Gloria Origgi (born 1967) is an Italian philosopher at the CNRS in

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( Institut Jean Nicod) who works on the

theory of mind In psychology, theory of mind refers to the capacity to understand other people by ascribing mental states to them (that is, surmising what is happening in their mind). This includes the knowledge that others' mental states may be different fro ...

epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Epis ...

and

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s applied to new technology. She is the founder (in 2002) and director of the innovativ

project, a portal where many international virtual conferences in the social and cognitive sciences are being organized. She is the author of the book ''
Reputation
, published by Princeton University Press in 2017. Gloria Origgi has previously published a book on the American philosopher

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, ''Introduzione a Quine'', Laterza, 2000. She has edited the collection of essays ''Text-e. Text in the age of the Internet'', Palgrave, 2006, based on a web conference that she co-organized with Noga Arikha and the research team of the library of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (contributors include

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and

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). She has published numerous articles on

social epistemology Social epistemology refers to a broad set of approaches that can be taken in epistemology (the study of knowledge) that construes human knowledge as a collective achievement. Another way of characterizing social epistemology is as the evaluation o ...

and cultural issues in English, French and Italian. Among her books: ''Qu'est-ce que la confiance?'' VRIN, 2008; ''La réputation'', PUF 2015 (translated into Italian and into English) Her first work in Italian, ''La Figlia della Gallina Nera'' was published in Italy by ''Nottetempo'' (2008). She also writes for various newspapers and cultural magazines such as

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, Il Sole 24 Ore.

External links

Gloria Origgi's blog

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Origgi, Gloria 1967 births Living people Social epistemology Philosophers of mind 21st-century Italian philosophers Epistemologists

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