De Vecchi Francesca Maria Professore OrdinarioPhilosophyM-FIL/01

Francesca De Vecchi is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Philosophy Faculty of the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan. She teaches Social Ontology (graduate course), Gender Studies (graduate course), Philosophy of the Person (undergraduate course), and Phenomenology of the Person and Empathy (undergraduate course, Faculty of Medicine). She’s been coordinator of the graduate course and seminar of Neurophenomenology (2020/2021 and 2021/2022) and teacher of the seminar Persons and Bodies (2021/2022) at the Faculties of Philosophy and Medicine.

Since 2019 she is President of the Equal opportunities supervisory committee (CUG) and since 2021 member of the GEP (Gender Equality Plan) Commission.

She obtained a degree in Philosophy with honours at the Department of Philosophy in the University of Milan, a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies and a Ph.D in Philosophy at the University of Geneva. She was Chercheuse associée at the Archives Husserl de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris (2006-2007), Chercheuse avancée at the Département interfacultaire d’éthique of the University of Lausanne (2007-2008), and then Assistant Professor in Theoretical Philosophy (2008-2017) at the Philosophy Faculty of the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele.

She is Co-editor in chief of the journal Phenomenology and Mind and Director of PERSONA (Research Centre in Phenomenology and Sciences of the Person). She was Director of GENDER (Interfaculty Centre for Gender Studies) (2016-2022), and is now member of its Scientific Board. She is also member of the Scientific Board of the Centro interuniversitario in culture di genere.

Her main research interests are in the fields of social ontology, phenomenology of the person, gender identity, and acts of empathy, in dialogue with neuroscientific and psychiatric perspectives.

She is the author of several papers in Italian, English and French, published in international journals and volumes by Springer, Brill e Routledge. She published the books La libertà incarnata (2008, Bruno Mondadori), Eidetica del diritto e ontologia sociale (Mimesis 2012) and La società in persona. Ontologia sociale qualitativa (Il Mulino 2022, forthcoming).

She is a referee for many international journals among which Journal of Social Ontology, Journal of Social Epistemology, Humana.mente, Rivista di Estetica, Rivista internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, Language and Communication, Metodo: International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, Filosofia Neo-scolastica, Continental Philosophy Review, e for Springer, Oxford University Press, De Gruyter, Routledge.

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1. Books

1. (2003) Translation and editor of E. Stein (1941), Vie della conoscenza di Dio. La «Teologia simbolica» e i suoi presupposti nella realtà, Bologna, Dehoniana.

 2. (2006) Translation and editor (with L. Boella) of J. Hersch (1986), Rischiarare l'oscuro. Autoritratto a viva voce, Milano, Baldini Castoldi Dalai.

 3. (2008a) F. De Vecchi, La libertà incarnata. Filosofia, etica e diritti umani secondo Jeanne Hersch, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, pp. 1-279.

4. (2008b) Translation and editor of J. Hersch (1990), I diritti umani da un punto di vista filosofico, Milano, Bruno Mondadori.

5. (2008c) J. Hersch, L'exigence absolue de la liberté. Textes sur les droits humains (1973-1995), édités et présentés par F. De Vecchi, Genève, MetisPresses, with the essay «Jeanne Hersch, philosophe des droits humains».

6. (2011) S. Biancu, A. Bondolfi, F. De Vecchi (eds.), Culpabilité et rétribution. Essais de philosophie pénale, Basel, Schwabe.

7. (2012) F. De Vecchi (ed.), Eidetica del diritto e ontologia sociale. Il realismo di Adolf Reinach, Milano, Mimesis

8. (2015) Translation and editor of M. Gilbert, Il noi collettivo. Impegno congiunto e mondo sociale, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore.

9. (2022) La società in persona – Ontologia sociale qualitativa, Il Mulino, Bologna.

2. Articles in scientific journals

1. (2003) “Jeanne Hersch e il duplice oggetto della filosofia”, aut aut, 160-166.

2. (2004) “Figure dell'empatia a partire da Edith Stein. Relazione, contrattazione (Auseinandersetzung) e ascolto interiore in Etty Hillesum”, Fenomenologia e società, vol. XXVII-1, p. 100-117.

3. (2005) “Jeanne Hersch: duplicità della filosofia e filosofia come pratica”, Discipline filosofiche, vol. XV-1, p. 229-254.

4. (2009) “Préméditation: quelques remarques du point de vue philosophique, éthique et juridique”, Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie, Lausanne, n. 141 (2009), pp. 157-177.

5. (2010a) “Elementi di non concettuale in Adolf Reinach: gli atti di intendere spontaneo (meinen)”, Fogli di filosofia. Materiali di ricerca della Scuola Superiore di Studi in Filosofia (Università di Roma «Tor Vergata»), Issue 1, pp. 235-261.

6. (2010b), “Per una preistoria degli atti sociali: gli atti di significare di Edmund Husserl”, Rivista internazionale di Filosofia del diritto, 87(2010), pp. 365-396.

7. (2011a) “Collective intentionality vs. inter-subjective and social intentionality. An account of collective intentionality as shared intentionality”, Phenomenology and Mind. The online journal of the center of phenomenology and sciences of the person, N.1 (2011), ed. by R. De Monticelli, F. De Vecchi, «Phenomenology and analytic philosophy: perspectives on mind and consciousness», pp. 95-118.

8. (2011b) “Atti sociali in Czeslaw Znamierowski”, Rivista internazionale di Filosofia del diritto, 88, pp. 265-270

9. (2012a), “Ontologia sociale e intenzionalità: quattro tesi”, Rivista di Estetica, n. 49 (1 / 2012), LII, pp. 183-201.

10. (2012b), “Platonismo sociale? In difesa del realismo fenomenologico in ontologia sociale”, Rivista di Estetica, n. 50 (2 /2012), LII, pp. 75-90.

11. (2015a) “The Plural Subject Approach to Social Ontology and the Sharing Values Issue”, Phenomenology and Mind, vol. IX, p. 84-97.

 12. (2015b) Francesca De Vecchi and Silvia Tossut, “Joint Commitment, Human Life and Social Ontology”, Phenomenology and Mind, vol. IX, pp. 10-18.

 13. (2015c) “Edith Stein’s Social Ontology of the State, the Law and Social Acts. An Eidetic Approach”, Studia Phaenomenologica, vol. XV (2015), “Early Phenomenology”, ed. by D. Moran – R. Parker, pp. 303-330.

 14. (2016) “The Existential Quality Issue in Social Ontology: Eidetics and Modifications of Essential Connections”, Humana.mente. Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2016, Vol. 31, “The Enactive Approach to Qualitative Ontology: in Search of New Categories”, pp. 187-204

15. (2017) “Eidetics of law-making acts: parts, wholes and degrees of existence”, Phenomenology and Mind, 2017, vol. XIII, “Norm: What Is It? Ontological and Pragmatical Perspectives”, Edited by P. Di Lucia and L. Passerini Glazel, pp. 86-95.

16. (2018a) “Il paesaggio sociale: essenza e forme degli atti di empatia”, Bollettino filosofico, 33(2018), “Ripensare la fenomenologia, con e oltre”, pp. 85-99.

 17. (2018b) “Fenomenologia: la filosofia come eidetica e ontologia qualitativa del concreto”, Giornale di metafisica, 2/2018, “Meta-filosofia. Pensare la filosofia tra attività e discipline”, ed. by L. Corti, L. Illetterati, G. Miolli, pp. 570-582.

18. (2019a) “Phenomenological Distinctions between Empathy de vivo and Empathy in Fiction: From Contemporary Direct Perception Theory Back to Edith Stein’s Eideitics of Empathy” (with F. Forlè), Topoi, 2019.

19. (2019b) “Interfaculty Centre for Gender Studies: Philosophy, Medicine and Psychology” (with F. Forlè, S. Songhorian), Journal of Gender Specific Medicine, vol. 5/2.

20. (2019c) “Eidetics of Empathy, Intersubjectivity, Embodiment and Qualitative Ontology. Rediscovering Edith Stein’s Account of Empathy”, Humama.mente Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 36, 221-243.

21. (2020a) “Proxy social acts. A particular case of plural agency”, Language and Communication, 71 (2020), special issue on “Group Speech Acts”, ed. by L. Townsend, H.B. Schmid, M. Schmitz, 149-158.

22. (2020b) “Common-surrounding world and qualitative social ontology – phenomenological insights for the environment and its crisis”, Rivista di Estetica, n.3/2020, pp. 33-51.

23. (2020c) “Ontologia sociale qualitativa dei soggetti collettivi: varietà di vincoli, valori e forme di unità sociale”, La società degli individui, December, 69/2020, 3, pp. 61-76.

24. (2021) with R. Sala, “Compliance with justice: shared experience and modus vivendi”, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, focus: Emotions and Challenges to Justice, ed. by F. Forlè-R. Mordacci, February 2021, pp. 1-15.

25. (2022) “Social Acts as Wholes: Dynamic Eidetics and Modifications”, Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Research, pp. 55-68.

3. Articles in books

1. (2006) “Filosofia e libertà: pensare, vivere e fare secondo Jeanne Hersch”, in: J. Hersch, Rischiarare l'oscuro. Autoritratto a viva voce, Milano Baldini Castoldi Dalai, p. 343-362

2. (2008) “Jeanne Hersch, philosophe des droits humains”, in J. Hersch, L'exigence absolue de la liberté. Textes sur les droits humains (1973-1995), Genève, MetisPresses, p. 11-50

3. (2008) “Il fondamento assoluto e plurale dei diritti umani”, in J. Hersch, I diritti umani da un punto di vista filosofico, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, p. 9-55.

4. (2011a) “Si Nulla poena sine culpa alors Nulla culpa sine poena? Enquête sur le concept de culpabilité, responsabilité et intention”, in S. Biancu, A. Bondolfi, F. De Vecchi (édité par), Culpabilité et rétribution: essais de philosophie pénale, Schwabe, Basel, pp. 13-30.

5. (2012b) “Agire nel mondo sociale”, in Tiziana Andina (ed.), Filosofia contemporanea. Uno sguardo globale, Roma, Carocci Editore, pp. 270-282.

6. (2012c) “Ontologia regionale sociale e realismo fenomenologico”, in F. De Vecchi (ed.), Eidetica del diritto e ontologia sociale. Il realismo di Adolf Reinach, Milano-Udine: Mimesis Edizioni, pp. 11-36,

7. (2012d) “Che cosa sono gli a priori sociali e giuridici?”, in De Vecchi F. (ed.), Eidetica del diritto e ontologia sociale. Il realismo di Adolf Reinach, Milano-Udine, Mimesis Edizioni, pp. 39-48.

8. (2012e) “Stutture a priori e leggi essenziali nell’ontologia sociale e giuridica di Adolf Reinach”, in De Vecchi F. (ed.), Eidetica del diritto e ontologia sociale. Il realismo di Adolf Reinach, Milano-Udine, Mimesis Edizioni, pp. 123-150.

9. (2012f) “Che cosa sono gli atti sociali e giuridici?”, in De Vecchi F. (ed), Eidetica del diritto e ontologia sociale. Il realismo di Adolf Reinach, Milano-Udine, Mimesis Edizioni, p. 187-194.

10. (2012g) De Vecchi F., Passerini Glazel L., “Gli atti sociali nella tipologia degli Erlebnisse e degli atti spontanei in Adolf Reinach (1913)”, in De Vecchi F. (ed), Eidetica del diritto e ontologia sociale. Il realismo di Adolf Reinach, Milano-Udine, Mimesis Edizioni, pp. 261-280.

11. (2012h) “Vi sono a priori del diritto penale?”, in De Vecchi F. (ed), Eidetica del diritto e ontologia sociale. Il realismo di Adolf Reinach, Milano-Udine, Mimesis Edizioni, pp. 299-306

12. (2012i) “Eidetica della premeditazione [Überlegung]: connessione a priori vs. connessione simbolica”, in De Vecchi F. (ed), Eidetica del diritto e ontologia sociale. Il realismo di Adolf Reinach, Milano-Udine, Mimesis Edizioni, pp. 359-375.

13. (2013a). “Eidetica e normatività in Edmund Husserl”, in Colloca, S. (ed.), Truth of Value, Value of Truth. Milano, LED Edizioni Universitarie, pp. 147-155.

14. (2013b) “Ontological Dependence and Essential Laws of Social Reality. The Case of Promising”, in B. Kobow, H.B Schmid, M. Schmitz (eds.), The Background of Social Reality, Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London, Springer-Verlag, Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality 1, pp. 233-251.

 15. (2014a) “Three Types of Heterotropic Intentionality. A Taxonomy in Social Ontology”, in: A. Konzelman Ziv, H.B. Schmid (eds.), Institutions, Emotions and Group Agents. Contribution to Social Ontology, Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London, Springer Verlag, Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality 2, pp. 117-137.

16. (2014b) “Acting in the Social World”, in T. Andina (ed.) Bridging the Analytical Continental Divide, Brill, Leiden-Boston, pp. 218-230.

17. (2015) “Soggetti plurali. L’ontologia sociale di Margaret Gilbert”, in M. Gilbert, Il noi collettivo. Impegno congiunto e mondo sociale, a cura di F. De Vecchi, pp. IX-XXVII.

18. (2016) “A priori of the Law and Values in the Social Ontology of Wilhelm Schapp and Adolf Reinach”, in H-B. Schmid, A. Salice (eds.), The Phenomenological Approach to Social Reality. History, Concepts, Problems. Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London: Springer-Verlag, Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality 6, pp. 279-316.

19. (2020) “The Intentionality and Positionality of Spontaneous Acts – Adolf Reinach’s Account of Agency”, in Handbook on Phenomenology of Agency, edited by Ch. Ehrhard, T. Keiling, Routledge, London, pp. 53-66.

20. (2022a) “I, you, and we: varieties of heterotropic intentionality and personal collectives – issues from Stein’s and Husserl’s social ontology”, in M. Lebech, R. Hagengruber (eds.) Stein’s and Husserl’s intertwined Itineraries 1916-25 with focus on Ideas II, Springer Series Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences (forthcoming)

21. (2022b) “Eidetics of social acts vs. eidetics of acts of meaning: from different wholes-parts connections to different kinds of acts”, in P. Alves, P. Theodorou, A.I. Baka (eds.), Phenomenology of Law, Springer Series Phenomenologica (forthcoming).

22. (2023) “Wilhelm Schapp’s Qualitative Social Ontology: The Role of Values for the Law”, in Phenomenology, Philosophy of Law and the Hermeneutics of Stories. Essays on the Thought of W. Schapp (eds. D. De Sanctis, D. Nucilli), Bloomsbury, Studies in Phenomenology and Existentialism (in progress).

16.3. GUEST EDITOR

1. (2011) R. De Monticelli, F. De Vecchi (eds.) Phenomenology and Mind, vol. n.1, “Phenomenology and analytic philosophy: perspectives on mind and consciousness”.

2. (2012) F. De Vecchi F (ed.), Phenomenology and Mind, vol. n. 2, “Making the Social World. Collective Intentionality, Social Ontology and Normativity”.

3. (2015), F. De Vecchi – S. Tossut (eds.), Phenomenology and Mind, vol. n. 9, “Joint Commitment: Collective Intentionality, Norms and Justice”.

16.4. TRADUZIONI DI ARTICOLI

1. (2000) A. Pfänder (1911), “Motivi e motivazione” in R. De Monticelli, La persona: apparenza e realtà. Testi fenomenologici 1911-1930, Milano, Raffaello Cortina editore, pp. 1-43.

2. (2000) D. von Hildebrand (1922), “Morale e conoscenza etica dei valori. Ricerca sui problemi fondamentali dell’etica”, in R. De Monticelli, La persona: apparenza e realtà. Testi fenomenologici 1911-1930, Milano, Raffaello Cortina editore, pp. 45-98.

3. (2003) J. Hersch (1986), “La vecchiaia oggi: minacce, opportunità, serenità”, aut aut, n. 318, pp. 173-179.

4. (2003) J. Hersch (1973), “Nuovi poteri dell’essere umano, senso della vita e della salute”, aut aut, n. 318, pp. 180-187.

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