Postdoctoral Fellow Research at the University of Turin, where she works on a project on gender categories and social kinds. She received her Ph.D. in Logic and Epistemology from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2007. Before taking up her post in Turin, she was a Post-doctoral Researcher with the Logos Group at the University of Barcelona. Before that, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow Research at STK (Centre for Gender Research) at the University of Oslo and a Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University in New York. She specializes in feminist philosophy, metaphysics of gender, and philosophy of language. She also has research interests in gender biases and the underrepresentation of women in philosophy.

Epistemic Injustice, Prejudice and Inequalities of Social Power

The project argues that gender inequality is closely bound up with epistemic injustice, the systematic failure to recognise women as credible knowers and trustworthy experts. Drawing on Miranda Fricker’s account of testimonial injustice and on research into implicit bias, it examines how gender stereotypes shape the way women’s work, speech, testimony and views are judged. Traits such as originality, excellence, leadership and intellectual ability are culturally coded as masculine, so women’s contributions tend to be undervalued, even by people who hold egalitarian beliefs and by women themselves. Philosophy serves as a case study. The discipline’s canonical tradition has portrayed women as irrational and ruled by feeling rather than reason, producing a climate that discourages women’s participation and weakens their performance. The project identifies this exclusion as a form of epistemic as well as social and political harm. As remedies, it proposes cultivating the virtue of testimonial justice through critical, reflective awareness of how prejudice distorts judgements of credibility. It also calls for rethinking the concepts of knowledge, authority, credibility and testimony, and it recommends concrete institutional measures: ending all-male conferences, providing childcare at conferences, including women authors in syllabi, and increasing women’s visibility and mentoring.