Role
A full professor of Philosophy at the Polytechnic University of Milan, she teaches courses in "Creative Thinking," "Philosophy of Beauty," and "Architectural Aesthetics."
At the Polytechnic University of Milan, she is also deputy dean of the School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Construction Engineering, co-founder of META (Social Sciences and Humanities for Science and Technology), and a member of Technology Foresight.
Bio
During her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Milan, which she obtained in 2006, Simona Chiodo carried out research visits at Harvard University. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh (2014) and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Edinburgh (2016), Cambridge (2019), and Karnavati (2025).
Since 2008 she has been a full professor of Philosophy at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
His research starts from the study of modern and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, and arrives, on the one hand, at aesthetics , with particular attention to representation, beauty and the aesthetics of architecture, and, on the other hand, at epistemology , with particular attention to the relationship between reality and ideality and the philosophical significance of technology , especially in Western culture.
She is the author of numerous monographs, including Beauty (2015), What is an Ideal (2016), How a European Thinks (2018), Technology and the Overturning of Human Autonomy (2023), Predicted Humans (2024) and Hacking Death (2027).