Cinema and Ontology

Maurizio Ferraris is full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, where he is the vice-Rector for Humanities Research and the President of the LabOnt – Laboratory for Ontology. He is Directeur de recherche at the 'Collège d’études mondiales' (Paris) and advisory member of the 'Center for Advanced Studies of South East Europe' (Rijeka) and of the 'Internationales Zentrum Für Philosophie NRW'. He wrote more than fifty books that have been translated into several languages.

Enrico Terrone received his B.A. in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico of Turin, and his doctoral degree in Philosophy from the University of Turin. He taught Film History and Criticism at the University of Eastern Piedmont. He has published papers in several peer reviewed international journals, including The Monist and Estetika. He has published Filosofia delle serie tv (Philosophy of Tv Series, 2012) and Filosofia del film (Film’s Philosophy, 2014). In 2015, Enrico Terrone became a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities, in Bonn.