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Event · 2026-10-23 · Movimento Ecclesiale di Impegno Culturale (MEIC), Delegazione regionale della Toscana

Le diverse prospettive di etica animale e ambientale

A public talk on the reasons for valuing animals, nature and ecological relationships.

Speaker · Public talk

  • animal ethics
  • environmental ethics
  • public communication
  • public engagement
  • philosophical communication

Essay and public writing · 2026-10-03 · Lodigiano Democratico

The burnt copy

A reading of Günter Grass’s The Flounder.

  • reading
  • Günter Grass

Essay and public writing · 2026-09-18 · Lodigiano Democratico

Other people’s skies

The Orb: sampling, memory and encounters with other people’s voices.

  • music
  • listening
  • memory

Essay and public writing · 2026-09-18 · Lodigiano Democratico

The Salzburg baptism

Music and genius in Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser.

  • reading
  • music
  • Thomas Bernhard

Essay and public writing · 2026-08-23 · Lodigiano Democratico

A grain of salt and mustard

Chemistry and autobiography in Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table.

  • reading
  • science
  • Primo Levi

Event · 2026-08-18 · Biblioteca civica A. e A. Vago, Comune di Santa Margherita Ligure e Fondazione Il Mondo

Dialogo con Pino Petruzzelli sul rapporto tra esseri umani, animali e ambiente

A conversation with Pino Petruzzelli on Continuità, bringing philosophy and theatre into dialogue about our relationships with living beings.

Author and speaker · Public talk

  • environmental ethics
  • public communication
  • public engagement
  • philosophical communication

Essay and public writing · 2026-08-04 · Lodigiano Democratico

Grace in a spray can

Reality and illusion in Philip K. Dick’s Ubik.

  • reading
  • science fiction
  • Philip K. Dick

Essay and public writing · 2026-07-15 · IOSONOSPARTACO

Paper makes a comeback

Analogue objects, consumption and practices of attention.

  • material culture
  • attention

Essay and public writing · 2026-07-02 · IOSONOSPARTACO

Walking, the last free activity

Walking as a way of inhabiting cities and public space.

  • public space
  • everyday life

Essay and public writing · 2026-06-27 · Lodigiano Democratico

The ontology of eviction

A reading of Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano.

  • reading
  • Malcolm Lowry

Essay and public writing · 2026-06-16 · Lodigiano Democratico

The ostinato of the deadline

The passacaglia across different repertoires and listening practices.

  • music
  • listening
  • passacaglia

Essay and public writing · 2026-03-03 · IOSONOSPARTACO

Nature gives philosophy a kick

The ecological crisis and changing philosophical conceptions of nature.

  • environmental ethics
  • nature

Book · 2026 · Autopubblicazione

Filosofia analitica e cervi. Prospettive di etica ambientale

A route through the concepts and conflicts of environmental ethics: animals, ecosystems, justice, care and value. Twenty-five chapters introduce competing theories and test what they mean for decisions.

  • environmental ethics
  • animal ethics
  • value
  • climate justice
  • care
  • nature and the artificial
  • moral pluralism
  • teaching

Essay and public writing · 2025-10-29 · IOSONOSPARTACO

The wolf: a new neighbour

Living with wolves: protection, conflict and prevention.

  • environmental ethics
  • animals
  • coexistence

Essay and public writing · 2025-08-29 · IOSONOSPARTACO

The new tarot boom

A cultural reading of the renewed popularity of tarot.

  • culture
  • society

Essay and public writing · 2025-07-24 · IOSONOSPARTACO

Mary Midgley and the biscuit tin

Midgley’s public legacy through Notes from a Biscuit Tin.

  • Midgley
  • public philosophy
  • nature

Essay and public writing · 2025-06-03 · IOSONOSPARTACO

Surrendering to beauty

Palestrina and the possibilities of listening today.

  • music
  • listening
  • Palestrina

Event · 2025-04-10 · Se questo è un Homo — CRO Darsene, Viareggio

Parole per il pianeta: giornalismo e crisi climatiche

Corrado Fizzarotti moderates a conversation with Sofia Belardinelli and Francesco Suman on reporting the climate crisis.

Moderator · Public talk

  • giornalismo
  • clima
  • public communication
  • comunicazione

Essay and public writing · 2025-03-21 · IOSONOSPARTACO

Tuttomondo: a betrayed hope

Keith Haring’s Pisa mural and its public context.

  • art
  • Pisa
  • Keith Haring

Book · 2025 · Milano: Mimesis (collana 'Filosofie')

Continuità. Ripensare la nostra relazione con il non-umano

How can concern for individual animals meet responsibility for the ecological relationships that sustain them? An inquiry into continuity between human and non-human life, in dialogue with Mary Midgley, enactivism and pragmatism.

  • environmental ethics
  • animal ethics
  • continuity
  • Mary Midgley
  • enactivism
  • pragmatism
  • moral pluralism

Essay and public writing · 2024-12-19 · Kid Pass / Filosokids

Filosokids: John Locke and freedom

An introduction to Locke for young readers and educational activities.

  • philosophy for young people
  • John Locke

Event · 2024-11-28 · Se questo è un Homo — CRO Darsene, Viareggio

Ines — racconto da camera

Introduction to the performance written and performed by Chiara Gistri in the second Se questo è un Homo series.

Introduction · Public talk

  • teatro
  • public communication
  • culture

Event · 2024-04-09 · Se questo è un Homo — CRO Darsene, Viareggio

Economia, ecologia e conflitti sociali

A conversation with Tiziano Distefano about society, economics and the natural world, moderated by Gianluca Venturini.

Speaker · Public talk

  • environmental ethics
  • ecology
  • public communication

Event · 2024-03-05 · Se questo è un Homo — CRO Darsene, Viareggio

La scimmia nuda

Corrado Fizzarotti moderates a conversation with Marco Romboni and Sofia Belardinelli on human evolutionary history.

Moderator · Public talk

  • antropologia
  • evoluzione
  • public communication

Book · 2023 · L'Orto della Cultura

I fondovalle della memoria: Italo Calvino tra narrazione, neuroni e filosofia

Memory preserves and transforms. Through Calvino’s autobiographical and Resistance writings, this book explores recollection, language, embodiment and identity at the meeting point of literature and the sciences of mind.

  • Italo Calvino
  • memory
  • narrative
  • identity
  • autobiography
  • philosophy of mind
  • psychology

Research article · 2023 · JOLMA - The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts

The Consequences of Enactivism on Moral Considerability in Environmental Ethics

An inquiry into the implications of enactivism for moral considerability, at the intersection of environmental and animal ethics and individualist and holistic approaches.

  • enactivism
  • environmental ethics
  • moral considerability
  • action theory

Research report · 2023 · IFC-CNR

ESPAD® Livorno 2022

The 2022 ESPAD report on students in the Livorno area.

  • ESPAD
  • alcohol use
  • road traffic crashes
  • student population
  • Livorno

Research article · 2022 · APhEx — Analytical and Philosophical Explanation, 25 (2022)

Mary Midgley, Profilo

A philosophical profile of Mary Midgley, her works and themes, connecting nature, moral imagination and the critique of reductionism.

  • Midgley
  • encyclopaedia profile

Research report · 2022 · IFC-CNR / Dipartimento Politiche Antidroga

Piano di Azione Nazionale Dipendenze (PAND) 2022-2025

A document from the Italian National Action Plan on Addictions 2022–2025. Contribution to technical and scientific coordination.

  • policy
  • addictions
  • national plan

Event · 2022 · Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Membro del comitato organizzativo

Academic event organisation · Nuovi orizzonti dell'inclusività. Il politicamente corretto oltre l'igiene verbale. Contribution: Organiser.

Organiser · Organisation

  • event organisation
  • philosophy of language

Event · 2021 · European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment

Religion, Materialism and Ecology

Scholarship participation · Religion, Materialism and Ecology. Contribution: Scholarship participant.

Scholarship participant · Attendance

  • environmental ethics
  • philosophy of religion
  • ecology

Event · 2021 · University of Kassel

Methodology of Situated Cognition Research

Conference participation · Methodology of Situated Cognition Research. Contribution: Conference participant.

Conference participant · Attendance

  • situated cognition
  • methodology

Book · 2020 · Milano: Mimesis

Mary Midgley: emozione, filosofia, ambiente

An introduction to Mary Midgley’s life and thought, bringing emotion, scientific understanding and responsibility towards living beings into conversation. Philosophy examines the concepts that shape experience and guide our choices.

  • Mary Midgley
  • ethics
  • emotions
  • philosophy of science
  • ethology
  • human nature
  • environmental ethics

Event · 2015 · Centro Internazionale Studi Rosminiani (a cura di Umberto Muratore)

Sulle tracce dell'umano (XVI Corso dei Simposi Rosminiani)

Scholarship participation · Sulle tracce dell'umano (XVI Corso dei Simposi Rosminiani). Contribution: Scholarship participant.

Scholarship participant · Attendance

  • theoretical philosophy
  • philosophical anthropology

Event · 2014 · Centro Internazionale Studi Rosminiani (a cura di Umberto Muratore)

Uomini, animali o macchine? (XV Corso dei Simposi Rosminiani)

Scholarship participation · Uomini, animali o macchine? (XV Corso dei Simposi Rosminiani). Contribution: Scholarship participant.

Scholarship participant · Attendance

  • theoretical philosophy
  • science, philosophy and theology