Visiting Researcher
Giulia Battistoni is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Global Fellow and Teaching Assistant at the University of Verona, where she is also member and responsible for the help-desk of the Research Centre “Ricerche di Gnoseologia e Metafisica” (https://sites.dsu.univr.it/rgm/).
She was Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici (Naples, 2021-2022); at the University of Verona (2019-2021); at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (Naples, 2019). She completed her Ph.D. (May 2019) both at the University of Verona and at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (joint supervision) with a dissertation on the concepts of imputation and responsibility in Hegel’s action theory. Her main research interests include Classical German Philosophy, in particular the question of responsibility and imputation and its implications in the moral and in the legal field. She was visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago and at the Hegel-Archiv at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She participated as an invited speaker in many international congresses and is author of several essays (some of which were awarded national prizes: the Sainati Prize in 2020, the Prize of the Italian Society of Moral Philosophy for the “Best Published Essay” in 2019/2020).
She is author of the book Azione e imputazione in G.W.F. Hegel alla luce dell’interpretazione di K.L. Michelet (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici Press, 2020) and editor of the Open Access book Fondamenti per un agire responsabile. Riflessioni a partire dalla filosofia classica tedesca (FrancoAngeli 2020: https://series.francoangeli.it/index.php/oa/catalog/book/510).
She is member of national and international scientific societies and research groups, among which Hegel Art Net – International Research Network on Hegel’s Philosophy of Art, working on the transcription, edition, and translation of Hegel’s lectures on “Aesthetics or Philosophy of Art”, and SAFI (Societas Aperta Feminarum in Iuris Theoria, as Italian ambassador of the society).
Her current project deals with the topic “Collective Responsibility towards Nature and Future Generations”, starting from the perspective of the understanding of nature developed by 19th century German Idealism and the theory of responsibility advanced by Hans Jonas in the 20th century (for further information, see: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101064728).
E-mail address: giulia.battistoni.90@gmail.com
Giulia Battistoni will be Visiting Researcher at Boston University from January 2023 till July 2024, working under the scientific supervision of Prof. Sally Sedgwick. The project website: https://www.phil-responsibility.com/