Federico Bina

Federico is Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Florence, and a Research Associate at the Uehiro Oxford Institute, where he collaborates with the Autonomy in Healthcare project and the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab. He works on theoretical, practical, and experimental ethics, the psychology of moral reasoning and value change, several issues in the philosophy of biology (foundations of evolutionary theory, the nature of cooperation, morality and rationality in non-human animals), the ethics of science and policy communication, and the social epistemology of expertise and trust.

He holds a PhD in Philosophy from San Raffaele University in Milan, and has been Visiting Research Fellow in Moral Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology of Harvard University (Greene Lab). Federico was formerly Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Moral Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy of Biology at the University of Genoa, and Research Fellow in Philosophical Moral Psychology at the UOI and Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford.

He is author of two books on the topic of moral change and progress, and of several papers in journals such as Analysis, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, AJOB Neuroscience.