Ionut Untea

Ionut Untea (Series Editor, Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy) is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Science of Southeast University, Nanjing. He obtained his French doctorate at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) in Paris in 2013, and during his PhD and postdoctoral years taught at several academic institutions in France. His first postdoctoral experience was at the University of Geneva (2014–2015). He is currently an associate researcher at Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt and has held visiting professorships and research residencies at the University of Bari Aldo Moro (2021), Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2022-2023), and Catholic University of America, Washington, DC (Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, August-September 2015). As a member of an Eastern European peasant family, Ionut is deeply committed to countering the negative perception that philosophy is something reserved for elites and is disconnected from “real” problems of daily life. Ionut’s published work may be situated at the intersection between social philosophy, political philosophy, semiotics, aesthetics of everyday life and the environment, intercultural philosophy and philosophy of religion. Ionut is expecting proposals from authors aiming at covering the gaps between the everyday and the academic and scientific spheres of life.