Dr. Giacomo Floris
Marie Curie Fellow
Praktische Philosophie
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Schwerpunkte
- Political Philosophy
- Moral Philosophy
- Value Theory
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions | |
Apr 2022 – Present | Interim Professor for Practical Philosophy; University of Hamburg, GER |
Nov 2020 – Mar 2022 | Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Theory LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, IT |
Apr 2021 – Aug 2021 |
DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow in Practical Philosophy; University of Hamburg, GER |
Jan 2020 – Sept 2020 |
Teaching Associate in Political Theory; University of Manchester, UK |
Sept 2017 – Jan 2020 |
Teaching Assistant in Political Theory; University of Manchester, UK |
Education | |
Sept 2016 – Nov 2019 |
PhD in Political Theory (passed without corrections); University of Manchester, UK Thesis Title: “Moral Status, Equality, and Distributive Justice”; Supervisors: Dr. Christian Schemmel and Dr. Liam Shields ;Examiners: Prof. Ian Carter and Prof. Miriam Ronzoni |
Sept 2014 – Sept 2016 |
MA in Political Theory (Distinction); University of Manchester, UK |
Oct 2011 – Dec 2013 | MA in Philosophy (110/110 summa cum laude); University of Genoa, ITA |
Aug 2012 – Dec 2012 | Visiting student; University of Akureyri, ICL |
Oct 2008 – Dec 2011 |
BA in Philosophy (110/110 summa cum laude); University of Genoa, ITA |
Publications
Edited Books
1. Floris, G. and Kirby, N. (eds.) How Can We Be Equals? Moral Equality: its Meaning, Justification, and Scope, Oxford: Oxford University Press, under contract.
Journal Articles
2. Floris, G. “Are Adults and Children One Another’s Moral Equals?”, The Journal of Ethics, 2022, online first: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-021-09390-2.
3. Floris, G. “A Pluralist Account of the Basis of Moral Status”, Philosophical Studies, 178, 2021, pp. 1859-1877.
4. Floris, G. “Two Concerns about the Rejection of Social Cruelty as the Basis of Moral Equality” (with a reply by Prof. Andrea Sangiovanni), European Journal of Political Theory, 19(3), 2020, pp. 408-416.
5. Floris, G. “On the Basis of Moral Equality: A Rejection of the Relation-First Approach”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 22(1), 2019, pp. 237-250.
Book Reviews
6. Floris, G. Review of Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Luck Egalitarianism, London: Bloomsbury 2016, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 15(4), 2018, pp. 487-490.
Areas of research
AOS:
- moral equality
- respect and other evaluative attitudes
- distributive justice
AOC:
- political philosophy
- moral philosophy
- value theory
Grants and Awards
- Oct 2022 – Sept 2024 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions – Individual Fellowship.
- Apr – Aug 2021 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Research Grant.
Marie Curie Fellowship Project
Title: At the Margins of Equality: A Theory of Vulnerability to Social Exclusion
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has vividly exposed our shared vulnerability to isolation, serving as a reminder that marginalization and exclusion constitute significant obstacles to the achievement of a society in which everyone can fully participate and stand in relations of equality with each other. This project will illustrate how these issues are profoundly related to a broader range of social and health problems, such as addiction and mental health, and thus will develop an original and comprehensive liberal egalitarian theory of vulnerability to social exclusion. This theory will define the rights that marginalized individuals have to be fully included as equals in society, and work out the social arrangements that the state ought to put in place in order to ameliorate their social condition. Hence, it will determine what a just society owes to its most vulnerable members if they are to be considered and treated as equals.