FRANCESCO ORSI CURRICULUM VITAE Date of Birth: 20/09/1980 Nationality: Italian Contact: Dr Francesco Orsi 7 West Hill RG1 2PN Reading Phone: +4407849128771 Or Via della Giuliana, 44 00195 Rome, Italy Phone: +393356013449 Email: f.orsi@sns.it nd169729@reading.ac.uk Areas of Specialization: Meta-Ethics, Normative Ethics, History of Moral Philosophy. Areas of Competence: Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Mind and Action, British Empiricism, Epistemology. EMPLOYMENT July 2009: Lecturer in Ethics, Florida Institute of Technology at Jesus College, Oxford. Jan-Mar 2009: Lecturer in Political Philosophy at University of Bristol (Lifelong Learning Programme). 2008-09: Sessional Lecturer in Philosophy at. 2008-09: Visiting Researcher in Philosophy at. EDUCATION 2004-07: PhD in Philosophy at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy). Mark: 70/70. Thesis (in English): Normativity and Value. Thesis defended on 14/12/2007. 1
2005-06: MPhil in Philosophy at the, UK. Pass without corrections. 2002-04: Laurea Specialistica (MA) in Philosophy at Università La Sapienza, Rome (Italy), Summa cum Laude. Thesis (in English): The Distinction between Agent-relative and Agentneutral Value. 1999-2002: Laurea di Primo Livello (BA) in Philosophy at Università La Sapienza, Rome (Italy), Summa cum Laude. Thesis: Consequentialism and the Reasons of Good Friends. GRANTS 2008-09: Research Grant for research abroad from Universita La Sapienza, Rome (to be spent at, Department of Philosophy). 2004-07: Full PhD funding (fees and maintenance) from Scuola Normale Superiore. 2005-06: Additional funding for research abroad. 2004: Three-month funding for conducting research for the MA thesis abroad (in Reading), from Università La Sapienza, Rome. 2002-3: Erasmus Scholarship for study abroad (in Reading). PUBLICATIONS Papers in progress or under consideration: The Autonomy of Normative Thought: A Priori and Empirical Evidence. The Limits of a Sentimentalist Moral Psychology. The Buck-Passing Account of Value and Lonely Deaths. What s Wrong with Moorean Buck-Passing? Egoism and Rational Requirements. In English: Contribution to a Symposium on Bart Schultz, Henry Sidgwick: The Eye of the Universe. Forthcoming in: Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics. Review of: Lorenzo Greco, L io morale: David Hume e l etica contemporanea [The Moral Self: David Hume and Contemporary Ethics]. In: Hume Studies, Volume 34, Number 1, April 2009, pp. 159-162. 2
The Dualism of the Practical Reason: Some Interpretations and Responses. In: Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, X, 2008, 2, pp. 19-41. (http://www2.units.it/~etica/2008_2/orsi.pdf) Obligations of Nearness. In: The Journal of Value Inquiry, 42(1), 2008, pp. 1-21. Naturalism and the Buck-Passing View of Value. In: Philosophical Writings, no. 32, Summer 2006, pp. 58-77. In Italian: I concetti dell etica: verso una teoria delle relazioni tra valutativo e normativo. (Ethical Concepts: Towards a Theory of the Relations between the Evaluative and the Normative.) In: Ragion Pratica, n. 30, Giugno 2008, pp. 169-187. Critical Review of M. E. Kalderon, Moral Fictionalism. In: 2R Rivista di recensioni filosofiche, vol. 8, 2008, pp. 82-99. (http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/2r/2r_8_7_kalderon-orsi.pdf) Dividere la moralità, e connettere ragioni e valori. (Dividing Morality, and Connecting Reasons and Values. Symposium on Tim Mulgan s Future People: A Moderate Consequentialist Account of our Obligations to Future Generations, with replies by the author.) In: Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche, XII, 1, 2007, pp. 141-150. Il Realismo Normativo: Non-naturalismo ed Argomento della Domanda Aperta. (Normative Realism: Non-naturalism and the Open Question Argument.) In: C. Tatasciore, P. Graziani, G. Grimaldi (edited by), Prospettive Filosofiche: Il Realismo, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Napoli, 2007, pp. 141-151. Critical Review of M. Smith, Ethics and the Apriori. In: 2R Rivista di recensioni filosofiche, vol. 2, 2006, 28-41. (http://lgxserve.ciseca.uniba.it/lei/2r/volume_2_2006.pdf) Review of J. Dancy, Ethics Without Principles (in Italian). In: Rivista di Filosofia, XCVII, 2, 2006, pp. 301-307. La sfida morale della distanza. (The Moral Challenge of Distance.) In: Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche, X, 2, 2005, pp. 103-116. TALKS East Anglia, Joint Session of the Mind and Aristotelian Society, July 2009 (Egoism and Rational Requirements). Reading, Work In Progress Seminar, May 2009 (What s Wrong with Moorean Buck-passing?). Barcelona, SEFA Conference, September 2007 (An Argument from Supervenience against the Buck-passing Account of Value). 3
Cesano Maderno (MI), Italy, SIFA Conference, September 2006 (Value and Reasons: A Conceptual Map). Francavilla al Mare (PE), Italy, Società Filosofica Italiana: Prospettive filosofiche, October 2006 (Non-naturalism and the Open Question Argument). Durham, Ethical Naturalism Conference, August 2006 (Ethical Naturalism and the Buck-passing Account of Value). Southampton, Graduate Session of the Joint Session of the Mind and Aristotelian Society, July 2006 (What does Goodness Do? A Program Explanation Account). Lisbon, Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy, June 2006 (What does Goodness Do? A Program Explanation Account). Reading Graduate Seminar, Spring Term 2006 (What does Goodness Do? A Program Explanation Account). Reading Graduate Seminar, Autumn Term 2005 (Are all obligations special?). Pavia, Italy, Third Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy, September 2005 (Are all obligations special?). Lisbon, V European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, August 2005 (Are all obligations special?). TEACHING EXPERIENCE Ethics: Topics in Applied Ethics (18 hour Course), Florida Institute of Technology at Jesus College, Oxford, Summer 2009. Metaethics (20 hour third-year Module, Module Convenor, Coursework and Exam marking),, Spring 2009. Political Philosophy (16 hour Course), Lifelong Learning Program, University of Bristol, Spring 2009. Language and Reality (Coursework and Exam Marking Duties),, Spring 2009. Early Modern Philosophy (6 Lectures),, Autumn 2008. Contemporary Political Philosophy (1 Lecture),, Autumn 2008. MA Seminars in Moral Philosophy, Università La Sapienza, Rome, 2004-07. 4
MA Seminar on Philosophy of Action, based on J. Dancy s Practical Reality, Università La Sapienza, Rome, 2004. OTHER ACTIVITIES 2009: Marker for PISA survey (NFER, Slough, UK). 2009-2011: Co-editor of an anthology on contemporary meta-ethics (Laterza Editore, Rome, Italy). 2008-: Book Translations English to Italian for Atlante Libri. 2007: Internship as Editorial Assistant for Laterza Editore (Rome, Italy). 2004-: Occasional Refereeing and Translation Services for the journal Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche. 2004-: Editorial Advising for the Philosophy and Social Sciences section of Feltrinelli Editore (Milan, Italy). REFERENCES 1. Professor Jonathan Dancy /University of Texas, Austin E-mail addresses: j.p.dancy@reading.ac.uk jdancy@mail.utexas.edu Reading address: Department of Philosophy Reading RG6 6AA UK Tel. +44 (0) 118 378 8118 Austin address (January to May): Philosophy Department 1 University Station University of Texas at Austin 5
Austin, Texas 78713 USA 2. Professor Brad Hooker E-mail address: b.w.hooker@reading.ac.uk Department of Philosophy Reading RG6 6AA UK Tel. +44 (0) 118 378 6631 3. Professor Wlodek Rabinowicz University of Lund (Sweden) E-mail address: wlodek.rabinowicz@fil.lu.se Department of Philosophy, Lund University Kungshuset, Lundagård, 222 22 Lund, Sweden Tel. +46 46-222 75 95 4. Professor Philip Stratton-Lake Email address: p.j.stratton-lake@reading.ac.uk Department of Philosophy Reading RG6 6AA UK Tel. +44 (0) 118 378 7562 6