Jacopo Marchetti

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

— 2023: National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) as Associate Professor in Political Philosophy (14/GSPS-01)
— 2019: Ph.D. in Moral and Political Philosophy, University of Florence, University of Pisa (fully funded, 2015-2018)
— 2014: Laurea Magistrale (M.Sc.) in Philosophy (cum laude), University of Pisa


ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

— current: Post-Doc Fellow, University of Pisa
— 2024: Post-Doc Fellow, University of Turin
— 2021-2023: Post-Doc Fellow, University of Eastern Piedmont
— 2022: Adjunct Professor, University of Padua, II Level Master in Policy Innovation and Sustainability Impact Assessment (PISIA)
— 2022: Adjunct Researcher (“Co.Co”), University of Florence
— 2020-2021: Post-Doc Fellow, University of Florence


CURRENT AREAS OF RESEARCH

— Political Epistemology
— Behavioral Political Philosophy
— Non-Ideal Epistemology of Democracy
— Fake News and the Cognitive Failure of the Democratic Public


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

— Journal articles

[1] Marchetti J & Mastrogiorgio A, "Becoming Fake: An Evolutionary-Behavioral Framework on Fake News". Unrefereed preprint available at SSNR. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4340222

[2] Benzi M, Buso IM, Chirico P, Marchetti J, Novarese M, and Sillari M (2024) Believe It or Not: An Empirical Study on Political Fake News Sharing. Philosophy & Public Issues, 2: 407-428. Doi: 10.17473/2240-7987-2024-2-13

[3] Bodini P and Marchetti J (2024) "Seceding Deliberation. Antivax Propaganda and Democratic Theory". ARPS Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, 110(3): 380-394. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.10634.03522/1

[4] Marchetti J (2023) "When Political Ignorance is really harmful for Democracy: Moral Intuitions and Biased Attitudes in Voting Behavior". Philosophy and Social Criticism, 49(9): 1046–1060. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453722109374

[5] Corigliano F & Marchetti J (2023) "Climate Change Regime and the Government of Emergency. A Conceptual Philosophical Analysis". Soft Power, 10(1): 91-105. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2023.10.1.6

[6] Marchetti J (2023) "The Fake News Epidemic: A False Tale for Democracy?" Biblioteca della libertà, 236: 35-56. doi: 10.23827/BDL_2023_1

[7] Marchetti J (2022) "Relaunching Coase’s Paradox in the age of Social Networks and Covid-19 Pandemic". Ragion Pratica, 59(2): 611-631. doi: 10.1415/105386

[8] Giovagnoli R & Marchetti J (2020) "Making Out Sense of the Social World: In Search of A Cognitive Basis for Shared Institutions". Metodo, 8(1): 105-134. doi: 10.19079/metodo.8.1.105

[9] Marchetti J (2020) "Darwinizing Politics. Politica, regole e società tra evoluzione biologica ed evoluzione culturale". Ethics & Politics, 22(2): 695-722. doi: 10.13137/1825-5167/31029

— Books

[10] Marchetti J (2024) (eds) Il potere della menzogna. Comunicazione e politica nella società digitale. Il Mulino

[11] Marchetti J (2018) Foucault e Hayek. Tra biopolitica e liberalismo. IBL

[12] Marchetti J (2022) Douglass C. North. IBL

— Book chapters

[13] Marchetti J (2025) "The crisis of foundation and democratic representation: A Behavioral Perspective". In: Bissiato, G (eds.) Law, Democracy and The Crisis of Foundation: Deconstructive and Constructive Perspectives. Routledge

[14] Marchetti J (2022) "Polycentric Democracy, Dispersed Knowledge and ignorance in Policy Design". In: Petrucciani S (eds), Potere, autorità e libertà. Mimesis

[15] Marchetti J (2021) "La filosofia politica e il problema dell’ordine. Epistemologia sociale e individualismo negli scritti di Raimondo Cubeddu". In: Masala, A, Menon, M, Monceri, F (eds) La passione della libertà. IBL

[16] Marchetti J (2020) "Free-market Advocacy in the Social Sciences and in Economics. The Analysis of Human Behavior between Vienna and Chicago". In: Dawes S, Lenormand L (eds), Neoliberalism in Context: Governance, Subjectivity and Knowledge. Palgrave MacMillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-2601