Roberto Poli, PhD
Roberto Poli (born in Trento, Italy, 1955) is Assistant Professor (“ricercatore confermato”)
at the University of Trento (Italy). He graduated in Sociology (B.A., with honors) at the
University of Trento (Italy) in 1980 and obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of
Utrecht (Netherlands) in 2001. Poli was Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy of
the Indiana University, Bloomington (1987), the Forschungsstelle und Dokumentationszentrum
für Österreichische Philosophie, Graz (1988); the Department of Logic of the Jagiellonian
University, Cracow (1990), and the Department of Mathematics, McGill University, Montreal
(1999). He is editor-in-.chief of Axiomathes (Kluwer), a peer-reviewed academic journal
devoted to the study of ontology and cognitive systems, member of the editorial boards
of Dialogikon (Cracow) and Western Philosophy Series (Ashgate). Poli is member of the
board of director of the Mitteleuropa Foundation (Bolzano), a recently established
research centre in ontology and cognitive analysis.
His research interests include ontology, in both its traditional philosophical understanding
and the new, computer-oriented, understanding (ALWIS. Ontology for Knowledge Engineers, Utrecht,
2001), and the so-called Central-European philosophy interpreted as a repository of conceptual
tools for the advancement of contemporary science (The School of Franz Brentano, Kluwer 1996,
edited with Albertazzi and Libardi; The School of Alexius Meinong, Ashgate 2001, edited with
Albertazzi and Jacquette). He is currently working on the elaboration of the general categorical
framework for an ontology well suited for applications in the field of information sciences.
- Alwis. Ontology for Knowledge Engineers, PhD, Utrecht, 2001
Books
- The world of Lyee, SoMeT, Iwate (Japan), 2002 (with I. Hamid Fujita and R. Ijioui).
- Appunti di logica, Edizioni Goliardiche, Trieste, 1999.
- Ontologia formale, Marietti, Genova, 1992.
Edited Volumes
- The School of Alexius Meinong, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2001 (with L. Albertazzi and D. Jacquette),
- The Brentano Puzzle, Ashgate, Aldershot, 1998
- Formal Ontology, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1996 (with Peter Simons)
- The School of Franz Brentano, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1996 (with L. Albertazzi and M. Libardi)
- Consciousness, Knowledge, and Truth. Essays Presented to Jan Srzednicki for his 70th birthday, Kluwer, Dordrecht 1993
- Brentano in Italia. Una filosofia rigorosa contro positivismo e attualismo, Guerini, Milano, 1993 (with L. Albertazzi)
- Topics in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, Istituto Mitteleuropeo di Cultura, Bolzano, 1991 (with L. Albertazzi)
Journals' Special Issues
- The Legacy of Nicolai Hartmann (1882-1950), Axiomathes, 12, 2001, 3-4
- Phenomenological Aesthetics, Axiomathes, 9, 1-2, 1998 (with G. Scaramuzza)
- Estetica fenomenologica, in Annali dell'Istituto Antonio Banfi, 5, 1998 (con G. Scaramuzza)
- Ten Years, Special issue of Axiomathes for the 10th anniversary of the Centro Studi per la Filosofia Mitteleuropea, Axiomathes, 1997
- In itinere. European Cities and the Birth of Modern Scientific Philosophy, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1997, special issue of Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities
- The Role of Formal Ontology in the Information Technology, special issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 43, 1995 (with Nicola Guarino)
- Polish Scientific Philosophy. The Lvov-Warsaw School, Rodopi, Amsterdam 1993, special issue of Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities (with F. Coniglione e J. Wolenski)
- Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz: lingua e linguaggi, atti del convegno di Trento, 10-11 maggio 1991, special issue of Quaderni del Centro Studi per la Filosofia Mitteleuropea, 7-9, 1991
Papers (selection)
- Descriptive, Formal, and Formalized Ontologies, in D. Fisette, Husserl's Logical Investigations Reconsidered, Kluwer, 2003, pp. 183-210
- Ontological Methodology, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2002, 56, pp. 639-664
- The Basic Problem of the Theory of Levels of Reality, Axiomathes, 12, 3-4, 2001
- General Theses of the Theory of Objects, in L. Albertazzi, D. Jacquette, and R. Poli (eds), The School of Alexius Meinong, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2001, pp. 347-372.
- Foreword, Axiomathes, 12, 1-2, 2001, pp. 5-9
- Perspective Shifters, La Nuova Critica, 2001, 37-38, pp. 81-102.
- Semiotic Aspects of Generalized Bases of Data, in E. Kawaguchi, H. Kangassalo, H. Jaakkola, I.A. Hamid (eds.), Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XI, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 1-11 (with G. Mazzola)
- Logic, Theory of Science and Metaphysics According to Stanislaw Lesniewski, Grazer Philosophische Studien, 57, 1999, pp. 183-219 (with M. Libardi)
- Levels, Axiomathes, 9, 1-2, 1998, pp. 197-211
- Qua-theories, in L. Albertazzi (ed), Shapes of Forms, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1998, pp. 245-256.
- The Brentano Puzzle: An Introduction, in R. Poli (ed), The Brentano Puzzle, Ashgate, Aldershot, 1998, pp. 1-13.
- Iconic graphs. An exercise in topological phenomenology, Axiomathes, 1-3, 1997, pp. 455-472
- Ontology for knowledge organization, in R. Green (ed.), Knowledge organization and change, Indeks, Frankfurt, 1996, pp. 313-319
- Husserl's Conception of Formal Ontology, History and Philosophy of Logic, 1993, pp. 1-14
