Diego Lucci
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Education
· Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Naples Federico II, 2004
· M.A., Philosophy, University of Naples Federico II, 2001
Teaching interests
· Introduction to Philosophy (PHI101)
· Ethics (PHI220)
· Modern and Contemporary Political Philosophy (PHI304)
· Modern Philosophy and Film (PHI301 – Topics in Philosophy)
· Philosophy of Sex and Love (PHI301 – Topics in Philosophy)
· The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (PHI301 – Topics in Philosophy)
Research interests
· The philosophy of the Enlightenment
· The English Enlightenment, especially empiricism, deism, Newtonianism, skepticism, and anti-Trinitarianism
· Early modern theologies and biblical criticism
· Religious toleration from the Reformation Era to the Age of Enlightenment
· The history of Jewish-Gentile relations, especially in the early modern period
· The history of Anglophilia
Recent honors
· 2021: Senior Research Fellowship, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg
· 2018: Senior Research Fellowship, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg
· 2017: Cosmina Tanasoiu Excellence in Teaching Award
· 2017: Scholarship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Bucharest
· 2015: Induction as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
· 2015: Scholarship, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg
· 2014: Visiting Fellowship, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
· 2014: Research Fellowship, Gladstone’s Library
Representative publications
Authored books:
· John Locke’s Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), forthcoming: https://www.cambridge.org/bg/academic/subjects/phi...
· (with P. Bernardini), The Jews, Instructions for Use: Four Eighteenth-Century Projects for the Emancipation of European Jews (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2012).
· Scripture and Deism: The Biblical Criticism of the Eighteenth-Century British Deists (Bern: Lang, 2008).
Edited volumes:
· (with S. Corneanu and B.I. Goldberg), Philosophy, Religion, and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies, 11 (2022), #1, forthcoming.
· (with I. Cerman and S. Reynolds), Casanova: Enlightenment Philosopher (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2016).
· (with W. Hudson and J.R. Wigelsworth), Atheism and Deism Revalued: Heterodox Religious Identities in Britain, 1650-1800 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014).
· (with P. Bernardini) Luigi Castiglioni, Lettere dalla Francia (1784) e Viaggio in Inghilterra (1784-85) (Novi Ligure: Città del Silenzio, 2009).
· (with P. Bernardini and G. Luzzatto Voghera), La memoria del male. Percorsi tra gli stermini del Novecento e il loro ricordo (Padova: Cleup, 2006).
Selected journal articles and book chapters (out of over 40):
· “Locke and the Socinians on the Natural and Revealed Law,” in Philosophy, Religion, and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, eds. S. Corneanu, B.I. Goldberg, D. Lucci, special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies, 11 (2022), #1, forthcoming.
· “The Biblical Roots of Locke’s Theory of Personal Identity,” in Science, Religion, and the Rise of Biblical Criticism, ed. J. Ungureanu, special issue of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 56 (2021), #2, forthcoming.
· “Locke and the Trinity,” Studi Lockiani. Ricerche sull’età moderna, 1 (2020), forthcoming.
· “Reconciling Locke’s Consciousness-Based Theory of Personal Identity and His Soteriology,” Locke Studies, 20 (2020), online.
· “From Unitarianism to Deism: Matthew Tindal, John Toland, and the Trinitarian Controversy,” Études Epistémè, 35 (2019), online.
· “The Law of Nature, Mosaic Judaism, and Primitive Christianity in John Locke and the English Deists,” Entangled Religions, 8 (2019), online.
· “John Locke on Atheism, Catholicism, Antinomianism, and Deism,” Ethics & Politics, 20 (2018), #3, 201-46.
· “Political Scepticism, Moral Scepticism, and the Scope and Limits of Toleration in John Locke,” Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, 3 (2018), 109-43.
· “Ante-Nicene Authority and the Trinity in Seventeenth-Century England,” Intellectual History Review, 28 (2018), #1, 101-24.
· “Deism, Freethinking, and Toleration in Enlightenment England,” History of European Ideas, 43 (2017), #4, 345-58.
· (with P. Bernardini), “Casanova on Suicide,” Casanova: Enlightenment Philosopher, eds. I. Cerman, S. Reynolds, D. Lucci (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2016), 135-55.
· (with J.R. Wigelsworth), “‘God does not act arbitrarily, or interpose unnecessarily’: Providential Deism and the Denial of Miracles in Wollaston, Tindal, Chubb, and Morgan,” Intellectual History Review, 25 (2015), #2, 167-89.
· “William Wollaston’s Religion of Nature,” Atheism and Deism Revalued: Heterodox Religious Identities in Britain, 1650-1800, eds. W. Hudson, D. Lucci, J.R. Wigelsworth (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), 119-38.
· “Henry Dodwell the Younger’s Attack on Christianity,” Atheism and Deism Revalued: Heterodox Religious Identities in Britain, 1650-1800, eds. W. Hudson, D. Lucci, J.R. Wigelsworth (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), 209-28.