Valentina Ricci (1981) received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Padua, Italy, in 2011, and is currently pursuing her second PhD at the University of California, Irvine. She specializes in German Idealism, with a focus on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, aesthetics, and theory of knowledge, and is currently working on a project involving political philosophy, philosophy of language, and women’s studies. She has authored several articles and reviews on Hegel’s philosophy.
Federico Sanguinetti (1985) received his PhD from both the University of Padua and the University of Münster in 2013. He specializes in German Idealism and contemporary epistemology – particularly Hegel and McDowell – and has published several articles on Hegel and on topics related to his area of specialization.