I am an Assistant Professor (RTDa) in Medieval Philosophy at the University of Salerno, where I teach Philosophy of Science and Logic, and an Adjunct Professor in Logic at the University of Eastern Piedmont.  

In the past few years, I was an ICUB Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ontology and Philosophy of Science at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (2016-18), a Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Eastern Piedmont (2013-14), and a Teaching Assistant in History of Political Philosophy at the University of Parma (2012-14). Moreover, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Graz (2019), Eastern Piedmont (2018), Milan (2017), Columbia (2016), and Durham (2012).

In 2013, I obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Human Sciences at the University of Verona with a dissertation entitled “The Riddle of Reality: E.J. Lowe’s Metaphysics, Ontology, and Philosophy of Mind”.

Currently, my main interests of research include Formal Ontology, Philosophy of Geography, Philosophy of Computer Science, and the Philosophy of E.J. Lowe.

Among my recent publications there are:

1. Tambassi, T. (2017): The Philosophy of Geo-Ontologies. Cham. Springer. 55+viii pp.

2. Tambassi, T. (2019): What kind of ontological categories for geo-ontologies?. Acta Analytica 34, 135-4, DOI: 10.1007/s12136-018-0370-7

3. Tambassi, T. (2020): On Scientific Ontology. A Reply to Gamper. Axiomathes, DOI: 10.1007/s10516-020-09498-4

4. Tambassi, T. (2019): What a Geographical Entity Could Be. In: The Philosophy of GIS. Ed. Tambassi, T. (Cham: Springer), 177-205, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16829-2_9

5. Tambassi, T. (2018): The Riddle of Reality. In: Studies in the Ontology of E.J. Lowe, Ed. Tambassi, T. (Neunkirchen-Seelscheid: Editiones Scholasticae).