Affiliation

Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sapienza Università di Roma

Topics of interest

  • Naturalization of ethics
  • Animal Ethics and Environmental Ethics
  • Animal cognition
  • Philosophy of biology (with a special focus on ethology)
  • Science and society

Biography

Simone Pollo is MA in Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome (1995) and PhD in Bioethics at the University of Genoa (2011). He is currently Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of Sapienza University of Rome, where teaches “Ethics and Life Sciences” and “Bioethics” and is a member of the board of the PhD program in Philosophy. In the past he took part to EU funded research projects on the ethics of animal research. He is regularly invited as visiting professor at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw. For twenty years he has been member and scientific secretary of the Bioethics Committee of the Rome Veterinary Surgeons Council (now Committee for Veterinary and Agroalimentary Bioethics). He is a member of the editorial assistants committees of the journals Iride. Filosofia e discussione pubblica and Notizie di Politeia and regularly collaborates with L’indice dei libri del mese.

Recent works

  • (with A. Vitale), «Evaluating the scientific uses of animals. A virtue-consequentialist approach for harm/benefit analyses», Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research, in press.
  • «L’identità umana dopo Darwin», Notizie di Politeia, XXXV, 135, 2019, pp. 62-71.
  • Il sentimentalismo etico e il mondo vegetale, in G. Pellegrino e M. Di Paola (eds.), Etica e politica delle piante. Filosofia della vita vegetale, DeriveApprodi, Roma, 2019, pp. 177-194.
  • «Bioetica e trasformazioni morali: una prospettiva naturalizzata e sentimentalista», Rivista interdisciplinare, 2018, XXVI, 1, pp. 98-111.
  • «Going Veg: Care of the Animals or Care of the Self?», Polish Journal of Animal Studies, 2017, 3, pp. 143-154.
  • «Progresso scientifico e progresso morale. Sentimentalismo, oggettività e scienza», Rivista di filosofia, 2016, CVII, 2, pp. 219-240.
  • Umani e animali: questioni di etica, Carocci, Roma, 2016,
  • Oltre la natura umana? Osservazioni sull’antiantropocentrismo in etica, in A. La Vergata (a cura di), Studi su concetti e immagini della natura, ETS, Pisa, 2014, pp. 185-199.
  • «La tutela degli animali: partire dal basso», Bioetica. Rivista interdisciplinare, XXII, n. 3-4, dicembre 2014, pp. 473-483.