Upcoming events
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05 June 2023 | 14:00 — 16:00RYAN MCKAY, Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology of Royal Holloway, University of London, will give a workshop in FBK’s Aula Piccola on the sacred and the profane in language and law.More info
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06 June 2023 | 09:00 — 11:00In this talk, I will critically analyze the relationship between embodiment and the digital self in three theoretical steps: 1) I will briefly provide the historical philosophical context of the emergence of the problem; 2) I will question the dualistic argument by providing a three-step counter-argument; finally 3) I will focus on the third step by delving into the relationship between extension and incorporation in the digital sphere.More info
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13 June 2023 | 10:30 — 12:30In her talk, Pasqualin will discuss anthropomorphism both as a target of criticism and as an object of recent re-evaluation in the fields of animal ethics and ethology. Focusing on Heidegger’s understanding of anthropomorphism, she will stress the ambivalence of anthropomorphism as a resilient way of thinking.More info
Latest news
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28 April 2023April 18, 2023 saw the release of L’arte dell’essenziale. Un’escursione filosofica nelle terre alte, Paolo Costa’s book dedicated to the spiritual meanings of mountainsMore info
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28 November 2022On November 18-19, the first workshop of the interregional and interdisciplinary research project “Resilient Beliefs: Religion and Beyond” (2022-2024), funded by the Euregio Science Fund and carried out by the Center for Religious Studies in cooperation with the University of Innsbruck and PTHSTA, was held in Brixen.More info
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03 November 2022What ethical, social and political issues has Covid-19 raised in the course of its management? How have different countries approached this issue? On 4 and 5 November 2022, an international conference organised at the University of Turin will discuss these issues from a comparative and cross-cultural perspective.More info
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25 October 2022The book by Enrico Piergiacomi studies the reception of the theological-ethical verses of Lucretius' "De rerum natura" in the philosopher Pierre Gassendi. He was the first to have cited and analyzed almost the entire Lucretian poem, with the aim of creating a neo-Epicurean philosophy compatible with modern science and with Christianity.More info
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19 October 2022There are two pitfalls in digital health ethics: an approach to the digital as an environment to which to adapt and an approach that reduces the digital to a mere instrument. It is possible anyway to approach the digital as a "milieu" as well.More info
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30 September 2022Monica Consolandi, affiliated to the FBK-Ph.D. Program and collaborator at FBK-ISR, has reached an important milestone earning her Ph.D. in Philosophy with honors on July 2022 at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.More info