PhD student in Philosophy, Science, Cognition and Semiotics, 39th cycle, at the University of Bologna. My research interests are directed toward the role of non-epistemic, i.e., social, moral and political values in scientific research practices, notably in climate and population health sciences. I try to determine the sphere of legitimacy for non-epistemic values in these sciences, and their compatibility with scientific objectivity.
Research project
My research project, provisionally titled “Population health and climate science: overlaps, interactions, and communal benefits of their integration,” carried out under the supervision of Prof. Raffaella Campaner and the co-supervision of Prof. Marina Lalatta Costerbosa, seeks to answer some open questions in philosophy of medicine and climate science. My research focuses on the possibility of jointly addressing some issues in the health and climate sciences, notably with respect to the treatment of uncertainty and inductive risk, and the use of projective, explanatory, and predictive models. The idea is to apply some of the insights that have been developed in recent philosophical debate on population health to philosophical questions concerning climate sciences, and vice versa, and to show how some philosophical issues arising from them are closely related, especially concerning the role that non-epistemic values play in these sciences.
Research interests
General philosophy of science (models, objectivity, epistemic and non-epistemic values, demarcation problem), philosophy of medicine (naturalism and normativism, positive health, public health and population health), philosophy of climate science (models, explanations, predictions and projections), science and society (trust in science, expertise and situated knowledge, social, moral and political values in science, communication of scientific results, scientifically informed policies).
Education
Master's degree in Philosophical Sciences (110/110 with honors) at the University of Bologna in 2023, with a thesis in philosophy of medicine entitled “Positive and negative health: philosophical perspectives on the concepts of health, disease, illness, and sickness”.
Bachelor's degree in philosophy (110/110 with honors) at the University of Bologna in 2019, with a thesis in epistemology entitled “Dummett's objection to propositional theories of truth: a discussion of some responses.”
My master’s thesis has been prepared abroad, on a virtual exchange due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with the co-supervision of Prof. Sean A. Valles, Michigan State University, professor of philosophy of medicine and bioethics.
I participated in the Erasmus+ program during my bachelor’s degree, studying logic and philosophy of science at Université Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris 1 in 2018-2019.
Scientific activities
I collaborate with PhilHead, the Italian Network for Philosophy of Health and Disease, in which I contribute to organize reading groups and seminars in an interdisciplinary environment populated by philosophers of science and medicine, epidemiologists, and physicians.
I am doing a research internship, in the framework of my PNRR project grant, at ItaliaMeteo, the Italian National Agency for Meteorology and Climatology, where I have the opportunity to work with meteorologists, climatologists, and environmental risk communication experts.
