Giovanni Gellera

I am currently a Scientific Collaborator in the Swiss National Science Foundation projet "A Disregarded Past - Medieval Scholasticism and Reformed Thought", a collaboration with Prof. Ueli Zahnd, Arthur Huiban and Zachary Seals. The projet is based at the Institut d'histoire de la Réformation, University of Geneva.
https://www.unige.ch/adp/

I am interested in early modern philosophy, especially the relations between scholasticism and Cartesianism in metaphysics, natural philosophy, and epistemology. More broadly, I am interested in early modern intellectual history (especially the philosophical questions raised by the Reformation and the anticipations of Enlightenment ideas).

I have a lively interest in the Scottish philosophical tradition, in its continuity through the centuries, unity, and dissemination in early modern Europe. I focus on pre-Enlightenment philosophy and on the Scottish reception of Descartes.

I was at the University of Lausanne as a Swiss National Science Foundation Senior Post-doc in the project "Tolerance, Intolerance, and Discrimination regarding Religion", led by SNSF Prof. Christian Maurer (2016-2020).
I am undertaking the translation of several 17c Scottish philosophical texts, including James Dundas' Idea Philosophiae Moralis, an unpublished MS from 1679. My research focused on the Reformed debates on Tolerance and Religion in early modern Scottish philosophy.

I worked as Network Facilitator and contributor of the Leverhulme project on ‘Scottish Philosophers in seventeenth-century Scotland and France’ (2010-14). Link below:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/historyresearch/researchprojects/scottishphilosophersin17cscotlandandfrance/