Role
Tenure-Track Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Milan.
Bio
After graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in History and Philosophy from the University of Catania and a Master's Degree in Philosophical Sciences from the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan, Laura Caponetto earned her PhD in Philosophy of Mind, Cognition, and Language from the same university in 2019. Since 2026, she has been a Tenure-Track Research Fellow at the University of Milan. Previously, she was a Sarah Smithson Research Fellow at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, and held teaching positions at the University of Pavia. She is the Principal Investigator of the FIS 3 project “The Pragmatics of Sexual Communication and Its Ethical Implications” (SEX-PRAG, 2026-2031), which brings together philosophy, psychology, and linguistics.
Her research focuses on the social philosophy of language and explores the role of words in the construction of social reality. She studies, in particular, how prejudice and stereotypes can silence women and other social groups; the effects of hate speech on social norms and possible countermeasures; and how to refine communication strategies used in intimate settings to make sexual experiences safer and more informed for everyone.
She is the author of numerous articles on pragmatics in Italian and international journals, including Analysis , the Australasian Journal of Philosophy , and Synthese . In 2018, she was a founding member of SWIP Italia (Italian Society for Women in Philosophy). In 2025, she published, with Claudia Bianchi, Filosofia sociale del linguaggio (Laterza).