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Fellowship from October to December 2010
Research project:
"Prophetism between political utopia and scientific prediction"
"Project looks for a way to formulate the problem of the interaction between prophetic imagination and rational forecast in so far as they are strategies of social integration.
My research will critically examine the prophetic imagination within the field of science, in order to capture the processes, relationships and connections between it and rational strategies, which together may render new forms of social attitudes. In other words, in a historical and critical way, we want to analyze the complex relationships between "passional" and rational socialization. I will turn my attention to a focal pole represented by medecine’s social role. Medicine is central and paradigmatic because it faces with the problems of life and death and in so doing it influences the passage from a traditional and long during symbolic system to a new one. "
Biographical elements:
Paola de Cuzzani completed her studies in Philosophy at the University of Genoa in 1982, having obtained a Master’s Degree in 1976 on The Moral Phenomenology of Remo Cantoni and a Doctorate Degree in philosophy (ethics) with a thesis on Conatus, individuo, modi in Spinoza. In 1985 she also obtained a degree D.E.A in Theologie Protestante at the Université de Strasbourg, France and a D.E.A in philosophy at the same university the following year. In 1993 she became associate professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Bergen. In 2002 she became full professor in Philosophy at the same Institute. From 2000 to 2003 she acted as deputy director of this institute.As of January 2000 she has been member on the National Committee of Medical Ethics, (NEM) and as of January 2001 on the Regionale forskningsetiske komité i medisinen [Regional Committee of Medical Ethics] (REKIII)..In year 2005-2006 she taught Medical ethics at the Department of Medicine of the University of Bergen becoming full professor of Philosophy. Her fields of research are modern philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of medicine, in particular French philosophy of medicine with special emphasis on the problem of medicalisation, and medical ethics. She is currently involved in research concerning the problem of the relationship between intercultural communication and integration in the European public domain, a project in collaboration with the University of Genoa (Italy), University of Turin (Italy), Centre for Equality Advancement, (Lithuania) and Centre de Sociologie des Religions et d’Ethique Sociale (CSRES, Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, France). She has since 2004, through the Medical Institute at the University of Bergen and REK III, been involved in a programme of cooperation with the Department of Clinical Bioethics, NIH (Washington D.C. USA).