Role
Professor of Philosophy of Science at Sapienza University of Rome.
Bio
Elena Gagliasso graduated in 1971 and began her career in 1976 at Sapienza University of Rome, first as a researcher and then as an associate professor (qualified as a full professor in 2013). Since 2019, she has been a contract professor of Philosophy of Science for high qualification.
She taught Philosophy and Living Sciences in Rome and at the Orientale University of Naples and was a member of the Doctoral School in Philosophy at Sapienza University until 2018. She is currently an external consultant. With philosophers and biologists, she founded, and directed for several terms, the Interuniversity Center for Epistemology and History of Research on Living Things (ResVIVA) www.resviva.com; she was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Center for Methodology of Science Research (CERMS); she was president of the Metaphor Club; she is currently on the Scientific Committee of AIEMS (Association for Studies on Systemic Theories) www.aiems.com , and was a co-founder of the Donne&Scienza Association www.donnescienza.com and the Nuova Accademia Association www.nuovaccademia.com .
He has participated in national PRIN projects and two university projects, one of which as Chief Investigator , and has organized approximately 30 national and international conferences and permanent doctoral seminars. He is a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, at SISSA in Trieste, and at the Universities of Pisa, Florence, Cosenza, Venice, and Eastern Piedmont. He has participated in various third sector initiatives, from cultural events to radio broadcasts and high school lectures.
Elena Gagliasso is an internationally renowned expert in the methodology and history of modern biology, ecoevolutionism and environmental science and politics, and science-society relations (from the non-neutrality of science to Citizen Science ). She has worked on the connection between philosophy, history, and ideologies of scientific concepts, on the themes of laws, processes, and contingent causality in bioevolutionary theories, and on the relationships between reductionism, holism, and narrative methodologies in post-normal science, also considering the issue of gender.