9th ICPP: Carloforte, Italy, July 16-19, 2008

Organizer: Neri Pollastri

BIO OF NERI POLLASTRI

Neri Pollastri (April 1959) lives and works in Florence, Italy. He is involved in philosophical practice since 1998 and he is a practitioner as Philosophical Consultant since 2000, both privately and in a mental health center of Public Administration. On the matter he published Il pensiero e la vita (2004, 2th ed. 2020), Consulente filosofico cercasi (2007, 2th ed. 2021) L’uomo è ciò che pensa (2008, with D. Miccione) and Il filosofo in azienda (2010, with P. Cervari), and about forty articles (some available in English). He also translated in Italian Peter Raabe’s Philosophical Counseling: Theory and Practice and coordinated for Apogeo editor the “Philosophical Practice” books series, collecting works of Achenbach, Lahav, Raabe, Schuster and many other, in Italian translation. In 2002 he founded Phronesis, the Italian Association for Philosophical Consultation, of which he was President for six years and director of its review for fifteen years. He has taught philosophical consultation in several Italian universities (Venice, Rome, Verona, Pisa, Cagliari, Messina, Catania, Bari), he was speaker at the International Conferences on Philosophical Practice in Copenhagen, Seville, Leusden, and he was one of the organisers of the IX International Conference in Carloforte, in 2008.

Presently he conducts Istituto di Consulenza Filosofica (www.istitutodiconsulenzafilosofica.it) and its Professional Course for Philosophical Consultation, according Achenbach’s concept of Philosophische Praxis, different by the current idea of philosophical counseling.

He is also involvend in traditional philosophical researches in many fields, writing the book L’assoluto eternamente in sé cangiante. Interpretazione olistica del sistema hegeliano (2001, La Città del Sole) and inquiring philosophically politics, science and - recently - the transversal concept of improvisation, both in music and in philosophical discourse and dialogue.