I hold a PhD from Ca’Foscari University of Venice (2019). In 2020–21, I was an Ernst Mach fellow at the University of Vienna. In 2022, I was a junior fellow at the Eric Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies (Cologne), with a joint project (with Erik Norman Dzwiza-Ohlsen) on shadows. My research interests lie at the intersection of phenomenology, cognitive archaeology and cultural anthropology. I have written and presented papers on topics such as temporality, artifacts, clocks, and cave-art. I am co-editor (with Giuseppe Torre and Basil Vassilicos) of a volume on "The experience of noise" (Palgrave, forthcoming in 2024). Recently, I have been developing a phenomenological approach to artefacts and cultural practices that incorporates ideas from embodied cognition, enactivism and ecological psychology, trying to bridge the study of perception and affordances with the analysis of expressivity and symbolic behaviour. I see philosophy as a collaborative endeavour, crossing boundaries between disciplines and concepts, raising critical questions about human becoming.
My most important publications are:
- Pellizzer, F. T. (2024). "The Salience of Things: Toward a Phenomenology of Artifacts (via Knots, Baskets, and Swords)." Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
- Pellizzer, F. T. (2024). "Time as Image of the Manifold. Heidegger and the Rules of the Synthesis." The Southern Journal of Philosophy.
- Pellizzer, F. T. (2024, forthcoming). "Pointing and Time. Prolegomena to the History of Clocks." In Dzwiza-Ohlsen, E. N. (Ed.), Deixis – Zeigen – Pointing. Ansätze zu einer phänomenologischen Anthropologie, WBG
- Pellizzer, F. T. (2022). "Primitive Dasein: On Signs and Fetishism in Heidegger’s Phenomenology."The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, IXX.