Research

Living beings and moral consideration

Environmental and animal ethics, relational value, tensions between individuals and systems, naturalism and enactivism.

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

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

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

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

Memory, narrative, knowledge

Calvino, forms of memory, and the relations between cognitive processes, stories and imagination.

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

Risk behaviours and the quality of evidence

Population studies, adolescence, addictions, shared ontologies, data curation and communication of research findings.

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