Fiorella Battaglia is the Head of the Project. Her current position is Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Salento, in the Department of Humanities. Her research focuses on challenging ethical questions resulting from emerging technologies and climate change, which shape both our social and epistemic practices and our moral experiences. She teaches courses on Moral Philosophy, Bioethics, and Communication Ethics. After obtaining her MA degree in Philosophy from the University of Pisa, she earned her PhD in Philosophy and Politics from the University of Naples "L'Orientale" (2004) under the supervision of Rossella Bonito Oliva. In 2016, she completed her habilitation in Practical Philosophy and received her venia legendi from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany). She has also held an assistant professorship of Social Philosophy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, at the Humboldt University in Berlin, an adjunct professorship of Epistemology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Pisa, and a visiting professorship at the Dirpolis and Biorobotics Institutes of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa.

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📌 https://www.unisalento.it/people/fiorella.battaglia

📧 fiorella.battaglia@unisalento.it

Dr. Corrado Claverini, PhD

His current position is Postdoctoral Researcher in Moral Philosophy at the University of Salento, Department of Humanities (2023-ongoing). He is also Cultore della materia in the same Department. He is affiliated with the E-Wild Project. He obtained his PhD in Philosophy at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan (2018). He has been a Visiting researcher at the Warburg Institute and the University of Lugano.

His publications include: La tradizione filosofica italiana. Quattro paradigmi interpretativi (Macerata: Quodlibet, 2021); Utopia concreta. Pensiero utopico e ideologia in Niccolò Machiavelli e Tommaso Campanella (Saonara: Il Prato, 2015); “Spaventa, Gentile e la tradizione italiana,” in: Il Pensiero 57(2), 2018; “Dove va la filosofia italiana? Riflessioni sull’Italian Thought,” in: Phenomenology and Mind 15, 2018; “The Italian ‘Difference’. Philosophy between Old and New Tendencies in Contemporary Italy,” in: Phenomenology and Mind 12, 2017. He edited the special issue L’Italian Thought fra globalizzazione e tradizione (Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee 1, 2019) and the volume Sulla magia by Tommaso Campanella (Milan: Alboversorio, 2014).

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📧 corrado.claverini@unisalento.it

Dr. Chiara Montalti, PhD

She has been Postdoctoral Researcher in Moral Philosophy at the University of Salento, Department of Humanities (2023-2024). She is also Cultrice della materia in the same Department. She is affiliated with the E-Wild Project. In 2022, she obtained her PhD in Philosophy at the Joint Florence-Pisa Universities Doctoral School (supervisor: Prof. Ubaldo Fadini), with a thesis in Disability Studies and Feminist Posthumanism and Technoscience. She obtained her Bachelor's Degree and Master's Degree in Philosophy and Philosophical Sciences at the University of Bologna (supervisors: Prof. Roberto Brigati, Prof. Ivo Quaranta). Her main research interests are technological assemblages, care relationships, disability representations, and political activism. In 2021, she conducted a thesis-related research period in collaboration with the University of Oslo. In 2021 and 2022 she collaborated, in a multimedia project and in communication respectively, with the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici.

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📧 chiara.montalti@unisalento.it

Dr. Lorenzo De Stefano, PhD

His current position is Postdoctoral Researcher in Moral Philosophy at the University of Salento, Department of Humanities (2024) ongoing. He is also cultore della materia in Moral philosophy in the same Department and in Theroetical Philosophy at the University “Federico II” of Naples. He is affiliated with the E-Wild Project and Member of Mechané Lab (Laboratiorio di Filosofia della Tecnica) at University of Naples “Federico II”. He obtained in 2017 his Ph.D in Philosophical Sciences at University of Naples “Federico II” (Supervisor. Prof. Nicola Russo) with a thesis on Eugen Fink’s cosmology. He has been visiting researcher at the University of Tübingen, Freiburg i.Br. and Mainz. Previously he has been Postdoctoral Researcher at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici. He has held several university courses in Philosophical anthropology (M/Fil-03), Theory and Ethics of Big Data at Univiersity of Naples “Federico II” (M/Fil-02), and Theoretical Philosophy (M/Fil-01) at Univiersity of Naples “Federico II”.

His publications include: Vergogna, eremitismo digitale e dislivello cognitivo. L’antropologia di Günther Anders alla prova del Digital turn in Lessico di etica pubblica 1/2018; Dalla cibernetica al dataismo. Alcune considerazioni su obsolescenza della teoria e intelligenza artificiale nell’epoca dei big data in S&F n. 20_2018; Post-democrazia e Gamification ai tempi del “Dataismo”: il caso Cambridge Analytica, In “Lo sguardo Rivista di filosofia”; Solo una catastrofe ci potrà salvare. L’essere per la morte nell’epoca della crisi ecologica in S&F_n.26; Mitsein, tecnica e linguaggio. Il fondamento ecologico dell’umano in Bollettino Filosofico, Vol. 38 “Tecnica e Natura”; I Quantify, Therefore I Am: Quantified Self Between Hermeneutics of Self and Transparency in B. Ajana, J. Braga, S. Guidi (a cura di.) The Quantification of Bodies in Health: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Emerald, 2022; Dal mitogramma alla tecnoimmagine. Alcune considerazioni sull’evoluzione della raffigurazione in J. Mutchninik, N. Russo (a cura di.), Immagine e Memoria nell’era digitale, Quaderni di Mechane n.1, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano Udine, 2022.

He edited the special issue “Quaderni di Mechané n.2: Tecnica e Coesistenza. Prospettive antropologiche, fenomenologiche ed etiche”, Mimesis Milano Udine, 2024.

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📧 l_de_stefano@hotmail.it

Dr. Sofia Aurilio, MA

Sofia Aurilio is currently a PhD student in Gender Studies at the University of Bari Aldo Moro and University of Salento, Department of Humanities (2023-ongoing).

Sofia is part of the Interdepartmental Center for Digital Humanities (Young Researchers) at Unisalento. Sofia obtained their bachelor’s degree in Languages, literatures, and translation (University of Trento) and master's degree in Euro-American literatures and literary criticism (University of Trento) with theses that intersect postcolonial literature with gender studies.

Sofia is also the translator of Rosi Braidotti’s third volume on the posthuman, published for DeriveApprodi as Il postumano. Vol 3: Femminismo (2023).

Sofia’s interests include feminist literatures, postcolonial literatures, posthumanism, gender studies, and care ethics.

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📧 sofia.aurilio@unisalento.it