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 Theory
— Applied and Experimental Phillosophy


RECENT PUBLICATIONS

[1] Brioni G, Marchetti J & Masala A (2026) Behavioral Paternalism and Food Ethics: Political Justifications Beyond Nudges and Public Reason. In: Bruno F, Bertolaso M, Fabris A (eds) Healthcare and Food – Epistemology, Ethics and Law. Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming

[2] Marchetti J & Mastrogiorgio A (2025) Becoming Fake: An Evolutionary Model of Fake News. Mind & Society, 24(2): 929-945. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-025-00342-z

[3] Marchetti J (2025) The crisis of foundation and democratic representation: A Behavioral Perspective. In: Bissiato G (ed.) Law, Democracy and The Crisis of Foundation: Deconstructive and Constructive Perspectives (pp. 67-81). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003471066

[4] Marchetti J (2025) Democrazia, paternalismo libertario e autorità epistemica: alcune proposte a partire dall’abolizione del “fact-checking”. In: Barrotta P., Masala A. (a cura di), Algoritmi della scelta. Etica, politica e identità nell’epoca dell’intelligenza artificiale, Pisa University Press

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

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

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

[8] 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453722109374

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

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