Massimo VITTORIO

Assistant Professor of Moral philosophy [M-FIL/03]

Born in Padua (1976)
MA in Philosophy (2002)
Senior Research Fellow at St. Olaf College (USA) (2003)
PhD in Philosophy and History of Ideas (2007)

Visiting Scholar at UCLA, University of Minnesota, Center for Inquiry, Kierkegaard Library and Dewey Library.

Currently, I'm Research Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Catania, Senior Examiner at IB and Fulbright "Distinguished Chair" at the University of Notre Dame (USA).

Editor-in-chief of Etica-mente journal (Pub. Mimesis).
Member of the International Project on Food Ethics promoted and funded by Cordon Bleu and Anahuac University.
Chief Examiner for Philosophy and Curriculum Developer for the IB/UNESCO.
Founder of Etica-mente blog, webzine and magazine.
Founder of Etichettando – meetings of philosophy students – and PHILOSOPHOUSE on ClubHouse.


 

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My research focuses on contemporaneity and the issues it raises in the anthropological and ethical fields. Particularly, my interests concern:

• moral philosophy and its foundability, in relation with the objectivity of the good and values
• the human beings as technical beings and their relationship with the environment and animals
• technology, its evolution and the consequences in the digital/spectacular/consumer field
• space, in relation with phenomenology and ethics of dwelling
• anthropology of homo urbanus and urban ethics
• phenomenology of emotions and love
• food ethics
• communicative nature of the human beings, the dimensions of silence and ethics of advertising and company communication.

Main sources and readings are: J. Dewey, M. Scheler, A. Gehlen, H. Plessner, J. Ortega y Gasset, P. Piovani.