Elena Casetta

Elena Casetta is assistant professor (RTD-B) at the Department of Philosophy and Education at the University of Turin (Italy), where she teaches Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of Biology. Trained in theoretical philosophy, she then specialized in philosophy of biology at the IHPST (Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques), CNRS/Paris 1/ENS Paris and at the Centre for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, where she was the PI of the BIODECON Project. She works mainly in environmental philosophy, with a focus on philosophy of biodiversity and conservation sciences. On these topics, Elena wrote, with Andrea Borghini, Filosofia della biologia, Milano, Carocci, 2013 (English Edition, revised and updated:  Brill’s Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, 2019); Filosofia da biodiversidade, Lisboa, Colibri, 2018; and edited, with Julien Delord, La biodiversité en question. Enjeux philosophiques et scientifiques, Paris, Les Éditions Materiologiques, 2014; with Carina Silva and Silvia di Marco, Biodiversidade. O que é e porque é importante, Lisboa, Gradiva 2018; with Davide Vecchi and Jorge Marques da Silva, From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity, Springer 2019. Her latest book is Filosofia dell’ambiente, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2023.