Paola Rumore

Paola Rumore (1976) is Full Professor for the History of Modern Philosophy at the University of Turin. She works primarily in the history of 18th-century German philosophy, with a special focus on the Kantian and pre-Kantian debate on metaphysics, psychology, and materialism. She is President of the Italian Kant-Society (Società Italiana di Studi Kantiani) and Vice-president of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy (ESEMP). Her books include L’ordine delle idee. La genesi del concetto di ‘rappresentazione’ in Kant attraverso le sue fonti wolffiane (1747-1787), Firenze 2007; Materia cogitans. L’Aufklärung di fronte al materialismo, Hildesheim 2013; Idea, «Lessico della filosofia», Bologna 2017; Le ragioni di Kant, Milano 2024. She has published the critical edition and the Italian translation of Georg Friedrich Meier's Beyträge zu der Lehre von den Vorurtheilen des menschlichen Geschlechts, Pisa 2005 (with N. Hinske and H.P. Delfosse). She has edited the volume Kant und die Aufklärung, Hildesheim 2011 (with L. Cataldi Madonna), the volume Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777): Wege zur Mathematisierung der Aufklärung, de Gruyter 2022 (with Gideon Stiening et al.), the special issue of the international Journal «Quaestio», Another 18th-century German Philosophy? Rethinking German Enlightenment (2016, with E. Pasini), the special issue of «Studi Lockiani», Locke and the Enlightenment (2022, with Brunello Lotti), and the special issue of the «Rivista di filosofia», Philosophy as Rigorous Science. A Neglected History (2023, with Luca Fonnesu). She is currently working on a project on the reception of British philosophy in the German enlightenment and finalizing a monograph concerning the debate on the immortality of the soul in 18th-century Germany.