Olfaction: An Interdisciplinary Perspective from Philosophy to Life Sciences

Nicola Di Stefano graduated in Philosophy from the University of Milan and in double bass from “G. Verdi” Conservatory of Milan. He then obtained his PhD from Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome with a thesis on musical consonance and dissonance. He has been post-doc researcher at FAST (Institute of Philosophy of Scientifc and Technological Practice), Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, before obtaining a two-year  research fellowship at the  Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage,  Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Currently, he works as researcher at the National Research Council of Italy. His research activity focuses on aesthetics and neuroaesthetics. He authored a book on music perception and theory and many articles in international scientifc journals, such as Frontiers in Psychology, Psychology of Music, Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, Systems, Rivista di Estetica, and Studi di Estetica. He also authored chapters and co-edited volumes for international publishers, such as Springer and McGraw-Hill. He is adjunct professor at Roma Tre University and at the University of Arkansas Rome Center. He is member of the editorial board of Sensibilia Colloquium on Perception and Experience of the International Lexicon of Aesthetics and of De Musica. He is member of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) and the Società Italiana d’Estetica (SIE)