Maria Carla Galavotti

E-mail: mariacarla.galavotti@unibo.it

Maria Carla Galavotti graduated in Philosophy in 1970 at the University of Bologna. She has subsequently been awarded fellowships from Indiana University and the University of Bologna. In 1976 she became Lecturer and then Associate Professor at the same university. In 1994 she was nominated Full Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Trieste, and since 1998 is Full professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Bologna.

She has been Visiting Scholar at various institutions, including the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) of Stanford University, the Department of Philosophy of Princeton University, the Center for the Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh, the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of Cambridge University and the Centre for Time of the University of Sydney. She is life member of the Center of Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh and Clare Hall College, Cambridge.

She lectured at various institutions, including the universities of Stanford, Princeton, Pittsburgh, Barcelona, Cambridge, St Andrews, Madrid, Nantes, Konstanz, Sydney, Vienna, King’s College London, and Collège de France.

She is member of the editorial board of “Erkenntnis”, of the “Advisory editorial board” of the “Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook” (both published by Springer), of the Steering Committee of the European Philosohy of Science Association, and of the Scientific Committee of the Vienna International Summer University (VISU).