SALA ROBERTA

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Roberta Sala
Full Professor in Political Philosophy
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Faculty of Philosophy
Via Olgettina 58, 20132 Milano MI
Tel: ++39 02 91751.627 Mobile: ++39 348 2825970
sala.roberta@unisr.it
www.unisr.it/docenti/s/sala-roberta
Sex: F Date of birth: 04/07/1964 Nationality: Italian
ORCID: 0000-0002-3558-542X Web of Science Researcher ID: AAB-3065-2020

CURRENT POSITION

Full Professor

WORK EXPERIENCE

From October 1st 2018 Full Professor in Political Philosophy SPS/01
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Faculty of Philosophy
May 1st 2015 – 2018 Associate Professor in Political Philosophy SPS/01
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Faculty of Philosophy
October 1st 2004 - 2015 Academic Researcher in Political Philosophy SPS/01
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Faculty of Philosophy

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1998 PhD in Bioethics
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Rome – public ethics, bioethics, moral and political philosophy
1991-1992 Postgraduate Course in Bioethics
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Rome
1990-1991 Postgraduate Course in Bioethics
University of Milan, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
1990 Qualification to teach Philosophy and Science of Education
Class XLII, Ordinary Competitions for Professorships
1989 MA in Philosophy (110 cum laude)
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, Milan – moral philosophy, political philosophy, modern philosophy

MERITS

Award
UniSR University Governance:
2018-on UniSR Contact Person for the CRUI University and Business Foundation Observatory, protocol R/611 2018
2018-20 Member UniSR Quality Presidium, protocol P/150/ 2018, confirmation with protocol P.025/PR/NG/cd, 25.11.2020
2021-on Member of the Organizing Committee of the Degree Course in Political Science and Global Strategies, inter-university course UniSR and University of Bergamo
2022-on President of the Degree Course in Philosophy, UniSR
2016-on UniSR Representative Appointment for the CRUI Foundation Observatory, Universities and Enterprises in the CRUI field

National appointments:
2024-26 National Agency for the Evaluation of Research - Appointment as an expert for the 2020-24 Research Quality Evaluation (VQR), GEV 14: Political and Social Sciences
2021-23 Commissioner ASN Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale 2021 (appointment decree 0001631.08-07-2021)
2015-19 External reviewer research products of the VQR 2015-19

International appointments:
2020-25 on Ethics Advisor for the Research n. 852172 European Research Council - Starting Grant 2019 Harmful Traditions, Women Empowerment and Development - Principal Investigator professor Lucia Corno - UCSC, Milan
1998 EACME, European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics, representing IRCSS San Raffaele University Scientific Institute
1998 European Commission project Xenotransplantation: ethical, social, economic and juridical aspects, concerted action contract BIO4- CT98-0512, 1998 (IRCSS San Raffaele Partner)
1996 Nursing Ethics Network of the International Association of Bioethics (University of Cardiff, UK), member

Societies and research centres committees:
2022-23 SITC Italian Society of Critical Philosophy (invited member)
2022-on Associazione di studi e ricerche sulla democrazia, l'etica pubblica e la trasparenza (DEMETRA), https://www.dem-e-tra.it/ (invited founding member)
2021 SIC Italian Society of Criminology, Local Scientific Committee of Milan (invited member)
2022-on SWIP-I Society for the Women in Philosophy Italy (member)
2018-21 SWIP-I Society for the Women in Philosophy Italy (elected member of the Steering Board)
2019-on Globus et Locus Association, Milan (invited member of the Scientific Committee)
2017-on International Forum of Teachers (IFT), UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
2017-on International Research Centre for European Culture and Politics, UniSR, renamed as European Centre for Social Ethics (affiliated researcher)
2017 Board of Directors of the IPASVI College of Milan-Lodi-Monza Brianza (Member of the expert group for the revision of the nurses' code of ethics)
2016-17 International Summer School ‘Rethinking the Culture of Tolerance’, University of Milan-Bicocca, University of Sarajevo, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina (member of the Scientific Committee)
2016-on Center for Studies in Ethics and Politics - CeSEP Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan (Director)
2016-on GENDER International Centre for Gender Studies, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Member of the Board of Directors)
2016 IFOM Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare (member of the Committee for Human Research and Bioethics HUB)
2016-on Athens Institute for Educations & Research, http://www.atiner.gr (member)
2012-on Politeia Centre for Research and Training in Politics and Ethics (member of the Scientific and Technical Committee) http://www.politeia-centrostudi.org/comitatoscientifico.html
2012-on SIFA Italian Society of Analytical Philosophy (member)
2004-on SIFP Italian Society of Political Philosophy (member; 2022-2025: vice-president)

PhD Programmes / Teaching Committees:
2023-on PhD Program National Interest Life Course Research, coordinator: University of Florence (Member Teaching Committee)
2014-on PhD Program Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University Milan (Member Teaching Committee)
2011-14 PhD Program Philosophy and Science of Mind, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University Milan (Member Teaching Committee)
2009-11 PhD Program Political Studies, University of Milan (Member Teaching Committee)
2010-on San Raffaele School of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University Milan (Member Scientific and Organizational Committee)

Editorial Activity
2024-on Politica & Società - journal Il Mulino (Advisory Committee)
2024-on PPI Philosophy and Public Issues – Journal (Board of Editors Scientific Committee)
2023-on Series ‘Multiverso’, Giappichelli Publisher (member of Editorial board)
2022-on Series ‘Political Philosophy’, Rubbettino Publisher (member Editorial board)
2021 IJERPH (ISSN 1660-4601, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph) (Reviewer board)
2021-on series 'Etica e politica', AlboVersorio Publisher (Director)
2020-on series 'Studi Europei', Mimesis Publisher (member of Editorial board)
2018-on Glocalism. Journal of culture politics and innovation (ISSN 2283-7949) (Peer Review coordinator of the field 'Philosophy'
2016-2020 & 2020-on Biblioteca della Libertà (ISSN 2035-5866), Centro Einaudi (Editorial board; 2024-on: co-director)
2014-on Phenomenology and Mind, Journal - ISSN: 2239-4028; 2280-7853 (Co-editor)
2012-on Notizie di Politeia - ISSN: 1128-2401 (Editorial board)
2002-2007 Newsletter, European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (Editorial board)

Peer reviewer (s.d): Journal of International Political Theory (ISSN: 1755-0882 Online ISSN: 1755-1722); European Journal of Political Theory (ISSN paper format: 1474-8851/ISSN online: 1741-2730); Philosophical News (ISSN paper format: 2039-7194/ISSN online: 2037-6707); Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (ISSN paper format: 1386-2820/ISSN online: 1572-844); Topoi. An international review of philosophy (ISSN paper format: 0167-7411/ISSN online:1572-8749); Journal of Politics and Law (ISSN 1913-9047 Print; ISSN 1913-9055 Online); Science Publishing Group, USA, http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com; Horisma Universita' Bicocca (http://www.ledizioni.it/collane/societa/horisma/); The Future of Science & Ethics, ISSN 2421-3039 (https://scienceandethics.fondazioneveronesi.it); International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (CCA - CC BY - license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); The Future of Science & Ethics, ISSN 2421-3039 (https://scienceandethics.fondazioneveronesi.it); International Journal of Environmental Research (ISSN 1735-6865); Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (ISSN 1872-4353); Constellations (ISSN:1467-8675); Philosophy and social criticism (ISSN 1461-734X); Filosofia politica (ISSN 0394-7297); Philosophies (ISSN 2409-9287), Iride (ISSN 1122-7893)

Invited Presentations
27-29 March 2026 "Algorithmic Sovereignty: Rethinking the Leviathan in the digital era", Thomas Hobbes International Conference, Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury Society (ThoMS) Malmesbury UK, with Beatrice Magni
16-17 January 2026 "Believing in a more reasonable political debate", International conference 'Abolishing democracy. Is the future post-political?', University of Catania, Department Political and Social Science
16 October 2025 "Intelligenza artificiale e governo delle città", 'Le intelligenze per governare le trasformazioni delle città', series of talks Construction Futures, Biennale Architettura 2025, Venezia
9 October 2025 Discussant "Animal rights and public reason", workshop Liberal Politics and Nature Democratic Decisions about Animals, Plants and Climate Change, Luiss Guido Carli, Rome
3-4 July 2025 "Genitorialità dei single, riproduzione assistita e gravidanza per altri", Panel PMA: Profili giuridici, nazionali e comparati, 'Essential levels of care in the assisted reproductive technologies. New challenges for the public sector', University Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, with Gianfranco Pellegrino
14-18 May 2025 "Believing in a more Reasonable Political Debate: beyond the Binary Interpretation of Unreasonableness", International conference Philosophy and Social Science, Institute of Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
12 December 2024 "Quale identità politica per L'Europa?", discussion of G. De Anna e M. Dozzi (eds), Political Identity and the Metaphysics of Polities, London & New York, Routledge, 2023, Department Legal Sciences, University of Udine
11 December 2024 "Il problema del potere", 'Giornata di riflessione sugli studi giuridici. Giuristi e potere politico a cento anni dal delitto Matteotti', University Insubria, Como
4-6 September 2024 "How aging impacts: personal and public implications", Panel Disability and Justice, 2024 MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
21 May 2024 "Vulnerability and existential feelings of ageing: personal traits and public implications", General Meeting Age-It, funded PNRR, University Ca' Foscari, Venice, in the absence, with Francesca De Vecchi and Francesca Forlè
8-12 May 2024 "Unreasonableness and political agency in the digital age", International conference Philosophy and Social Science, Institute of Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
27 April 2023 'Rules and compliance in time of Covid19' - FISR (CoRC - Covid Rules and Compliance; FISR2020IP_04500) Under the auspices of the ESC Working Group on Crime, Criminal Justice and COVID-19 pandemic - Co-organization and talk "A Sense for Political Community: Obligations and Motivations in Time of Covid-19 Pandemic", with Sarah Songhorian
1-3 December 2022 SIFP panel 'Democratic legitimacy and public reason: new frontiers', talk "Anti-pandemic restrictions and public justification", Rome, University of Rome 3
24 November 2022 Dialogues in Bioethics, Clinical Ethics Research Centre, talk "Law of the individual and interest of the community: comparing perspectives", Insubria University, Varese
20-21 October 2022 "Injustice, empathy and reason", Forms of injustice, Swip-I Third Annual Conference, University of Salerno, Fisciano, with Sarah Songhorian
14 October 2022 "Rules and compliance: the case of the Covid-19 pandemic", with Sarah Songhorian, Pisa Seminar of Political Philosophy 'Passionate Discussions' University of Pisa
7 September 2022 "A sense for political community: Obligations and motivations in time of Covid19 pandemic", with Sarah Songhorian, Workshop Rights at the Frontiers of Justice, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Rijeka - HR
13 January 2022 "Ragionevolezza e irragionevolezza nell'uso del web. Spunti a partire dalla riflessione rawlsiana", Lecture for Master Philosophy of Law, Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, University of Udine, online
13-14 December 2021 "Vulnerabilita', cura e discriminazione", Co-Organization Annual Conference SWIP I, online
23 November 2021 "Toleration and Reasonableness", Lecture for Symposium on Making sense of toleration, Faculty of Arts (University of Maribor, Slovenja) - Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana (Slovenja), online
8-9 October 2021 "Etica, norme ed emergenze", Lecture Symposium SIC - Società Italiana di Criminologia, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan
13-14 September 2021 "The Challenges of Solidarity in a Critical Age", Discussant of Federico Pennestrì, Health care and solidarity, workshop International Research Centre for European Culture and Politics, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Cesano Maderno
8-10 September 2021 Co-Convenor with F. Cesarano e I. Salvatore, panel 'My culture made me do it': freedom and choice in current multicultural democracies', Mancept Workshop, University of Manchester, 18 Annual conference
23 June 2021 "La cura dell'ambiente: prospettive di bioetica", Round Table Associazione AlboVersorio, Festa della Filosofia, XI edition, Cesano Maderno, MB
21 June 2021 "Etica per le istituzioni. Un lessico". Round Table STALS (Sant'Anna Legal Studies) Seminars, Scuola Universitaria Superiore, Istituto di Diritto, Politica e Sviluppo, Pisa - online
17 June 2021 "Voltare la pagina. Oltre il vaccino - Chi decide le politiche in uscita dalla pandemia", Giannino Bassetti Foundation Dialogues - online
5 June 2021 "Empatia regolata e sfide pubbliche", National Symposium SIFM - Società Italiana Filosofia Morale, "Etica e politica", with Sarah Songhorian, in absence
4 March 2021 "Ragionevolezza: un'attitudine politica e uno stile di vita", Lecture serie "Orizzonti filosofici", Locarno, Switzerland, online
12 January 2021 "La vaccinazione deve essere obbligatoria o no?" Round Table 'L'etica al centro dell'imminente vaccinazione Covid-19', Consulta di Bioetica Onlus, online
25 June 2020 "Il vaccino per Sars-Cov-2 Questioni etico-giuridiche", Discussant, Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences - Research Centre in Clinical Ethics - PhD in Clinical and Experimental Medicine and Medical Humanities, University of Insubria, Varese, online
10-11 December 2019 "Democrazia vulnerabile. Potenzialità e rischi della web politics" Organization of CeSEP Vita-Salute San Raffaele University Symposium, PRIN 2015 Soggetti di diritto e vulnerabilità
12-14 September 2019 "The concept of vulnerability in the ageing population: technological innovations and ethical considerations". 2019 EACME Annual Conference, with Virginia Sanchini, Oxford, in the absence
2-3 July 2019 "Modus vivendi as a shared practice", International Conference "Political communities. Normativity and the metaphysics of politics", University of Udine, Department of Legal Sciences
26-28 June 2019 "The concept of vulnerability in the ageing population: technological innovations and ethical considerations", with Virginia Sanchini, Zagreb Applied Ethics Conference 2019, Zagabria, Croatia, in absence
10 May 2019 "Popolo e Sfera Pubblica", Seminario di Etica e Politica, Department of Political Sciences, Communication and International Relations, University of Macerata
21-23 June 2018 "The reasonableness of unreasonable communities challenging Rawls's political liberalism", with Benedetta Giovanola, ASPP Conference Political Ethics, LUISS Guido Carli & Sapienza University, Rome
21-23 June 2018 "Reason-giving, deliberation and bioethics: towards the definition of a realistic approach", with Virginia Sanchini, ASPP Conference Political Ethics, LUISS Guido Carli & Sapienza University, Rome
21-23 June 2018 "Debating vaccination: why toleration is not an option", with Virginia Sanchini, ASPP Conference Political Ethics, LUISS Guido Carli & Sapienza University, Rome
12 April 2018 "Obiezione di coscienza come principio di agency per individui e istituzioni. Confronto tra i casi delle leggi su IVG e DAT", with Massimo Reichlin, Seminario Permanente di Normatività Pratica 'Agenti morali, Agenti politici', Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia
18-20 September 2017 "Religious Diversity and Multiple Secularities. The case of Italian schools", with Maria Chiara Giorda, EASR European Association for the Study of Religions, Annual Conference 2017, University of Leuven (Belgium), in absence
27-29 June 2017 "Reason-giving, deliberation and public bioethics: new vistas in political ethics", with Virginia Sanchini, ASPP Conference Political Ethics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield (UK)
8-9 June 2017 "Migranti climatici e doveri di accoglienza", with Francesca Pongiglione (in absence), Conference 'Ripensare le migrazioni forzate', Escapes, Laboratorio Studi Critici sulle Migrazioni Forzate & University of Milan, University of Parma
25 May 2017 "Immigrazione: riflessioni di etica pubblica", seminar 'Globalizzazione: tra storia e teoria politica', Dipartimento Studi Storici Università di Milano, Fondazione Bassetti, Milan
19-25 September 2016 "Cultural and religious integration and toleration", International Summer School Rethinking the Culture of Tolerance, University of Sarajevo - University of East Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina
7-9 September 2016 "Modus vivendi and motivations for compliance", Mancept Workshop Political Theory 2016, University of Manchester, UK
8-10 September 2016 "Moral Distress in the End-of-Life Nursing of Oncological Patients. A Multi-Method Qualitative Draft Study", with D. F. Manara, S. Andreoletti, S. Cipriani, M. Voi, D. Moranda, C. Soliman, S. Songhorian, European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics EACME, Eacme Conference 30 Years of European Bioethics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (in absence)
23-29 July 2016 "The Missing Link: how to trace the path between European Disunion and European Solidarity", with Beatrice Magni Poznan 2016 (XXIV IPSA World Congress of Political Science), panel The European Union: Dynamics of Integration and Disintegration, Poznan (in absence)
16 September 2015 Summer School 2015 'Rethinking the culture of tolerance,' University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, discussant of A. E. Galeotti, 'The case of Charlie Hebdo and the limits of toleration'
8-10 July 2015 "Modus Vivendi Conference", ‘Modus vivendi and the issue of stability’, Westfalische Wilhelms Universitat, Centre for Advanced Study in Bioethics, University of Muenster, Muenster D
31 October 2013 "Convivere con le differenze: Cosa significa tollerare?", discussant for Susan Mendus, Incontri Reset-dialogues on civilization, Fondazione Feltrinelli, Milan
6 February 2013 "La tolleranza degli irragionevoli", seminar series on 'Tolleranza e riconoscimento', Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Centro per le scienze religiose, University of Trento
26 June 2012 "Individuals and Communities. The case of female genital mutilation", Elective Course The Health of Immigrants, University of Milan in collaboration with ISMU - Initiatives and Studies on Multiethnicity, Milan
24 March 2011 "Bioethics and multiculturalism", lecture Seminars of the PhD School in Legal Sciences, PhD in Law and New Technologies, Course of Applied Ethics: bioethics and ethics of professions, University of Bologna
2 September 2010 "Political liberalism and toleration", workshop Mancept 2010 'Toleration and respect. Concepts, justification and applications', University of Manchester, UK
21-23 June 2010 "Political liberalism and toleration", workshop 'Toleration, Respect and Space: Concepts, conceptions and applications', European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme collaborative research project RESPECT: Towards a "Topography" of Tolerance and Equal Respect, Centre for the Study of Equality and Multiculturalism, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
17 May 2010 "Public Health and Public Ethics: Controversial Issues", Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics, University of Padova
6 May 2010 "Despite deep disagreement", Research Seminar 'Ragioni pubbliche e spazio pubblico', director: Anna E. Galeotti, UPO, Vercelli
24-25 September 2009 "Citizenship versus Islam? Civic Recognition in Germany, Great Britain and Denmark", Round Table 'Final Conference on Migration and Diversity Challenges in Europe', EMILIE EU Project: A European Approach to Multicultural Citizenship, University of Berlin
17 May 2007 "Public reason and extension of life-span", discussant of a paper by Elvio Baccarini, 'International Workshop Extension of Life Span', EU ENHANCE: Enhancing Human Capacities: Ethics, Regulation and European Policy, UniSR, Cesano Maderno, Italy
9-10 June 2006 "Moral commitment and political obligation", VIII Rijeka International Conference 'Contemporary Philosophical Issues: Analytical Philosophy-Legal Investigations', University of Riejka (Croatia)
27-28 May 2005 "Legal pluralism, rights and integration", discussant for International Workshop on Religious and Cultural Minorities: Theoretical and Practical Issues for Democratic Citizenship, Department Studi Umanistici, UPO, Vercelli
2-3 December 2004 "Dignity and Older Europeans", Workshop, School of Medicine Department of Geriatric Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff (UK)
27-28 May 2004 "Multiculturalism: principles and practices", VI International Conference (Contemporary Philosophical Topics) 'Rationality in belief and action', Croatian Society of Analytical Philosophy - Philosophy Department University of Rijeka, Rijeka (Croatia)

Grants
2025 Sept Erasmus+ Staff Mobility Faculty of Philosophy University College Cork IE, IRL CORK 01 (contact person: professor Vittorio Bufacchi)
2023 June Workshop project Public Justification and Capability Pluralism funded by Croatian Science Foundation IP-2020-02-8073 - invited
2022 Sept Erasmus+ Staff Mobility Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Rijeka HR - HR RIJEKA01 (contact person: professor Elvio Baccarini)

2015-2017 Grant, 'Piano di sostegno della ricerca 2015-2017' on European Union: descriptive and normative aspects, Department Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan
2009 Research Fellow, Department of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt-Oder D (Director: professor Werner Schiffauer)
2008 Jemolo Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University UK (supervisor: professor David Miller)
2007-2008 Visiting Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, UCL UK (supervisor: professor Tim Crane)
2005 Research Assistant, The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University (Cambridge Mass.) (supervisor: professor Anna E. Galeotti)

PERSONAL SKILLS

Mother tongue(s) Italian
Other language(s) English: C1
Job-related skills Ability to cooperate and to lead a team. Organizing scientific and public events. Ability to moderate.
Digital skills Medium skills with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Publications (short selections)
See the following link for further products: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2q8VwdQAAAAJ&hl=it
Non-bibliometric

1. 2026 L. Konderak, F. Pongiglione, R. Sala. Animals among Public Reason, Justice, and Rights. A Review of Recent Philosophical Debate. NOTIZIE DI POLITEIA, vol. XLI, p. 132-153, ISSN: 1128-2401
2. 2025 R. Sala. Assetto post-rawlsiano e modus vivendi. NOTIZIE DI POLITEIA, vol. XLI, p. 166-171, ISSN: 1128-2401
3. 2025 G. Favara, R. Sala. Ferrara's Principles of Constitutional Legitimacy: From Plato to Rawls, and Backwards?. FILOSOFIA E QUESTIONI PUBBLICHE, p. 11-22, ISSN: 1591-0660, doi: 10.17473/2240-7987-2025-1-2
4. 2025 R. Sala. Lo spazio europeo dei dati sanitari: una questione di etica pubblica. NOTIZIE DI POLITEIA, vol. XLI, p. 7-17, ISSN: 1128-2401
5. 2025 B. Giovanola, R. Sala, A. Volpi, Reasonableness: olde virtue for a new era. Guest editors Preface. Etica & Politica, vol. 27, p. 9-13, ISSN: 1825-5167, doi: 10.13137/1825-5167/37913, https://www.openstarts.units.it/handle/10077/37911
6. 2025 F. Liveriero, E. Biale, R. Sala. Introduction to Public ethics for real people. In: AA.VV. (eds): Liveriero F. Biale E. Sala R., Public ethics for real people: Toleration, Equal Respect, and Democratic Distortions. p. 1-237, Cham: Springer Nature, ISBN: 9783031818646, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-81865-3
7. 2025 R. Sala. Preface. In: John Locke. Lettera sulla tolleranza. vol. 35, p. 1-17, Sesto San Giovanni: Societa' Aperta, ISBN: 9791280048769
8. 2024 G. Favara, R. Sala. Ferrara's Intergenerational Vision of the Liberal Constitution against Populism: Introductory Notes. BIBLIOTECA DELLA LIBERTA', ISSN: 2035-5866, doi: 10.23827/BDL_2024_12
9. 2024 R. Sala, M. Russo. Irragionevolezza, irrazionalita' e fake news. Il caso Brexit In: AA.VV. (eds): J. Marchetti, Il potere della menzogna. Comunicazione e politica nella societa' digitale. p. 265-285, BOLOGNA: Il Mulino, ISBN: 978-88-15-38832-2
10. 2024 R. Sala. Restrizioni anti-pandemia e giustificazione pubblica. In: AA.VV. (eds): Michele Nicoletti, LA FILOSOFIA POLITICA E IL CORSO DEL MONDO. vol. 17, p. 53-61, MILANO - UDINE: Mimesis, ISBN: 9791222315966
11. 2024 G. Favara, R. Sala (eds.) Who is the People? Alessandro Ferrara's "Sovereignty Across Generations". BIBLIOTECA DELLA LIBERTA', vol. 239, ISSN: 2035-5866
12. 2023 F. De Vecchi, R. Sala. Compliance with justice: shared values and modus vivendi. CRITICAL REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, vol. 26, p. 56-70, ISSN: 1743-8772, doi: 10.1080/13698230.2021.1893252
13. 2023 G. Travaini, E. Flutti, R. Sala, S. Songhorian, P. Caruso, G. Mugellini, L. Blandi. Compliance with recommended preventive behaviours and restrictions for Covid-19: an exploratory analysis of Italians' attitudes. ACTA BIOMEDICA, vol. 94, p. 1-13, ISSN: 2531-6745, doi: 10.23750/abm.v94iS3.14431
14. 2023 F. Cesarano, R. Sala, I. Salvatore. Cultural Diversity, Integration and Harm Protection in Liberal Societies. RES PUBLICA, vol. 29, p. 555-560, ISSN: 1572-8692, doi: 10.1007/s11158-023-09624-0
15. 2023 R. Sala. Razumna strpnost in modus vivendi. DIALOGI, vol. 59, p. 56-64, ISSN: 0012-2068
16. 2023 F. Pennestri', G. Villa, N. Giannetta, R. Sala, D. F. Manara, R. Mordacci. Training Ethical Competence in a World Growing Old: A Multimethod Ethical Round in Hospital and Residential Care Settings. JOURNAL OF BIOETHICAL INQUIRY, vol. 20, p. 1-16, ISSN: 1176-7529, doi: 10.1007/s11673-023-10236-9
17. 2023 M. Reichlin, R. Sala. Vulnerabilita': significati e pratiche nella riflessione bioetica contemporanea. Introduzione. NOTIZIE DI POLITEIA, vol. 39, p. 5-10, ISSN: 1128-2401
18. 2023 A. E. Galeotti, R. Sala. What Went Wrong with Saman's Story? Cultural Practice, Individual Rights, Gender, and Political Polarization. RES PUBLICA, vol. 29, p. 629-646, ISSN: 1356-4765, doi: 10.1007/s11158-022-09575-y
19. 2023 R. Sala, S. Songhorian. A Sense for Political Community: Obligations and Motivations in Time of Covid-19 Pandemic. In: AA.VV. (eds): G. De Anna M. Dozzi, Political Identity and the Metaphysics of Polities. p. 186-202, New York: Routledge, ISBN: 978-1-032-18149-3, doi: 10.4324/9781003255185-14
20. 2023 R. Sala, V. Sanchini. La vulnerabilita' degli anziani nell'era tecnologica. In: AA.VV. (eds): P. Altini, M. Balistreri, F. Casile, G. Mercurio, La cura infermieristica al tempo dell'intelligenza artificiale. vol. 10, p. 47-57, MILANO - UDINE: Mimesis, ISBN: 9788857593142
21. 2023 R. Sala. Ragionevolezza e ragionevolezza nell'uso del web. Spunti a partire dalla riflessione rawlsiana. In: AA.VV. (eds): G. Giacomini, L. Taddio, La politica nel mondo digitale. Prospettive teoriche. Filosofia del digitale, 7, p. 208-219, MILANO - UDINE: Mimesis, ISBN: 9788857597010
22. 2022 F. Pennestri', R. Mordacci, D.F. Manara, N. Giannetta, G. Villa, R. Sala. Ethical challenges in acute and long-term care of the elderly: a scoping review. PROFESSIONI INFERMIERISTICHE, 75, p. 3-13, ISSN: 2532-1579
23. 2022 F. Pennestri', G. Villa, N. Giannetta, D.F. Manara, R. Sala, R. Mordacci. Non c'e' cura dei pazienti senza cura degli operatori: conoscere e contrastare moral distress e burnout fra prevenzione e interventi strutturali. POLITICHE SANITARIE, 23, p. 1-22, ISSN: 1590-069X
24. 2022. V. Sanchini, R. Sala, C. Gastmans. The concept of vulnerability in aged care: a systematic review of argument-based ethics literature, BMC MEDICAL ETHICS, 23, 84. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-022-00819-3
25. 2022. R. Sala, S. Songhorian. "Empatia regolata e sfide pubbliche", Etica e politica (editors: G. Cogliandro e G. Costanzo), Orthotes, Salerno-Napoli, pp. 309-318
26. 2021. B. Giovanola, R. Sala. The Reasons of the Unreasonable: Is Political Liberalism still an Option?. PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL CRITICISM, ISSN: 0191-4537, doi: 10.1177/019145372110405683
27. 2021. R. Sala. Liberta' dal vaccino: ragioni ed eccezioni. In: AA.VV. (eds): Lorena Forni, Silvia Salardi, Michele Saporiti, Scritti in onore di Patrizia Borsellino. p. 201-214, TORINO: Giappichelli, ISBN: 978-88-921-3960-2
28. 2021 R. Sala, with F. De Vecchi. Compliance with Justice: Shared Values and Modus Vivendi. CRITICAL REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, p. 1-15, ISSN: 1743-8772, doi: 10.1080/13698230.2021.1893252
29. 2021 R. Sala, V. Sanchini. Mapping Policy Containment Measures to Sars-Cov-2 Pandemics: At what Conditions Paternalism is Justified. BIBLIOTECA DELLA LIBERTA', vol. LV, pp. 91-120, ISSN: 2035-5866
30. 2021 R. Sala. Doveri del cittadino tra ingiunzioni morali e obblighi politici. Il caso della pandemia da Covid-19 (pp. 15-26) Lessico di etica pubblica, 2 (2021). ISSN 2039-220
31. 2021 R. Sala, Toleration and Reasonableness. In: (ed) Sardoc M., The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration. p. 1-19, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-03227-2_31-1
32. 2019 F. Pongiglione, R. Sala. Vulnerability, responsibilities, and migration. PHENOMENOLOGY AND MIND, pp. 58-66, ISSN: 2280-7853

Projects (List relevant projects)

2025-2027 Member and responsible of line Ethics&Politics "Gender Violence: Languages and Imaginaries" (Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and CNR/Iliesi; project funded by the Ministry of Equal Opportunities)
2023-2025 PI Unit UniSR Project 2022W8CT4J Liberal politics and nature. Democratic decisions about animals, plants and climate change, PNRR Missione 4 "Istruzione e Ricerca" - Componente C2 Investimento 1.1, "Fondo per il Programma Nazionale di Ricerca e Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)"
2023-2025 Member Unit UniSR P2022CHJ7Y Utopian images: cinema as the building of an inclusive democratic citizenship Missione 4 "Istruzione e Ricerca" - Componente C2 Investimento 1.1, "Fondo per il Programma Nazionale di Ricerca e Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)"
2023-25 Leader UniSR Filosofia per Spoke 7 "Cultural and political dimensions of ageing societies". Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR), Missione 4 "Istruzione e ricerca", componente 2 "Dalla ricerca all'impresa" - investimento 1.3 'Partneriati estesi', finanziato dall'Unione europea - NextGenerationEU: Partenariato Esteso "Age-It: Ageing well in an ageing society" -Tematica "Conseguenze e sfide dell'invecchiamento" Codice progetto MUR: PE00000015 - CUP ENTE: D43C22003100007
2021-23 Member ElderTech Project: "Emerging Technologies and Vulnerabilities in Aged Care." Cariplo Foundation, year: 2020; call "Social Research: Science, Technology and Society"
2020 PI FISR 2020 - CoRC (Covid Rules and Compliance) - 'Regulatory measures to contain the epidemic. Analysis of the underlying reasons for their compliance or violation in order to develop a conceptual support for the legislator' (FISR2020IP_04500) (UniSR)
2018-2021 PI, Research Unit 3 UniSR, project "Enhancing Social Innovation in Elderly Care: values, practices and policies" (INNOVAcaRE), Social Science Research Grant Fondazione Cariplo (Bando Ricerca Sociale sull'invecchiamento: persone, luoghi e relazioni 2017), project PI: Antonio Maria Chiesi, UniMI (Grant no. 2017-0951)
2019-2021 Team Member, project "Home, Hospitals, Humans: The Impact of Space and Time on Long Term Care Delivery and Aging" (HHH), "Bando Sociale sull'Invecchiamento: Persone, Luoghi, Relazioni" 2018), Project PI: Roberto Mordacci, UniSR (Grant n. 2018 - 0801)
2021-2024 Team Member, project "Emerging technologies and vulnerabilities in aged care" (ElderTech). Social Science Research Grant (Bando Ricerca Sociale) Fondazione Cariplo, 2021-2024, project PI progetto: Virginia Sanchini, UniMI
2016-2017 UniSR Rector's delegate, UN WOMEN Comitato Italia project, Guidelines on gender equality in collaboration with Italian universities
2002-2005 PI Local Unit IRCCS San Raffaele, European Project "Ethical Codes in Nursing: European Perspectives" (QLG6-CT-2001-00945), 'Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, European Commission Project, FP5-Life Quality'
2017-2019 PRIN 20175YZ855 - SH5, 'New challenges for applied ethics. The moral impact of scientific and technological advances' (PI Local team: Massimo Reichlin, UniSR; Project PI: Mario De Caro, Roma Tre University, Rome) (member)
2015-2017 PRIN 2015CX78PN - SH2, 'Soggetti di diritto e vulnerabilità' (PI Local Team: Alessandra Facchi, UniMI; Project PI: Baldassarre Pastore) (member)
2008-2010 PRIN 2008TR3MLZ_005, 'Verita', politica, giustizia: teorie e pratiche' (PI Local Team: Antonella Besussi, UniMI; Project PI: Michele Nicoletti, UniTN) (member)
2010-2012 EU research project Towards a 'Topography' of Tolerance and Equal Respect. A comparative study of policies for the distribution of public spaces in culturally diverse societies, Collaborative Project FP7 (Grant Agreement no. 244549), PI Local Team: Anna E. Galeotti, University Oriental Piedmont 'Amedeo Avogadro' (member)

Ethics Consultant
2019-2023 Member of the Ethics Committee, Ospedale San Raffaele - Gruppo San Donato (OSR-GSD) as Bioethics expert
2005-2008 Third Party Commission of the Lombardy Region for the Evaluation of Candidates for Living Organ Donation (composed of a Medical Examiner, acting as chairman, a Clinical Psychologist and an Expert in Bioethics and established by Regional Resolution no. 7/18/134 of 9/7/2004 implementing art. 4 of Regional Law no. 2 of 16/2/2004) - expert of bioethics (with others)
2004-2006 Member, Research Project Implementation of the database on the health of the foreign population with data analysis and comments. Research prevention and health protection in particular Female Genital Mutilation, ISMU Foundation, Lombardy Region
2004-2009 component, Research Project 'Implementation of the database on the health of the foreign population with data analysis and comments. Research prevention and health protection in particular Female Genital Mutilation', ISMU Foundation, Initiatives and studies on multiethnicity, Regional Observatory for integration and multiethnicity, Lombardy Region Council decree dgr. 20099 of 21.12.04)
2001-2003 Research Project component 'Bioethical problems in a multi-ethnic society', Veritatis Splendor Institute, Bologna

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Roberta Sala