Riccardo Campa

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Riccardo Campa (born May 4, 1967 in Mantua) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Cracow. He possesses two Master of Arts degrees, in Political Science and Philosophy, from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Prior to becoming an academic, Campa was a police lieutenant with Guardia di Finanza and a journalist for La Voce di Mantova (The Voice of Mantua) and the newsmagazine Il Mondo (The World).

Campa has authored two books (both in 2001), titled Epistemological Dimensions of Robert Merton’s Sociology and Il filosofo è nudo, and his articles frequently appear in MondOperaio, an Italian socialist journal. He founded and is currently president of the Italian Transhumanist Association, and is a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

He has recorded over 15 solo and group music albums.