Roberto Casati

As a researcher in philosophy and the cognitive sciences with the French CNRS, I work on the representation of space and time. My research project covers the analysis of the conceptual structures (linguistic and perceptual) that deal with space and time, and I am particularly interested in bizarre spatial objects such as shadows and holes. I published a number of papers and books on these topics, such as Holes and Other Superficialities , MIT Press, 1994, with Achille Varzi, Columbia University), La philosophie du son (in French, with Jérôme Dokic, Université de Rouen), Parts and Places: The Structures of Spatial Representation, MIT Press, 1999, with Achille Varzi, and La scoperta dell'ombra (Mondadori, 2000, to appear in English as The discovery of the shadow, Knopf and Little, Brown).

I am the recipient of two CRNS research grants: together with Elisabeth Pacherie for 1998-2000 on The interface between perception, conceptualization and action, and together with Catherine Thinus-Blanc (CNRS) on Geometric Reasoning. I am also cooperating to the IGERT project (State University of New York at Buffalo) that links geographers, philosophers, computer scientists and anthropologists.

My annotated CV contains a list of research publications.

I have a working interest in the interaction between cognition and science (e.g. naive topology) and cultural - in particular, artistic - products.