People Research Interests
Antonio Alberti
PhD Student in Political Studies
antonio.alberti@unimi.it

  • Feasibility conditions for normative prescriptions
  • Facts, principles and political prescriptions
Antonella Besussi
Prof. of Political Philosophy
antonella.besussi@unimi.it

  • Meta-theoretical and methodological questions in political philosophy:
    • agreements and disagreements
    • truth and politics
    • moral realism and normative political theories
    • moralism
Giulia Bistagnino
Junior Fellow at Centro Einaudi
Tutor in Political Philosophy
giulia.bistagnino@unimi.it

  • The problem of disagreement
  • The justification of moral and political principles
  • Methodological questions with a special focus on the relation between metaethics and political philosophy
Carlo Burelli
PhD Student in Political Studies
carlo.burelli@unimi.it
  • Political realism
    • Developing political realism as a substantive and positive theory of politics
    • Explaining and understanding its normative implications
    • Evaluating its viability vs. Moralism and the Rawlsian tradition of liberalism
  • Hobbes and Contractarianism
    • Logic and ground of the state
    • Epistemology of the good and the right
Giorgia Casanica
PhD Student in Political Studies
giorgia.casanica@unimi.it
Ilaria Cozzaglio
PhD Student in Political Studies
ilaria.cozzaglio@unimi.it

  • Legitimacy of political power:
    • sources and conditions of legitimacy
    • the contemporary debate
    • Weber
    • Spinoza
  • Political realism
Franca D’Agostini
Prof. of Logic,
Epistemology and Theory of Argumentation
franca.dagostini@unimi.it
  • Questions of metaphilosophy and philosophical methodology:
    • logic and metaphysics
    • logic and politics
    • public use of truth
  • Questions of metaphysics, epistemology and philosophical logic:
    • truth and paradoxes
    • contradictions and disagreements
    • nihilism
Chiara Destri
PhD Student in Political Studies
chiara.destri@unimi.it
  • Normative theories of democracy (pluralist, deliberative, epistemic, agonistic)
  • Theories of democratic citizenship
  • Metaethical issues in political philosophy:
    • internalism/externalism of reasons
    • impartiality
    • objectivity
Greta Favara
PhD Student in Political Studies
greta.favara@unimi.it
  • Theoretical and conceptual foundations of normative political philosophy:
    • the relationship between ideal theories and realistic theories
    • the distinction between the semantic levels of the of the concept of “possibility” within political theory
  • Themes concerning applied political philosophy:
    • moral conflict and the idea of political liberalism
Corrado Fumagalli
PhD Student in Political Studiescorrado.fumagalli@unimi.it
  • Theories of pluralism and the politics of multiculturalism
  • Philosophy of action (Arendt, Patocka and Gandhi)
  • Critical theory
Beatrice Magni
Prof. of Political Philosophy
beatrice.magni@unimi.it
  • Theories, problems and practices of pluralism
  • Political conflict as foundational of public sphere
  • Criteria of critical citizenship
  • Questions of justice and injustice
Francesca Pasquali
Postdoc Fellow in Political Philosophy
francesca.pasquali@unimi.it

  • Meta-theoretical and methodological questions in political philosophy:
    • realism and idealism
    • feasibility
    • facts and principles
    • the relation between empirical and normative approaches
  • Normative theories of democracy, processes of democratization, hybrid and authoritarian regimes
Gianluca Pozzoni
PhD Student in Political Studies
gianluca.pozzoni@unimi.it

Irene Vanini
PhD Student in Political Studies
irene.vanini1@unimi.it
  • Normative and epistemological issues in Political Philosophy:
    • the Habermasian answer to the Rawlsian paradigm
    • the fact of pluralism and liberalism
    • disagreement as a normative question