Dr Giovanni De Grandis

CURRENT RESEARCH:

Giovanni's current interests focus on Public Health Ethics, on Ethical Pluralism and the origins of Moral Obligations, and on the ethical and political issues emerging in urban policy and planning.

PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE:

Co-authored with Y. Rydin et alii, 'Shaping Cities for Health: the Complexities of Planning Urban Environments in the 21st Century',  The Lancet, 379 (9831), pp. 2079-108, 2012..

Co-authored with Annamaria Carusi, 'The Ethical Work that Regulations Will not Do', Information, Communication and Society, 15 (1), 2012, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2011.634015

‘On the Analogy between Infectious Diseases and War: How to Use it and not to Use it’,  Public Health Ethics, 4 (1), 2011, pp. 70-83.

‘La storia, la morale e la politica in Tucidide’ [History, morality and politics in Thucydides], Teoria Politica, XXIV (3), 2008, pp. 31-60.

‘Moral Agents and Political Spectators. On some Virtues and Vices of Rawls’s Liberalism, Politics and Ethics Review, 3  (2), 2007, pp. 217-235.

‘The Rise (and Fall?) of Normative Ethics’, Critical Notice of Sergio Cremaschi’s L’etica del Novecento [Ethics in the Twentieth Century], Etica e Politica, VII/1, 2006.
http://www2.units.it/~etica/2006_1/DEGRANDIS.htm

‘Conoscenza, azione e antropologia nella filosofia di John Rawls’ [‘Knowledge, action and anthropology in the philosophy of John Rawls’], Problemata. Quaderni di filosofia, 3, 2003, pp. 81-139.

‘La giustizia e il bene’ [‘Justice and the good’], Teoria Politica, XVIII (2-3), 2003, pp. 341-369.

 ‘Un maquillage molto leggero. Considerazioni sulla riformulazione della giustizia come equita’ di John Rawls’ [‘A very light make up. Reflections upon John Rawls’s  restatement of Justice as Fairness’],  Etica e Politica, IV/1, 2002.   
http://www.units.it/~etica/2002_1/index.html

‘Making Sense of A Theory of Justice’, Croatian Journal of Philosophy, I (3), 2001, pp. 283-306.