Giuliano Infantino

Philosopher · University of Toronto

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Curriculum Vitae

Competence, education, teaching, organisation, awards.

Areas of competence

  • AOS Metaphysics and the philosophy of nature (Kant, Hegel).
  • AOC Philosophy of mind (theories of rationality, empirical knowledge); philosophy of culture (Cassirer); metaethics (Kant); applied ethics (children’s suffrage); philosophy of mathematics (intuitionism, formalism); philosophy of literature (hermeneutics).

Appointments

  • 2026–28 University of Toronto. Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow · host: Nicholas Stang.

Education & visits

  • 2026 Universität Stuttgart. Dr. phil. (supervisors: Christian Martin & Anton F. Koch). Thesis: Metaphysics, Logic and Natural Philosophy in Hegel’s Encyclopedia.
  • 2025 Yale University. Visiting Assistant in Research · host: Jacob McNulty.
  • 2024 Stanford University. Visiting Research Student · host: David Hills.
  • 2023 Universität Bonn. M.A. in Philosophy.
  • 2020 Universität Köln. B.A. in Philosophy and Classics.

Teaching

  • SS 2026 Kant and the Ontological Argument. Stuttgart. Seminar.
  • SS 2025 Hegel’s Science of Logic: The Doctrine of Being. Stuttgart. Seminar.
  • SS 2024 Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature. Stuttgart. Seminar.
  • WS 23/24 Introduction to the History of Philosophy. Stuttgart. Tutorial · teaching assistant.
  • SS 2023 Nature and Spirit in Kant, Hegel, and Hölderlin. Stuttgart. Tutorial · teaching assistant.
  • WS 22/23 Introduction to the History of Philosophy. Stuttgart. Tutorial · teaching assistant.
  • WS 21/22 Introduction to Epistemology. Bonn. Tutorial · teaching assistant.
  • WS 21/22 Introduction to Epistemology. Bonn. Tutorial · teaching assistant.
  • WS 20/21 Introduction to Epistemology. Bonn. Tutorial · teaching assistant.

Organisation

  • 2026 Author Meets Critics: Hegel’s Inversion of Philosophy (W. Clark Wolf). Universität Stuttgart.
  • 2025 Metaphysics and Freedom. Stanford University.
  • 2025 Logic, Nature and Modalities in German Idealism. Yale University.
  • 2025 German Idealism and Beyond. The New School for Social Research.
  • 2024 Kant and Hegel on Objectivity. Stanford University.
  • 2024 Forms of Thought. Universität Stuttgart.
  • 2023 Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind after Kant and Hegel. Universität Stuttgart.
  • 2021–24 Realism and Idealism Today I–IV. Universität Bonn.

Memberships

  • from 2024 Philosophical Foundations of Scientific Knowledge. Archivbibliothek für Post-Neukantianismus und kritischen Idealismus der Gegenwart (Wuppertal / Erlangen-Nürnberg).

Awards & scholarships

  • 2026 Feodor-Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
  • 2024 Mobility Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
  • 2023 Ph.D. Scholarship, Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg (LGFG).