Mattia Mantovani
Mattia Mantovani is a historian of medieval and early modern philosophy and science, with special focus on theories of human and animal perception, and on representation practices. He is Post-doc Fellow at the University of Louvain (KU Leuven), with a project on the bêtes machines debate.
Mattia completed his PhD in philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2018, and was awarded fellowships at the St. John’s College in Oxford, the University of Pennsylvania, the Descartes Center in Utrecht and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Mattia was awarded the 2024 Kristeller-Popkin Travel Fellowship by the Journal of the History of Philosophy, for a project on Elisabeth of Bohemia.
His papers appeared in, among other, Early Science and Medicine, Journal of Early Modern Studies, Vivarium and Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy. He is the editor of Descartes in the Classroom. Teaching Philosophy in the Early Modern Age and Cartesian Imagery. Picturing Philosophy in the Early Modern Age, both for Brill.
Mattia is currently working to his first monograph, under the title Atoms, Painters, and a Hidden God. A Microhistory of Cartesian Philosophy.
Email: mattia.mantovani@kuleuven.be
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