Francesca Pongiglione Curriculum vitae PERSONAL INFORMATION Date and place of birth E mail 19/09/1980, Genova pongiglione.francesca@unisr.it CURRENT POSITION 09/2013 08/2016 Assistant professor in Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, Università Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milano. 04/2014 12/2014 Associate researcher at FEEM Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan RECENT POSITIONS 01/01 31/03/2013 Visiting post doc researcher at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino (funded position); 01/2012 31/12/2012 PhD student in Neuroscience of Decision Making, University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milano (second PhD). 03/2010 02/2012 Post doctoral fellow at the University of Bologna with a research project titled: Psychological and social barriers to environmentally responsible behavior ; 03 12/2011 Visiting researcher at FEEM Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan; 10 11/2011 Visiting post doc at the London School of Economics (Centre for Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, The Choice Group ). EDUCATION 01/2006 05/2009 PhD in Philosophy (Ethics) at University of Bologna; title of dissertation: Il conflitto tra ragione e passioni nel pensiero morale, economico e politico di Bernard Mandeville. Grade reported: Excellent. Supervisor: prof. Luigi Turco; 10 12/2008 Visiting PhD student at University of Glasgow (UK); Supervisor: prof. Chris Barry; 01 04/2007 Visiting PhD student at Boston University (MA, USA); Supervisor: prof. Aaron Garrett; 09/2001 12/2004 B.A./M.A. in Philosophy, University of Genova. Grade reported: 110/110 cum laude; supervisors: prof. Walter Lapini, prof. Letterio Mauro; 03 07/2003 Erasmus student at Technische Universität di Berlino; 1999/00 Studies in Natural Sciences, University of Genova. 1
RESEARCH INTERESTS Environmental ethics and environmental decision making; Cooperative behavior, moral and social norms; Ethics and politics in the modern age. GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2012 FIRB Project (funded by the Italian Ministry of Higher Education and Research) titled Structures and dynamics of knowledge and cognition. Duration: 3 years (2013 2016). Role in the project: Unit coordinator for the University Vita Salute San Raffaele unit project s title: Climate change as a cognitive challenge. Partner institutions: University of Torino (National Coordinator), University of Roma Tre, University of Bologna, University of Cagliari. Total budget awarded: 874.849; Unit budget awarded: 196.205. 2008 PRIN Project (funded by the Italian Ministry of Higher Education and Research) titled: David Hume: Testo, Contesto, Interpretazioni. Partner institutions: University of Roma La Sapienza, University of Ferrara, University of Milano. Marco Polo Scholarship for spending a research term at the University of Glasgow, awarded by the University of Bologna; Scholarship awarded by the Institute of Human Studies (George Mason University, VA, USA) for attending the Social Change workshop at Brown University; 2007 Marco Polo Scholarship for spending a research term at Boston University, awarded by the University of Bologna; 2006 Scholarship awarded by the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, Bologna, Italy, as financial support for the PhD. OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES 2014 referee for Climatic Change; 2013 referee for the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics; 2012 referee for Aphex (Analytical and Philosophical Explanation); referee for the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics; organizer of the seminar Climate change: a round table discussion, University of Bologna; co organizer of an interdisciplinary Winter School on climate change at the Department of Physics, University of Bologna; 2011 member of the scientific and editorial board of the online/blog Climalteranti ; 2009 member of the Commission Energy & research for the Italian Association of Research (AIR); 2
2007 08 organizer of graduate students seminar, Philosophy Department, University of Bologna. Seminar title: Sul Bene. Paper presented: Natura umana e società civile: Hobbes, Locke e Mandeville ; 2007 08 elected representative of the graduate students in Philosophy (PhD in History of Philosophy and in Aesthetics and Ethics); 2006 2010: appointed Expert in the field in History of Philosophy, University of Bologna, member of the examination board. MEMBERSHIP AND COLLABORATIONS 2012 present 2010 present member of the CESEP Research Centre in Public Ethics, Università Vita Salute San Raffaele; extended collaboration with the CIRE Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Education, Faculty of Physics, University of Bologna; TEACHING AND INVITED SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS 2014 Course of Philosophy and Human Rights for undergraduate students (36 hours); 19/03: Seminar at IUSS, Pavia. Title of presentation: Cambiamenti climatici e responsabilità morale dell'individuo ; 2013 15/04: Seminar presentation at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino. Title of presentation: Reciprocity emotions or strategy? An analysis of motivation behind conditional cooperation ; 21 22 28/02: Lecturer at the Winter School on Climate Change (with the Department of Physics of the University of Bologna). Lecture on politics and behaviour relating to climate change; 2012 (fall) Philosophy of Science (10 hours), University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milano; (fall) Moral Philosophy (lectures of the Foundation of the Metaphisics of Morals, 6 hours) University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milano; 18/05: Introductory Lecture on Bernard Mandeville, University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milano; 13/03: Lecturer at and co organizer of a Winter School on Climate Change at the Department of Physics of the University of Bologna. Lecture on politics and behaviour relating to climate change; 22/02: Seminar presentation at ARPA Agenzia Regionale Prevenzione e Ambiente dell'emilia Romagna. Title of presentation: Cambiamenti climatici e processi decisionali individuali ; 31/01: Seminar organization: Climate change: a round table discussion at CIS, Università di Bologna. Title of presentation: Climate Change and individual decision making ; 26/01: Seminar presentation at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino. Title of presentation: Climate Change and individual decision making ; 2011 13/10 Seminar presentation at CIRE (Bologna), with G. Tasquier. Title of presentation: I problemi ambientali e la loro complessità scientifica e sociale ; 26/05 Seminar presentation within the Seminar Program at FEEM Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milano. Title of presentation: Climate change and individual decision making ; 3
31/03 Seminar presentation at CIRE Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche Educative, University of Bologna. Title of presentation: Processi decisionali individuali. Variabili cognitive ed emotive che influenzano il comportamento nei confronti dei cambiamenti climatici ; Invited speaker at a workshop on Bernard Mandeville, with a talk titled Mandeville's political thought: spontaneous order or rational design? organized by the University of Ghent, Belgium; 2010 Invited speaker at CIS International Centre for the History of Universities and Science, Bologna, within the PhD seminar programme. Title of the lecture: Climate change: the individual and society ; 2009 Visiting lecturer at the MSc Energy Policy and sustainability lecture on the Ethical dimension of Climate Change; Exeter University, UK; 2007 History of Moral Philosophy Lectures on David Hume s moral and political thought, University of Bologna; History of Philosophy Seminar on Immanuel Kant: the problem of personal identity, University of Bologna; 2006 Moral Philosophy Lectures on Bernard Mandeville s political thought, University of Bologna; Author of teaching material on Immanuel Kant s Critic of Pure Reason, University of Bologna; History of Philosophy Seminar on Immanuel Kant: an introduction to the Critic of Pure Reason and to the Critic of Practical Reason, University of Bologna. CONFERENCES (PEER REVIEWED) 2013 Conference Eutopia seated in the Brain Commemorative Conference of Bernard de Mandeville's 300th Anniversary of The Fable of the Bees, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. Title of presentation (co authored with Mikko Tolonen, University of Helsinki): Mandeville and the poor ; Conference Climate Change, Sustainability and an Ethics of an Open Future Societas Ethica Annual Conference, Soesterberg, Netherland. Title of the talk: Beyond selfishness and altruism: acknowledging the moral complexity of climate change; Conference Mind in Commons, Institute Jean Nicod, Paris. Title of poster presentation: The motivational power of being we instead of I in the fight of climate change; Meetings in Ethics and Political Philosophy, Minho University, Braga (Portugal). Title of the talk: Individual responsibility and climate change: what ought the individual do, and why; World Conference on Educational Sciences, Roma. Title of the talk (with G. Tasquier and O. Levrini): Climate Change: an educational proposal integrating the physical and social sciences; 2012 Conference Mandeville in context, University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Title of the talk: The Essay on Charity and Charity schools. Mandeville s contradictions to his theory of passions; 2011 Conference CIPESS (Centro Interuniversitario di Economia e Psicologia Sperimentali e Simulative), Università di Torino. Title of the talk: Aspetti comportamentali nella valutazione del climate change; Conference CaEitS 2011 Causality and Explanation in The Sciences, University of Ghent, Belgium. Title of the talk: The key role of causal explanation in the climate change issue; 2010 Conference Humean Readings 10, Università di Roma, La Sapienza. Title of the talk: Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith: a comparison; 4
2009 Sixth Annual Conference in Political Theory, Manchester University, UK. title of the talk: Bernard Mandeville s account to Adam Smith s Wealth of Nations; Conference Limits to rationality in Economics, Institute for Advanced Studies, Glasgow, UK; title of the talk: Human nature and sustainability policies; 2008 Conference Globalizzazione, Saggezza e Regole, Istituto Italiano di Studi Filosofici, Acqui Terme (AL); title of the talk: Saggezza e regole: un approccio mandevilliano alla creazione di leggi globali; Sixth Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy IUSS, Pavia; title of the talk: The making of a political theory: human nature and abilities of reason in the philosophy of Hobbes and Mandeville; 2007 Fifth Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy IUSS, Pavia; title of the talk: Sociability and Human Nature: Rousseau s criticism of Mandeville. PUBLICATIONS Books F. Pongiglione (2013). Bernard Mandeville. Tra ragione e passioni. Roma: Edizioni Studium. Journal articles and chapters in volumes F. Pongiglione (accepted and forthcoming 2014). Motivation for adopting pro environmental behaviours: the role of social context. Ethics, Policy and Environment; J. Cherlet, F. Pongiglione (accepted and forthcoming 2014). The social dimension of climate change: fundamental but disregarded? Journal of General Philosophy of Science; G. Tasquier, F. Pongiglione, O. Levrini (accepted and forthcoming 2013). Climate change: an educational proposal integrating the physical and social sciences. Procedia Social and Behavioral Journal (ISSN: 1877 0428); F. Pongiglione (2012). The key role of causal explanation in the climate change issue. Theoria An International Journal of Philosophy of Science, 74, 27/2; F. Pongiglione (2012). Climate gate in The Encyclopedia of Global Warming, 2nd Edition, SAGE Reference, USA 2012; F. Pongiglione (2011). Climate change and individual decision making: An examination of knowledge, risk perception, self interest and their interplay. FEEM Working Paper series; F. Pongiglione (2011). Bernard Mandeville s influence on Adam Smith s Wealth of Nations. I Castelli di Yale, Il Poligrafo, Ferrara; F. Pongiglione (2010). Saggezza e regole: un approccio mandevilliano in vista della creazione di leggi globali. In Globalizzazione, saggezza, regole, a cura di A. Pirni, ETS, Pisa; F. Pongiglione (2008). Per un approccio alla lettura della Favola delle api di Bernard Mandeville. In Filosofia, Estetica ed Etica: otto percorsi, a cura di S. Bertolini e R. Formisano, Aracne, Roma 2008. 5
Book reviews F. Pongiglione, (2012). Anthropology and Climate Change: from Encounters to Action, and Political Theory and Global Climate Change. Ethics, Policy and Environment, 15, 1; 125 129. Other publications F. Pongiglione (2011). Cambiamenti climatici e ostacoli cognitivi: perché si fatica a comprendere il problema e ancora di più a reagire (pubblicato su Climalteranti.it). LANGUAGE SKILLS Italian: mother tongue English: fluent (TOEFL Test: 107) German: very good (European level C1, Goethe Institut) WORK EXPERIENCE NON ACADEMIC 2012 2014 Co author of an Italian monolingual dictionary for the publishing house Zanichelli; 2010 teacher of Italian as foreign language at the Società Dante Alighieri in Berlin (levels A1 A2 B1); 2009 2013 Free lance translator (English to Italian) for the publishing house Multiplayer; 2009 2010 Free lance translator (German to Italian) for the science journal Geo for the publishing house Gruener Jahr/Mondadori; Autorizzo ai sensi della legge 675/96 e al decreto legislativo 196/03 al trattamento dei dati personali da me trasmessi. In fede Francesca Pongiglione 6