Role
CNRS research director, at the Institut Nicod of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (PSL).
Bio
Gloria Origgi graduated in Philosophy from the University of Milan and earned a PhD in Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences from the École Polytechnique in Paris. She taught at the University of Bologna before winning a position at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), where she is currently Director of Research at the Institut Nicod at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris (PSL). She has been a visiting professor at several international universities, including Columbia University in New York, Bielefeld University in Germany, the Università San Raffaele in Milan, and the Universidad UNISINOS in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
His research focuses on the theory of knowledge, epistemology, and social epistemology, with a particular focus on the role of the Internet in changing relationships with knowledge. He has developed a theory of reputation to understand how trust in others influences information selection, and more recently, he has studied the role of political emotions in knowledge and collective mobilization.
Her major publications include Reputation. What it is and Why it matters (Princeton University Press, 2019), the edited version of Passions Sociales (PUF, Paris, 2019), the book Caccia alla verità (Egea, 2022), and more recently the book La donna è mobile (Einaudi, 2026), and a book with Mark Hunyadi and Denis Maillard La confiance, un pari? Philosophie Magazine Editeur, 2026. She is also the author of numerous articles and chapters in international journals and collective volumes dedicated to social epistemology, trust, and political passions. She contributes regularly to the journals Micromega and L'Indice .