My fields of research are modern philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of medicine, in particular French philosophy of medicine with special emphasis on the problem of medicalisation, and medical ethics.  I published a book on this particular subject in 2003.

I have also published several articles in French, Italian, English and Norwegian concerning the problem of tolerance in modern philosophy, the interpretation of the woman’s being in Spinoza’s thinking, the concept of peace, epistemology of medicine, and the problem of normality and pathology in modern medicine, the concept of trust from a historical-critical perspective.My  interests in in social philosophy concentrate first on intercultural relations and the problem of diversity. Now I'm working with a research project where I explore  the complex relationship between rationality and emotions with a special focus on their roles in politics. My focus is to analyse the theoretical genesis of the modern state and democracy, and the role played by some passions and sentiments in the construction and deconstruction of the political body.

I have had courses within History of philosophy, Modern philosophy (main focus on Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, Rousseau), French philosophy, Social Philosophy and History of ideas.

Academic book chapter

• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2014). Trust as feeling of expectation. Machiavelli: fede, trust and political construction. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (1996). Forkjellene og indignasjonen: toleransens mulige veier. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2013). Fiducia indice di coesione sociale. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2009). Medicine as poiesis. The relation between clinical and theoretical knowledge. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (1999). Essence et existence dans la pensée de Spinoza: une question irresolue. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2008). Le "profezie" biomediche del positivismo: Auguste Comte e le mucche carnivore. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2017). Universalismo, transindividualità e genesi dei diritti. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2015). Baruch Spinoza: Democracy and Freedom of Speech. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2013). Baruch Spinoza – demokrati og ytringsfrihet. (external link)

Master’s thesis

• Kristian Kobbenes Starheim; Paola Maria De Cuzzani; Roger Strand (2011). Knowledge production in experimental molecular medicine Primers for a reflexive life knowledge.. (external link)
• Jonas Gamborg Lillebø; Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2007). Vitskapleg rasjonalitet mellom sanning og histoire. (external link)

Academic article

• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2023). The principle of solidarity between sentiment and reason: a reflection starting from L. Bourgeois’ solidarism.. (external link)
• Cuzzani Paola Maria De (2003). Medisin som poiesis. (external link)
• Jonas Gamborg Lillebø; Paola Maria de Cuzzani (2024). Per un’“archeologia filosofica” della secolarizzazione. Agostino, Gioacchino da Fiore e i paradigmi cristiani del pensiero secolare. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2019). “Political cohesion, friendship and hostility”. (external link)
• Cuzzani Paola Maria De (2003). "Imaginatio" og demokrati hos Spinoza. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani; Kari Hoftun Johnsen (2015). Pragmatic universalism – A basis of coexistence of multiple diversities. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2020). Xenophobia, Political Society and the Mechanism of the Imitation of Affects. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani; Mirella Pasini (2009). Filosofens yrke: fornuften som mulighet. Om den italienske neoilluminismens arvtakere: S. Veca, E. Lecaldano, F. Baroncelli og R. Bodei. (external link)
• Fredrik Dreyer Moe; Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2022). The normativity in psychiatric nosology. An analysis of how the DSM-5’s psychopathology conceptualisation can be integrated. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2002). une anthropologie de l'homme decentre. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (1994). "Genetic Technology and Medicine in the light of G. Canguilhem's Concept of the Normal". (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2017). Prejudices, philosophy and Language: Spinoza and his “strategy of liberation. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani; Mirella Pasini (2020). A Short Introduction to the Proceedings of the Conference “The Reason of Passions: Emotion and Rationality in the Landscape of (Contemporary) Politics”. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Jonas Gamborg Lillebø; Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2015). Historiens rolle. (external link)

Book anthology

• Jonas Gamborg Lillebø; Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2009). FIDUCIA E PAURA / FEAR AND TRUST. (external link)
• Paola Maria De Cuzzani (2010). : “Paura e sicurezza nell’Europa delle diversità” in Trust and Fear Fiducia e paura, red. Mirella Pasini, Paola de Cuzzani, Città del Silenzio, Genova 2010. (external link)

Popular science book

• Paola Maria De Cuzzani; Gro Rørstadbotten (2009). Tidslinjer - Ideenes Historie fra Homer til Aasen. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Cuzzani Paola Maria De (2003). A lese medisinen. Normalitet og patologi i den franske medisinfilosofi. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

For more information see my CV

Major project experience

 

• 2014 -: Trust/mistrust facing the problem of diversity: Historical deconstruction and reconstruction.
   
• 2011 - 2014:     P.I of project “Interculturalism and Diversities: Developing intercultural models and thinking in the Nordic countries” with partner from Denmark and Sweden.
   
• 2010 - 2011: P.I of project “Arbeidsmiljøet for innvandrere på flerkulturelle arbeidsplasser” with partner from Denmark and Sweden.
   
• 2008 - 2009: P.I. of project “Multiculturalism, Universalism and Diversities: Developing intercultural thinking“, with partner from Norway, Sweden, Italy Denmark and Lithuania.
   
• 2006 - 2007: P.I. of project ”Universalism, Diversity and Violence. Understanding European secular and religious values” with partner from Norway, Italy, France, Lithuania, Sweden and Algeria.