Sacchi Elisabetta Professore associatoPhilosophyPHIL-04/B - Filosofia e teoria dei linguaggi

ORCID Id 0000-0001-8861-0046

Current and Previous positions

2017-present Associate Professor in Philosophy of Language at the Faculty of Philosophy, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy (GSD: 11/PHIL-04 Aesthetics and Philosophy of Languages; SD: PHIL-04/B – Philosophy and Theory of Languages)

2008-2017: Research Fellow (“ricercatore”, tenured position) in Philosophy of Language at the Faculty of Philosophy, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

2005-2008: Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Padua, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

2001-2005: Postdoc Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Padua Italy

2000: PhD in Philosophy, University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro

Areas of competence

Philosophy of Perception; Philosophy of Mind; Analytic Phenomenology; Philosophy of Psychology; Philosophy of Language

Research topics

Perceptual content; Criteria of perceivability; Perception and Cognition; Intentionality; Phenomenal Consciousness; Theories of Consciousness; The mark of the mental; Cognitive and sensory phenomenology; Singular Reference; Theories of mental content.

Publications

Has published numerous articles in both Italian and English in some of the leading international journals, has translated several works by H. Putnam and W. Sellars for Il Mulino and Einaudi, and is the author of the following books

• Linguaggio e pensiero. Un’introduzione alla teoria del contenuto (2013), Napoli: Liguori, ISBN: 978-88-207-6076-2.
• Pensieri e rappresentazioni mentali: Frege e il cognitivismo contemporaneo (2005). Roma: Carocci.
• Singular Thoughts: Perceptual Demonstrative Thoughts and I-Thoughts (con A. Coliva) (2001). Macerata: Quodlibet.

Academic acknowledgment

First-level academic qualification11/PHIL-04 Aesthetics and Philosophy of Languages (19-06-2023)

Visiting academic positions

-April–June 1997 visiting Student University of Oxford (Corpus Christi College). Supervisor: Prof. M.K. Davies

-September-December 1997 Visiting Student University of Oxford (Corpus Christi College). Supervisor: Prof. M.K. Davies .

- January-June 1999 Visiting Student University of Oxford (Corpus Christi College). Supervisor: Prof. M.K. Davies.

- January-March 2018. Philosophy Department – Auckland University – New Zealand.

Teaching activities and PhD supervision

2008-present BA/MA, and PhD courses in Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception, San Raffaele University Milan, Italy.

2005-2008 BA/MA courses in Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Psychology, University of Padua, Italy.

2006-2008 courses in Semiotics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Member of the panel of PhD defenses

Supervisor PhD Thesis

Research Projects

• 2022 Associate PI, PRIN 2022, "HigherOrder Perceivable Properties" (HOPP)
• 2022 Associate PI, PRINPNRR 2022, Atmospheres (ATMOS): What They Are and How They Are Grasped.
• 2017 Associate PI, PRIN 2017, "The Mark of the Mental" (MOM).
• 2015 Member of the Turin unit of the project "Intentionality, Consciousness, and Naturalization",
• New Directions in the Philosophy of Mind (with the University of Fribourg, CH, and Institut Jean Nicod, F).
• 20122016: Member of the local Milan unit of the National Research Project: Realism and Objectivity, San Raffaele University, Milan
• 20082010: Member of the local Milan unit of the National Research Project: Person , social cognition and normativity, San Raffaele University, Milan
• 2007 – 2010: Member of the local unit of the National Research Project (ex 60%): Logical and semantic criteria for ontological commitment in natural languages, Padua University.
• 2006 – 2009: Member of the local unit of the National Research Project (ex 60%): Objects of Reference, Padua University.
• 2005 – 2008: Member of the local unit of the National Research Project (ex 60%): Propositions: Semantic and Ontological Issues, Padua University.

-Administrative role and position responsibility

Member of the PQA of the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan)

Coordinator of the Didactic Tutoring Service, Faculty of Philosophy

Referee, Office of Inclusion, Faculty of Philosophy

President of the 'Merit Awards' Committees for the Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy

Scientific organisations/Coordination of academic activities (selection)

• 2025 Member of the scientific and organizing committee of the San Raffaele School of Philosophy and International Conference “Varieties of Atmospheres. Across Philosophy and History of Art” (September 30th October 2nd, 2025. PRIN-PNRR 2022 Project ATMOS)
• 2025 Organizer of the Workshop “Le atmosfere di cura” (PRINPNRR 2022 Project ATMOS). Oct 2025
• 2024 Organizer of the international workshop “Perceiving HighLevel Properties”, University San Raffaele, Milan (PRIN 2022 HOPP, 13-12 December)
• 2024 Member of the scientific committee of the San Raffaele School of Philosophy and International Conference “Exploring Personal Identities” (2nd4th October 2024)
• 2021 Member of the scientific and organizing committee of the Spring School and International Conference SRSSP “Mind, Language, and the FirstPerson Perspective” (University Vita-Salute S.Raffaele, Milan, 28-30 October 2021)
• 2021 Member of the scientific and organizing committee of a series of workshops on “The Mark of the Mental” (University VitaSalute S. Raffaele, Milano, February-July 2021)
• 2020 Member of the scientific and organizing committee of the Spring School and International Conference SRSSP “Digital Identities. Theoretical and Practical Challenges”, S. Raffaele University, Milan, (13 October)
• 2019 Organizer of the Workshop “Intentionality and Consciousness” S. Raffaele University, Milan, (15 May)
• 2017 Member of the scientific and organizing committee of “The Methods of Philosophy”, University San Raffaele, Milan (46 October)
• 2017 Member of the scientific and organizing committee of “Perception and Aesthetic Experience” Spring School of Philosophy and international Conference, San Raffaele University Milan (2224 May).
• 2016 Organizer of the Workshop “Mind and Consciousness: Some Issues in Cognitive Phenomenology”, San Raffaele University Milan (8 January)

Editorial activity

Member of the editorial board of the Journal Phenomenology and Mind

Co-guest editor TC Synthese (2026)

Referee for:

Acta Analytica, Argumenta, Dialectica, Ergo, Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy,

Phenomenology and Mind, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Science, Philosophia, Philosophical

Quarterly, Rivista internazionale di filosofia e psicologia, Rivista italiana di filosofia analitica

(APhEX) Rivista italiana di filosofia del linguaggio, The Review of Philosophy and Psychology,

Membership of scientific societies

• Member of the Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy (SIFA).
• Member of the Italian Society of Philosophy of Language (SIFL)
• Member of the scientific committee of the Centre of Phenomenology and Sciences of the Person,
• Faculty of Philosophy, University San Raffaele, Milan.
• Member of the Center for research in experimental and applied epistemology (CRESA), Faculty of
• Philosophy, University San Raffaele, Milan.
• Member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (20042008)