Phd in PHILOSOPHY

The Ethics Workshop seeks to explore philosophical reflection on ethics from the perspective of the pluralism of normative agendas and theoretical languages, across a variety of issues: foundational themes, questions of human nature seen in the dimensions of the everyday and common life, philosophical psychology, social ethics, bioethics and issues concerning the non human world and the environment, as well as the study of the history of ethics as the source of new genealogies of contemporary problems. The Workshop privileges the analytical style in philosophy, with the aim to foster a dialogue among independent critical approaches (such as the ethical liberalism of J.S. Mill and John Rawls, Martha Nussbaum’s capability approach, Amartya Sen’s anti-transcendentalism, care ethics, feminist theory and gender studies, Stanley Cavell’s moral perfectionism, Cora Diamond’s Wittgensteinian conceptual approach, Michel Foucault’s perspective on the technologies of the self, recent forms of ethical naturalism) with different disciplines such as the natural sciences, law, political theory, cognitive science, and the social sciences.  

The aim of the permanent workshop on Philosophy, gender studies and practices of differences is twofold. First, it aims at exploring and testifying to the ways in which gender differences, differences in sexuality, social and ethnical differences, illness and mental illness and other axes of differentiation have been built and read within the history of Western philosophy. Second, it aims at exploring the different lines of thought and practices which have been developed in reaction to the discriminations which found their basis in these categories and concepts: feminist philosophies, queer theories, postcolonial and anti-racist thinking and so forth. The activity of the permanent workshop will include, therefore, cycles of conferences and seminars devoted both to the history and historiography of philosophy and to more recent reflections and theorizations, together with a special attention to contemporary practical issues.

 

The permanent seminar of "Evolution, ethics and ecology" collects the legacy of two permanent seminars already active in the past years: the permanent Seminar of "Ecoevolution and Cognition" (founded and coordinated by Prof. Elena Gagliasso) and the permanent Seminar of "Animal Studies"(founded and coordinated by prof. Simone Pollo). Aim of the Seminar is to discuss the epistemological and ethical issues connected to the biological sciences, starting from the naturalistic framework of explanation and study of the living world offered by Darwinian theory and its most recent developments. The topics covered by the seminar activities are: the debate on the nature and methods of the theory of evolution; ecology, environmental philosophy and environmental ethics; animal ethics and the wider field of animal studies; the most recent developments of ethology and cognitive sciences; the relationship between science and society; environmental and animal rights movements. These and other topics will be discussed in study seminars, conferences, traineeships and training schools. Seminar activities are carried out in collaboration with Res Viva, Interuniversity Center for Epistemological and Historical Research on Living Sciences.

• 6 novembre 2020, Simone Pollo (Sapienza), L’etica naturalizzata nell’epoca del cambiamento climatico, Leonardo Ursillo (Sapienza), Dall'Origine dell'Uomo al progresso evolutivo
• 23 novembre 2020, Elena Collaro (Durham University - Newcastle University), How human bias impacts research in animal cognition; Dominika Dzwonkowska (UKSW), Virtue Ethics and Animals
• 4 dicembre 2020, Giulia Iannucci (Sapienza), Ereditare e costruire: pratiche alimentari e nicchie ecologiche; Francesco Remotti (Università di Torino), Homo sapiens? Un animale accecato dalla sua cultura
• 18 dicembre 2020, Margherita Bianchi (Sapienza), Aspetti controintuitivi del comportamento cognitivo vegetale; Gianfranco Pellegrino (LUISS), L'altra intelligenza, ovvero le conseguenze etiche dell'intelligenza vegetale

The History of Philosophy Workshop covers topics and methodological approaches in the history of philosophy from Antiquity to the present day.

• 16 gennaio (aula II, ore 15.30-17.30) - Francesco VERDE: Paideia, retorica e filosofia nel Contro i sofisti di Isocrate
• 23 gennaio (aula II, ore 15.30-17.30) - Massimiliano LENZI: «Dixit et facta sunt». Il potere della parola divina secondo Tommaso d’Aquino
• 30 gennaio (aula II, ore 15.30-17.30) - Raffaella SANTI: Hobbes e la retorica del corpo politico
• 6 febbraio (aula II, ore 15.30-17.30) - Roberto FINELLI: Falsa coscienza e autodissimulazione: il percorso sofferto dell'‘‘ideologia’’ nel pensiero di Karl Marx
• 14 febbraio (aula II, ore 15.30-17.30) - Carlo GINZBURG: Fake News? Una vecchia storia nuova
• 20 febbraio (aula II, ore 15.30-17.30) - Chiara GIORGI: Persuasione, controllo e integrazione: le politiche sociali del fascismo
• 27 febbraio (aula X, ore 15.30-17.30) - Federico LIJOI: Potere e suggestione: da Le Bon a Freud