PhD in PHILOSOPHY

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Stefano Semplici is a Full Professor of Social Ethics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where he also teaches Bioethics and where he joined in 1986 after graduating and studying at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy and the Faculty of Magisterium at the University “La Sapienza”, under the guidance of Marco Maria Olivetti and Valerio Verra respectively.

He is a member of the National Bioethics Committee and a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. He was Chair of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (which he joined in 2008) from 2011 to 2015 and of the Bioethics Committee of the Italian Society of Paediatrics, of which he is still a member, from 2014 to 2019. He is Associate Editor of the journal “Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy” (since 2010) and was Editor and later Co-Editor of the journal “Archives of Philosophy/Archives of Philosophy” from 2007 to 2016. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Enrico Castelli Institute for Philosophical Studies (since 2008), of the “Internationale Hegel-Vereinigung” (since 1990), of the Centre for Philosophical Studies in Gallarate (since 2001), and of the Editorial and Scientific Committees of other institutions, journals, series.

He was the Scientific Director (from 2005 to 2016) of the “Lamaro Pozzani” University College of the Cavalieri del Lavoro, a member of the Scientific Committee of the “Nova Spes” Foundation from 2006 to 2016, of the Advisory Panel of the Centre for Religious Sciences of the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento from 2012 to 2014, of the Steering Committee of the Italian Society of Moral Philosophy from 2013 to 2014, and of the Executive Committee of the Consulta Filosofica from 2013 to 2016.

His research activity was initially oriented towards some fundamental themes of contemporary philosophy and towards “classical” German philosophy, with particular reference to the historical-cultural background in which the “philosophy of religion” was born and consolidated (the Enlightenment, Kant, Hegel). Alongside these interests, the attention to issues related to public ethics, business ethics, and bioethics gradually increased, on which he has been focusing his efforts for many years as a priority.

Last updated: 7 May 2023