Volpe Alessandro Ricercatore a tempo determinatoPhilosophy

Alessandro Volpe is a Researcher in Moral Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan. He is member of the European Centre for Social Ethics.

His research focuses on contemporary critical theory, the idea of solidarity and the relationship between Europe and philosophy.

 

Previously, he was a research fellow and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.

He was also a research fellow at the Fondazione Fratelli Confalonieri (Milan) and Visiting doctoral fellow (2019-2020) in the Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders” at the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, under the supervision of Rainer Forst.

 

He currently teaches “The Western Tradition: Moral and Political Values” at the University of Milan-UniSR and “Ethics for Engineers” at Carlo Cattaneo University in Castellanza (VA).

 

He is a member of the Italian Society of Critical Theory; Italian Society of Moral Philosophy; member of the editorial board of the scientific journal “The Future of Science and Ethics”.

Since 2022 he has been also a scientific consultant of Fondazione Umberto Veronesi.

 

Since 2017 he has been coordinator of the permanent seminar “History, Utopia, Emancipation” at UniSR and since 2021 co-curator of the series of seminars “Europa anni ‘20”, in collaboration with Casa della Cultura in Milan, a project winner in 2022 of the “University4EU” Prize.

 

 

Areas of specialization

 

Jürgen Habermas; Solidarity; Contemporary critical theory; Philosophy and European identity.

 

Areas of expertise

 

Moral philosophy; Social ethics; Normative ethics; European studies.

 

Books:

 

- Solidarietà. Filosofia di un’idea sociale, Carocci, Roma; ISBN: 9788829018642

- Le ragioni dell’Europa. Habermas e il progetto d’integrazione tra etica e politica, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2021; ISBN: 9788857572246

 

Journal articles:

 

- (in pubblicazione) “Doing Justice to Solidarity: On the Moral Role of Mutual Support”, Phenomenology and Mind.

- (in pubblicazione) (con F. Tava) “Multilevel European Solidarity: From People to Institutions (and back)”, Critical Horizons.

- “Patologie del merito, riconoscimento e critica sociale”, Biblioteca della libertà, LVII, 2022 maggio-agosto 2022, pp. 1-10; ISSN 2035-5866, DOI 10.23827/BDL_2022_13

- “Hegel e l’identità politica europea”, Giornale critico di storia delle idee, 2/2017, pp. 167-181; ISBN: 9788857548067, ISSN: 2240-7995

 

Essays in volumes:

 

- Jürgen Habermas on European Solidarity, in F. Tava, N. Quénivet (eds.), European Solidarity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ECPR Press, Colchester, pp. 123-139.

- La giustizia come giustificazione. La teoria critica di Rainer Forst, in R. Forst, Normatività e potere. Per l’analisi degli ordini sociali di giustificazione, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2021, pp. 287-298; ISBN: 9788857581132

- Etica della solidarietà e integrazione europea, in L. Alici, F. Miano (a cura di), Etica nel futuro, Orthotes, Napoli-Salerno 2020, pp. 499-508; ISBN 9788893142472

- È possibile una solidarietà cosmopolitica?, in J. Nida-Rümelin, Per un nuovo umanesimo cosmopolitico, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2020, pp. 161-167; ISBN: 9788857566108

 

Edited volumes:

 

- Storia, utopia, emancipazione, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2022; ISBN: 9788857591803

- R. Forst, Normatività e potere. Per l’analisi degli ordini sociali di giustificazione, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2021; ISBN: 9788857581132