Alfredo Paternoster is (full) Professor of Philosophy of Language at Università di Bergamo and was chair of Department of Lettere, Filosofia, Comunicazione (july 2022-september 2025) at the same university. He is member of the PhD school board in Philosophy at FINO (joining the Universities of Torino Genua, Eastern Piedomont, Pavia, Torino and of the PhD school board in Humanistic Transcultural Studies at the University of Bergamo.
His research concerns mainly analytical philosophy of language and mind: theories of concepts, theories of perception and consciousness, cognitive semantics, mental simulation, epistemological foundations of cognitive sciences.
He is author of Linguaggio e visione (Pisa 2001), Introduzione alla filosofia della mente (Roma-Bari 2010 sec. ed.) , Il filosofo e i sensi (Roma 2007; French translation: Grenoble 2009), Persone, menti, cervelli (with Massimo Marraffa, Milano 2012), Sentirsi esistere (with Massimo Marraffa, Roma-Bari 2013), The Self and its Defenses (with Michele Di Francesco e Massimo Marraffa, London 2017, Comprendere il linguaggio (with Fabrizio Calzavarini, Bologna 2020).
He was secretary of the Società Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio (2008-2012) and member of the Committee of Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica (2004-2006).
He gave invited talks in the Universities of Torino, Piemonte Orientale, Milano Statale, Milano Bicocca, Milano S. Raffaele (Univ. Vita e Salute), Padova, Verona, Trieste, Genova, Bologna, Urbino, Macerata, Firenze, Siena, Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma Tre, Gregoriana Pontificia, L’Aquila, Salerno, Calabria, Messina, Catania, Ginevra, Bahia Blanca, Paris I-Sorbonne and Centre Jean Nicod (Parigi).
