Valerio Buonomo

VALERIO BUONOMO

Senior Member

I hold a PhD in Philosophy from the State University of Milan, where I worked under the supervision of Giuliano Torrengo and Paolo Valore. As part of my doctoral research, I conducted a visiting study period at Columbia University in New York, supervised by Achille Varzi. My research is primarily in metaphysics, with a focus on the theories of personal identity and persistence over time. This work extends into related areas in ontology (e.g., material constitution, mereology, substance/facts/process ontology, and the constitutive conditions of persistence), philosophy of time (endurantism/perdurantism, the passage of time), and philosophy of mind (conscious experience and the psychological approach to persistence). More recently, I have explored together with Ivan Mitrouchev the implications of theories of personal identity for behavioral welfare economics, particularly how the ontological criterion of personal persistence can inform ethical questions about intrapersonal well-being and the normative authority of preferences.
In 2014 I have been Visiting Scholar at Logos Research Group, University of Barcelona (Spain) and in 2011 I have been Visiting Student at the Department of Philosophy of the Eberhard-Karls University of Tuebingen (Germany).

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