Carla Bagnoli

Carla Bagnoli graduated in Philosophy from the University of Florence and earned a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Milan. From 1993 to 1997, she conducted her research at Harvard University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Amsterdam, she became a full professor at the University of Wisconsin in 2008. Since 2010, she has been a Full Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, appointed as part of the Rientro Cervelli program. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the universities of Oxford, Munich, Oslo, Paris I, and Lyon. Since 2023, she has been seconded to the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. In 2026, she received the Humboldt Research Award.

She was President of the National Committee for Research Evaluation. She is a former President of the Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy and a member of the boards of the European Society of Analytic Philosophy, the Italian Society of Theoretical Philosophy, and SWIP-IT. In 2023, she was elected a member of the Institut International de Philosophie.

His research focuses on the theory of practical reasoning and the theory of responsibility. He contributed to the development of Kantian constructivism and developed a dynamic conception recognizing a fundamental role for emotions. His recent works include Gaslighting: the manipulation of reasons (Edizioni della Normale, 2026), Ethical Constructivism (Cambridge UP, 2022) , Theory of Responsibility (Il Mulino, 2019), and he edited Reason, Agency, and Ethics (Oxford UP, 2026) , and Religious Authority and Practices of Conflict Resolution (Routledge, 2025).