Maria Rosa Antognazza
{{short description|Italian-British philosopher (1964–2023)}}
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| birth_place = Tradate, Italy
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| death_place = Oxford, UK
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| awards = Member of the Academia Europaea (MEA), 2022
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| discipline = Philosophy
| sub_discipline = {{hlist | Epistemology | history of philosophy | philosophy of religion}}
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| main_interests = History of philosophy, especially Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; epistemology, especially knowledge and belief; philosophy of religion
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Maria Rosa Antognazza (10 September 1964 – 28 March 2023) was an Italian-British philosopher,{{cite web |last=Gallardo |first=Cristina |date=28 February 2018 |title=My Brexit Story: From Italian to British Citizen |url=https://www.researchresearch.com/news/article/?articleId=1373476 |url-status=live |work=Research Fortnight |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802011156/https://www.researchresearch.com/news/article/?articleId=1373476 |archive-date=2 August 2020 |access-date=2 August 2020}} who was professor of philosophy at King's College London.{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-maria-rosa-antognazza |title=King's College London - Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza |publisher=Kcl.ac.uk |accessdate=21 January 2019}}
Life and career
Antognazza was educated at the Catholic University of Milan. She held research fellowships and visiting professorships in Italy, Germany, Israel, Great Britain, Switzerland, and the USA. Among these were a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, a two-year Leverhulme Trust research fellowship, and in 2016 she was the Leibniz-Professor at the University of Leipzig. She held the 2019–2020 Mind Senior Research Fellowship for work on her book Thinking with Assent: Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief.{{cite web |last1=London |first1=King's College |title=Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964-2023) |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/maria-rosa-antognazza |website=King's College London |access-date=5 September 2023 |language=en |date=15 June 2022}}
Antognazza was head of the King's philosophy department from 2011/12 to 2014/15. She was the chair of the British Society for the History of Philosophy and the president of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-maria-rosa-antognazza |title=King's College London - Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza |publisher=kcl.ac.uk |accessdate=12 January 2020}}
In 2010, Antognazza won the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society for the best recently published book in the history of science: Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2008). She was elected to Leibniz Professorship at Leipzig University for the 300th Anniversary of Leibniz’s death in 2016. In 2021, she was the Scots Philosophical Association Centenary Fellow at the University of St Andrews. In 2022 she was elected Member of the Academia Europaea, Europe's transnational academic of the arts and sciences.{{cite web|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Antognazza_Maria_Rosa |title=MEA member page: Maria Rosa Antognazza |access-date=10 April 2023}}
Antognazza was married to British historian Howard Hotson with whom she raised three children: John, Sophia, and Francesca.{{Cite book |last=Antognazza |first=Maria Rosa |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781139012805/type/book |title=Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography |date=6 October 2008 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-80619-0 |edition=1 |doi=10.1017/cbo9781139012805|s2cid=239810196 }} She died on 28 March 2023, aged 58.{{Cite web|url=https://dailynous.com/2023/03/30/maria-rosa-antognazza-1964-2023/,%20https://dailynous.com/2023/03/30/maria-rosa-antognazza-1964-2023/|title=Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964-2023) - Daily Nous|first=Justin|last=Weinberg|date=30 March 2023|website=dailynous.com}}{{cite news |title=Maria Rosa Antognazza |url=https://kingsphilosophy.com/2023/03/29/maria-rosa-antognazza/ |access-date=1 April 2023 |work=kingsphilosophy.com |date=29 March 2023}}
Selected publications
=Single-authored=
- Thinking with Assent: Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief (Oxford University Press)
- Leibniz: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
- Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009; winner of the 2010 Pfizer Award)
- Leibniz on the Trinity and the Incarnation: Reason and Revelation in the Seventeenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).
=Edited volume=
- The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Category:21st-century British philosophers
Category:21st-century Italian philosophers
Category:Academics of King's College London
Category:Academics of the University of Aberdeen
Category:British women philosophers
Category:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz scholars
Category:Members of Academia Europaea
Category:Italian women philosophers
Category:Philosophers of religion