papers of the 36th International Wittgenstein Symposium (pre-proceedings), eds. D. Moyal-Sharrock, V. Munz and A. Coliva. Kirchberg am Wechsel: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 2013 Book Reviews R6 R5 Review of Wittgenstein and Scientism, by J. Beale and I.J. Kidd (eds.), London: Routledge, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, July 2018 Review of Wittgenstein, l’estetica e le arti, by E. Caldarola, D. Quattrocchi and G. Tomasi (eds.), Rome: Carocci, 2013, Aphex – Portale italiano di filosofia analitica, Issue 10/2014 3 R4 Review of Shifting Ground. Knowledge and Reality, Transgression and Trustworthiness, by N. Scheman, Oxford University Press, 2011, Humana.Mente - Journal of Philosophical Studies, Issue 22/2012 Review of New Perspectives on Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy, by R.M. Calcaterra (ed.), Rodopi, 2011, European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, III (2), 2011 Review of Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy, by Eugen Fischer, Routledge 2010, Aphex – Portale italiano di filosofia analitica, Issue 4/2011 Review of L’albero del Tractatus, by L. Bazzocchi, Mimesis, 2010, Humana.Mente - Journal of Philosophical Studies, Issue 18/2011. R3 R2 R1 Interviews “Let Me Tell You a Story: Heroes and Events of Pragmatism. Interview with Hilary Putnam”, coauthored with Michela Bella, European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, VII (1): 230-238, 2015 I1 GRANTS AND AWARDS __________________________________________________________________________________ 2020 • • • • • 2019 • • 2018 • • • • 2017 • UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence ADVANCE Career Development Award ($2000) to attend the NCFDD Faculty Success Program. UCI School of Humanities Dean Office Contribution ($1000) to attend the NCFDD Faculty Success Program. UCI Department of Philosophy Contribution ($650) to attend the NCFDD Faculty Success Program. University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) Conference Grant ($5K) for the conference project “Identities and Epistemic Injustice”. APA – American Philosophical Association Travel grant for participating in the “Mentoring the Mentors” workshop at the APA Pacific Division Annual Meeting, San Francisco (event moved online due to Covid; unable to participate). UC Irvine Humanities Center, Collaborative conference grant ($2K) for the conference project “Identities and Epistemic Injustice”. UC Irvine Humanities Center, “Borders and Belonging” co-sponsorship ($500) for the conference project “Identities and Epistemic Injustice”. Lise Meitner Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship from the FWF – Austrian Science Fund / University of Vienna. Two-year grant, Sept. 2019 to August 2021 (ca. $170K). Declined. UC Irvine Chancellor’s ADVANCE Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant (Sep 2018-June 2019). Postdoctoral research grant from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Department of Philosophy (PNPD/CAPES grant). Declined. Charles S. Peirce Society, Travel grant. UC Irvine, Early career grant for participation in the First International “Hinge Epistemology Conference”. 4 2016 • 2014 • 2013 • 2010 • 2000 • University of Oslo, invitation to the international workshop “The Future of Pragmatism” (travel grant). British Academy, London, invitation to the Dawes Hicks Symposium “The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long 20th Century” (travel grant). New York University, New York, guest lectures on Wittgenstein and Pragmatism (travel grant). MA Thesis in Theoretical Philosophy, “The Primacy of Seeing. Saying, Talking, and Showing in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy”, Special Mention at the Italian National Philosophy Award “Viaggio a Siracusa”. MA Thesis in Communication Sciences, “Non-profit Economy. An Interpretation Based on the Gift Theory”, winner of the Fracassi Prize for Innovative and Interdisciplinary Theses, University of Siena (ca. $2,5K). TEACHING _____________________________________________________________________________________ University of California, Irvine, Department of Philosophy Spring 2021 Winter 2021 Spring 2020 Winter 2020 Spring 2019 History of Contemporary Philosophy (lower division, remote/online) Topics in the History of Contemporary Philosophy (graduate seminar) Introduction to Philosophy (GE, online) Social Epistemology (upper division, remote/online) History of Contemporary Philosophy (lower division, remote/online) Social Epistemology (upper division, remote/online) Introduction to Philosophy (GE, online) Topics in Epistemology (graduate seminar, co-taught) Social Epistemology (upper division) University of Florence, Italy Apr 2018 2015 – 2018 Lecture Series on James and Wittgenstein on Emotions (Theoretical Philosophy) Teaching Assistant, Theoretical Philosophy University of Roma Tre, Italy 2011 – 2014 Teaching Assistant, Theoretical Philosophy Teaching Assistant, Philosophy of Knowledge New York University, New York Nov 2013 Guest lectures on Wittgenstein and pragmatism (History of Philosophy) 5 STUDENTS SUPERVISION __________________________________________________________________________________ • Rena Goldstein, PhD Dissertation Committee, Member (Advancement to Candidacy: May 29, 2020) TALKS __________________________________________________________________________________ 2021 • • • 2019 • • • • 2018 • • • • 2017 • • • • • • TBA, invited talk, 43rd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, August 8-14 TBA, invited talk, Annual Meeting of the Society for Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy, Vienna, July TBA, International Conference “Identities and Epistemic Injustice”, UC Irvine, March 12-13 “Ethnocentrism without Relativism? Taking Rorty at Face Value”, International Conference on Relativism, UC Irvine, Nov 15-16 “New philosophical perspectives for the study of prejudice”, President’s and Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellows Spring Retreat, UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center, Apr 12-13 “Hinges and Prejudices”, UC Irvine, Brown Bag Seminars Series, Feb 6 “Pragmatist Perspectives on Truth and Relativism”, UC Irvine, Jan 16 “Peirce and Wittgenstein on Doubt and Certainty”, Colloquium, Cal State Long Beach, Dec 12 “‘A Gap in his System’: Ramsey and Wittgenstein on Pragmatism”, invited talk, V Middle Wittgenstein Symposium, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, May 23 “Epistemological Themes in Peirce and Wittgenstein”, invited talk, International conference “Relation and Representation”, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Apr 19-20 “Wittgenstein’s Pragmatism? Some Notes on Cheryl Misak’s Reading”, invited talk, Charles S. Peirce sponsored Author Meets Critics Session on Misak’s Cambridge Pragmatism (OUP 2016), APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, CA, Mar 28-31 “The Topicality of Pragmatism for Hinge Epistemology”, International Conference “The Pragmatist Attitude. Habits, Practices, and Gestures in a Pluralistic Landscape”, University of Milan, Oct 17-18 “Religious Beliefs as Hinges?”, First “Hinge Epistemology Conference”, UC Irvine, Sep 9-10 “When World Pictures Collide. Hinges, Prejudice and Epistemic Injustice”, 6th Symposium of the International Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (ILWG), IFILNOVA, Lisbon, Portugal, June 6-7 “Gesture as Embodied Normativity. A Pragmatist Perspective”, International Conference “The Pragmatist Turn and Embodied Cognition”, University of Parma, Italy, April 5-7 “La parte II delle Ricerche Filosofiche di Wittgenstein in relazione a William James”, Seminar, University of Florence, Italy, Feb 10 “Evidenza imponderabile”, II° Panel of the Research Unit on Qualitative Ontology, University of Florence, Italy, Jan 20 6 2016 • • • • 2015 • • • • • 2014 • • • 2013 • • • • 2012 • • “Hinge Epistemology and Pragmatism”, XII Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA), University of Florence - Pistoia Campus, 5-7 Sep “Doubting the Indubitable. Philosophy and the Loss of Common Sense”, work-in-progress day on the philosophy of psychiatry, University of Lancaster, UK, Jun 2 “Il fascino discreto della naturalezza. Wittgenstein e la psicopatologia del senso comune”, Seminar, University of Roma Tre, Italy, May 26 “What’s the Use of Usefulness? From Pragmatism to Success Semantics and Return”, invited talk, International Workshop “Reinventing Pragmatism”, University of Oslo, Norway, Feb 17-18 “Common Sense, Philosophy and Mental Disturbance: a Wittgensteinian Outlook”, International Workshop “Schizophrenia and Common Sense”, IFILNOVA, Lisbon, Portugal, 5-6 Nov “From Wheels Turning Idly to Meaning as Use. Pragmatist Tendencies in the ‘Middle’ Wittgenstein”, International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel (Austria), Aug 10 “Usefulness and the ‘Eingreifen’ of Words. The Pragmatist Roots of a Wittgensteinian Concept”, invited talk, International Conference “New Uses for Old Concepts. Contributions to Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences”, University of Roma Tre, Italy, May 14 “‘Ti mostrerò una cosa che facciamo noi umani’. I fatti della vita in Wittgenstein e Peirce”, invited talk, International Workshop “Abiti, regole e forme di vita. Tra Wittgenstein e il pragmatismo”, University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy, Jan 29 “‘Beyond All Reasonable Doubt’. Philosophy, Normality and Mental Disturbance in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty”, invited talk, International Workshop “Experience and Obedience. Wittgenstein Revisited”, UNED, Madrid, Spain, Jan 21 “Immagini che intrappolano e immagini che liberano. Metafora e vedere aspettuale in Wittgenstein”, Seminar, University of Florence, Italy, Oct 23 “The ‘Middle’ Wittgenstein (and the ‘Later’ Ramsey) on the Pragmatist Conception of Truth”, invited talk, Dawes Hicks Symposium “The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long 20th Century”, British Academy, London, Oct 2 “‘Le mie proposizioni illustrano così’. Scrittura e Mistico in Wittgenstein”, seminar, University of Florence, Italy, Oct 31 “The ‘Pragmatic Maxim’ in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty”, International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel (Austria), Aug 13 “Wittgenstein and Pragmatism: A Neglected Remark in Manuscript 107 (1930)”, International Conference “Philosophical Revolutions. Pragmatism, Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology (1895-1935)”, University College Dublin, Ireland, Jun 20-21 “Una specie di Weltanschauung tra i piedi. Il pragmatismo in Della Certezza”, Seminar, University of Roma Tre, Italy, Jun 11 “On Trying to Say What ‘Goes without Saying’”, International Conference “The Communication of Certainty and Uncertainty”, University of Macerata, Italy, Oct 3-5 “Elucidating Forms of Life”, International Conference “In Wittgenstein’s Footsteps”, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Sep 14-17 7 2011 • 2010 • “‘The Mother-Tongue of Thought’. James and Wittgenstein on Common Sense”, 13th International Meeting on Pragmatism, São Paulo, Brazil, Nov 7-10 “Dal fondamento allo sfondo. La forma di vita come ‘il dato’ in Wittgenstein”, Triennial Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS), University of Bergamo, Italy, Dec 15-17. SERVICE __________________________________________________________________________________ Service to the Profession Editorial boards • European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy (ISSN 2036-4091), Managing Editor (2019-present) • Cognitio – Revista de Filosofia, São Paulo, Brazil (ISSN: 2316-5278), Editorial Board, member (2016-present) • University of Iowa Tractatus Map Project (http://tractatus.lib.uiowa.edu/), Advisory Board, member (2016-present) Conference scientific committees • International Conference “Women in Pragmatism”, University of Barcelona, January 28-30, 2020 Referee for Journals and publishers • Aphex – Portale italiano di filosofia analitica (2013) • Cognitio – Revista de Filosofia (2016, 2016) • Diametros, Online Journal of Philosophy (2016) • Ermeneutica Letteraria (2015) • European Journal of Philosophy (2017) • European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy (2017, 2020) • Humana.Mente – Journal of Philosophical Studies (2019) • Journal for the History of Analytic Philosophy (2020) • International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2020) • Nordic Wittgenstein Review (2016, 2016) • Philosophia (2018, 2019) • Springer Nature (2016, 2020) Participation in events • May 2017 - Workshop “William James. Philosophical Connections”, University of Florence, Italy (discussant) • June 2016 - IX Summer School in Mind and Language on “Form and Style in Wittgenstein’s Work”, University of Siena, Italy (discussant) • April 2015 - seminar on “The Subterranean Influence of Pragmatism on the Vienna Circle” (speaker C. Misak), University of Roma Tre, Italy (discussant) • June 2013 - VI Summer School in Mind and Language on “The ‘Tree’ of the Tractatus: Form and Development”, University of Siena, Italy (discussant) 8 University Service UC Irvine, Campus wide • Dismantling Systemic Racism Working Groups: member of Group 5, “Implicit Bias and AntiRacist Protocols, Education, and Policies” (2020 – today) • Participation as a panelist in a workshop presenting the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship / UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs, Oct 3, 2019 UC Irvine, School of Humanities • Host and coordinator of SoH Zoom practice session with faculty and grad students, March 24, 2020 UC Irvine, Department of Philosophy • Committee on Diversity and Inclusiveness, member (2019-present) • Project “Mentoring Women and Minorities in Philosophy”, member (2018-present) • Faculty Search Committee, member (2019) • Sven Bernecker Merit review committee, member (2019) EVENT ORGANIZATION __________________________________________________________________________________ • • • • March 12-13, 2021 “Identities and Epistemic Injustice”, International Conference, UC Irvine September 28-29, 2017 “Immediatezza ed esperienza: tra Wittgenstein e il pragmatismo”, Conference, University of Florence, Italy May 30, 2016 “William James. Philosophical Connections”, International Workshop, University of Florence, Italy April to June 2013, “Il fiume e la roccia. Logica ed esperienza nel pensiero di Ludwig Wittgenstein”, Graduate Seminar, University of Roma Tre, Italy PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITIES __________________________________________________________________________________ 2020 • • Faculty Success Program, Fall Session (National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity) DTEI Summer Faculty Working Groups (UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation) 2019 • Faculty Learning Community (UCI School of Humanities) 2018 • • Course Design Certificate Training (UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation) Humanities Pedagogical Certificate Program (Humanities Commons and UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation) MEMBERSHIPS __________________________________________________________________________________ APA (American Philosophical Association), 2017 – present 9 Charles S. Peirce Society, 2017 – present SWIP Italia (Italian Society for Women in Philosophy), 2018 – present SIFA (Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy), 2017 – present Nordic Wittgenstein Society, 2017 – present European Pragmatist Association, 2014 – present British Wittgenstein Society, 2011 – present 10