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


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

– Peer-reviewed journal articles:

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

[2] 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

[3] 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

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

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

[6] 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

[7] 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. https://doi.org/10.19079/metodo.8.1.105

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


– Books:

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

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

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



– Books Chapters:

[12] Brioni G, Marchetti J & Masala A (2025) 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

[13] 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

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

[15] 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 (pp. 121-137). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26017-0