Boards Editor-in-chief of Axiomathes, a peer-reviewed academic journal in ontology and cognitive systems, Springer Editorial board of the journals Cognitive Semiotics, Meinong Studies, Balkan Journal of Philosophy Editorial boards of the series Process Thought (Ontos Verlag) and Dialogikon (Cracow) Co-founder and member of the board of directors of Mitteleuropa Foundation (Bolzano), a research centre in ontology and cognitive analysis Academic Board of Directors of the Metanexus Institute, Philadelphia Courses Applied Ethics Ontology (usually divided into two parts: the former dedicated to philosophical ontology, the latter to computer-based ontologies) Futures Studies and Anticipatory Systems Visiting Fellowships I have been Visiting Scholar at The Department of Philosophy of Indiana University, Bloomington (1987) The Forschungsstelle und Dokumentationszentrum für Österreichische Philosophie, Graz (1988) The Department of Logic of the Jagiellonian University, Cracow (1990) The Department of Mathematics of McGill University, Montreal (1999) The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (EVA), Leipzig (2006) The École normale supérieure Lettres et Sciences humaines, Lyon (2007) The Department of Philosophy of the University of Texas at El Paso (2007). Lectures I have been invited to lecture (occasionally more than once) by academic institutions in Catania, Cork, Cracow, El Paso, Foggia, Leipzig, London (Canada), Iwate (Japan), Lyon, Madrid, Montreal, Moscow, Oxford, Paris, Philadelphia, Pisa, Rome, Salerno, Salzburg, San Marino, Sibiu (Romania), Sofia, Tokyo, Turin, Urbino, Warsaw and Zaragoza.