FAVARA GRETA

Greta Favara Curriculum Vitae
[January 2026]

contact:
favara.greta@unisr.it
Faculty of Philosophy
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Palazzo Cellini, Centro Direzionale Milano 2 - 20054 Milano 2, Segrate (MI)

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0424-2635

CURRENT POSITION
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy (14/GSPS- 01 | SPS/01), Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

SCIENTIFIC QUALIFICATIONS
[05/06/2023 – 05/06/2034] National scientific qualification for associate professorship in Political Philosophy – Associate Professor (abilitazione scientifica nazionale di seconda fascia, filosofia politica – 14/A1).

PREVIOUS POSITIONS
• 2021-2025: Lecturer (ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipo A) in Political Philosophy (14/GSPS- 01 | SPS/01), Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.
• 2019-2021: Research Fellow (assegno di ricerca) in Moral Philosophy (M-FIL/03), Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.
• 2020-2021: Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University (Shanghai campus).

GRANTS AND AWARDS

• PRIN 2022 (Italian Ministry of University and Research) - Team Member, 2023–2025, Liberal Politics and Nature. Democratic Decisions about Animals, Plants and Climate Change, San Raffaele Unit; Local PI: Roberta Sala (Project code: 2022W8CT4J).
• CAS-SEE Fellowship - 2019 (offered, declined).
• Conference Bursaries - MANCEPT Workshops (Manchester, 2017); ECPR General Conference (Oslo, 2017); Brave New World Graduate Conference (Manchester, 2015).
• PhD Bursary - University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences, 2012–2015.
• Academic Merit Prize - Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, 2009–2010.

EDUCATION

2012 – 2018 PhD in Political Studies
Graduate School in Social and Political Sciences – University of Milan
Thesis: “Political Possibility. A Research into the Methods of Normative Political
Theory”
Supervisor: Prof Antonella Besussi Viva: 26/01/2018
Doctoral committee: Dr Francesca Pasquali (Università degli Studi di Milano), Prof Mark Philp (University of Warwick), Dr Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield)
Final grade: Excellent

2009 – 2012 MA in Philosophy – Laurea Specialistica in Filosofia della Mente, della Persona, della Città e della Storia
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Milan) Final Grade: 110/110 cum laude

2006 – 2009 BA in Philosophy – Laurea in Filosofia delle Prassi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Milan)
Final Grade: 110/110 cum laude

PUBLICATIONS
Books
• Favara, G. (2023) Prendere la politica sul serio. Il realismo nella filosofia politica contemporanea. AlboVersorio, Milano, ISBN: 9791281331051

Articles
• Favara, G. (2025), “Normative Behaviourism and Action-Guidance: The Challenge of the Climate Crisis”
Res Publica
• Favara, G. and Sala, R. (2025), “Ferrara’s Principles of Constitutional Legitimacy: From Plato to Rawls, and Backwards?”
Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche – Philosophy and Public Issues
• Favara, G. and Sala, R. (2024), “Ferrara's Intergenerational Vision of the Liberal Constitution against Populism: Introductory Notes”
Biblioteca della Libertà
• Favara, G. (2023), “Taking Politics Seriously: A Prudential Justification of Political Realism”
Philosophy and Social Criticism
• Favara, G. (2022), “Political Realism as Reformist Conservatism”
European Journal of Philosophy
• Favara, G. (2022), “Political Realism and the Relationship between Ideal and Non-ideal Theory”
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
• Burelli, C., Cozzaglio, I., Destri, C. and Favara, G. (2022), “Editorial ‘Political Normativity. Critical Essays on the Autonomy of the Political’”
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
• Cozzaglio, I. and Favara, G. (2022), “Political Realism and the Quest for Political Progress”
Constellations
• Cozzaglio, I. and Favara, G. (2021), “Feasibility beyond Non-ideal Theory: a Realist Proposal”
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
• Favara, G. and Miglio, N. (2021), “Introduction. Digital Identities, Digital Ways of Living: Philosophical Analyses”
Phenomenology and Mind
• Favara, G. (2019), “Glen Newey’s Critique of Legitimacy. An Assessment”
Biblioteca della libertà
• Favara, G. (2018), “Dall’epistemologia del disaccordo alla politica del disaccordo”
Biblioteca della libertà

Book chapters
• Favara, G. (forthcoming/July 2026), “Libertà e politica in Philip Pettit”, Libertà e democrazia deliberativa. Una prospettiva repubblicana, Mimesis, Milano – Udine
• Cozzaglio, I. and Favara, G. (2024), “Political Realism and Non-Ideal Theory”, Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory, edited by Hilkje Charlotte Hänel and Johanna Müller, Routledge, London
• Favara, G. (2022), “Il realismo politico e il ruolo della verità. Verso una riconciliazione”, in G. Bistagnino and F. Pasquali (eds.), A New Deal. Scritti per Antonella Besussi, Aracne, Roma
• Favara, G. (2022), “Il realismo politico e il problema della praticabilità delle teorie ideali”, in Potere, autorità e libertà. Atti del Convegno della Società Italiana di Filosofia Politica (Milano, 21- 23 novembre 2019), Mimesis edizioni, Sesto San Giovanni
• Favara, G. (2020), “Il rapporto tra morale e politica nell'umanesimo cosmopolitico di Julian Nida- Rümelin”, in Julian Nida-Rümelin, Per un nuovo umanesimo cosmopolitico, Mimesis, Milano – Udine
• Favara, G. (2016), “Practice-dependent Political Theory and the Boundaries of Political Imagination”. In Gli Annali di LPF - Laboratorio di Politica Comparata e Filosofia Pubblica (LPF), 16:64–94. WP-LPF 3.

Edited volumes
• S. Benhabib (forthcoming/2026), Trasformazioni della sovranità, translated by Cesarano F. e Volpi A., edited by Favara G., Mimesis, Milano – Udine.
• P. Pettit (forthcoming/2025), Libertà e democrazia deliberativa. Una prospettiva repubblicana, translated by Favara G. and Vignoli V., edited by Favara G., Mimesis, Milano – Udine.
• Favara, G. and Sala, R. (2024), “Who is the People? Alessandro Ferrara’s ‘Sovereigtny Across Generations’, Biblioteca della libertà special issue, anno LIX, n. 239.
• Burelli, C., Cozzaglio, I., Destri, C. and Favara, G. (eds.) (2022), “Political Normativity. Critical Essays on the Autonomy of the Political”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, vol. 25: special issue.
• Favara, G. and Miglio, N. (eds.) (2021), “Digital Identities, Digital Ways of Living: Philosophical Analyses”, Phenomenology and Mind special issue.
• J. Nida-Rümelin (2020), Per un nuovo umanesimo cosmopolitico, edited by Favara G., Mimesis, Milano – Udine.

TEACHING
Teaching Profile
Political philosopher with extensive BA- and MA-level teaching experience in political philosophy, global justice, and geopolitics. Repeatedly taught core and advanced courses in Italian and English across interdisciplinary programmes in philosophy and political science. Strong commitment to rigorous, discussion-based teaching and critical engagement with contemporary political issues.

Teaching Experience
• Democracy and Global Justice (MA level) - taught in multiple editions (2023/2024; 2024/2025; 2025/2026) MA in Philosophy of the Contemporary World, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan (Italian).
• Democracy and Global Justice (BA level, modules) - taught in multiple editions (2023/2024; 2024/2025; 2025/2026) BA in Political Science and Global Strategies, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan (Italian).
• Political Philosophy (BA level) - taught in multiple editions (2022/2023; 2023/2024; 2024/2025; 2025/2026) BA in Political Science and Global Strategies, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan (Italian).
• Conflicts and Political Legitimacy (MA level, modules) - taught in multiple editions (2019/2020; 2020/2021; 2023/2024)
MA in Philosophy, Politics and Public Affairs, University of Milan - Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (English).
• The Western Tradition: Moral and Political Values (MA level, modules) - taught in multiple editions (2019/2020; 2020/2021) MA in Philosophy, Politics and Public Affairs, University of Milan - Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (English).
• Geopolitics (MA level) - taught in multiple editions (2021/2022; 2022/2023) MA in Philosophy of the Contemporary World, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan (Italian).
• Ethics and Politics (BA level) - 2021/2022 BA in Social Science, New York University, Shanghai Campus (English).
• Global Perspectives on Society (module) - 2021/2022 New York University, Shanghai Campus (English).
• Philosophy of Politics (BA level, modules) - taught in multiple editions (2018/2019; 2019/2020) BA in Social Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca (Italian).
• Seminar Series on the Political Philosophy of Seyla Benhabib - 2020/2021 Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan (Italian).

Doctoral Teaching and Training
• Methodology of Political Theory - doctoral seminar (10 hours), 2024/2025
Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan (Italian).

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

[Invited]

2025 “Commento a Disobbedire, se, come, quando, di Federico Zuolo”, Seminario EDEN, Politeia, University of Milan
2025 “Comment on Marco Grasso’s Fossil Power and Climate Reparations”, Liberal Politics and Nature workshop, LUISS University
2023 “Normative Behaviourism and Climate Change”, Roskilde University
2022 “Una giustificazione prudenziale del realismo politico”, Convegno: Le forme della realtà, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
2022 “A Prudential Justification of Political Realism”, Philosophy and Politics Seminars, University of Genoa
2021 “La relazione tra verità e legittimità: un'analisi realista”, workshop “Il disaccordo: nella scienza e nella politica”, Associazione Nuova Civiltà delle Macchine, Forlì
2020 “Political Realism and the Quest for Political Progress”, University of Innsbruck, ECPR 2020 General Conference (unable to participate due to COVID-19)
2019 “A Realist Account of Political Progress” (w/ I. Cozzaglio), Newcastle University, ASPP Annual conference (not attended due to health issues)
2019 “L’utopia realistica di John Rawls”, Seminario internazionale interdisciplinare: History, Global Identities and New Civilizations, University of Milan
2018 “A Realist Account of Political Progress” (w/ I. Cozzaglio), Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders”, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
2018 “Realist Political Theory and the Feasibility Issue”, Workshop: Doing Realist Political Theory, University of Münster
2018 “Realist Political Theory and the Feasibility Issue”, Workshop: New Directions in Realist Political Thought, University of Reading
2018 “A Realist Account of Political Progress”, LUISS University, ASPP Annual conference, Panel “Theorising the Political ‘Realistically’”
2016 “Normative Political Theory and the Realist Challenge”, PSAI Annual Conference, University of Belfast
2015 “Sull'uso dei modelli in teoria politica normativa”, XXIX Convegno SISP, Università della Calabria

[Selected]

2025 “The Art of Timing: Rethinking Normative Prescriptions in Political Philosophy” (w/ D. Efthymiou), Workshop on Policy-Oriented Political Philosophy, University of Oxford
2025 “The Art of Timing: Rethinking Normative Prescriptions in Political Philosophy” (w/ D. Efthymiou), Philosophy and Social Science International Conference, Prague
2023 “Normative Behaviourism and Climate Change”, ECPR General Conference, Prague
2021 “A Prudential Justification of Political Realism”, ECPR General Conference, virtual event
2019 “Political Realism and the Feasibility Issue”, Italian Society for Political Philosophy General Conference
2017 “Political Realism as Reformist Conservatism”, MANCEPT Workshops, University of Manchester
2017 “Political Realism and the Status Quo”, ECPR General Conference, University of Oslo
2017 “How to reform normative thinking: Defending Realism as anti-moralism”, ASPP Annual Conference, University of Sheffield
2016 “Normative Political Theory and the Realist Challenge”, Seventh Braga Meeting on Ethics and Political Philosophy, University of Minho (not attended due to extenuating circumstances)
2016 Summer School on Methods and Approaches in Normative Political Theory, sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), University of Limerick. Accepted with partial bursary (not attended due to extenuating circumstances)
2016 “Normative Political Theory and the Realist Challenge”, ECPR General Conference, Charles University in Prague. Accepted with partial bursary (not attended due to extenuating circumstances)
2016 “Normative Political Theory and the Realist Challenge”, ASPP Annual Conference, LSE
2015 “Two Ways to Justify the Limit of Political Possibilities”, Brave New World 2015, MANCEPT Graduate Conference, University of Manchester
2015 “Two Ways to Justify the Limit of Political Possibilities”, 3rd Sciences Po Political Theory Graduate Conference, Sciences Po
2014 “Abstraction and Idealization: An Irrelevant and Misguiding Methodological Divide”, 12th Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy, University of Pavia

[Departmental talks]

2021 “A Prudential Justification of Political Realism”, Humanities and Social Science seminar series, New York University Shanghai
2021 “Democratising and decolonising disobedience” with Robin Celikates, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
2019 Seminar on Interessi democratici e ragioni partigiane. Una concezione politica della democrazia (Il Mulino, Bologna, 2018) by Enrico Biale, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
2016 “Political Realism. Methods and Principles”, NASP Workshop, University of Milan
2014 “Two Ways to Justify the Limit of Political Possibilities”, Seminar, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan
2011 “Civil Disobedience and the Limits of Political Obligation. An Overview between Rawls and Walzer” seminar within 2011-'12 “Public Ethics” course, Roberta Sala, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

2025 PPE Network in Europe Annual Conference, “Welfare in the Twenty-First Century”, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
2024 Workshop “New Frontiers in Climate Ethics and Politics”, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
2023 Workshop on Sovereignty Across Generations by Alessandro Ferrara, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
2022 “Rotelli Lectures”, invited speaker Steven Nadler, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
2021 “Rotelli Lectures”, invited speaker Seyla Benhabib, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
2021 “Incontri di avvicinamento alla Cattedra Rotelli” seminar series, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
2020 “Rotelli Lectures”, invited speaker Philip Pettit, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
2020 “Incontri di avvicinamento alla Cattedra Rotelli” seminar series, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
2020 “San Raffaele Spring School in Philosophy 2020”, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
2019 Workshop “Democrazia vulnerabile. Potenzialità e rischi della web politics”, Vita- Salute San Raffaele University
2019 Italian Society for Political Philosophy general conference
2019 Workshop: “Political Normativity: Realism meets Critics”, University of Milan (with C. Burelli, I. Cozzaglio, C. Destri)
2019 Workshop “Il vantaggio competitivo dei valori – Mercato globale ed etica nel terzo millennio”, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
2019 “Rotelli Lectures”, invited speaker Julian Nida-Rümelin, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
2017 Panel “Legitimacy in Context: Normativity between Descriptions and Independent Values”, MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, University of Manchester (with I. Cozzaglio and C. Destri)

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

• Member of the Doctoral Committee of the Faculty of Philosophy of Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
• Member of the working group for the design of the MA in Political Science and Global Strategies, Vita-Salute San Raffaele and University of Bergamo
• Scientific coordinator of CeSEP – Centre for Studies in Ethics and Politics – Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

OTHER ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Scientific board member of ECSE – European Centre for Social Ethics, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
• Assistant Editor of Phenomenology and Mind
• Honorary Fellowships [Cultore della materia]: in “Public Philosophy” (2018/2019), University of Milan; in “Political Philosophy” (2018/2019), Vita-Salute San Raffaele University; in “Public Ethics” (2018/2019), Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

MEMBERSHIPS

• ASPP, Association for Social and Political Philosophy
• SIFP, Italian Society of Political Philosophy
• SIFA, Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy

EXAMINATION BOARDS

• Member of the Judging Commission for a post-doc position at the Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (“Topics and Methods of Normative Political Theory”), 2024.
• Member of the Judging Commission for a post-doc position at the Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (“Climate Justice and Public Reason”), 2023.
• President of the commission for the doctoral evaluation of Alessandro Volpi (2025).
• President of the commission for the doctoral evaluation of Francesca Cesarano (2024).
• President of the commission for the doctoral evaluation of Yeelen Badona Monteiro (2023).