Roberta De Monticelli is currently Full Professor for Philosophy of Personhood at San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy. She has been Full Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Geneva, Switzerland (1989-2004). She is Chief Editor of “Phenomenology and Mind”. Among her books: L’avenir de la phénoménologie (1997) and L'ascèse philosophique - Phénoménologie et Platonisme (1995).