Francesca Pasquali

Post-Doc Research Fellow in Political Philosophy

Department of Social and Political Sciences
via Conservatorio 7, 20122, Milano, Italia

Email: francesca.pasquali@unimi.it

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Research Interests

  • Meta-theoretical and methodological questions in political philosophy:
    • realism and idealism
    • feasibility
    • facts and principles
    • the relation between normative and empirical approaches
  • Normative theories of democracy, processes of democratization, hybrid and authoritarian regimes

Latest Pubblications

Books:

F. Pasquali - Transizioni politiche Transizioni politiche. Democrazie imperfette o nuovi autoritarismi?, Milano: Egea Bocconi, 2015
F. Pasquali - Virtuous Imbalance - Cover Virtuous Imbalance: Political Philosophy between Desirability and Feasibility, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.

Articles and book-chapters:

Public Philosophy, in M. Gibbons (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp. 3041-3045.

Hard Times: Public Philosophy or Political Philosophy?, Notizie di Politeia, XXIX, 110, 2013, pp. 22-41.

Una trappola per filosofi politici. Rawls e la praticità, Biblioteca della libertà, XLVIII, 206/207, 2013, pp. 191-204.

Richard Rorty: l’inconcludenza della verità, in A. Besussi (ed.) Verità e Politica. Filosofie contemporanee, Roma: Carocci, 2013, pp. 161-175.

Feasibility and Desirability, in A. Besussi (ed.), A Companion to Political Philosophy. Methods, Tools, Topics, Farnah: Ashgate, 2012, pp. 41-51.

Una filosofia socialista, Mondoperaio, Dossier: G.A. Cohen – Why Not Socialism?, March 2011, pp. 59-65.

Prescrizione e valutazione, in A. Besussi e E. Biale (eds.), Fatti e Principi. Una disputa sulla giustizia, Roma: Aracne Editrice, pp. 38-66.

Rawls’s Realistic Utopianism: A Critical Discussion, Working Papers LPF, 2009, n. 5.

Reviews:

Juha Räikkä, Social Justice in Practice. Questions in Ethics and Political Philosophy, Springer, 2014, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2014.

Gerald A. Cohen, On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice and Other Essays in Political Philosophy, Princeton-Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2011, Il Mulino, 1/2013, pp. 152-154