Dr. Riccardo Campa
Dr. Riccardo Campa is founder and president of the
Italian Transhumanist
Association,
Director of the
World Transhumanist Association, and
Professor of Sociology at the
University of Cracow, Poland where he teaches the sociology of
science
and technology and the sociology and psychology of
terrorism.
Riccardo is the author of
Nainowsze odkrycie neurofizjologii kontra homo economicus
(Polish),
La scienza come modello etico (Italian),
Critica sociologica de “La storia filosofica dei secoli futuri” di
Ippolito Nievo (Italian),
Enriques e l’abito della sincerità (Italian),
Il razionalismo critico come codice etico della scienza
(Italian),
Postmodernism is Old, Let us Go Further: a collective and
intercultural
pamphlet,
The Place of Ludwik Fleck in the Philosophical Debate,
Thematic Analysis as a Resource for the Study of Sociological
Theories, and
The Epistemological Tridimensionality of Sociology.
He received a Ph.D. in Sociology at the Nicholas Copernicus
University of Torun (Poland) in 1999, a Masters
degree in Philosophy in 1994 at the University of
Bologna (Italy),
and a Masters degree in Political Sciences in 1990 at the University of Bologna (Italy). Before
starting his academic career, he served as Lieutenant of the police
corp Guardia di Finanza, investigating organized crime.
Afterwards, he worked as a journalist for the newspaper
La Voce di Mantova
and the newsmagazine
Il Mondo. In the academic year 2004–2005 he won a
fellowship offered by
NATO to research ethical aspects of
scientific and technological development. He writes regularly
for the journal
MondOperaio.
Read
his interview (in Italian) by the Italian magazine
Futuro Prossimo.
Riccardo speaks Italian, English, French, and Polish.
He is also a musician who has recorded more than fifteen albums as a solo artist
and
with his bands. Listen to him sing Il fiore di Baudelaire,
Rinascerò,
Un tassista mai,
and Don’t talk!
