Antonio Aliotta

Prominent Italian philosopher, historian of philosophy. A student of the Brentanians Felice Tocco and Francesco De Sarlo in Florence, he graduated in 1903 with a thesis in experimental psychology. With his "dynamic pantheism" - an anti-positivist, neo-hegelian epistemology exposed in his most famous work, "The Idealist Reaction Against Science" (1912) - he put provided an idealist alternative to the dominant positions of Croce and Gentile in Italy. Founder of the Italian version of "Logos". His later, post-war approach to epistemology, which he refers to as his "experimentalism", traces a path between pragmatism and spiritualism.