Nicola Piras
CEPS FULL RESEARCHER
Nicola Piras is a full researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics, and Society, where he runs a project funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia on the conceptual and normative dimensions of food waste. Additionally, he is a coordinator at Culinary Mind, an international center for the philosophy of food.
He mainly works at the interplay between food, cultures, and the environment. His goal is to explore the conceptual, ontological, and normative dimensions surrounding food production, consumption, and waste, along with their profound impact on the world and societies at large.
Before joining the CEPS, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Milan and an adjunct professor in the joint program “Philosophy, Politics, and Public Affairs (PPPA)” of the University of Milan (Italy) and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Italy). He received his PhD in environmental sciences and philosophy of science from the University of Sassari (Italy). Along the way, he spent a visiting period at Columbia University (USA). He graduated from the University of Pavia (Italy) and was an Erasmus student at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany).
Professional category
- Full Researcher
Education
- PhD in Logic and Philosophy of Science at University of Sassari (Doctoral School of Architecture and Environmental Science). Dissertation Title: “Boundaries. A Study in the Metaphysics of Space”
Other Info
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Research interests
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Philosophy of Food
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Analytic Metaphysics
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Environmental Philosophy
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Social Ontology
Research Fellowships
2019-2022. Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan.
Institutional positions
2023 –. Full Researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society.
2022-2023. Adjunct Professor of Biopolitics: Bodies, Health, and Food at the University of Milan – Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Master Philosophy, Politics and Public Affairs [PPPA]).
2021-2023. Adjunct Professor of Philosophy of Language at the Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation of the University of Milan.
Articles
2022. w/ A. Borghini & B. Serini. “Eating Local. A Philosophical Toolbox”, The Philosophical Quarterly, 72(3), 527–551
2021. w/ A. Borghini & B. Serini. “Defective Food Concepts”, Synthese, 199, 12225–12249
2020. “Fiat Boundaries. How to Fictionally Carve Nature at its Joints”, Philosophical Inquiries, VIII(2), 85-106