Diego Fontanive


Diego
was born in Venice, Italy, in 1973. He is a tutor, author, and speaker focusing on various fields including metacognition, applied critical thinking, consciousness, thinking, psychosocial conditioning, and cognitive biases.
He has a background in Political Science, Sociology, and Analytical Philosophy. Diego has lived in many places,
mostly in Italy, Bali-Indonesia, Singapore, India, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tenerife-Spain, the UK, and other places in Asia and Europe.

He is the founder of the EOF Project.
His main focus is on inquiring into topics such as beliefs, dogmatic thinking, cognitive fallacies, the difference between the activity of thinking and the fabrication of thoughts, and anything that can reduce our ability to think accurately, therefore so often resulting in irrational psychosocial suffering, conflicting proclivities, illusions, dogmas, and general cognitive disorders.
Diego accompanies people in observing and decoding their thought processes without telling them what to think.

He has proposed numerous articles and speeches for the Psychological, Philosophical & Social Science community, analogous institutions, and social science conferences, including UN events.

 


A Brief Story of EOF Project

The idea of the EOF project was born around 2010. Originally the project was called ´´End Of Fear Project´´,
only to be shortened later to simply EOF.
The name End Of Fear, now and then, refers to the need to develop the thinking skills that are needed
to identify irrational fears, such as fears generated by unsound beliefs, superstitions, and erroneous assumptions, so as to free thinkers from such unnecessary wastage of brain power. 


´´End of fear´´ is not to be understood as ´´the end of all fear´´.

There are natural fears indeed, such as instinctual fears, which are necessary for survival.
However, the previous name of the project had attracted too many minds who were not inclined to deepen
its approaches and instead were prone to see the name more literally and through a `spiritual` interpretation.
The EOF Project instead proposes a serious, profound, accurate, metacognition/critical thinking-oriented investigation into the dynamics of our thinking and aims to explore its conditioned, fallacious, and so often irrational mechanisms.
The primary goal of the project indeed is to improve individual thinking skills.
In the long term, the project also aims to propose approaches in the field of education.
EOF`s approaches can be considered aligned with what is known as `metacognition`.

ESC 2017 -Diego Fontanive: "Meta-Memetic Thinking and Skepticism as a Meme "

Thinking Ahead: Susan Blackmore, Diego Fontanive, James Randi, Tomasz Witkowski

Who's in control? Memes and the meta memetic thinking: Diego Fontanive & Kaja Bryx

The Serious Thinking Podcast Episode 5: What We Think Is Mentally Safe, Isn't Necessarily True!

A few speeches, articles, lectures & participations through the years

◙ ”Towards a Science Of Consciousness”, Mind Events & University of Arizona, Stockholm, Sweden 2012.
◙ ”Human Security In the Balkans”, United Nations Congress, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 2014.
◙ ”Logicality After Cardiac Arrest”, Survive & Thrive; a Journal Of Medical Humanities, University of St. Cloud, Minnesota, US, 2014
[Link to article on The Journal of Medical Humanities]
◙ ”Europe and Europeanness exposed to plural observers” 7th EIO conference Europe inside-out. 2017
◙ European Skeptics Congress ESC17, University of Wroclaw, Poland. [Lecture’s video] 2017
◙ ConSymbol4 International Conference, Paul Valéry University of Montpelllier, France. 2017
◙ ETH Conference, Université Catholique de Lille, Faculté de Médecine et de Maïeutique, France, 2018
◙ ”Teaching Logic and Prospects of its Development” Conference, University of Kyiv, Ukraine. 2018
◙ ”Asking Big Questions Again”, 7th Forum of Critical Studies, University of Nice, France. 2019
◙ 3rd International Mental Health Meeting Congress, Lisbon, Portugal. 2019
◙ ICTEL19 International Conference of Teaching, Education, and Learning, Univerisity of Lisbon, Portugal, 2019.
◙ IICE Hawaii International Conference on Education, University of Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2019.
◙ ACEID19 The Asian Conference On Education & International Development, Toshi Center, Tokyo, Japan, 2019.
◙ GKA EDU 2019 International Congress On Education And Learning, University of Porto, Portugal.
◙ Congreso de Epistemopolis, Educación y Aprendizaje, Porto, Portugal [Google Scholar cit]
◙ 39th Annual International Conference On Critical Thinking, UCLL University, Leuven, Belgium.
◙ AISB2019 ”Philosophy after AI” Symposium & Convention, University of Falmouth, UK.
◙ CLMPST19 16th International Congress Of Logic, Methodology & Philosophy of Science & Technology, Prague, Czech Republic.
◙ GKAEDUTECH19, 3rd International Congress On Technologies in Education, 2019, Universite’ Paris Diderot, Paris, France.
◙ ”Humans in a Technological World: The Anthropology of Technics”, Krakow, Poland (and on Second Life), Jagiellonian University. 2019
◙ 2nd World Neuron Congress, ”Explore Recent Advancements in Neurology & Neuroscience: A Peek to Future”, 2019 Paris, France.
◙ Conference “Automaticity and Bias in Thought and Action”, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany 2019.
◙ Fragmentation of Cognition 4th International Avant-Conference 2019, University of Porto, Portugal.
◙ “Disciplinary Perspectives In Interdisciplinary Collaborations”, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, University of Porto, Portugal, 2019
◙ International Conference In Social Science and Humanities, University of Frankfurt, 2019, Germany.
◙ Human Science Research Conference 2019, New York, US, Hotel Pennsylvania, 401 Seventh Avenue 33rd St., NY, US
◙ Data and Ethics: Second Transatlantic Conference 2019, University of Vienna, Klosterneuburg, Austria.Saint Anselm College
and Center For Ethics in Business & Governance (CEBG), University of St. Andrews Centre for Responsible Banking & Finance (CRBF),
Scotland.] 2019
◙ ”Congress / Workshop on Consciousness, Models & the Artificial Creativity” 2019, Federal University of Campina Grande, Rio de Janeiro,
Brasil 2019
◙ International Congress On Education & Learning, DePaul University, Chicago, US, 2020.
◙ GKAEDUTECH20, International Congress On Technologies in Education, 2020, University Tecmilenio, Cancun, Mexico.
◙ 14th ICTEL2020 International Conference On Teaching, Education & Learning, Bali, Indonesia, 2020, Ibis Hotel, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia.
◙ 8th Forum of Critical Studies – ”Asking Big Questions Again”.Venice, Cultural Centre Don Orione Artigianelli, Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy, 2020.
◙ 31st World Summit On Psychology, Mindfulness, Psychotherapy & Social Science. Barcelona, Spain.
◙ ICRNNCA20 International Conference On Reasoning, Neural Networks, and Cognitive Approaches”, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey,
2020. [Program]
◙ ”International Colloquium in Contemporary Philosophy & Culture, Global Cultural Encounters: Impacts and Inspirations”, University of
Orléans, France (In conjunction with the Society for Philosophy as Global Conversation)
◙ ”Fifteenth Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium”, Department of History and Philosophy, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Bridgetown,
Barbados.
◙ ”The 40th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking”, The Arkansas Ozarks, Museum Hotel, Bentonville, Arkansas, US.
Organized by: The Foundation Of Critical Thinking [criticalthinking.org]
◙ ”20th Trends in Logic international conference, Logic & Reasoning: Formal and Informal”, 2020, Department of Logic at the Faculty of
Philosophy of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.
◙ 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences in the 21st Century, 2020, St Anne’s College, Oxford University, UK.
◙ ” 8th International Academic Conference on Social Sciences”, International Institute For Academic Development Istanbul, Turkey, 2020.
◙ ”Contemporary Philosophy in the Social World” [Online Conference, due to Covid-19 Crisis], Faculty of Humanities & Social Science,
University of Rijeka, Croatia.
◙ 2ndInternational Conference Modern Culture and Communication, MCC-2020_ 2020, St Petersburg University, Institute of Philosophy.
Saint Petersburg, Russia.
◙ Symposium for History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Biology in School Biology December 2020, under the aegis of the International Society
of History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) and supported by the Centre for the Advancement of STEM Teaching &
Learning (CASTeL).Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland.
◙ XIV INTERNATIONAL ONTOLOGY CONGRESS Creación Artística e Inteligencia Artificial 2021, Chillida-Leku Museum, San Sebastián,
the University of the Basque CountryUPV/EHU Faculty of Education, Philosophy & Anthropology, & the CCCB in Barcelona or the Paideia-
Galiza Foundation, Spain, [Under the Patronage of UNESCO].
◙ UNESCO ”World Logic Day 2021”, organized by The Peruvian Society for Epistemology & Logic, University of Lima, Peru [Jan 2021].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL6ybEFSA-w&feature=youtu.be [Zoom Video Full Lectures]
◙ 3rd International Colloquium in Contemporary Philosophy and Culture “Global Cultural Encounters: Impacts and Inspirations,” University of
Orléans, France. June 2021.
◙ ”Ethics, Epistemology, & Where they Come Together”, June 2021, Jilin University, China.Organized by: 张心耀 外事秘书 吉林大学 哲学社会
学院 / 地址: 吉林省长春市前进大街2699号东荣大 厦A913室
◙ XIV International Ontology Congress San Sebastián, Spain (Chillida-Leku Museum and University of the Basque Country, Faculty of
Education, Philosophy & Anthropology) Sept/Oc 2021.
◙ NASSP 2021: 38th International Social Philosophy Conference North American Society for Social Philosophy, July 2021, Neumann
University Aston Mills, Pennsylvania, United States. [Program] [short video presentation]
◙ The Future as a Present Concern: NUIG – IPS – BSP, organized by the National University of Ireland Galway, The Irish Philosophical
Society, and the British Society for Phenomenology – 2021
◙ XIV International Congress of Ontology – Natural Determinism and Free Will (2021)__ Facultad de Educación, Filosofía y Antropología of
the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastián (Spain)
◙ Virtual Vision Futures Conference/workshop, [VVF Conference: Multidisciplinary approaches to the science, philosophy, and art of biological
and machine vision] June 14th – 17th, 2021, York University Toronto, Canada
◙ State (in)stability in the age of post-truth – 2nd Annual Conference Faculty of International Relations and Diplomacy__ Libertas International
University Zagreb, Croatia November 12-13, 2021
◙ Ischia International Festival of Philosophy 2021 – La Filosofia, il Castello e la Torre”__ Island of Ischia, (Naples), Italy, 23-25 Sept 2021.
◙ Virtual Vision Futures Conference, York University, Keele Campus Toronto ON Canada
◙ Past, present and future perspectives for the nation-state – Info bubbles – fake news – post-truth – acceptance of fringe ideas in the political
mainstream – cult behaviors – digital selves – memetics International Unversity of Zagreb, Croatia, Nov 12, 2021.
◙ Contemporary Challenges and Values Conference, Dec 10,11, 2021, Institute of Philosophy of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS)
and the journal Kultura i Wartości (“Culture and Values” journals.umcs.pl/kw)
◙Towards a science of consciousness 2023 Taormina Italy (Organized by University of Tucson, Dep. Consciousness Studies, Arizona, US)
◙ 4Th World Congress on Logic and Religion, Sinaia, Romania Sept. 2023
◙ Towards a science of consciousness 2024 Tucson, US (Organized by University of Tucson, Dep. Consciousness Studies, Arizona, US)