Riccardo Fedriga (Milan 1965) is an Italian philosopher and historian of ideas.
After graduating in philosophy from the State University of Milan, Fedriga specialized first in Denmark and then in Paris – where he obtained the Diploma of Higher Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.

Having returned to Italy, he divides his professional commitment between editorial work and academic research. Having gained tenure in 1990, he began his collaboration with Umberto Eco soon after. Together they gave life to the activities of the Higher School of Humanistic Studies of the University of Bologna, the Master in Paper and Multimedia Publishing (co-founded and co-directed until Eco’s death). This collaboration also produced the monumental History of European Civilization (24 vols.) – and a history of philosophical and scientific ideas (Philosophy and its stories 3 vols. Laterza).

Riccardo Fedriga is a specialist in several research areas such as conceptual translation between thought representation models; the dialogue between philosophical and technological traditions (both in a diachronic and synchronic sense); the evolution of media for the sharing, archiving and dissemination of knowledge; compatibilism and filtering of memory data as related themes. His articles are published in many of the most important international scientific journals.

(March 2022)