Pietro Gori is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at NOVA University Lisbon, where he is in charge of the chairs in Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Knowledge. Integrated member of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy since 2012, he is also the coordinator of the “Lisbon Nietzsche Group” at IFILNOVA.
His academic affiliations include being a member of the associations “HyperNietzsche” (École Normale Supérieure de Paris/CNRS), “Red Iberoamericana de Estudios Nietzscheanos” (UNED, Madrid), “Seminario Permanente Nietzscheano” (Italian Institute of German Studies), “Rede Ibérica de Filosofia da Ciência,” and a collaborator of the “Internationale Nietzscheforschungsgruppe Stuttgart” (University of Stuttgart).
The main areas of his academic activity are Modern and Contemporary Western Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, and Philosophical Anthropology. In this context, Gori has particularly devoted his research to representatives of an anti-foundationalist shift in philosophy, with a specific interest in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, and Ernst Mach. Since 2021, his research has also been centered on the work of the British philosopher of science Mary B. Hesse and her post-empiricist approach.
His extensive publication activity includes monographic essays, collective volumes and scholarly editions, book chapters, and articles in international journals. Among them, Gori published the book Nietzsche’s Pragmatism (De Gruyter, 2019), the volume Practices of Truth in Philosophy (Routledge, 2024, co-edited with L. Serini), and the Portuguese scholarly edition of William James’s Alguns problemas de filosofia (Edições 70, 2023).
