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
Forthcoming: Neuroethics 2025, poster session. Title: To predict or not to predict? Using digital brain twins to fill epistemological and moral gaps in vegetative state care, Munich, 04/2025
TUM Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine, Munich. Invited to present at a seminar. Title: The organism as a whole and the ethics of technological surrogates, 21/11/2024.
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa. Rhythms of the Body in Health and Disease: Breaking News Around the Clock, poster session. Title: Understanding life: a bioethical examination of the organism as a whole in brain death debate, 25/10/2024.
Cambridge, UK. PGBC CONFERENCE 2024. Title: The Complexity of Brain Death: Balancing Biological and Moral Perspectives, 03/09/2024.
Heidelberg, Germany. BioRob 2024, Workshop speaker and organizer: Ethical Issues Related to Bionic Organs: From Techne to Ethos. Title: For a Philosophy of Artificial Organs: From a ‘Biology of Technology’ to Bioethics, 01/09/2024.
Rome, XXV World Congress of Philosophy, selected paper. Title: The moral implications of the organism as a whole in the brain death debate: bioethical challenges in the face of medical technology, 01-08/08/2024.
University of Pisa, Invited to present a seminar in the context of the course Tecnoetica della medicina di frontiera (faculty of medicine). Title: Morte cerebrale e bioetica: tra casi
clinici e nuove frontiere tecnologiche, 23/04/2023
Riga, Latvia, 35th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, selected paper. Title: Life on the edge: is it still possible to rely on the criterion of brain death? 26/08/2023
Institut Catholique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France. Journées de travail des étudiants de Licence Canonique & Doctorat Title: Entre thérapie et renforcement : perspectives éthiques sur la possibilité de la vaccination obligatoire dans le scénario SARS-CoV-2,13/05/2022