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Alessandro Pinzani, Ph.D.
Alessandro Pinzani is a full professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil (since 2004). Furthermore, he is a Fellow Researcher of CNPq (Level 1B), an affiliate professor at the DIRPOLIS of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, and at the Research Institute for Social Justice and Inequality of the Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay. He is head of the Centro de Investigações Kantianas (Florianopolis).
He studied philosophy in Florence (M.A.) and Tübingen (PhD). From 1997 to 2004, he was an assistant professor and appointed teacher at the University of Tübingen, where he got his Habilitation in philosophy. Visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York (2001-2002 with a Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation), at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2010-2011 with a fellowship by Capes), abd at the Universities of Florence (2015/16) and Valencia (2025/26). He has been a visiting professor at the PUC-RS, Porto Alegre (2000 and 2001), at the University of Dresden (2013), at the Ruhr-University of Bochum (2016, 2020/21 and 2026), at the Czech Academy of Sciences (2019), at the UFPE (2020), and at the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz (2019, 2021/22 and 2025). He has been a member of the Counseling Committee for Philosophy at the CNPq (Brazilian National Research Counsel) between July 2019 and June 2022.


