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Alessandro Topa
- Position: Associate Professor and Chair
- Department: Department of Philosophy
- Email: [email protected]
Alessandro Topa obtained both his MA (Lógos and Praxis. The Structure of Practical Knowledge in Plato’s Early Dialogues, 1998) and PhD (Since Thought Needs a Body. The Problem of a Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories in Kant and Peirce, 2006) from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, where he studied philosophy, communication research and comparative literature. In 2023 he completed his Habilitation (Living Reason. The Normative Foundations of Peirce’s Semiotic Logic, 2023) and obtained his venia legendi in philosophy from the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany. Topa joined the Department of Philosophy at The American University in Cairo (AUC) in September 2009, acting as the graduate program director from 2015 to 2019 and as the Chair of the Department since 2023. He is a member of the Kant-Society, the German Society for Philosophy and the German Society for Semiotics.
- Categoriology
- Social and Political Philosophy
- Semeiotics and Semeiotic Logic
- Theories of Action, Normativity and Rationality
- Classical Greek, German and American Philosophy
- MA, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1998)
- PhD, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (2006)
- Habilitation, Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg (2023)