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Self-evaluation of career Achievements:

Sebastiano Maffettone is an Italian philosopher, currently Full Professor of Political Philosophy at
Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome, where he is also the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science.
He specialized in Social Philosophy at the London School of Economics and among otherappointments, has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Tufts and New York University. He is amember of many scientific committees supported by Adriano Olivetti, Einaudi and Ernst & Youngfoundations. Professor Maffettone is also Director of Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche, a semiannual review of political, moral and social philosophy and applied ethics. Professor Maffettone’s
research concerns the development of an original vision of public ethics within the context of Italy
and international themes of contemporary political philosophy. He also takes interest in thephilosophy of John Rawls and has produced an Italian translation of A Theory of Justice. Professor
Maffettone has collaborated with several Italian journals and newspapers such as Il Mattino, Il
Corriere Della Sera, Il Messaggero, Panorama and Il Sole 24 ore. He also directs two editorialcolumns, one edited by Liguori and the other by il Saggiatore. Professor Maffettone is the Directorof CERSDU (Center for Research and Studies on Human Rights) sponsored by Luiss Guido Carli, acenter dedicated to ethical dilemmas related to globalization. He has coordinated many projects on
private and public research as well as national and international research, is the author of 16 books,
and editor of several collective volumes. Professor Maffettone is widely known for his participationin academic and teaching initiatives in Italy and abroad, where he contributed to the academic
debate thanks to his wide network of international relationships, participation in seminars,
workshops and conferences in Italy and abroad.
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Presentation of the content and impact of his major scholarly contributions

Maffettone is author of 16 books, many of which have extremely influenced the European scientificcommunity. Two of his books – Il valore della vita (Mondadori, 1998), and Etica pubblica (IlSaggiatore, 2001) – bridge the gap between applied ethics and political theory, an achievement that
constitutes the dominant theme of Maffettone’s philosophical project. The first book presents a
rationalist and liberal Lebenphilosophie. Its basic underpinnings come from bioethics, but go
beyond this and propose a non-religious, comprehensive theory of life. The second book, Etica
pubblica, presents the discipline’s foundations, which the author brought to the attention of the
Italian public. The most read and criticized chapters were those on business ethics. It is worth
noting how, in the case of both these books, theoretical and practical experiences have found afelicitous convergence. Regarding bioethics, Maffettone was a member of the first ethicalcommission in an Italian hospital, under the direction of Prof. Umberto Veronesi (with whom
Maffettone continues to collaborate) at the Istituto Tumori di Milano. Maffettone formulated thetheoretical outline of business ethics, which is perhaps the most important Italian deontologicalcode; since then, he drafted many other codes and formulated social budgets – including the one
proposed to Confindustria in 1992 in an extremely delicate political and social moment for Italy.
Together with Ronald Dworkin, Maffettone published I fondamenti del liberalismo (Laterza 2008)
in which the two authors presents their visions of liberalism, agreeing in some areas and diverging
in others, such as the relationship between ethics and politics. This book opened an importantcritical discussion on liberalism in Italy. Recently, the most importance evidence of his intellectual
achievements can be seen in his book La pensabilità del mondo (Il Saggiatore, 2006, English
version forthcoming), in which he presents an original theory of the ethics of international relations
based on the idea of “pluralistic integration,” which depicts an alternative to the neo-con
cosmopolitanism. The core idea is that liberalism and democracy cannot be imposed from theoutside but instead must come from inside a culture or a nation. The same kind of argument wasformulated in two articles in English language, one focused on the European model of “normative
regionalism” (published in the American journal “The Monist”); and another on global justice(forthcoming in a collective UNESCO volume, edited by Thomas Pogge for Oxford University
Press, 2010). In the summer of 2008 Maffettone completed a very challenging book on John Rawls,
meant to offer a general introduction to the work of the famous Harvard philosopher. The book will
be published in 2010 (September) by Polity Press in the UK. Professor Maffettone is also
completing a book on the philosophy of international relations, to be published later this year.
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International recognition and diffusion of these contributions

Maffettone’s synthesis of theoretical reflections and practical applications are also reflected in his
participation to scientific commissions of influential cultural foundations (like the Fondazione
Adriano Olivetti and the Fondazione Einaudi in Rome), and as a consultant on applied-scienceissues for institutions such as ENEA, CISPEL and MIUR. Maffettone is most certainly one of the
Italian scholars with the strongest connections with foreign academic and scientific institutions. He
was a visiting professor several times in the United States (Harvard, NYU, Columbia, Tufts, Boston
College), where he was also a Senior Fellow with the program in “Ethics and Professions”(Harvard); furthermore, he was a visiting professor in France (in the Maison des Sciences del’Homme and at Sciences-Po in Paris), and in England (LSE). He has held lectures and courses inmore than forty countries (just in the last two years in China, India, France, Great Britain, theUnited States, and Austria, just to name a few), and in many countries he has participated ininternational conferences and published his papers in the conference proceedings. As previously
mentioned, these activities and relationships with foreign colleagues has proved to be long lasting.
The many international research programs to which Maffettone participated and the PhD in Political
Theory at Luiss Guido Carli that he founded are a strong evidence of this.
Professor Maffettone’s scientific activity is accompanied by - in addition to the scientific responsibility
series in “Atlante LUISS” dedicated to international topics- the recent organization of a large academic
network on “Ethics and Global Politics”.
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Evidence of the efforts and ability to inspire younger research fields
Maffettone currently teaches in two undergraduate courses, Political Philosophy and International Relations,and one course at the PhD program on Global Justice. In addition, he is the Coordinator of the PhD programin Political Theory at Luiss University and the Dean of the faculty of Political Science. In the last five years,
he supervised more than 100 Master theses and about 20 PhD dissertations. The PhD program- which isentirely in English and includes the participation of teaching staff from all over the world- is attended foralmost 70% by foreign students and is the only one of its kind in the field of humanities. In particular,
Maffettone has followed several works on Global Justice, Transitional Justice, Multiculturalism,
Sustainability, Human Rights Theory. To mention only a few dissertations, he supervised the following
young researchers: Michele Bocchiola, Valentina Gentile, Domenico Melidoro, Paul Robain Nabegabe.
Dr Bocchiola is currently collaborator of the Center for Ethics and Global Politics. During his doctoral
programme, he was visiting student at Harvard University.
Dr Gentile is currently associate researcher at the CEGP. She is also collaborating at a research ontransitional justice with the Department of Government at Essex University. From September 2007 to

March 2008, she was Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for Conflict Studies, University of Utrecht(Netherland).
Dr Melidoro was awarded a scholarship by the Italian University La Sapienza to conduct his research at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Dr Robain is currently Lecturer in Politics and Coordinator of the Center of Research CEGEC ( Centred’étude et de formation sur la gestion et la prévention des conflicts dans la région des Grands Lacs), Congo.

ii Curriculum Vitae
NATIONALITY
ItalianDATE OF BIRTHEDUCATION

1 April 1948
1980: Fellow, University of Oxford, UK
1976- MSc: in Social Philosophy, LSE (University of London, UK),1970- Degree in Law, University of Naples, 110/110 magna cum LaudeEMPLOYMENT2009 : Dean of The Faculty of Political Sciences, LUISS- Guido Carli University,Rome.
1999- Full Professor of Political Philosophy, LUISS- Guido Carli University, Rome.
1994- 1999: Full Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Palermo.
1985-1994: Associated Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Palermo.
1985-1994: Visiting Professor (Professore a Contratto) of Political Philosophy,
University of Palermo.
1982-84: Visiting Professor (Professore a Contratto) of Political Philosophy,
University of Turin.
1973-76: Assistant Professor of History of Contemporary Philosophy , University of
NaplesACADEMICLEADERSHIPFUNDING ID

At Luiss “Guido Carli” University, Rome:
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Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences
Director of the Center for Ethics and Global Politics
Coordinator of the Ph.D. in Political Theory
Director of the Centro di Studi e Ricerche sui Diritti Umani (CERSDU), Rome
Member of the Scientific Committee of Iride
Member of the Scientific Committee of Reset

Submitted in 2009European commission (VII Framework Programmes):
Cooperation Research Programme: CLIMATEJUSTICE, Climate change, global
justice, conflicts and rights: dealing with the human costs of global environmental
issues in a conflict-sensitive framework.
2006-2009- European Commission (VI Framework Programmes). Cooperation
Research Programme: SHUR: Human Rights in Conflict: the Role of Civil Society.
2007-2009 European Commission (Lifelong Learning program) Cooperation inHigher Education Eu- Australia.
2004-2005- European Commission (Lifelong Learning program) Leonardo,
2005-2006- European Commission (Lifelong Learning program) Odisseo,
2006-2007-European Commission (Lifelong Learning program) Paideia
2006-2008 Italian Ministry of University and Research, PRIN (Programmes of
Research of Relevant National Interst): “Documentalità, Diritti Umani e Ontologia
Morale”
2004-2006 Italian Ministry of University and Research, PRIN (Programmes of
Research of Relevant National Interst): “Ontologia sociale e diritti umani. Tre
approcci: costruttivismo,realismo e pragmatica del linguaggio”
2003-2005 Italian Ministry of University and Research, PRIN (Programmes ofResearch of Relevant National Interst): “Antropologia filosofica e diritti umani”
2002-2004 Italian Ministry of University and Research, PRIN (Programmes of
Research of Relevant National Interst): “Etica e Relazioni Internazionali”
2001-2003 Italian Ministry of University and Research, PRIN (Programmes of
Research of Relevant National Interst): “Narrazione della vita, etica e spazio
pubblico”
MEMBERSHIPS

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President of “Humanity”, an Association that works on human rights andpublic policy

From 2000:
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EDITORIAL
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Member of the Scientific Board of Fondazione Einaudi (Roma).
Member of the Scientific Board of Fondazione Società Aperta (Milano).
Founder, and member of the Executive Board, of Centro Studi Politeia(Milano).
Member of the Scientific-Executive Board of Fondazione Olivetti (Roma).
Member of the Scientific Board of the Fondazione Ernst & Young (Milano).
Founder and Member of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy.
Member of the Scientific Committee of Confindustria (National Union of
the Industrials)
Director of nationally based research projects in business ethics for
Confindustria, Cispel, Olivetti, Acea, Ernst & Young etc.
Consulting member of the Italian Government (Ministero of Beni Culturaliand Ministero dell’Ambiente).
Research Consulting for Ente Nazionale Energia Atomica.
Research Consulting for the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione.

Founder and Director of the journal “Filosofia e questioni pubbliche”
Member of Editorial Board “Global Policy” LEAD: Lse (forthcoming)
Member of Editorial Board, “Philosophy and Social Criticism”
Editor in chief of book-series for••••

Il Saggiatore (Napoli)
Liguori (Napoli),
LUISS University Press (Roma)Name (Genova).

Columnist for nationally based newspapers and magazines (author of more than
1000 articles for Corriere della Sera, Il Mattino, Il Messagero, il Sole 24 Ore,
Panorama, Liberal, Reset etc.)

iii 10-Year-Track-Record
1) Publications in peer Reviewed Journals

N

Title

JournalYear

Pub det.

1

The Legacy of the Enlightenment: theExemplarity of the EU Model
Guerre juste et intervention armée en
Irak
Psyche und Polis, Psyche, 2007,
Vol.13, n.1, 189-200
La stabilità Liberal-Democratica e il
consenso per intersezione
Diritti Umani e Giustizia Globale
Human Rights, the Need of anIntercultural Dialogue
Rawls e il Diritto dei Popoli
Political Liberalism: Reasonablenessand Democratic Peace
Etica Pubblica“È il Capitalismo moralmente
accettabile?”

The Monist

2009

Vol.92,n.2,
230-257
n.30, 149-173

2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Raisons
Politique, 2008
2008
Psyche, 2007
2007
FQP

2007

Vol.13,n.1,
189-200
Vol 3 p. 13-30

FQP
Reset

2007
2007

Vol 2 p.43-56
Vol. 3

FQP
Philosophy and Social
Criticism,
La Cultura
Banking Industry, in
Journal of Business
Ethics

2004
2004

Vol 3
Vol.30, n.5-6

2002
2002

N.3
n.35

Publisher

Year

Lang.

Polity Press
Laterza
Un LUP

2009
2008
2008

EnglishItalianItalian

Il Saggiatore
Il saggiatore

2006
2001

ItalianItalian2) Publications of research Monograph

Num Title of Pub
1
2
3
4
5

John Rawls: An Introduction
I fondamenti del Liberalismo
Costruire la Democrazia:
Progetto Mediterraneo
La Pensabilità del mondo
Etica Pubblica3) Invited presentations to peer reviewed, internationally established conferences and/or international
advanced schools

N.
1
2
3
4

5

6

Name
of
the
Conference/School
Rebuilding Dialogue with the
Arab World
Religion
and
Democracy:
Challenges and Prospects
Princeton University Seminars

Talk Title
Rebuilding Dialogue with the
Arab World
Public Reason and Post-SecularReasonDiscussion on John Rawls

Place

Rome,
Italy
Budapest,
Hungary
Princeton,
USA
Istanbul Seminars 2008
Moderate and Radical Islamist Istanbul,
Models of Rights, Pluralism, Turkey
and Democracy
PublicReasonandthe Human Rights and Cross Cultural Beijing,
Harmonious Society: The Future Perspectives
Chinaof Political Theory in a CrossCultural Perspective
Building
Democracy:a Building
Democracy:
a Venice,

Year
2008
2008
2008
2008

2007

2006

Meditarranean Project
7
8
9

10

Meditarranean Project
Universal Duty and Global
Justice
Political theory Seminar of LSE "Just War and Armed Intervention
in Iraq
L’etica individuale tra società, Etica nell’Impresa, responsabilità
economia e ambientesociale e sostenibilità degli
investimenti
EuroMESCo
Seminaron Human rights“
CommonGroundandCommon Language”
Unesco Philosophy Day

Italy
Rabat,
MoroccoLondon,
UK
Siena

2006
2007
2006

Barcelona,
Spain

2002

4) Organization of International Conferences/membership in Steering Committees

N. Name of the Conference/School

Function

Place

Year

1

Scientific Coordinator

Rome

2008

2
3

Rebuilding Dialogue with the ArabWorld
Religion
and
Democracy:
Challenges and Prospects
Building
DemocracyaMediterranean Project

Member of the Steering Budapest
Committee
Scientific Coordinator
Venice2008

Founder

Role

Year

Scientific Director

2006-

2006

5) Research Expeditions

N Title of the research
1
2

3

4

5

SHUR: Human Rights in Conflict: the European Commission
Role of Civil Society.
Documentalità, Diritti Umani e MIUR: Italian Ministry
Ontologia Moraleof University andResearch
Ontologia sociale e diritti umani. Tre MIUR: Italian Ministry
approcci: costruttivismo,realismo e of University andResearch
pragmatica del linguaggio
Antropologia filosofica e diritti umani
MIUR: Italian Ministryof University andResearch
Etica e Relazioni Internazionali
MIUR: Italian Ministryof University andResearch

Scientific Director 2006of Research Unit
Scientific Director 2004of Research Unit
Scientific Director 2003of Research Unit
Scientific Director 2002of Research Unit

6) International Prizes
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Title

Institution

Year

1
2
3

Premio Capri
Ethics Senior Fellow
Premio Tevere

Premio Capri Foundation
HarvardRotary Clu

2008
2006

7) Memberships to Editorial Boards
N. Name of the Journal/bookPublisher

1
2
3

Polity Press
Sage Publications
Il Saggiatore

Global Policy
Philosophy and Social Criticism
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