Reichlin Massimo Professore ordinarioPhilosophyM-FIL/03

From august 2022 he has been dean of the Faculty of Philosophy

Education

Degree in Philosophy, Catholic University, Milan, Advance Course in Bioethics, University of Milan, Ph.D. in Bioethics at the University of Genoa.

From 1990 to 1992 he received a scholarship from the Dipartimento di Medicina e Scienze Umane, Scientific Institute Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan.

 

Teaching activity

From 1990 to 1997 teacher and coordinator of the Advance Course in Bioethics University of Milan.

From 1996 to 2000 assistant lecturer in Philosophy of science and History of contemporary philosophy at the Faculty of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. From 1999 to 2003 he taught Philosophy of science, History of contemporary philosophy and Epistemology at the Faculty of Psychology.

From 2002 to 2018 he taught Bioethics at the Faculty of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and from 2011 to 2021 also at the International MD Program of the same Faculty. He has also been invited professor at the University of Bergamo, at the MD Program of the Humanitas University Medical School, Milan and at the Theoogical Faculty of Northern Italy at Milan.

 

Academic appointments

From 2004 associate professor and from 2015 full professor of moral philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, where he teaches Ethics of Life and Ethical Theory.

From 2016 to 2022 coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Philosophy at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. From 2016 to 2022 co-director of CeSEP, Centre for Studies in Ethics and Politics. From 2002 to 2021 he was a member of the Ethics Committee of the Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan.

From 2022 he is the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy.

 

Participation in national and international research groups

From 1998 to 2000 local manager of the research unit of the Scientific Institute San Raffaele in the project on Solidarity and Care in the European Union, sponsored by the European Union within the BIOMED-2 Program, coordinated by the Institute for Bioethics, University of Limburg, Maastricht.

From 2000 to 2002 member of the working group at the Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie in Padua for the research IZS.VE.237/99 sponsored by the Ministry of Health on Bioethical reflections on the potentialities of animal use in experimentation: Cloning, transgenic animals, and xenotransplantation.

From 2005 to 2007 local manager of the research unit of the Scientific Institute San Raffaele in the project on Enhancing Human Capacities, sponsored by the European Union within the VI Framework Program (FP6-Society), coordinated by the University of Bristol.

Member of the research unit of Vita-Salute San Raffaele University for the project FIRB 2006: Bioethics in genetics: moral and legal issues in clinical, biomedical and social use of human genetics, coordinated by Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.

Member of the research unit of Vita-Salute San Raffaele University for the project PRIN 2008: Recognition, respect, and motivation. A research on the theoretical and practical bases of cooperative action, coordinated by the University of Pavia.

Member of the research unit of Vita-Salute San Raffaele University for the project Civic values and intercultural cohabitation, sponsored by the Municipality of Milan, 2008-2009.

Member of the research unit of Vita-Salute San Raffaele University for the project PRIN 2010-2011: Realism and objectivity, coordinated by the University of Basilicata.

Local manager of the research unity of Vita-Salute San Raffaele University for the project PRIN 2017: New Challenges for Applied Ethics, coordinated by the University of Rome III.

From 2017 to 2020 member of the research unit of Vita-Salute San Raffaele University for the project Enhancing Social Innovation in Elderly Care: values, practices and policies, sponsored by Fondazione Cariplo and coordinated by the University of Milan.

 

Research interests

Contemporary ethics, with special reference to neo-Kantian theories and the debate between deontological and consequentialist theories.

History of ethics, with special reference to the utilitarian tradition and the history of notion of conscience. He has written papers on Kant, Sidgwick, Hume, Smith, Price, Mill, and Moore.

Bioethics, with special reference to issues at the beginning and the end of life, the ethical issues of neuroscience and conscientious objection.

Neuroethics and moral psychology, with special reference to cognitive and moral enhancement, and to the impact of cognitive science on theoretical conceptions of moral judgment.

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Books

• Fondamenti di bioetica, il Mulino, Bologna 2021
• La coscienza morale, il Mulino, Bologna 2019
• M. Chiodi, M. Reichlin, Morale della vita. Bioetica in prospettiva filosofica e teologica, Queriniana, Brescia 2017
• M. Chiodi, M. Reichlin, Laicità e Bioetica. Prospettive filosofiche e teologiche sulla vita, Morcelliana, Brescia 2016
• L’utilitarismo, il Mulino, Bologna 2013
• Etica e neuroscienze. Stati vegetativi, malattie degenerative, identità personale, Mondadori Università, Milano 2012
• Etica della vita. Nuovi paradigmi morali, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2008
• Aborto. La morale oltre il diritto, Carocci, Roma 2007
• R. Price, Rassegna delle principali questioni della morale, edited by M. Reichlin, Bompiani, Milano 2004
• Fini in sé. La teoria morale di Alan Donagan, Trauben, Torino 2003
• L’etica e la buona morte, Edizioni di Comunità, Torino 2002
• Introduzione all’etica contemporanea, Europa Scienze Umane, Milano 2000
• P. Cattorini, M. Reichlin, Bioetica della generazione, Sei, Torino 1996
• P. Cattorini, R. Mordacci, M. Reichlin (eds.), Introduzione allo studio della bioetica, Europa Scienze Umane, Milano 1996.

 

Articles (selection)

 

• The Reasonableness Standard for Conscientious Objection in Healthcare, «Journal of Bioethical Inquiry», 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-021-10165-5
• Persona e animali, in C. Ciancio, G. Goisis, V. Possenti, F. Totaro (eds.), Persona. Centralità e prospettive, Mimesis, Milano 2022, pp. 183-195
• Potenziamento morale, in A. Lavazza, V.A. Sironi (eds.), Neuroetica. Interpretare e orientare la rivoluzione delle neuroscienze, Carocci, Roma 2022, pp. 157-167
• La coscienza tra senso morale e ragion pratica, in M. Ostinelli (ed.), I classici e la filosofia contemporanea. Letture e interpretazioni, Carocci, Roma 2021, pp. 187-200.
• “Principles of Biomedical Ethics”: un bilancio, «La Società degli individui» 24, 2021, n. 72, pp. 13-25.
• Una ‘pietra fondamentale’ della morale? L’etica senza libero arbitrio, «Studi kantiani» 34, 2021, n. 1, pp. 27-38
• L’etica di Maurizio Mori: tra utilitarismo delle norme ed etica dell’autonomia, in P. Donatelli, E. D’Orazio (eds.), La filosofia e l’impegno civile di Maurizio Mori, Le Lettere, Firenze 2021, pp. 133-146
• Prioritarianism in Health-Care: Resisting the Reduction to Utilitarianism, «Diametros», 18, 2021, n. 69, pp. 20-32
• The role of conscience in Smith’s revised sentimentalism, «Intellectual History Review», 2020, DOI: 10.1080/17496977.2020.1782598
• The Moral Agency Argument Against Moral Bioenhancement, «Topoi», 38, 2019, pp. 53-62.
• L’ordinanza della Corte Costituzionale sul caso Cappato: osservazioni critiche, «Notizie di Politeia», 35, 2019, pp. 99-104
• On the idea of ‘method’ in moral philosophy, «Phenomenology and Mind», 7, 2018, n. 15, pp. 60-69
• Etica del potenziamento umano, in A. Fabris (ed.), Etiche applicate. Una guida, Carocci, Roma 2018, pp. 87-96
• Emotions and morality: is cognitive science a recipe for ethical relativism?, «Teoria», 37, 2017, n. 2, pp. 127-138
• Moore e l’utilitarismo novecentesco, «Rivista di filosofia» 108, 2017, pp. 33-60
• Realism and Naturalisation in a Practical Reason Account, «Ethics & Politics», 19, 2017, n. 1, pp. 141-157
• Neuroethics and the Rationalism/Sentimentalism Divide, in C. Lumer (ed.), Morality in Times of Naturalising the Mind, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, pp. 127-143
• First-Person Morality and the Role of Conscience, «Phenomenology and Mind», 3, 2014, n. 7, pp. 103-110
• Tomismo analitico e bioetica, in P. Bettineschi, R. Fanciullacci (eds.), Tommaso d’Aquino e i filosofi analitici, Orthotes, Napoli 2014, pp. 153-168
• Moral Status, in H. ten Have (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, Springer, Dordrecht 2014, pp. 1-10 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_300-1)
• On the ethics of withholding and withdrawing medical treatment, «Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine», 9, 2014, n. 39, DOI: 10.1186/2049-6958-9-39
• V. Sanchini, M. Reni, G. Calori, E. Riva, M. Reichlin Informed consent as an ethical requirement in clinical trials: an old, but still unresolved issue. An observational study to evaluate patient’s informed consent comprehension, «Journal of Medical Ethics», 40, 2014, pp. 269-275.
• Virtù e comunità nell’etica teologica di Stanley Hauerwas, in S. Hauerwas, Presenza nella sofferenza. Riflessioni teologiche sulla medicina, il ritardo mentale e la Chiesa, Edizioni CVS, Roma 2014, pp. 5-32
• Responsabilità morale e persona, in M. De Caro, A. Lavazza, G. Sartori (eds.), Quanto siamo responsabili? Filosofia, neuroscienze e società, Codice, Torino 2013, pp. 175-197
• L’amore non è soltanto chimica. I limiti di una comprensione “naturalizzata” dei legami affettivi, «Rivista internazionale di filosofia e psicologia», 4, 2013, pp. 285-295
• Neuroethics, in D. Fassin (ed.), A Companion to Moral Anthropology, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, 2012, pp. 595-610.
• The Neosentimentalist argument against moral rationalism: some critical observations, «Phenomenology and Mind», n. 3, 2012, pp. 163-175.
• The Role of Solidarity in Social Responsibility for Health, «Medicine, Philosophy and Health Care», 14, 2011, pp. 365-370.
• G. Barazzetti, M. Reichlin, Life extension and personal identity, in J. Savulescu, R. ter Meulen, G. Kahane (eds.), Enhancing Human Capacities, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester 2011, pp. 398-409
• Ordinary Moral Knowledge and Philosophical Ethics in Sidgwick and Kant, «Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics», 10, 2008, n. 2, pp. 109-136.

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