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About

Federica Isabella Malfatti is completing her habilitation at the Department of Christian Philosophy within the Erika-Cremer Habilitation Program at the University of Innsbruck. Her research project focuses on the topic of epistemic trust. The aim is to investigate the nature and normativity of epistemic trust, with particular attention to the relationship between trust and autonomy.

Malfatti studied philosophy at the universities of Pavia, Mainz, and Heidelberg. She completed her PhD at the Department of Christian Philosophy (2015–2020) and undertook research stays at the University of Cologne and Harvard University. From 2018 to 2020, she worked as a university assistant in the doctoral program “Philosophy of Religion.” Her dissertation, titled "Understanding Understanding," was published as a book by the Schwabe Verlag in 2023 and is available as open access, thanks to generous funding from the Austrian science fund (FWF). She has another forthcoming book with Synthese Library, Springer, entitled "The Social Fabric of Understanding". 

Malfatti is the primary investigator and project leader of the TrAU! project, funded by the TWF. As part of the TrAU! project, she has undertaken two research stays: at Harvard University (2022) and UCLA (2024).

Referee for the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Disputatio, Episteme, Erkenntnis, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Grazer Philosophische Studien, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Mind, Open Philosophy, KRITERION, Philosophia, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophy and Technology, Philosophy of Science, Ratio, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Science and Education, Social Epistemology, Synthese, The Philosophical Quarterly, Theoria.