DA RE Antonio
A) ACADEMIC PROFILE
• Full professor of Moral Philosophy and Bioethics at the University of Padua (UNIPD)
• Chairman of the Degree of Philosophy at the UNIPD from 2008 to 2016
• Coordinator of the Section “Philosophy” within the FISPPA Department of the UNIPD (from 2017 to present)
• Coordinator of the Research Ethics Committee (CERD), FISPPA Department (from 2020 to present)
• Coordinator of the annual seminar on Moral Philosophy within the Ph.D. Program in Philosophy at the UNIPD
• Guest lecturer for many postgraduate courses at national and international universities
• He studied Philosophy and Ethics in Germany at the University of Wuppertal (1986-87) and the University of Munich (in 1993 and 1997, 11 months total), thanks to von Humboldt Stiftung
B) MEMBERSHIPS
• Member of the Italian National Bioethics Committee (CNB) from 2006 to present. In this respect,
he considerably contributed to the draft of several CNB documents
• Member of the CIGA Scientific Board (Centre on Environmental, Ethical, Legal and Social Decisions on
Emerging Technologies – UNIPD) from 2005 to 2012
• Member of the steering committee of the Italian Society of Moral Philosophy (from 2016 to present)
• Member of the Italian Society of Neuroethics and Philosophy of Neurosciences
C) EDITORIAL POSITIONS
• Corresponding editor for Italy of the review “Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. An International Forum”
(Kluwer) from 1998 to 2002
• Editor of the four-monthly journal “Etica per le professioni. Questioni di etica applicata” (Fondazione Lanza - Edizioni Proget, Padova) from 1999 to 2009
• Member of the Editorial Board of Review “Studia Patavina”
• Member of the Scientific Committee of Review “Annuario di etica” (Vita e Pensiero, Milano), “Etica per le professioni. Questioni di etica applicata”, “Fenomenologia e società” (Rosenberg-Sellier, Torino), “Ars Interpretandi” (Cedam, Padova), “Etica & Politica/Ethics & Politics” (EUT: Edizioni Università di Trieste), “Anthropologica” (Meudon, Trieste), “Veritas” (Valparaíso, Chile)
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Series “Percorsi di etica” (Aracne, Rome) and “Ethica” (Orthotes, Napoli)
• Referee for several publishers and journals
• Referee for several PhD Programs and member of dissertation committees at several universities both in Italy and abroad
• Since 1990 he has published book-reviews and articles in Italian daily newspapers, especially for the Sunday supplement of “Il sole - 24 ore”.
D) PROJECT ORGANIZATION
- He received funding for the following research fellowship grants:
• Virtue, Justice, and the Good: Ancient Traditions and Contemporary Re-readings - 2001
• The Idea of Virtue in Augustine - 2003
• Kant's Concept of Action and the Contemporary Action Theory - 2009
• Killing and Letting Die within Biomedical Ethics - 2012
• The Diffusion of Genetic Susceptibility Testing in Healthcare – 2014
• New challenges for applied ethics - 2020
- Internationalization program between the FISPPA Department-UNIPD and The Kennedy Institute of Ethics (Washington D.C.) (2015-2016)
- Project “Bioetica della genetica” (FIRB): from 2009 to 2011
- He coordinated the research unit of Padua for the following PRIN projects:
• The Right and the Good: A Confrontation between Analytical and Continental Traditions - 2003
• The Good, the Ethos and the Forms of Life - 2004
• Nature, Naturalism and Ethical Universality – 2007
• New challenges for applied ethics - 2017

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