Antonio Calcagno holds a B.A. (University of Toronto), M.A. (University of Louvain) and a Ph.D. (Guelph). He is a specialist in Renaissance philosophy, contemporary European philosophy and social and political thought. He is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at King’s University College. Along with Dr. Steve Lofts, he is the co-founder of the Centre for Advanced Research of European Philosophy (CAREP). The Centre seeks to bring leading scholars and philosophers together to discuss the legacy of and recent developments in contemporary European thought. CAREP brings philosophy in Canada into dialogue with various European schools and traditions. He is the author of "Giordano Bruno and the Logic of Coincidence", "The Philosophy of Edith Stein", and "Badiou and Derrida: Politics, Events and Their Time".