Role
Former Full Professor of Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophy of Differences, and former Director of the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Letters at Roma Tre University. President of the Interuniversity Observatory for Gender, Equality, and Equal Opportunity Studies (GIO) (Sapienza, Tor Vergata, Roma Tre).
Bio
Francesca Brezzi graduated in Moral Philosophy from Sapienza University of Rome. She taught as a Full Professor of Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophy of Differences at Roma Tre University, where she headed the Department of Philosophy from 1998 to 2006 and was the Rector's Delegate for Equal Opportunities and Gender Studies.
Her research initially focused on contemporary French moral philosophy (existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics), with a particular focus on Paul Ricoeur and Emmanuel Lévinas. She then turned to the philosophy of religion and the relationship between philosophy and mysticism, studying figures such as Angela of Foligno in the field of feminine mysticism. She has also explored, from a feminist perspective, human rights, women's citizenship, and the relationship between feminism and multiculturalism.
In 2024, she published Il cammino di Sofia (Nemapress), a reinterpretation of well-known and lesser-known philosophers. She is also the author of Introduzione a Ricoeur (Laterza, 2006) and Nel labirinto del pensiero. Borges e la filosofia (ETS, 2014), and since 2000, she has edited the online magazine B@bel .
She received the City of Syracuse Philosophy Prize (2007) and was the only Italian in EIGE's First Women Inspiring Europe Calendar (2011). In 2016, she won the First National Philosophy Prize "Le figure del Pensiero." She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Réseau International des Femmes Philosophes, promoted by UNESCO.