Hi! My name is Davide, and I am a philosopher.
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Philosophy, Fudan University
- Early Chinese Thought
- Philosophy of Religion
- Philosophy of Creativity
- Cognitive Science of Religion
- Asian Philosophy and Religion
My research focuses mainly on early Chinese philosophy and religion, and it moves in two directions. On the interpretive side, I draw on contemporary philosophy and cognitive science to illuminate early Chinese philosophical and religious texts. On the constructive side, I draw on the conceptual resources of those same texts to develop new philosophical views.
Within such research program, much of my recent work has been focusing on creativity and creation. Interpretively, I am interested in the role of creativity in early Chinese conceptions of human agency and in the relation between human creativity and cosmic creation. Constructively, I have been using ideas from the Zhuangzi 莊子 to develop a view according to which creativity is fundamentally grounded in perception rather than high-level thought.
I also work on Japanese philosophy and religion and on the cognitive science of religion. I am currently part of a Templeton-funded empirical project investigating whether people across cultures see religion as offering a distinctive kind of value, one different from the values available to them in non-religious contexts.