Ph.D. students
Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare Health Science
Stella Mosetti
Bio
Stella is a PhD student in Health Science, Technology, and Management with a specialization in Bioethics. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and a Master's degree in Philosophy of the Contemporary World, both from Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan. Additionally, she earned a double degree in Anthropology and Philosophy of the Person from the Institut Catholique de Toulouse.
Ricerca
Her research interests encompass Bioethics, Moral Philosophy and Philosophy of Biology. Specifically, Stella investigates the impact of medical technology on defining the life and death of human beings, exploring the ethical consequences in terms of moral rights. She is also interested in the ethics of artificial organs and organoids.
From January 2025 to February 2025, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Bonn. Invited by the Center for Social Ethics, she conducted research on digital brain twins.
During her undergraduate experience, Stella worked on the case of Jahi McMath, proposing an ethical reassessment of the current criterion for brain death based on the studies of Alan Shewmon. In her Master's thesis, she offered an ethical reflection on the case of vaccine hesitancy in the context of SARS-CoV-2, delving into the philosophy of Peter Singer.
Corsi
• PGBC Conference 2025, Oxford, UK, September 5, 2025
When words matter: communication gaps in pediatric compassionate deactivation
• 37th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care (ESPMH), Manchester, August 2025 (Selected, unable to attend)
To Tell or Not to Tell the Child: The Case of VAD Deactivation
• Neuroethics 2025, Munich, Poster Session, April 2025
To Predict or Not to Predict? Using Digital Brain Twins to Fill Epistemological and Moral Gaps in Vegetative State Care
• TUM Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine, Munich, Seminar, (Invited) November 21, 2024
The Organism as a Whole and the Ethics of Technological Surrogates
• Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Poster Session, October 25, 2024
Understanding Life: A Bioethical Examination of the Organism as a Whole in the Brain Death Debate
• PGBC Conference 2024, Cambridge, UK, September 3, 2024
The Complexity of Brain Death: Balancing Biological and Moral Perspectives
• BioRob 2024, Heidelberg, Germany, Workshop Speaker and Organizer, Ethical Issues Related to Bionic Organs: From Techne to Ethos, September 1, 2024
For a Philosophy of Artificial Organs: From a ‘Biology of Technology’ to Bioethics
• XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome, August 1–8, 2024
The Moral Implications of the Organism as a Whole in the Brain Death Debate: Bioethical
Challenges in the Face of Medical Technology
• University of Pisa, Seminar (Invited), April 23, 2023
Morte cerebrale e bioetica: tra casi clinici e nuove frontiere tecnologiche
• 35th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care (ESPMH), Riga, Latvia, August 26, 2023
Life on the Edge: Is It Still Possible to Rely on the Criterion of Brain Death?
• Institut Catholique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, May 13, 2022
Entre thérapie et renforcement: perspectives éthiques sur la possibilité de la vaccination obligatoire
dans le scénario SARS-CoV-2