Conversation: Gloria Origgi

In this conversation, recorded on March 16, 2024, which is a follow-up to my previous podcast, philosopher Gloria Origgi elaborates the ideas in her book, Reputation: What it is and Why it Matters. In Part 1, I played her lecture on that subject from the Night of Philosophy 2019. Here we discuss the ideas and specific cases since that time in which reputation impacts our global lives.

Gloria Origgi is an Italian philosopher and social scientist based in Paris at the Institut Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure. In her research work, she tries to understand the impact of social relations and institutions on knowledge processes. She has worked extensively on the evaluation of knowledge and science. She has been a member of two advisory boards at the European Commission in Brussels (Future and Emerging Technologies and Gender) whose aim is to design the new Research Framework Program after Horizon 2020.

She has taught in France, Italy, Brazil, and is regularly invited in many institutions in United States, UK and Germany. In 2005 and 2013 she was Visiting Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University. She also works on ethics of science, the epistemology of gender and its applications to social cognition. She was an invited Professor in Germany (University of Bielefeld - Center of Excellence for Cognitive Interaction) and in Munich in 2021.

In addition to La réputation, qui dit quoi de qui (Presses Universitaires de France, 2015) and its translation, Reputation: What it is and Why it Matters? (Princeton University Press, 2018); in 2019 she published a Dictionary of Social Passions (PUF) which gathers more than 140 colleagues from French universities and international institutions to understand the role of passions in human motivation. Her last book, La vérité est une question politique (Albin Michel) was published in 2024. Since 2016, she has participated in a new joint EHESS-Columbia University-Dakar University project on the Epistemologies of the South. She is also involved in research on Epistemic Democracy. Her research work has been covered by many newspapers and media such as The Financial Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, BBC, France Culture.

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