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My research covers different areas of moral philosophy, including moral psychology and meta-ethics. I am interested in how we acquire moral knowledge (and what it is), the role of intuition and perception in morality, and what motivates us to act, or what prevents us from acting, in particular ways. My work on these questions is often applied to specific issues that worry me: how we as humans live with, and think about, other animals; our possible relationships with nature; and various forms of discrimination. There, I like to look at the intersection of the moral, imaginative, existential, political, and sometimes mystical dimensions. For the past years I have been thinking about attention and its ethical dimension (now, finally, I have a book to prove it). 

Before studying philosophy I did research in English and comparative literature, linguistics and translation. I used to publish under the name ‘Silvia Panizza’, until I decided that I wanted to and should have my mother’s surname (and here's a blog post about it). I am the leader of the Vegan Studies Network (VSN), an international multi-disciplinary network devoted to developing and connecting research, teaching, and public engagement on the possibilities, reasons, and challenges of a world without animal exploitation – goodness, how I wish such a world were possible.
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webpages

​Personal page at the Centre for Ethics: https://centreforethics.upce.cz/en/silvia-caprioglio-panizza 
PEriTiA page: ​https://peritia-trust.eu/team-members/
Vegan Studies Network: https://veganstudiesnetwork.uea.ac.uk/contact-us/
European Moral Psychology Research Network: https://www.moral-psychology.uni-muenchen.de/people/caprioglio-silvia/index.html
European Association for Critical Animal Studies: 
https://www.eacas.eu/collective/
Academia.edu: https://ucd.academia.edu/SilviaPanizza
Philpeople: https://philpeople.org/profiles/silvia-caprioglio-panizza
The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/profiles/silvia-caprioglio-panizza-996002
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Image: at Pohadkova Zahrada ('Fairytale Garden'), the rescue centre in Pardubice where ex-farm and wild animals live happily. Chech them out! http://www.pohadkovazahrada.cz/

Publications

Monograph:
  • Caprioglio Panizza, S. (2022) The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil. New York: Routledge.
Edited volumes:
  • Caprioglio Panizza, S. and Hopwood, M. (eds.) (2022) The Murdochian Mind. New York: Routledge.
  • Caprioglio Panizza, S. and Wilson, P. (eds. and tr.) (forthcoming in 2023) Mirror of Obedience: The Poems and Selected Prose of Simone Weil. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Panizza, S. and Wilson, P. (eds. and tr.) (2019) Simone Weil: Venice Saved. London: Bloomsbury.​
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​Journal articles and book chapters:
  • Caprioglio Panizza, S. and Wilson, P. (forthcoming in 2024) 'Literature'. In: McCullough, Lissa (ed.)  The Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil. London: Bloomsbury. 
  • Caprioglio Panizza, S. and Wilson, P. (forthcoming in 2023) ‘The philosopher at the gate of the word: a study of Simone Weil’s transformative literature’. In: Hagberg, Garry (ed.) Fictional Worlds and the Political Imagination. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 
  • Caprioglio Panizza (forthcoming in 2023) 'Iris Murdoch: Trust in the World'. In: Collins, David (ed.) Perspectives on Trust in the History of Philosophy. London: Lexington. 
  • Caprioglio Panizza, S. (2022) ‘The Reification of Non-Human Animals’. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 32(1), 90-104. doi:10.1017/S0963180122000536.
  • Baghramian, M. and Panizza, S. (2022) ‘Scepticism and the Value of Distrust’. Inquiry https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2022.2135821
  • Caprioglio Panizza, S. (2022) ‘Attention’. In: Caprioglio Panizza, S. and Hopwood, M. (eds.) The Murdochian Mind, London: Routledge. 
  • Panizza, S. (2022) 'Landing with the Firefly'. Constructivist Foundations 17(3): 210-11.
  • Panizza, S. (2022) ‘The animals we eat: between attention and ironic detachment’. Journal of Animal Ethics. 12(1): 32-50.
  • Caprioglio Panizza, S. and Wilson, P. (2022) ‘The Challenges of Translating Simone Weil’s Literary Works’, Attention 6. (And here's the video of the related panel for the AWS at Notre Dame). 
  • Caprioglio Panizza, S. and Wilson, P. (interviewed by R. Collins) (2022) ‘Unfinished: On Venice Saved–a Q&A with Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Philip Wilson’. Attention 4.
  • Panizza, S. (2021) ‘Forms of moral impossibility’. European Journal of Philosophy: 1–13.
  • Fredriksson, A. and Panizza, S. (2020) ‘Ethical Attention and the Self in Iris Murdoch and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: 1-16.  
  • Panizza, S. (2020) ‘Exploring Ethical Assumptions and Bias in Medical Ethics Teaching’. Teaching Ethics 19:2 19(2): 233-244.
  • Panizza, S. (2020) ‘If Veganism Is Not a Choice: The Moral Psychology of Possibilities in Animal Ethics’. Animals 10(1), 145.
  • Panizza, S. (2019) ‘Moral perception beyond supervenience: Iris Murdoch’s radical perspective’. Journal of Value Inquiry 1: 1-16.
  • Panizza, S. (2018) ‘Wittgenstein’. In: Rawling, J. P. and Wilson, P. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Philosophy. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Panizza, S. (2017) ‘A Secular Mysticism? Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch and the Idea of Attention’. In: del Carmen Paredes, M. (ed.) Filosofía, Arte y Mística. Salamanca: Salamanca University Press.
Translations and Literary Theory:
  • Panizza, S. and Wilson, P. (tr.) (2021) Simone Weil, ‘The Gate’. Modern Poetry in Translation 1.
  • Panizza, S. (2013) ‘William Hazlitt and the Violence of Thought’. Quaderni di Palazzo Serra 23.
  • Panizza, S. (2011) ‘The Dissolution of the Self: Location and Identity in Personal Landscape and Alexandria Quartet’. In: Villa, L. and Bacigalupo, M. (eds.) The Politics and Poetics of Displacement: Modernism off the Beaten Track. Udine: Campanotto.
  • Panizza, S. (2009) ‘Between Two Worlds: Inner and Outer Complexity in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea’. Quaderni di Palazzo Serra 17.
Book reviews:
  • (2015) Iris Murdoch, Philosopher, ed. Justin Broackes, Mind 124(496): 1249-1254.
  • (2014) Stanley Cavell: Philosophy, Literature and Criticism, edited by James Loxley and Andrew Taylor, The European Legacy 19(6): 806-7.
Other publications:
  • Baghramian, M., Croce, M., Panizza, S. (2021) (WHITE PAPER) ‘The ethics of trust in experts’. Horizon 2020, PEriTiA.
  • Panizza, S. (2021) ‘Attention in Iris Murdoch’ (Encyclopaedia Entry). The Encyclopaedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers.
  • Panizza, S. (2021) ‘Attention in Simone Weil’ (Encyclopaedia Entry). The Encyclopaedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers.




​Public articles

  • The name of the mother, Centre for Ethics blog, 10 April 2022
  • The unthinkable and the unconceived, LSE Forum for Philosophy, 10 August 2020
  • On lockdown, The Conversation, 18 March 2020
  • On the human animal body (in lockdown) Cassandra Voices, 6 April 2020
  • Why can’t I stop thinking about my dead parents? The Conversation, 16 April 2020 

events organised

  • Ethical attention: Iris Murdoch in Philosophical Dialogue. CEPL, University College Dublin, 4-5 February 2022. With D. Petherbridge and A. Fredriksson. BOOKLET
  • Vegan Studies Research Seminar Series. Multi-disciplinary online seminar series. Spring 2022. With S. Penczynski and E. Quinn.
  • Veganism: A Paradigm Shift? Università La Sapienza, Rome, June 2021. With S. Pollo.
  • What is the best diet? Public lecture series (online–originally University of East Anglia). Spring 2021.
  • Vegan Studies. Inaugural multi-disciplinary network workshop, University of East Anglia 2019.
  • Beyond Anthropocentrism: II Post-Humanist Workshop. John Cabot University, Rome 2019. With B. Antomarini and S. Sorgner.
  • Moral Perception in the Thought of Iris Murdoch. Queen’s College, Oxford University 2018. With B. Sorgiovanni.
  • An Afternoon with Iris: Life, Thought, Writing. Interdisciplinary talks on Murdoch, biography, and the representation of women in philosophy, University of East Anglia, 2014.

​Ethics committees membership

  • Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body (AWERB), School of Health Sciences UEA (2014–2018)
  • Norwich and Norfolk University Hospital (NNUH) Clinical Ethics Committee (2016–2018)

public engagement

  • Podcast on 'The Ethics of Attention' with Miles Leeson, The Iris Murdoch Podcast, Soundcloud.
  • Contributor to non-academic and independent media (The Conversation, Forum for Philosophy, Cassandra Voices, BBC Radio)
  • Guest at 'Creating our Future: Food in the 21st Century'. Being Human Festival, ARU Cambridge (November 2021)
  • Guest lecture and process drama workshop on J.M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals, Early University Entrance (EUE) programme, Dublin College University (November 2021)
  • UCD REFOHCUS webinar (online) ‘Information, Misinformation, Disinformation’ (September 2021)
  • Organiser of the online public lecture series ‘What is the Best Diet?’ UEA&UCD (Spring 2021)
  • Philosophical consultant for Byron Lamarque’s film The Desiring.
  • UCD CEPL public engagement initiative leader ‘Life in the time of corona: ask a philosopher’ (featured in the Irish Times, Dublin Inquirer, Daily Nous) (2020)
  • Collaboration with the Government of Ireland’s Department of Health on how to rethink society and conceptions of health and science after Covid-19 (2020)
  • Member of the Academic Visionaries of CIWF (2020–present)
  • Iris Murdoch Centenary exhibition talk, Temple Bar Art Gallery, Dublin (2019)
  • Invited speaker at UCD Law Debate ‘This House would go Vegan’ and 'Should we believe in God?' (2019)
  • Lecture on Iris Murdoch’s philosophy for the Workers Educational Association (WEA), Norwich (2018)
  • Seminar on ‘Feminism and Animal Ethics’, Albero di Valentina - Association for fighting violence against women, Casale Monferrato (2018)
  • Workshop on Animal Ethics, Gerrards Cross Philosophy Society (2017)
  • Organiser and chair of Eating Animals: a public virtual debate on animal ethics with Jonathan Safran Foer and Gary Francione (2017)
  • Animal Ethics conversation, Philosophy in the Pub, Norwich (2016)
  • UEA Philosophy Outreach sessions in secondary schools (2014–2018)
  • Workshops in moral philosophy for secondary school students from Singapore for Reach Cambridge (December 2014 and December 2015)
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academic roles


Teaching Fellow in Ethics                                                         
School of Philosophy, University College Dublin
Fellow of the Horizon 2020 project PEriTiA (2020-present)
Lecturer in Ethics                                                                       
Medical School, University of East Anglia
Tutor in Philosophy                                                                                                      
Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge
Lecturer in Philosophy                                                                                                              
Faculty of Humanities, John Cabot University Rome
Associate Lecturer in Philosophy                                                                                   
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Associate Tutor                                                                                                          
School of Philosophy, University of East Anglia
Associate Lecturer (Professore a Contratto) in Literature and Translation                            
School of Languages and Literature, University of Genoa                                  
 
University volunteer roles
Mental Health First Aider (UCD Equality, Diversity and Inclusion)​


2019–2021

​2016–2019
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2017–2019

​2018

2015–2017

​2012–2017


2008–2009 &
​2011

2019–2021

education

Doctor of Philosophy                                                                                  
University of East Anglia
M.A. in Philosophy and Literature                                                                                     
University of Sussex
M.A. in Modern Comparative Literature                                                                
University of Genoa
B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures                                                             
University of Genoa
​Academic teaching qualifications:
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice (PGC-HEP), UEA
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Developing Teaching Skills (DTS), UEA
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