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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Fabio Tononi

Citation names

  • Tononi, Fabio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F81D-DD26-382B
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2113-0694
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QJm7aMEAAAAJ&hl=it
Scopus Author Id
57218914734

Email addresses

  • fabiotononi@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/10/01 - 2021/02/28
Concluded
 PhD (Doutoramento)
School of Advanced Study The Warburg Institute, United Kingdom
Affiliation

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09/01 - Current Researcher CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/09/01 - Current IMCS – Imagination and Memory at the Intersection of Culture and Science
UIDB/04666/2020
Principal investigator
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
 CHAM Centro de Humanidades
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Tononi, Fabio. "Aby Warburg and Edgar Wind on the Biology of Images: Empathy, Collective Memory, and the Engram". In Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment, 47-72. Oxford, United Kingdom: Peter Lang, 2024.
    Published
  2. Tononi, Fabio. "Introduction". In Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment, 1-15. Oxford, United Kingdom: Peter Lang, 2024.
    Published
  3. Tononi, Fabio. "Images in the Age of Social Media: Capitalism, Consumerism, and Liberalism". In Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age, 179-202. Routledge, 2023.
    Published • 10.4324/9781003372578-16
  4. Tononi, Fabio. "The Transformation of Images in the Age of Modernism, Postmodernism, and Digital Reproducibility". In On Portraiture. Theory, Practice and Fiction. From Francisco de Holanda to Susan Sontag, 517-543. Lisbon, Portugal: Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Universidade de Lisboa, 2022.
    Published
Book review
  1. Tononi, Fabio. "Hyperculture: Culture and Globalization. By Byung-Chul Han. Translated by Daniel Steuer. Cambridge, UK; Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2022. 98 pp.". 46, 2 (2023): 145-151. http://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/JCLA-46.2_Summer-2023_Fabio-Tononi-Review.pdf.
    Published
  2. Tononi, Fabio. "Philosophy, Mysticism, and the Political: Essays on Dante. By Massimo Cacciari. Edited and with an introduction by Alessandro Carrera. Translated by Giorgio Mobili. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2021. 185 pp.". 45, 4 (2022): 165-168. http://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/JCLA-45.4_Fabio-Tononi-Review.pdf.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Tononi, Fabio. Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment. Oxford, United Kingdom: Peter Lang. 2024.
    Published • Editor
Journal article
  1. Tononi, Fabio. "Democracy and Information in the Age of Digitalization". Journal of Philosophical Investigations (2024):
    Accepted
  2. Fabio Tononi. "Festschrift in Honour of Jaynie Anderson". The Edgar Wind Journal 6 (2024): 1-34. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/0b0043ac-cf53-4cb0-b8ad-0c1dcebc6399.
    https://doi.org/10.53245/EWJ-000028
  3. Tononi, Fabio. "Ernst Gombrich and the Concept of ‘Ill-Defined Area’: Perception and Filling-In". Journal of Art Historiography 29 2 (2023): 1-27. https://arthistoriography.wordpress.com/number-29s2-december-2023/.
    Open access • Published
  4. Tononi, Fabio. "Sophocles' Antigone: Philosophy, Politics, and Psychoanalysis. Let Them Rot: Antigone's Parallax. By Alenka Zupancic. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2023. 89 pp.". Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 46 2 (2023): 127-139. http://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/JCLA-46.2_Summer-2023_Fabio-Tononi.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  5. Tononi, Fabio. "Worringer, Dewey, Goodman, and the Concept of Aesthetic Experience: A Biological Perspective". ITINERA: Rivista di filosofia e teoria delle arti 23 (2022): 303-328. https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-9251/18563.
    Open access • Published
  6. Tononi, Fabio. "The Night of Michelangelo: Animism, Empathy, and Imagination". Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 45 4 (2022): 27-41. http://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/JCLA-45.4_Fabio-Tononi.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  7. Tononi, Fabio. "Aby Warburg, Edgar Wind, and the Concept of Kulturwissenschaft: Reflections on Imagery, Symbols, and Expression". The Edgar Wind Journal 2 (2022): 38-74. https://doi.org/10.53245/EWJ-00009.
    Open access • Published
  8. Tononi, Fabio. "Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment". The Edgar Wind Journal 2 (2022): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.53245/EWJ-00007.
    Open access • Published
  9. Tononi, Fabio. "The Problem of the Unfinished and the Shaping of the Canon of Finiteness in the Italian Renaissance". The Edgar Wind Journal 1 (2021): 86-127. https://doi.org/10.53245/EWJ-00006.
    Open access • Published
  10. Tononi, Fabio. "Introduction: Edgar Wind and a New Journal". The Edgar Wind Journal 1 (2021): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.53245/EWJ-00001.
    Open access • Published
  11. Tononi, Fabio. "The Aesthetics of Freud: Movement, Embodiment and Imagination". Reti, saperi, linguaggi: Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences 8 1 (2021): 125-154. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.12832/101348.
    Open access • Published
  12. Tononi, Fabio. "Intermediality and Immersion in Gaudenzio Ferrari's Adoration of the Magi in Chapel V of the Sacred Mountain of Varallo". PsicoArt: Rivista di Arte e Psicologia 10 (2020): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2038-6184/11445.
    Open access • Published
  13. Tononi, Fabio. "Andrea Mantegna and the Iconography of Mourners: Aby Warburg's Notion of Pathosformeln and the Theory of Aesthetic Response". IKON: Journal of Iconographic Studies 13 (2020): 79-94. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.IKON.5.121566.
    Open access • Published
  14. Tononi, Fabio. "Aesthetic Response to the Unfinished: Empathy, Imagination and Imitation Learning". Aisthesis: Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico 13 1 (2020): 135-153. https://doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-10737.
    Open access • Published
  15. Tononi, Fabio. "Ideology and Memory in Fabio Mauri's Performances and Writings from 1970s: An Example of Institutional Critique in Italy". ARTisON 9 (2019): 107-124. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.37935/aion.v0i9.244.
    Open access • Published
Online resource
  1. Tononi, Fabio. “Life after the Warburg: Fabio Tononi”, Interview by Gemma Cornetti. 2022. https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/blog/life-after-warburg-fabio-tononi.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/08/01 Encounters between the Humanities and the Cognitive Neurosciences: The Role of Emotion, Imagination and Memory in Visual Imagery
Sapienza University of Rome (Rome, Italy)
2024/04/22 Sophocles’ Antigone: Philosophy, Politics and Psychoanalysis
Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2023/12/14 Ernst Gombrich and the Concept of ‘Ill-Defined Area’: Perception and Filling-In
School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH), NOVA University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/11/02 Worringer, Dewey, Goodman, and the Biology of Aesthetic Experience
Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy (Turin, Italy)
2023/10/24 Reading Sophocles' Antigone: Death, Burial, and Kinship
https://different-level.com/ (Online, United Kingdom)
2023/07/12 Byung-Chul Han's Notion of Hyperculture: Culture and Globalisation
Centre for the Humanities (CHAM), Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH), NOVA University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/04/25 Farewell to Postmodernism?
https://different-level.com/ (Online, United Kingdom)
2023/04/19 Gombrich and the Concept of ‘Ill-Defined Area’: Perception and Filling-In
Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Academic Conference Center, Prague, Czech Republic (Prague, Czech Republic)
2023/04/03 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on Laocoön: Empathy, Mental Completion, and Predictive Perception
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/03/15 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on Laocoön: Empathy, Mental Completion, and Predictive Perception
https://different-level.com/ (Online, United Kingdom)
2023/02/23 Biology of Images: Empathy, Collective Memory, and Neurophysiology
https://different-level.com/ (Online, United Kingdom)
2023/01/19 Success and Failure in the Representation of the Self in the Age of Social Media
https://different-level.com/ (Online , United Kingdom)
2023/01/11 Aby Warburg and Edgar Wind on the Biology of Images: Empathy, Collective Memory, and the Engram
Centre for the Humanities (CHAM), Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH), NOVA University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/08/17 Philosophy and Science: An Ontological Approach
University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia)
2022/07/08 Heidegger on the Difference between Philosophy and Science
University of St Andrews (St Andrews, United Kingdom)
2022/06/20 Philosophy and Science: An Ontological Approach
University of California (Irvine, United States)
2022/04/21 Philosophy and Science: An Ontological Approach
Inter-University Center (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
2022/04/08 Quantum Physics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Metaphysics of Morality
Department of Philosophy, Siena Heights University (Adrian, United States)
2022/02/24 Quantum Mechanics, Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Metaphysics of Morality
The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) (Cincinnati, United States)
2022/01/18 The Transformation of Images in the Age of Modernism, Postmodernism, and Digital Reproducibility
Faculty of Fine-Arts, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/12/10 Quantum Physics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Metaphysics of Morality
Institute of Philosophy, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (Lublin, Poland)
2021/11/18 Quantum Mechanics, Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Metaphysics of Morality
Saint-Petersburg University (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2021/10/28 Warburg, Wind, and the Concept of Kulturwissenschaft: A Remark on Imagery, Symbols, and Expression
Italian Cultural Institute of London (London, United Kingdom)
2021/10/20 The Transformation of Images in the Age of Modernism, Postmodernism, and Digital Reproducibility
University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
2021/09/22 Aesthetic Response to the Unfinished: Immersion, Imagination and Imitation Learning
University of Messina (Messina, Italy)
2021/09/09 Multisensory Perception and Multimodal Mental Imagery
University of Salzburg (Salzburg, Austria)
2021/09/01 Heidegger on the Difference between Philosophy and Science Sixth Annual Conference of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science
Society for the Metaphysics of Science (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
2021/06/07 Aesthetics, Technique and Emotion
Università degli Studi di Milano (Milan, Italy)
2021/05/22 The Iconography of Mourners: Lament, Corpse, and the Question of Empathy
Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick (Warwick, United Kingdom)
2021/04/12 The Aesthetics of Freud: Movement, Embodied Simulation and Motor Imagery
Jagiellonian University, Kraków (Kraków, Poland)
2019/11/28 A Contribution to the Study of Aesthetic Responses to the Unfinished in Renaissance Works of Art: Empathy, Imagination and Imitation Learning
School of Advanced Study, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2019/11/21 The Unfinished: Terminological Problems and Aesthetic Implications
Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2019/05/30 Andrea Mantegna and the Iconography of Mourners: Aby Warburg's Notion of Pathosformeln and the Theory of Aesthetic Response
Center for Iconographic Studies, University of Rijeka (Rijeka, Croatia)
2019/04/12 Intermediality and Immersion in Gaudenzio Ferrari's Adoration of the Magi in Chapel V of the Sacred Mountain of Varallo
Royal Holloway, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2019/03/29 The Future of Art History: From Aby Warburg to Cognitive Neurosciences
University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2019/02/13 Aesthetic Response to the Unfinished: Empathy, Imagination and Observational Learning
The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2018/09/06 A Living Sculpture in the New Sacristy: A Neuroscientific Perspective on Animism
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge (London, United Kingdom)
2018/06/06 The ‘Unfinished’ in the Visual Arts: Definition, Categories and Neurological Response
The Warburg Institute (London, United Kingdom)
2018/04/11 Beyond Vision: The Relationship between the Phenomenon of the Unfinished in the Visual Arts and the Theory of Ideas
Royal Holloway, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2016/03/08 Humanism and the Making of Identity in the Fresco Cycle of the Room of the Months at Palazzo Schifanoia
The Warburg Institute (London, United Kingdom)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/07/12 - 2023/07/15 VI CHAM Conference: Heritage for a Common Future / Futures for a Common Heritage (2023/07/12 - 2023/07/15)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/11/15 - 2018/11/15 III Postgraduate Symposium of the Warburg Institute: “Mnemonic Waves” (2018 - 2018)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 University of London, School of Advanced Study, The Warburg Institute, United Kingdom

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/10/21 - 2024/10/21 Gombrich before and after Gombrich
Conference
Technische Universität Wien Institut für Kunst und Gestaltung, Austria
2024/08/06 - 2024/08/06 Chair, “Aesthetics and Philosophies of Art”, XXV World Congress of Philosophy: Philosophy across Boundaries, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, 6 August 2024.
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
2024/04/16 - 2024/04/16 “Edgar Wind in Oxford”. Launch of the book: Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment, ed. by Jaynie Anderson, Bernardino Branca and Fabio Tononi, Oxford, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York: Peter Lang, 2024. Launchers: Professor Peter Burke and Professor Oswyn Murray. Trinity College, Garden Room and de Jager Auditorium, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 16 April 2024.
University of Oxford Trinity College, United Kingdom
2023/04/20 - 2023/04/20 Chair of a panel
Conference
 The Influence of the Vienna School of Art History III: Origins, Modifications and Influences of Its Theoretical Concepts
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art History, Czech Republic

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - Current ARBOR: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2022 - Current ITINERA: Rivista di filosofia e teoria delle arti
2021 - Current Aesthetic Investigations
2021 - Current Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics
2021 - Current The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts
2021 - Current The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
2021 - Current Reti, saperi, linguaggi: Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences Il Mulino
2021 - Current Noûs Wiley
2021 - Current Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy Springer
2021 - Current Journal of Art Historiography
2020 - Current Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
2020 - Current The Philosophical Review Duke University Press
2020 - Current Mind Oxford University Press
2020 - Current Philosophical Psychology
2020 - Current Philosophy Cambridge University Press
2020 - Current British Journal of Aesthetics Oxford University Press
2020 - Current Leonardo MIT Press
2020 - Current Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics
2020 - Current Aisthesis: Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
2020 - Current International Journal for Digital Art History
2020 - Current Art History: Journal of the Association for Art History
2020 - 2020 Museological Review

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2019/01 - 2024/10 Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (CCM), Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR), School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London
Member
 School of Advanced Study Institute of Languages Cultures and Societies, United Kingdom

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/09 - 2025/05 Aesthetics and Art Theory Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/09 - 2025/05 Philosophy of Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism and Hypermodernism Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/08 - 2024/09 The Philosophy of Heidegger: Being, Reason and Truth Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/07 - 2024/08 Sophocles’ Three Theban Plays: Philosophy, Politics and Psychoanalysis Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/05 Introduction to Metaphysics (Pós-Graduação) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/05 Introduction to Aesthetics (Pós-Graduação) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/08 - 2023/09 The Aesthetics of Aby Warburg (Pós-Graduação) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/07 - 2023/08 Aesthetics and Experimental Aesthetics (Pós-Graduação) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/01 - 2023/03 Postmodernism (Pós-Graduação) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/01 - 2023/03 Philosophy, Science and the Question of Reality (Pós-Graduação) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2024/10 - 2024/10 34th Annual APPE International Conference
Evaluator
2024 - 2024 Jury President, Jury for the selection of a predoctoral research fellowship (for IMCS – Imagination and Memory at the Intersection of Culture and Science), Centre for the Humanities (CHAM), Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH), NOVA University of Lisbon, 2024.
President
 Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2023 - 2023 VI CHAM Conference
Evaluator
2023 - 2023 33rd Annual APPE International Conference
Evaluator
2018 - 2018 III Postgraduate Symposium of the Warburg Institute
Evaluator
 School of Advanced Study The Warburg Institute, United Kingdom

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - Current Himalayan Society Journal: A Journal of Social Sciences Himalayan Research Institute
2021 - Current The Edgar Wind Journal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/04/01 - 2024/07/01 Pre-doctoral Researcher: Franziska Maria Urban, three months (2024). Franziska Maria Urban

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020 - 2020 Premio Strega

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/10/20 - 2024/10/23 Vienna, Austria. For the study titled: “Max Dvorák, Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin: Geistesgeschichte or Kulturgeschichte?”, 20–23 October 2024.
2024/06/01 - 2024/06/05 Orvieto and Arezzo, Italy (with pre-doctoral research fellow Franziska Maria Urban). In the ambit of the Exploratory Project: IMCS – Imagination and Memory at the Intersection of Culture and Science. For the study titled: “The Expression of Motions and Emotions in Luca Signorelli’s Fresco Cycle of San Brizio Chapel in Orvieto (1499–1504): Memory, Imagination and Einfühlung”, 1–5 June 2024.