DE VECCHI FRANCESCA MARIA

I am full professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, where I teach Social Ontology, Gender Studies (Phenomenology module), Philosophy of the Person, Phenomenology of the Person and Empathy.

Since October 2024, I have been President of the Master's Degree Program in Philosophy of the Contemporary World, UniSR. Since 2020, I have been Director of the PERSONA (Center for Research in Phenomenology and Sciences of the Persons, UniSR) and Co-editor in Chief of Phenomenology and Mind. From 2016 to 2022 I directed the GENDER (Interfaculty Center for Gender Studies, UniSR) of which I am member of the Steering Committee. Since 2014 I have been member of the Scientific Council of the Interuniversity Research Center in Gender Cultures. Since 2019 I have been President of the CUG (Supervisory committee for equal opportunities) UniSR.

I work on social ontology, philosophy of the person, and empathy. My research perspective is phenomenological: the personal and social “life-world”, the qualitative saliences that characterize its experience, and the complicated relationship between persons' identities (their flourishing or shrunkenness) and the various forms of social wholes of which they may be parts.
I am the author of numerous essays in Italian, English published in international journals and in Springer, Brill, Bloomsbury, and Routledge volumes. I have published the books: "La libertà incarnata" (Bruno Mondadori 2008: starting from Jeanne Hersch's philosophy, I present an account of the personological and axiological foundations of human rights); "Eidetica del diritto e ontologia sociale" (Mimesis 2012: I work on Adolf Reinach's phenomenological social ontology and the material a priori of law, social acts and social entities); "La società in persona" (Il Mulino 2022: I apply the ontology of the person to social ontology and develop a phenomenologically oriented qualitative social ontology).