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CATERINA BOTTI

UNIVERSITÁ DI ROMA "LA SAPIENZA"

Caterina Botti is Associate Professor in Moral Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, where she presently teaches Bioethics  and Feminist philosophy and Gender studies. She is member of the PhD program in Philosophy and sits n the GAQ commission. Her fields of research are: moral theories and applied ethics (bioethics), feminist thought and feminist ethics.

She received her undergraduate degree (cum laude) in Philosophy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, in 1990 and her PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), in 1998. From 2000 to 2004 she hold a Research fellow position at the Dept. of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Siena, where she thought “Bioethics” and “Philosophical Bioethics” (until 2007). She has got then a position as Research fellow at the Faculty oh Philosophy of Rome (2007), and as Resercher from 2008 to 2015. For the Faculty of Philosophy of Rome, she has taught since 2002 different courses in the Master in Practical Ethics and Bioethics, and from 2006 to 2011 she held the course of “Women and Ethics”. She has participated to several European funded projects on bioethics and in philosophy and has been consultant in bioethics for the Italian National Institute of Health.

She is member of editorial advisory boards and scientific committees of the following journals: Bioetica. Rivista interdisciìlinare, Democrazia e diritto, Janus and for LED edition (Etica e vita comune) and Ediesse (Sessismo e razzismo, citoyens). She sits in the External Advisory Committee of the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society.