Biography
Carlo Cogliati is currently completing a Philosophy MPhilStud at King’s College London in comparative philosophy with a thesis on Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) and Nishida Kitaro (西田 幾多郎 1870–1945) on the logic and metaphysics of ‘nothing’. He was Spalding Visiting Fellow in Comparative Religion at Clare Hall, Cambridge. He received his PhD from the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. During his doctoral studies, he was Visiting graduate student at the Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame, USA. He also received a Diploma in Theology and a BA in Philosophy from Cambridge, an MBA in Finance from Vanderbilt University (as Fulbright scholar), and a BSc in Economics from Bocconi University, Italy.
Outside his academic interest, he has over twenty-five years of trading experience in Financial Markets across (mainly) London, (but also) New York, Singapore, Tokyo, Frankfurt, and Milan.
Research
Carlo’s research interest is to promote a dialogue between Western and Eastern philosophy. Philosophy should not be restricted to one school or historical tradition, but identified with the very act of philosophizing, that is, with the act of searching for wisdom and truth in general. What we may refer to as ‘global’, ‘universal’ or ‘multicultural philosophy’ is the discussion of philosophical problems from the perspectives of multiple tradition and thus from a wider angle. Are Western transcendent metaphysics of being and Eastern immanent metaphysics of nothingness mutually exclusive or jointly determinative? Should market economy point towards Western financial democracy or Eastern financial meritocracy? The great challenge is to use the West-East divide to overcome the divide itself and create a new horizon for philosophical engagement.
Publications
Edited Books
Burrell, David, Carlo Cogliati, Janet M. Soskice, and William R. Stoeger (eds), Creation and the God of Abraham, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Articles
Carlo Cogliati, “Introduction” in David Burrell and al (eds), Creation and the God of Abraham, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 1-10.
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