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- Qualifications:BA, MA, PhD
- Position:Associate Professor of Philosophy
- Department:HAS - Health and Social Sciences
- Telephone:+4411732 87635
- Email:Francesco.Tava@uwe.ac.uk
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About me
I am Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Social Sciences at UWE. My main research interests are in political philosophy, phenomenology, and applied ethics. I am particularly interested in problems surrounding the meaning and function of political solidarity in the European context.
I am the author of The Risk of Freedom (2016), which analyses the political phenomenology of Czech philosopher and dissident Jan Patočka, and the editor of Phenomenology and the Idea of Europe (2017), Thinking after Europe (2016), and European Solidarity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (forthcoming). I have also published in the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2021), Philosophy Now (2021), Phenomenology and Mind (2021) Studies in East European Thought (2020), Metodo (2018), Filosofický Časopis (2018), the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (2016, 2021), and Horizon (2016).
At UWE, I am Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Philosophy, where I teach modules on philosophical existentialism, Europe and decolonisation, and film-philosophy. In 2020-22, I am also Visiting Professor at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Milan, Italy).
I am keen on literature and film, and am one of the founders of Thought in Action – a partnership between UWE Philosophy and Politics & IR, Watershed, and MUBI.
Area of expertise
Political Philosophy; Phenomenology; Applied Ethics
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