Andrea Gambarotto

Andrea was trained in classical German philosophy at the University of Padua and earned his PhD in the history and philosophy of biology at IHPST in Paris. Before joining the University of Luxembourg, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Kassel (Germany), UC Louvain (Belgium), the University of the Basque Country (Spain), and the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (Austria). His interdisciplinary research spans philosophy of biology, cognitive science, and complex systems theory, with a focus on the interplay between biological purposiveness and cognition in complex adaptive systems. This work is deeply informed by his early engagements with Kantian and Hegelian ideas on teleology. At Luxembourg, he contributes to the AUTONOMY project, which seeks to integrate dialectical and enactive approaches to cognition. Project website: https://www.uni.lu/fhse-en/research-projects/autonomy-from-biological-to-cognitive-autonomy-an-enactive-approach-to-hegels-philosophy-of-mind/