Main Investigators
Prof. Luigi Caranti - Project Leader - University of Catania - Italy
Luigi Caranti (Ph.D. Boston University) is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Catania. He has worked as a researcher in various international institutions, including the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University, the Australian National University, and the Goethe University in Germany. His studies mainly concern the philosophy of Kant in its theoretical, practical, aesthetic and political dimensions. Areas of competence are human rights, democratic peace theory and, most recently, digital ethics. Caranti authored five monographs including “The Kantian Federation” (Cambridge Press 2022), “Kant's Political Legacy: Human Rights, Peace, Progress” (UWP 2017), “Kant and the Scandal of Philosophy” (University of Toronto Press 2007), and edited, with Denise Celentano, “Paradigms of Justice: Redistribution, Recognition, and Beyond” (Routledge 2023), and, with Alessandro Pinzani, three volumes dedicated to Kant and the problem of knowledge, morality and politics under the light of contemporary debates (Routledge, 2022). Caranti has also published in national and international peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of International Political Theory, Kant Studien, Theoria, Journal of Human Rights, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and Rivista di Filosofia. PI of numerous national and EU funded projects for which he has attracted approximately 3M€, Caranti is currently leading the Marie-Curie Staff Exchange Project “JUSTLA - Justice in the XXI Century: A Perspective from Latin America” with a consortium of 18 universities and a network of 150 researchers.
Luigi Caranti (Ph.D. Boston University) is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Catania. He has worked as a researcher in various international institutions, including the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University, the Australian National University, and the Goethe University in Germany. His studies mainly concern the philosophy of Kant in its theoretical, practical, aesthetic and political dimensions. Areas of competence are human rights, democratic peace theory and, most recently, digital ethics. Caranti authored five monographs including “The Kantian Federation” (Cambridge Press 2022), “Kant's Political Legacy: Human Rights, Peace, Progress” (UWP 2017), “Kant and the Scandal of Philosophy” (University of Toronto Press 2007), and edited, with Denise Celentano, “Paradigms of Justice: Redistribution, Recognition, and Beyond” (Routledge 2023), and, with Alessandro Pinzani, three volumes dedicated to Kant and the problem of knowledge, morality and politics under the light of contemporary debates (Routledge, 2022). Caranti has also published in national and international peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of International Political Theory, Kant Studien, Theoria, Journal of Human Rights, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and Rivista di Filosofia. PI of numerous national and EU funded projects for which he has attracted approximately 3M€, Caranti is currently leading the Marie-Curie Staff Exchange Project “JUSTLA - Justice in the XXI Century: A Perspective from Latin America” with a consortium of 18 universities and a network of 150 researchers.
Prof. Angela Taraborrelli - Coordinator - University of Cagliari- Italy
Angela Taraborrelli (PhD 2001) is Associate Professor at the University of Cagliari where she teaches Political Philosophy and History and Theories of Cosmopolitanism. In addition to several articles, she edited and translated for Utet’s Classics of Philosophy (2007) Shaftesbury’s Characteristics (1711-1714) and published the volumes From the Citizen of the World to the World of Citizens. An Essay on Kant (2004), Contemporary Cosmopolitanism (Bloomsbury 2015), and Hannah Arendt and Cosmopolitanism: State, Community, Worlds in Common (Bloomsbury 2024). She specializes in the political thought of Immanuel Kant and Hannah Arendt and works on cosmopolitanism, democracy and, more recently, migration, with a particular interest in issues of integration.
She founded and co-directs the cosmopolitan studies series “L’albero delle direzioni” (The Directions Tree” (Castelvecchi, Rome).
Angela Taraborrelli (PhD 2001) is Associate Professor at the University of Cagliari where she teaches Political Philosophy and History and Theories of Cosmopolitanism. In addition to several articles, she edited and translated for Utet’s Classics of Philosophy (2007) Shaftesbury’s Characteristics (1711-1714) and published the volumes From the Citizen of the World to the World of Citizens. An Essay on Kant (2004), Contemporary Cosmopolitanism (Bloomsbury 2015), and Hannah Arendt and Cosmopolitanism: State, Community, Worlds in Common (Bloomsbury 2024). She specializes in the political thought of Immanuel Kant and Hannah Arendt and works on cosmopolitanism, democracy and, more recently, migration, with a particular interest in issues of integration.
She founded and co-directs the cosmopolitan studies series “L’albero delle direzioni” (The Directions Tree” (Castelvecchi, Rome).
Prof. Roberta Picardi - Coordinator - University of Molise - Italy
Roberta Picardi (PhD Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2006) is Associate Professor at the University of Molise, where she teaches History of Philosophy, History of Political Thought and History and Theory of European Political Lexicon. Her major area of specialization is German Idealism and its legacy in Contemporary Philosophy. Her research interests lie at the intersection between metaphysics, philosophy of history, political philosophy and ethics. She is the author of the monography Il concetto e la storia. La filosofia della storia di Fichte (il Mulino, Bologna, 2009) and of many essays, such as The Right to the “possibility of acquiring Rights”: Fichte’s Cosmopolitan Right and Migration (“European Journal of Philosophy”, 2022, 30/1, pp. 113-128). She edited, introduced and annotated the correspondence between Fritz Medicus and Benedetto Croce (Il Mulino, Napoli, 2022) and co-edited the volumes Ricœeur et la pensée allemande. De Kant à Dilthey (con G. Marmasse, CNRS Éditions, Paris, 2019) e Democrazia, cosmopolitismo e immigrazioni (con F. Monceri, Castelvecchi, 2023). She also edited and introduced the Italian edition of Karoline’s Reinhardt monography Diritto cosmopolitico e migrazione. Sull’attualità della filosofia politica di Kant (il Mulino, Bologna, 2022). She is member of the Executive Board of the Società italiana di Studi Kantiani and Associate Editor of the international journal “Studi kantiani”.
Roberta Picardi (PhD Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2006) is Associate Professor at the University of Molise, where she teaches History of Philosophy, History of Political Thought and History and Theory of European Political Lexicon. Her major area of specialization is German Idealism and its legacy in Contemporary Philosophy. Her research interests lie at the intersection between metaphysics, philosophy of history, political philosophy and ethics. She is the author of the monography Il concetto e la storia. La filosofia della storia di Fichte (il Mulino, Bologna, 2009) and of many essays, such as The Right to the “possibility of acquiring Rights”: Fichte’s Cosmopolitan Right and Migration (“European Journal of Philosophy”, 2022, 30/1, pp. 113-128). She edited, introduced and annotated the correspondence between Fritz Medicus and Benedetto Croce (Il Mulino, Napoli, 2022) and co-edited the volumes Ricœeur et la pensée allemande. De Kant à Dilthey (con G. Marmasse, CNRS Éditions, Paris, 2019) e Democrazia, cosmopolitismo e immigrazioni (con F. Monceri, Castelvecchi, 2023). She also edited and introduced the Italian edition of Karoline’s Reinhardt monography Diritto cosmopolitico e migrazione. Sull’attualità della filosofia politica di Kant (il Mulino, Bologna, 2022). She is member of the Executive Board of the Società italiana di Studi Kantiani and Associate Editor of the international journal “Studi kantiani”.
Prof. Nunzio Alì - Investigator - University of Catania - Italy
Nunzio Al' is an Assistant Professor (RTDa) at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Catania, Italy, and a former postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo, Brazil (2018-2020). He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil (2018). He was visiting research at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and the Chaire Hoover d’éthique économique et sociale, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). His research interests include theories of justice, economic inequality, theories of power and domination, and human rights. In particular, he is mainly concerned with the relation between economic inequality and political power in liberal democracies and how this can and should affect our view on social and distributive justice. His first book is "How Rich Should the 1% Be? Proportional Justice and Economic Inequality", Routledge, 2022. |
Dr. Angela Renzi - Investigator - University of Molise - Italy
Angela Renzi - graduated in Philosophy at the University of Naples "Federico II" (2014) - was a Research Fellow at the "Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici di Napoli" and completed her PhD in Philosophy at the Universities of Rome "Tor Vergata" and "Roma Tre" (2020). She was Visiting Professor at the University of Belo Horizon in Brazil and is currently a research fellow at the University of Molise, within the framework of the PRIN 2022 PNRR Democracy and Citizenship: Kantian and Post-Kantian Perspectives. Her research focuses on the practical philosophy of Kant and Fichte and its legacy in 20th century phenomenology and hermeneutics. In addition to several essays, she published the monograph Pensare la soggettività pratica: percorsi tra Fichte e Ricoeur (IISF Press, Napoli, 2020). |