About

Dino works on the history of philosophy, with particular focus on the history of ontology and epistemology/logic in Early Modernity and the period of Classical German Philosophy. He is particularly interested in Christian Wolff, Immanuel Kant, and G.W.F. Hegel, and the relationship of their systems to the earlier rationalist and natural theological traditions.

His Pathways to Knowledge Fellowship project investigates the history of academic and disciplinary secularisation. He is looking into the mistaken beliefs we hold about the way in which the university disciplines and scientific theories have taken their current shape, and how our societal views on religion might have influenced these beliefs. He is particularly interested in investigating the phenomenon of exclusion of Medieval philosophy from the standard philosophical curriculum in the UK.

Dino’s project is separated into three areas of activity. The regular seminar series entitled Our ‘Irrational’ Past will bring together scholars from various disciplines to discuss the benefits of engaging with the periods of their disciplinary history which are considered theoretically superseded or do not fit into the narratives of scientific development which we often tell ourselves. Dino will also undertake historiographical research to investigate when Medieval philosophy became understood as the philosophy of the priests. Finally, he will organise a fieldwork study to investigate how the UK Philosophy academics see the place of Medieval philosophy within the undergraduate curriculum.