After completing a scientific high school with perfect marks (100/100), Elisa Grimi graduated cum laude in philosophy at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan, with a thesis entitled “The concept of ‘sich-orientieren’ in Immanuel Kant. Subsequently, she continued her studies in the same University, achieving a second level degree in “Logic and Philosophy of Science” with a thesis entitled “Nature and structure of thinking. Ludwig Wittgenstein and Contextualism,” which she defended cum laude. In October 2012 she defended her PhD thesis on G.E.M. Anscombe’s thought, titled “One Life, one Thought, one Passion. The Philosophy of G.E.M. Anscombe” [publication: G.E.M. Anscombe, The Dragon Lady, con testimonianze inedite, Cantagalli, 2014], getting the title of “Dottore di ricerca in Filosofia” plus Doctor Europaeus (Ph.D. European Label).
She has been enrolled in a PRIN (Italian Project of National Interest) with the University of Genoa, Italy. She is also a member of the Italian Philosophical Society, Italian Society for Moral Philosophy, Italian Society for Theoretical Philosophy, Italian Association for Philosophy of Religion and the American Philosophical Association. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal of philosophy “Philosophical News” and project manager of Philojotter.com, international network calendar. Since 2014 she is member of the Editorial board of the “Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione” (NGFR). In 2014 she collaborated with the research project “Virtue Ethics. Humility” at Campostrini Foundation in Verona. On 30th of May 2014 she won the Paolo Michele Erede Foundation First Prize with a study on “Politics and Network”. From 2016 she is Executive Director of the European Society for Moral Philosophy. She had completed a post-doctoral fellowship in philosophy at the Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2015-2016. On January 2021 she has been elected Associated Scholar of the Hildebrand Project (U.S.A.). She is currently Adjunct Professor at Pegaso Online University of Naples, Italy, holding a course in “History of Philosophy” (2021/2022).
