ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, August 2023-August 2025
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EDUCATION
PhD in Philosophy, Minor in History of Germanic Thought, Indiana University Bloomington, July 2023
Visiting Student, Freie Universität Berlin, 2020-2021
Visiting Student, Indiana University Bloomington, Fall 2016
MA in Philosophy, University of Pavia, 2016, graduated with Honors
Visiting Student, University of St. Andrews, Spring 2015
Visiting Student, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Fall 2014
BA in Philosophy, University of Pavia, 2013, graduated with Honors
Visiting Student, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 2012-2013
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Ethics, History of Ethics (esp. Kant)
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Social & Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Applied Ethics (esp. Biomedical Ethics and Ethics of AI)
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DISSERTATION
Title: “Kant on Rational Agency and Affects”
Committee: Allen Wood (Co-Chair), Marcia Baron (Co-Chair), David Sussman, Jens Timmermann, Benjamin Robinson (Germanic Studies)
Summary: At the center of Kant’s account of rational agency is the Incorporation Thesis, which holds that an incentive can determine the will to an action only insofar as it is incorporated into a maxim. Yet, it is not clear what it is to incorporate an incentive into a maxim, and I seek to provide such an account. I lay the foundation for such an account by appealing to Kant’s notion of an interest. I argue that to incorporate an incentive into a maxim amounts to taking an interest on the basis of that incentive. Relatedly, my dissertation investigates how emotions – specifically, affects and passions – enter into Kant’s understanding of incorporation and how they can be squared with Kant’s conception of rational agency. I argue that they are incorporated into maxims in different ways. Affects (e.g., rage) are incorporated into maxims unreflectively, whereas passions (e.g., hatred) come with a form of reflection that affects our deepest maxims.
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PUBLICATIONS
“Kant on the Obstacles of Reflection: Affects, Passions, and Maxims”, accepted with minor revisions, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.
“A Kantian Account of Aesthetically Sublime Rage”, forthcoming, Ergo.
“The Role of Sympathy in Critical Reasoning and the Limitations of Current Medical AI”, forthcoming, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (co-authored with Kyle Stroh).
"Challenging the Formal Function View: The Role of Conscience and Moral Judgment in Practical Deliberation in Fichte’s System of Ethics”, accepted by the editor who invited it, but the editor’s plan to publish the set of papers in Fichte–Studien is yet not final.
“What Is It to Incorporate an Incentive into a Maxim?”, Studia Kantiana, V. 21, N. 2 (2023): 45-60.
“Affects, Choice, and Kant’s Incorporation Thesis”, in Rethinking Kant, ed. Edgar Valdez, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024, pp. 97-121.
The Nature of Desire, edited by Federico Lauria and Julien A. Deonna, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 18 (2021): 95-98.
Under Review (all available on request)
“Kant on Race and Radical Evil” (co-authored with Caitlin Hamblin-Yule)
“Kantian Apathy, Revisited”
Work in Progress
“Sympathy and Allyship”
“Kant on Emotions and Moral Worth”
“Kant on Emotional Aptness”
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Kant in Canada, McMaster University, December 2024, “Kantian Apathy, Revisited”
Virtual Kant Congress, North American Kant Society session, May 2024, “A Kantian Account of Aesthetically Sublime Rage”
14th International Kant Congress, Universität Bonn, September 2024, “What Is It to Incorporate an Incentive into a Maxim?”
Eastern American Philosophical Association Divisional Meeting, January 2024, “What Is It to Incorporate an Incentive into a Maxim?”
Comments to Pauline Kleingeld and Huaping Lu-Adler, “Kant on Race: Reevaluating Kant’s Moral Philosophy in light of Kant’s Racism”; Race, Ethics and Power Project, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, September 2023
MAP–Ohio State University Graduate Philosophy Conference: Injustice and its Emotions, Ohio State University, May 2023, "A Kantian Account of
Aesthetically Sublime Rage”
W. H. Werkmeister and North American Kant Society, Southern Division Meeting, Florida State University, April 2023, “Kantian Apathy, Revisited”
Eastern American Philosophical Association Divisional Meeting, January 2023, "Affects and Choice in Kant’s Practical Philosophy"
North American Kant Society, Midwest Study Group Meeting, Loyola University, October 2022, “Kant on Affects and Passions”
UK Kant Society Annual Conference 2022, King’s College London, September 2022, “Affects, Choice, and Kant’s Incorporation Thesis”
Fifteenth Biennial Meeting of the North American Fichte Society, DePaul University, May 2022, “Challenging The Formal Function View: Conscience and Moral Judgment in Fichte's System of Ethics”
Freie Universität Berlin Kolloquium Geschichte der Philosophie, December 2020, "What are Sense-Free Inclinations? Kant on Rational Desire”
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SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
North American Kant Society Markus Herz Student Essay Price for “Kantian Apathy, Revisited”, awarded for 2023.
W. H. Werkmeister and North American Kant Society, Southern Division Meeting Graduate Essay Prize for “Kantian Apathy, Revisited”, April 2023
2023 Indiana University Oscar R. Ewing Student Essay Prize for “Kant on Affects and Passions”
2021 Indiana University Graduate Academic Excellence Prize
Bo and Lynn Clark Memorial Essay Prize for 1st and 2nd Year Graduate Student, awarded Spring 2019 for “Imminence, Necessity and Reasonable Alternatives"
Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship, for 2022-2023.
Indiana University Irving and Shirley Brand Graduate Fellowship, for 2020-2021
Indiana University Graduate Research Exchange Program at Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), for 2020-2021
University of Pavia Erasmus Traineeship Scholarship at University of St. Andrews, for Spring 2015
University of Pavia Erasmus Plus Scholarship at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, for Fall 2015
University of Pavia Erasmus Scholarship at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, for Fall 2012
​TEACHING
As primary instructor
Philosophy of Emotions, University of Toronto, Fall 2024
Seminar in Ethics, University of Toronto, Fall 2024
Topics in Value Theory, University of Toronto, Spring 2024
Philosophy of Emotions, University of Toronto, Fall 2023
Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Philosophical Perspective, Indiana University, Spring 2022
Business and Morality, Indiana University, Fall 2021
As a teaching assistant
Introduction to Ethics (John Robison), Indiana University, Spring 2020
Introduction to Existentialism (Allen Wood), Indiana University, Fall 2019
Bioethics (Sandra Shapshay), Indiana University, Spring 2019
Introduction to Ethics (Tim O'Connor), Indiana University, Fall 2018
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GRADUATE COURSEWORK
Value Theory
Social and Political Philosophy: Rawls, Spring 2023 (Matthew Adams, IU) – audited
Contemporary Ethical Theories, Fall 2021 (Marcia Baron, IU) – audited
Contemporary Ethical Theories, Spring 2019 (Kate Abramson, IU)
Legal Philosophy, Fall 2018 (Marcia Baron, IU)
Seminar Ethical Theory: Metaethics, Spring 2018 (Stephanie Leary, IU)
Contemporary Ethical Theories, Fall 2017 (Kate Abramson, IU)
Classics in Social and Political Philosophy, Fall 2016 (Allen Wood, IU) – audited
Bioethics, Fall 2015 (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
History of Philosophy
Kant’s Ethics, Fall 2018 (Allen Wood, IU)
Medieval Philosophy, Fall 2018 (Rega Wood, IU)
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Spring 2018 (Allen Wood, IU)
Fichte’s Ethics, Fall 2019 (Allen Wood, IU)
History of Contemporary Philosophy: Heidegger’s Philosophy before “the Turn”, Spring 2014 (University of Pavia)
Topics in History of Philosophy: Husserl’s Phenomenology, Spring 2014 (University of Pavia)
Topics in History of Philosophy: Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Spring 2014 (University of Pavia)
M&E
Philosophy of Language, Spring 2019 (Kirk Ludwig, IU)
Epistemology, Spring 2018 (Mark Kaplan, IU)
Logic, Fall 2017 (Joan Weiner, IU)
Classics in Analytic Philosophy, Fall 2017 (Gary Ebbs, IU)
Philosophy of Mind, Fall 2015 (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Classes for my Minor (History of Germanic Thought)
Utopia from a Realist Point of View, Fall 2019 (Ben Robinson, Department of Germanic Studies, IU)
The New: Creativity, Imitation and Originality through Literature and Philosophy, Fall 2018 (Michel Chaouli, Department of Germanic Studies, IU)
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LANGUAGES
Italian (native language), English (fluent), German (proficient), French (reading knowledge), Latin and Ancient Greek (I am able to translate passages with the help of a dictionary)
SERVICE
Organizer of Ethics@Noon talks, University of Toronto, Centre for Ethics, Fall 2024-Spring 2025.
Graduate Colloquium Coordinator, Indiana University Bloomington, Philosophy Department, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023
Climate Committee Liaison, Indiana University Bloomington, Philosophy Department, Fall 2019 – Spring 2020.
APA Member Interview (invited), APA blog, https://blog.apaonline.org/2022/05/20/apa-member-interview-martina-favaretto/
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Philosophical Association
North American Kant Society
North American Kant Society Women Scholars Network
UK Kant Society
North American Fichte Society
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