Filippo Scafi

MA in Continental Philosophy

Ph.D. Researcher in Philosophy

Filippo Scafi

PhD Candidate in Philosophy


GCAS College Dublin – The Global Centre for Advanced Studies Galway, Ireland

Research Supervisor Rocco Gangle, PhD

Biography

Filippo Scafi is a PhD researcher at GCAS, working at the intersections of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and anthropology. With a background that spans rigorous academic training and interdisciplinary inquiry, Filippo brings a critical and experimental approach to questions of subjectivity, alterity, and the limits of knowledge.

He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Turin, Italy, and an MA in Continental Philosophy from the University of Warwick, UK, where their work focused on epistemology, theories of knowledge, and metaphysics. His dissertation interrogates how philosophical discourse encounters the Other—particularly in the context of the Ontological Turn in anthropology; this research aims at a critique of philosophical Difference as employed by anthropology through the means of Laruelle’s Non-standard approach. Anthropology is taken as a case-study, an critical example of how Difference fails into thinking alterity properly.

 His broader research aim is focused on the origin and conditions of philosophical discourse, the relation to its alterity (science, myth, sophistry…), to its means (orality, writing), and the rapport between philosophical truth and its communicability. This question is moved by a philosophical project that engages Zizek's statement “Thought is not something I do, but something that happens to me—something that thinks in me.” Namely, the project aims at questioning thinking not in its structure, form, or content, but at thematizing that which is the condition and the origin of thought itself. Filippo’s work engages with non-standard methodologies to rethink the structures of thought and representation that underlie both philosophical and anthropological knowledge, proposing alternative modes of relation beyond epistemological capture.

Research Interests 


• Metaphysics of Difference and Alterity


• Epistemology and the Conditions of Thought


• Philosophical Anthropology and the Ontological Turn


• Psychoanalysis and Theories of Subjectivity


• Media, Discourse, and the Transmission of Truth

Selected Activities

• Participant, GCAS Prague Seminars (2023)

• Lecturer in Philosophy, GCAS BA in Interdisciplinary Studies

• Affiliate, School for Materialist Research

• Editorial Manager, Chaosmotics

• Editorial Manager, GCAS Journal

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