Fiorella Battaglia is the Founding Director of the Laboratory for Ethics in the Wild at the Digital Humanities Centre, University of Salento, where she is also associate professor of moral philosophy in the Department of Humanities. Her research focuses on challenging ethical questions resulting from emerging technologies and climate change, which shape both our social and epistemic practices and our moral experiences.
After obtaining her MA degree in Philosophy from the University of Pisa, she earned her PhD in Philosophy and Politics from the University of Naples "L'Orientale" (2004) under the supervision of Rossella Bonito Oliva. In 2016,…
Fiorella Battaglia is the Founding Director of the Laboratory for Ethics in the Wild at the Digital Humanities Centre, University of Salento, where she is also associate professor of moral philosophy in the Department of Humanities. Her research focuses on challenging ethical questions resulting from emerging technologies and climate change, which shape both our social and epistemic practices and our moral experiences.
After obtaining her MA degree in Philosophy from the University of Pisa, she earned her PhD in Philosophy and Politics from the University of Naples "L'Orientale" (2004) under the supervision of Rossella Bonito Oliva. In 2016, she completed her habilitation in Practical Philosophy and received her venia legendi from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany). She has also held an assistant professorship of Social Philosophy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, at the Humboldt University in Berlin, an adjunct professorship of Epistemology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Pisa, and a visiting professorship at the Dirpolis and Biorobotics Institutes of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa.