Laura Marcon | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Bio

Laura Marcon is PostDoctoral Researcher in Moral Philosophy at the Dirpolis Institute, and member of the Research Area in Ethics and Climate Justice. Laura is also member of the Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamic at the University of Pennsylvania

Laura holds a Ph.D. cum laude in Moral Philosophy from the University of Granada (Spain) in co-tutelle with the Doctoral School of Social Sciences, PhD Programme in Economics and Management, University of Trento (Italy). During her Ph.D., she spent a period as a Visiting Researcher in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Her main research interests include: Normative Ethics, Behavioral Economics and Moral Psychology.

Research

My research interests are focused on collective action problems and collective behavioral patterns established in our societies. Currently I am working on the dynamics of social and moral norms, by analysing (1) the key concept of "joint commitment" and (2) the relationship between normative reasons (field of ethics) and motivating reasons (field of moral psychology), both responsible for giving reasons to act. In particular, I am looking at collective versus individual responsibilities towards pressing social justice issues such as climate change, trust in science and other social phenomena such as pluralistic ignorance and false consensus effect. All these phenomena, among other things, have one common feature: a conflict between private beliefs and public behavior, namely a norm misperception. Therefore, one goal of my research is trying to define those conditions under which a social norm might change, by studying the different components of conformist behavior. It is crucial to consider how people, de facto, behave (field of social and moral psychology), under what circumstances (economic conditions play an important role here) and, on the other hand, how people think they should behave, namely what would be the right thing to do (field of moral philosophy that offers different perspective on that).

Publications

Marcon, L., and Klaser, K. (2022). Il senso di fare la cosa giusta: Rawls e Kant sugli accordi climatici, Studi Kantiani , XXXV, pp. 65-83.

Marcon, L., Francés-Gómez, P., and Faillo, M. (2020). Does impartial reasoning matter in economic decisions? An experimental result about distributive (un)fairness in a production context, Theoria: Revista de Teoria, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia , 35(2): 217-233.

Marcon, L., Francés-Gómez, P., and Faillo, M. (2020). Distributive Justice in the Lab: Testing the Binding Role of Agreement, Analyse & Kritik , 42(1): 107-135.

Marcon, L. (2020). Marco teórico y aplicación práctica: el enfoque de Bicchieri a las normas sociales, Dilemata, (33), 269–278.

Courses

Acting together: pluralistic ignorance (PPE 4000 Research in PPE), PPE Program University of Pennsylvania, Academic year 2022/3.

The Foundations of Moral Decision-making (PPE 4800 Psychology Capstone), PPE Program University of Pennsylvania, Academic year 2022/23.

Intergroup Relations: Prejudice and its social implications (PPE 477-301 Social Psychology), PPE Program University of Pennsylvania, Academic year 2021/22.

The Foundations of Moral Decision-making (PPE 482 Psychology), PPE Program University of Pennsylvania, Academic year 2021/22.

Doing Something Together (PPE 402 Research in PPE), PPE Program University of Pennsylvania, Academic year 2021/22.

Monograph course on Moral Philosophy, University of Granada, Academic year 2020/21.

Social Ethics, University of Granada, Academic year 2020/21.

Guest Speaker for the Seminar on “Distributive justice in the lab: the binding role of agreement” for the PhD Program in International and Public Law, Ethics and Economics for Sustainable Development (LEES), 30/11/2020, University of Milan (Italy).