Marcello Pera

Marcello Pera (2006)

Marcello Pera (born January 28, 1943 in Lucca , Province of Lucca ) is an Italian philosopher of science , university professor and politician of Forza Italia .

Life

After studying philosophy , Pera first became a university lecturer and then in 1972 a full professor of theoretical philosophy and philosophy of science at the University of Catania and later at the University of Pisa , where he taught until 1994.

One of his specialties was galvanism and the controversy between Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta . In addition, he dealt with philosophers such as Karl Popper , David Hume and Immanuel Kant , but also with questions about Christianity , Islam , relativism , liberalism and ethics in Europe .

On April 21, 1996, he was elected a member of the Senato della Repubblica (Senate) for Forza Italia, of which he was Vice-President between 1996 and 2001, and has represented the interests of Tuscany there ever since . Between January 1998 and May 2001 he was vice chairman of the Forza Italia faction in the Senate.

On May 30, 2001 he became President of the Senate and held this position for approximately five years until April 27, 2006. Between March 2007 and April 2008 he was again Vice President of the Forza Italia parliamentary group in the Senate and has been a member of the Forza Italia group since 2009 Popolo della Libertà (PdL).

Pera has received several awards for his services and was honored not only with the Grand Cross Pro Merito Melitensi , but also with the Grand Cross of the Order of Pius .

Publications

Induzione e metodo scientifico , 1978.
Popper e la scienza su palafitte , 1981.
Hume, Kant e l'induzione , 1982.
Apologia del metodo , 1982.
La Rana ambigua. La controversia sull'eletricità tra Galvana e Volta , 1986, ISBN 978-88-06-59310-0
Scienza e retorica , 1992
Without roots: Relativism and the crisis of European culture , (original title Senza Radici: Europa, Relativismo, Cristianesimo, Islam ), co-author Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger , 2005, ISBN 3-936484-57-0
Why we have to call ourselves Christians: Plea of a liberal (original title Perchè dobbiamo dirci cristiani: Il liberalismo, l'Europa, l'etica ), foreword by Pope Benedict XVI., 2009, ISBN 978-3-86744-112-4

Awards

2002: Large gold medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria

2002: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland

2004: National Order of Merit

2005: Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique

2006: Special grade of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit Pro Merito Melitensi

Individual evidence

↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)

Web links and sources

Entry on the Senate homepage
Literature by and about Marcello Pera in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Pera, Marcello
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian science theorist, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 28, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lucca , Province of Lucca

[1] List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)