The Philosophy of Geography

The relationship between geography and philosophy is still largely in need of being explored. Geographers and philosophers share the responsibility for that. On the one hand, geographers have considered as a dangerous deviation any attempt to elaborate an image of the Earth which was not a mere replica of a cartographic representation. On the other hand, philosophers have generally been uninterested in a discipline offering little chance for critical reflection. In light of these considerations, the purpose of this book is to identify some fundamental philosophical issues involved in the reflection of geography by adopting a perspective which looks at the discipline with a specific focus on its fundamental concepts and distinctions.

Autorentext
Timothy Tambassi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Salerno and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Eastern Piedmont. His interests of research include Formal Ontology, Philosophy of Geography and Philosophy of Computer Science.
Marcello Tanca is an Associate Professor at the Department of Literature, Languages and Cultural Heritage of the University of Cagliari. His research interests concern the relationship between geography and philosophy, geography and fiction, and landscape.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. Adriana Verissimo Serrao (University of Lisbon): World, Earth and Landscape: Conceptual Distinctions 2. Marcello Tanca (University of Cagliari): Geography and Philosophy: From Ontologies to Ontogenesis3. Juliet Fall (University of Geneva): On the Italian Theory4. Hong Jiang (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Spatial order in traditional Chinese understanding5. Jean-Marc Besse (CNRS/Paris I/Paris VII): Geographicity. An essay on the elementary forms of geographical experience 6. Barney Warf (University of Kansas): Post-truth Geographies in the Age of Fake News7. Timothy Tambassi (University of Eastern Piedmont): Ontologies of Geographies8. Michel Lussault (University of Lion): The Sources of (Spatial) Self: a Way to Tackle Individual Spatiality9. Paolo Giaccaria (University of Turin) and Annalisa Colombino (University of Graz): Jamming the anthropological machine: postumanism and geography 10. Claudio Minca (Macquarie University) and Paolo Giaccaria (University of Turin): TBA11. Gianfranco Pellegrino (Luiss University of Rome): The Value of hybrid eco-systems12. Jacques Levy (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne): Space, between Metaphor and Concept13. Angelo Turco (IULM, Milan): TBA14. Franco Farinelli (University of Bologna): The Presocratic Geography15. Jean-Léonard Touadi (University of Rome Tor Vergata): TBAIndex