Gloria Origgi (born 1967) is an Italian

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

at the CNRS in

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( Institut Jean Nicod) who works on the

theory of mind In psychology and philosophy, theory of mind (often abbreviated to ToM) refers to the capacity to understand other individuals by ascribing mental states to them. A theory of mind includes the understanding that others' beliefs, desires, intent ...

epistemology Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called "the theory of knowledge", it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowle ...

and

social science Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among members within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the ...

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

Willard Van Orman Quine Willard Van Orman Quine ( ; known to his friends as "Van"; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century" ...

, ''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 Umberto Eco, Jason Epstein, Dan Sperber and Theodore Zeldin). 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 ...

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); and ''La verité est une question politique'', published by Albin Michel in 2024. 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 Il Fatto Quotidiano, MicroMega, Il Sole 24 Ore.

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Gloria Origgi's blog

{{DEFAULTSORT:Origgi, Gloria 1967 births Living people 21st-century Italian philosophers Social epistemologists

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