Reconfiguring Human Autonomy

Mariafilomena Anzalone is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Basilicata. Her main research interests include the category of subjectivity and the concept of will in Hegelian philosophy; Viktor von Weizsäcker's medical anthropology; moral conscience within ethical sentimentalism and rationalism. Her current research centers on the dynamics of decision-making in moral conflicts, and the ways human relationality is transformed by the emergence of artificial agents. She is co-editor of Moral Dilemmas: Trolley Problem and Beyond (special issue of the journal "Paradigmi", 2022) and of the volume Etiche applicate e nuovi soggetti morali (2024).

Stefania Achella is Full Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Chieti-Pescara. Her research spans German Idealism, phenomenology, and contemporary ethics. More recently, she has focused on artificial intelligence, publishing on feminist perspectives, relational autonomy, and the ethical implications of new technologies. She is co-editor of Vulnerabilities: Rethinking Medicine, Rights and Humanities in the Post-Pandemic Era (with Chantal Marazia, Springer, 2023); Rethinking Human-Centeredness: Bridging Environmental and AI Ethical Discourses, Special Issue of the Journal "Topoi" (forthcoming).

Fiorella Battaglia works at the intersection of ethics, political philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence. She has been holding a position at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Salento since 2022 and has been affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich since 2013. She is the Founding Director of the Center for Ethics in the Wild (EWILD), and her research focuses on the philosophical dimensions of AI, democracy and injustice as well as on ethical frameworks for emerging technologies. Battaglia is co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Digital Society, and her most recent monograph is titled Robotic Emotions: Robots and the Challenges of Artificial Morality.

Anna Donise is Full Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Naples Federico II. Her research focuses on Neokantianism and Phenomenology as well as the concepts of value and empathy. She is the author of numerous books and essays and has translated several works by Heinrich Rickert, Edmund Husserl and Karl Jaspers into Italian. On the subject of autonomy, she is co-editor of Moral Dilemmas: Trolley Problem and Beyond (special issue of the journal "Paradigmi", 2022) and Genio e follia (special issue of the journal "Studi Jaspersiani", 2023), on the relationship between autonomy, mental illness, and creativity.