ABOUT ME

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Currently, I am the Director of NACSA. Since July 2024, I have been an assistant professor at the Universidad Mayor (Santiago, Chile). I am also a research associate for the FONDECYT Regular 1251294 ‘Modalidad, Modelos y Leyes: La Estrategia del Modelamiento Modal en Filosofía’, starting in April. 2025 In addition, I lead the team “Competencias Digitales” (“Digital Competences”) of the Futuro comittee, the Faculty’s body devoted to research and implementation of AI strategies within the University. I am currently pursuing several projects in the ethics of AI. From August 2025, I am an associate researcher at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science of the University of Johannesburg.

Previously, I was a lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. And before that, I was a teaching fellow in metaphysics and logic at the University of Birmingham. There, I played the role of the box-to-box metaphysician and research associate at FraMEPhys, the Birmingham ERC-funded group led by Professor Al Wilson. I am mainly interested in metaphysics and metaphysical areas of the philosophy of science. My work primarily focuses on the nature of properties, fundamentality, grounding, and structuralism. In 2017, The Royal Institute of Philosophy awarded me a bursary for “research in certain fundamental parts of philosophy”.

My past self was a course lecturer and a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Glasgow, where I passed my PhD in 2019. Before moving to Scotland, I studied in Genoa, Milan and, just for a wee bit, Durham. If you want to receive a copy of my full CV, get in touch with me: philosophy[at]joaquimgiannotti[dot]com

I was born in India. Soon afterwards, I was adopted by Italian and Swiss parents. The fact I bear a Portuguese name is grounded in facts about the colonial heritage of the Indian region I am from. My name is derived from the Hebrew Yehoyaqim (יְהוֹיָקִים‎), meaning “raised by Yahweh”.

While philosophy is my main passion, it is not the only one. Among other things, I am interested in fitness, animal rights, racial justice, and basketball. When I am not doing philosophy, I am working out at the gym or playing Magic: The Gathering. I am a dog-lover and a long-time AC Milan fan. Somehow, I am lucky enough to share my life with another philosopher.