M. Cristina Amoretti, Ph.D. in Philosophy, is Associate professor at the University of Genoa. Previously, she has been a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Genoa, and ICT, CNR, Rome, and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Malta, King’s College London, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, and Technischen Universität München. She has been a member of the Steering Committee and the vice-president of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science. At present she is the president of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences, a member of Culinary…
M. Cristina Amoretti, Ph.D. in Philosophy, is Associate professor at the University of Genoa. Previously, she has been a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Genoa, and ICT, CNR, Rome, and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Malta, King’s College London, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, and Technischen Universität München. She has been a member of the Steering Committee and the vice-president of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science. At present she is the president of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences, a member of Culinary Mind, Center for the Philosophy of Food, and the vice-director of PhilHeaD, Center for Philosophy of Health and Disease. Her main areas of specialization are philosophy of medicine and psychiatry, philosophy of cognitive science, and feminist epistemologies. Research topics include the general concepts of health and disease, the role of values in scientific practice, the definition of mental disorder and the nosology of DSM, as well as some issues about conceptual representation. Her latest publications include: The Concept of Disease in the Time of COVID-19. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (with E. Lalumera, forthcoming); COVID-19 as the Underlying Cause of Death. Disentangling Facts and Values. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (with E. Lalumera, 2021); Do Feeding and Eating Disorders Fit the General Definition of Mental Disorder?, Topoi. An International Review of Philosophy (2020).
Between 2010-2014 she has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA), and between 2012-2014 Vice-President; between 2017 and 2020 she has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS). At present she is the president of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (AISC) and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Research Center PhilHeaD – Philosophy of Health and Disease, as well as its Vice-Director.
