Vera TRIPODI

Biography

She is currently Assistant Professor (RTD-B) in Moral Philosophy at Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET), Politecnico di Torino (Italy). Before taking up her post in Turin, she worked as Assistant Professor (Rtd-A) at University of Milan. She received her Ph.D. in Logic and Epistemology from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2007. From 2013 to 2019, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Philosophy Department of the University of Turin, where she worked on a project on gender categories and social kinds. Previously, she was a Fellow at CAS SEE (Center for Advanced Studies, Southeast Europe) at the University of Rijeka and a Post-doctoral Researcher with the Logos Group at the University of Barcelona. Before that, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at STK (Centre for Gender Research) at the University of Oslo and a Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University in New York. She specializes in Feminist Philosophy and Ethics, Social Ontology, Bioethics, and Ethics of Technology. She also has research interests in epistemic injustice and discrimination, gender biases and the underrepresentation of women in philosophy.

She is a Founding Member and Vice President of the SWIP ITALIA (The Society for Women in Philosophy – Italy) and Associate Editor at APhEx (Analytical and Philosophical Explanation).