Pongiglione Francesca Professore AssociatoPhilosophyM-FIL/03

Francesca Pongiglione is Associate Professor in the field of Moral Philosophy.

She obtained her PhD in Ethics at the University of Bologna in 2009. During her PhD she has been visiting scholar at Boston University and University of Glasgow. She has been a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Bologna, and has carried out research periods at the London School of Economics, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Collegio Carlo Alberto.

She is part of the research group of the FISR 2020 project "CoRC" (Covid Rules and Compliance) - The regulatory measures of epidemic containment.

She is a member of the PRIN 2017 "New Challenges for Applied Ethics" with the Universities of Roma Tre, Pisa and Padua.

She was unit coordinator for the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele of a MIUR-funded FIRB project entitled "Structures and Dynamics of Knowledge and Cognition" with the Universities of Turin, Bologna, Roma Tre and Cagliari.

She participated in the European project (FP-7) DYNAMIX- Decoupling growth from resource use and its environmental impacts with Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, at which she was Associate Researcher in 2014 and 2015.

She is deputy director of IRCECP (International Research Center for European Culture and Politics), member of CeSEP (Center for Studies in Ethics and Politics) and CRESA (Center for Research in Experimental and Applied Epistemology), at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele. In the past he collaborated with CIRE (Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Education) at the Faculty of Physics, University of Bologna, with an experimental project of science education in the field of climate change. She has participated in the Scientific Committee of Expo 2015, and has been responsible for the drafting of the scientific content of a thematic cluster.

She coordinates the cycle of meetings "Europa anni ‘20", for whose 2022 edition she obtained the "University4EU" award by CRUI.

She has been invited to give lectures, seminars and workshops at the universities of Exeter (UK), Ghent (Belgium), Freiburg (CH), The Hague (NL) and in various Italian universities, and has presented papers at national and international conferences.

She teaches Anthropology, Cultures and Human Rights (Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy), Social Philosophy (Master of Arts in Philosophy of the Contemporary World), and Ethics and Ecosystems for the Master of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Public Affairs at the State University of Milan.

She is currently working at the intersection between ethics and epistemology. She is also interested in environmental ethics, human rights, individual responsibility in collective actions, and migration. In the past she dealt with the moral and political thought of Bernard Mandeville, to whom she dedicated several scientific studies.

She has been referee for several national and international scientific journals, including Ethical Theory and Moral Practice; Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy; Theoria (the international Swedish philosophy journal); Journal of Environmental Education; Phenomenology and Mind; Rivista di Estetica; Studi sartriani; Etica & Politica /Ethics & Politics; Teoria; Climatic Change; Aphex (Analytical and Philosophical Explanation).

( Agg. 01 mar.2022)