Alberto eugenio ermenegildo Pirni

Alberto Pirni is Associate Professor in Moral Philosophy at the Institute of Law, Politics and Development (the Dirpolis Institute) of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, where he teaches "Public Ethics", "Ethics of Care Relationship", "Ethics of Security", and "Intergenerational Justice". 

At the SSSA he is the Coordinator of the Research Area in “Ethics and Global Challenges” (https://www.santannapisa.it/en/institute/dirpolis/ethics-and-global-challenges) and affiliate member of the "Interdisciplinary Research Center in Sustainability and Climate". 

He is member of the scientific board of the PhD program in “Human Rights, Global Politics and Sustainability: Legal and Philosophical Profiles” and in “Health Science, Technology, and Management”. He is the Coordinator of the Curriculum 4 of the National PhD School in “Sustainable Development and Climate Change” – http://www.iusspavia.it/phd-sdc. He is currently the Director of the scientific journal “Lexicon of Public Ethics”.

The main focus of his research revolves around three branches of ethical theory and applied ethics: 

• public ethics, with specific reference to social contemporary philosophy and to institutional ethics;
• ethics and philosophy of technology, with specific reference to human enhancement, social robotics and robot-companionship, artificial companionship and AI;
• ethics and climate justice, with specific reference to theories of climate, intergenerational, and energy justice, together with ethics and sustainability. In this last domain, focal point of interest is represented by theories of individual and collective motivation, and the domain of the so called “water ethics”.

He is the author of 5 monographs (1 national award mention), 4 collaborative volumes (1 national award), and over 200 essays in volumes and refered national and international journals (in 6 languages). He is the editor and co-editor of over 25 volumes and monographic issues on national and international journals. He is also the co-director of 2 books series and member of the Academic Board of 5 (national and international) scientific journals.

He has been and is coordinator and member of several research, education, and dissemination national (PRIN and other public and public sources) and international (7FP, HE, Jean-Monnet, Erasmus) projects.

He gave lectures as visiting scholar or professor, participated to conferences and seminars as (invited) speaker, and organized workshops in many European, Asian, African and South American Countries.