Maria Rosa Antognazza

Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964 – 28 March 2023) was an Italian-British philosopher[2] who served as professor of philosophy at King's College London.[3]

Maria Rosa Antognazza
Born1964 (1964)
Died28 March 2023(2023-03-28) (aged 58–59)
Nationality
  • Italian
  • British
Academic background
Alma materUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Academic work
DisciplinePhilosophy
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Main interestsGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Life and career

Antognazza was educated at the Catholic University of Milan. She has held research fellowships and visiting professorships in Italy, Germany, Israel, Great Britain, Switzerland, and the US, including a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, a two-year research fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, and the Leibniz-Professorship in Leipzig in 2016. She was awarded the 2019–2020 Mind Senior Research Fellowship for work on her book Thinking with Assent: Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief.

Antognazza served as head of the King's philosophy department from 2011/12 to 2014/15. She was the chair of the British Society for the History of Philosophy and the president of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.[4]

Antognazza was the winner of the Pfizer Award in 2010.

Antognazza died on 28 March 2023.[5][6] She was survived by her husband, Howard Hotson, and two of her three children.[6]

Selected publications

Single-authored
  • Thinking with Assent: Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief (Oxford University Press)
  • Leibniz: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
  • Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009; winner of the 2010 Pfizer Award)
  • Leibniz on the Trinity and the Incarnation: Reason and Revelation in the Seventeenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).

Edited volume
  • The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

References
  1. "Maria Rosa Antognazza | King's College London - Academia.edu". kcl.academia.edu. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  2. Gallardo, Cristina (28 February 2018). "My Brexit Story: From Italian to British Citizen". Research Fortnight. Archived from the original on 2 August 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  3. "King's College London - Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza". Kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  4. "King's College London - Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza". Kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  5. Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964-2023)
  6. "Maria Rosa Antognazza". kingsphilosophy.com. 29 March 2023. Retrieved 1 April 2023.


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