Sala Roberta Professore OrdinarioPhilosophySPS/01

Permanent position (Tenure): Full Professor, Political Philosophy and Public Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

Education:

Scientific Lyceum Legnano 1983, 60/60

Doctor of Philosophy, 1989, 110/110 magna cum laude (dissertation: The idea of toleration in John Locke)

PhD Bioethics (dissertation: Toleration and bioethics) 

 

Fellowships:

 

Fellowship at the Department of Medical Humanities, Foundation Centro San Raffaele, Milan, Italy 1989-90

Research Assistant at J. Safra Foundation Center of Ethics, Harvard University, December 2005-January 2006

Visiting Fellow at Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London UK, October 2007/January 2008 (director: prof. Tim Crane)

Jemolo Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford (UK), July 2008 (director: prof. David Miller)

Research Fellow at Department of Comparative Cultural and Social Antropology, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (D), Sept 2009 (director: prof. Werner Schiffauer).

 

 

Positions and awards:

 

Scholarship at the Department Medical Humanities, Centro San Raffaele, Milan, research activity in bioethics and professional ethics 1990-1995

Scholarship at the Faculty of Psychology and Medicine, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, teaching and research activity in political philosophy and bioethics, 1995-2004

Partner responsible, European Commission Project Ethical Codes in Nursing: European Perspectives, Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, 1998-2002

Partner European Commission project Xenotransplantation: ethical, social, economic and juridical aspects, concerted action contract BIO4-CT98-0512, 1998.

Partner, Research Project Problemi bioetici in una società multietnica, Veritatis Splendor Institute, Bologna, Italy 2001-2003

Partner, Research Project Implementazione della banca dati sulla salute della popolazione straniera con analisi dei dati e commenti. Ricerca prevenzione e tutela della salute in particolare le Mutilazioni genitali femminili, ISMU Foundation, Regione Lombardia, 2004-2006

Instructor and Teacher at Insubria University, Como, Italy, Course “Strumenti concetttuali e culturali di base: nozioni filosofiche di base e lessico gius-politico”, 2004-2006

Teacher at IES, Institute for the International Education of Students, Catholic University, Milan, Italy, Course “Between realism and revolution: Italian political thought in the XIX and XX centuries”, 2004-2006

Instructor, Course of Political Philosophy, Graduate School in Social, Political and Economic Sciences PhD in Political Studies, University of Milan, Italy, 2006-2012

Member of the Scientific Committee of CeSEP, Centro Studi Etica Pubblica, Faculty of Philosophy, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, 2008-2012

Research Director of the project Valori civili e convivenza interculturale nelle scuole, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, and Comune di Milano, Milan, a.s. 2008-2009

Member of the Scientific Board, Winter School “The Phenomenological Mind” Research Center in Phenomenology and Sciences of the Person at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan Faculty of Philosophy, under the sponsorship of the secondarie di primo grado milanesi, CeSEP – Centro Studi di Etica Pubblica, Faculty of Philosophy, and University of Milan-Department of Philosophy, 26/28 January 2010.

Member of the Scientific Board, Spring School “Making the Social World”, Research Center in Phenomenology and Sciences of the Person at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Faculty of Philosophy, Milan, 7-10 June 2011

Member, Teaching Committee of Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political sciences, “Istituzioni e politiche pubbliche”, XXV, University of Milan, 2009/2010.

Member, research team University Oriental Piedmont, “Amedeo Avogadro”, coordinator: prof. A.E. Galeotti, partner EU research project Towards a “Topography” of Tolerance and Equal Respect. A comparative study of policies for the distribution of public spaces in culturally diverse societies, Collaborative Project FP7 (Grant Agreement no. 244549), 2010/12.

Member, research project PRIN 2008TR3MLZ_005, scientific coordinator prof. M. Nicoletti, scientific chief prof. A. Besussi, University of Milan, “Verità, politica, giustizia: teorie e pratiche”.

Member, research project PRIN 2015CX78PN - SH2, scientific coordinator prof. B. Pastore, scientific chief prof. A. Facchi, University of Milan, “Soggetti di diritto e vulnerabilità”

Member, research project PRIN 20175YZ855 – SH5, scientific coordinator prof. M. De Caro, scientific chief prof. M. Reichlin, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, “New challenges for applied ethics. The moral impact of scientific and technological advances”

Director CeSEP, Center of Studies on Ethics and Politics, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy, 2016 on

Scientific chief Unity University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, research project “Enhancing Social Innovation in Elderly Care: values, practices and policies” – INNOVAcaRE (1-caRE), Fondazione Cariplo ‘Aging and social research: people, places and relations 2017 Project’, principal investigator prof. A. M. Chiesi, University of Milan

Member Scientific Committee Interfaculty Center Gender Studies GENDER, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, 2016 on

Member Scientific Committee SWIP Italia, Society for Women in Philosophy, 2018-2021

Member of Editorial Board ‘Biblioteca della Libertà’ (ISSN 2035-5866), Centro Einaudi, Torino, 2016 on

Co-Editor di Phenomenology and Mind, The online Journal of the Faculty of Philosophy, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan 2016 on

Peer reviewer for: European Journal of Political Theory; Philosophical News; Glocalism. Journal of culture politics and innovation; Ethical Theory and Moral Practice; Topoi. An international review of philosophy; Journal of Politics and Law; Notizie di Politeia

 

 

Research Interests:

 

Areas: Political philosophy, Public Ethics, Bioethics

Subjects: Toleration, Classical and Contemporary Liberalism, Multiculturalism, Secular Bioethics

Teaching Areas: Ethics & Politics, Political Philosophy, Bioethics

 

 

Publications:

 

Books:

 

Bioetica e pluralismo dei valori, Liguori, Napoli, 2003

Etica e bioetica per l’infermiere, Carocci, Roma, 2003

(ed.) Scritti sulla tolleranza, La Nuova Italia, Milano, 2004

La verità sospesa. Ragionevolezza e irragionevolezza nella filosofia politica di John Rawls, Liguori, Napoli, 2012

La cura come professione, Carocci, Roma, 2014

Il silenzio di Dio, Edizioni San Paolo, Cinisello B., 2014

 

Articles (selection 2012-2019):

 

(2019) Modus Vivendi and the Motivations for Compliance. In (a cura di) J. Horton, M. Westphal, U. Willems, The Political Theory of Modus Vivendi. pp. 67-82, Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing

(2019) Il ruolo della guerra nella teoria liberale. In (a cura di) G. Pili, Socrate va in guerra: filosofia della guerra e della pace. pp. 93-115, Bologna: Le Due Torri Editore

(2018) A Religious Reading of Rawls’s Works Paul Weithman’s Rawls, Political Liberalism and Reasonable Faith. “Filosofia e questioni pubbliche”, vol. 8, pp. 53-66, ISSN: 2240-7987

(2018) Chiamare le ingiustizie con il loro nome: un compito per la filosofia politica. “ViaBorgogna 3”, vol. 3, pp. 106-113, ISSN: 2499-5339

(2018). Introduction: Focus on Modus Vivendi. “Biblioteca della libertà”, vol. 53, pp. 3-8, ISSN: 2035-5866

(2018) Pluralismo religioso, tolleranza e modus vivendi. “Rivista di Filosofia del Diritto”, vol. 7, pp. 105-124, ISSN: 2280-482X

(2018) La corona e il potere. Riflessioni di filosofia politica. In (a cura di) A. Marinoni-Palmieri, S. Piccolo Paci, Corone. Dall’invenzione alla ricostruzione storica. pp. 43-47, Milano: Silvana

(2018) Call it Public Metaphysic: A New Way for Liberalism in Sebastiano Maffettone’s Works. In (a cura di) G. Pellegrino, Legitimacy, Democracy and Disagreement. Essays in Honour of Sebastiano Maffettone. pp. 39-50, Roma, Luiss University Press

(2018) con F. Pongiglione. Migranti climatici. Una nuova categoria di migranti?. “La Società degli individui”, vol. 61, pp. 74-88, ISSN: 1590-7031 (61)

(2017) Presentazione del forum Religioni e spazio pubblico. “Notizie di Politeia”, vol. 33, pp. 3-4, ISSN: 1128-2401

(2017), Lo spazio per le religioni nella sfera pubblica. “Notizie di Politeia”, vol. 33, pp. p. 5-14, ISSN: 1128-2401

(2016) Multiculturalismo oltre le culture. “Notizie di Politeia”, vol. 32, pp. 135-140, ISSN: 1128-2401

(2015) May Joint Commitment Stabilize Modus Vivendi. “Phenomenology and Mind”, vol. 3, pp. 172-180, ISSN: 2280-7853

(2015) È possibile la neutralità?. “Notizie di Politeia”, vol. 31, pp. 91-94, ISSN: 1128-2401

(2015) con S. Bacin. Introduction. “Phenomenology and Mind”, vol. 8, pp. 20-24, ISSN: 2239-4028

(2015) Il metodo dei principi tra consequenzialismo e deontologismo. In (a cura di) C. Viafora A. Gaiani, A lezione di bioetica. Temi e strumenti. pp. 63-78, Milano: Franco Angeli

(2014) Ripensare la disciplina della fecondazione assistita?. “Notizie di Politeia”, vol. 30, pp. 102-105, ISSN: 1128-2401

(2014) Discussing toleration after Susan Mendus, RESET Dialogues, 2014, http://www.resetdoc.org/story/00000022421

(2014) Le ingiunzioni della tolleranza: quanto sono irragionevoli gli “irragionevoli”?. In (a cura di) P. Costa, Tolleranza e riconoscimento. pp. 31-54, Bologna: Edizioni Dehoniane

(2014) Etica infermieristica in Italia. In (a cura di) T. Faitini L. Galvagni M. Nicoletti, Etica e professioni sanitarie in Europa. Un dialogo tra medicina e filosofia. vol. 5, pp. 103-120, Trento: Università degli Studi

(2013) The place of ‘unreasonable’ people beyond Rawls. “European Journal of Political Theory”, vol. 12, pp. 253-270, ISSN: 1474-8851

(2013) I chiaroscuri della ragionevolezza. “Biblioteca della libertà”, vol. XLVIII, pp. 111-126, ISSN: 2035-5866

(2013) John Rawls. Politica, non verità. In (a cura di) A. Besussi, Verità e politica. Filosofie contemporanee. pp. 113-128, Roma: Carocci Editore

(2012). Diventare donne. L’educazione delle bambine come educazione alla propria libertà. “Pedagogika.it”, vol. 16, pp. 31-37, ISSN: 1593-2559

(2012) Reasonable values and the value of reasonableness. Reflections on John Rawls' Political Liberalism. “Phenomenology and Mind”, vol. 2, pp. 150-157, ISSN: 2239-4028

(2012) Tradizione e cittadinanza. Il modus vivendi come modo per l'inclusione dei ‘non ragionevoli’. “Philosophical News”, vol. 5, pp. 114-126, ISSN: 2037-6707