Massimo Piattelli Palmarini
Born in Rome in 1942, he is professor of cognitive science at the University of Arizona.
He was the founder of the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the San Raffaele Institute in Milan. From 1985 to 1993 he was Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Cognitive Science at MIT and teacher of a course entitled “Rationality and Cognition”.
For two years he taught with Stephen Jay Gould at Harvard University a graduate course entitled “Evolution and Cognition”.
He had previously directed the Centre Royaumont pour une science de l’homme in Paris (chaired by Jacques Monod) and held teaching positions at the universities of Rutgers (New Jersey), Bologna, Rome, Florence and Turin, at SISSA in Trieste and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris-Sorbonne).