Lorenzo Serini
Profile
I am an Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) and Director of Student Experience and Progression in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. I received my PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick in April 2021, and before rejoining the Philosophy Department in April 2023, I first received an Early Career Teaching Fellowship Award Link opens in a new windowfrom the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL)Link opens in a new window and the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS)Link opens in a new window, and then worked for two academic years as a Teaching Fellow in IATL. I have also been teaching seminars for a variety of modules in the Philosophy Department since 2017/2018.
My teaching is informed by my research, and my research is informed by my teaching. My teaching and research areas of specialization include Post-Kantian European Philosophy (especially Nietzsche); the History of Western Philosophy (both ancient and modern); Virtue/Vice Epistemology; and Philosophy of Emotions. I also have research and pedagogical expertise in Critical Thinking; Applied Ethics; Theories of Wellbeing; and Philosophy of Education.
My PhD thesis, titled Senses of Scepticism in Nietzsche's Middle Writings: How He Became a Sceptic, was funded by the Centre for Arts Doctoral Research ExcellenceLink opens in a new window and supervised by (now Emeritus) Professor Keith Ansell-Pearson. My PhD viva examiners were Professor Stephen Houlgate (internal) and Robert Pippin (external, University of Chicago). I am now working to turn my PhD thesis into a book.
Teaching in the Philosophy Department
Philosophy Modules
2025/26 (Spring Term) – Philosophy of the Emotions
2025/26 (Autumn Term) – Reason, Argument and Analysis
2024/25 (Autumn Term) – Plato and Descartes
2024/25 (Autumn Term) – Reason, Argument and Analysis
2023/24 (Autumn Term) – Reason, Argument and Analysis
Guest Lectures
2024 - 'Race and Epistemology', Race and Philosophy
2023 – 'Working and Living with the History of Philosophy', Race and Philosophy
2019 – ‘Stendhal, Nietzsche, and De Beauvoir on Love’, Philosophy of the Emotions
Seminars
2023 (Spring Term) – Race and Philosophy
2022 (Autumn Term) – Introduction to Philosophy
2021, 23 (Spring Term) – Philosophy of Terrorism and Counterterrorism
2021, 22 (Autumn Term) – Philosophy of Evil
2019, 20 (Autumn Term) – Philosophy of the Emotions, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
2019 (Spring Term) – Making Decisions
2018, 21 (Spring Term) – Nietzsche in Context
Other Teaching-Related Roles
Convenor of the Philosophy Study Skills programmeLink opens in a new window.
Convenor of the Writing Support CentreLink opens in a new window in the Philosophy Department.
Teaching Awards, Qualifications, Certificates
2023/24 – Nominated for the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences Faculty.
2022/23 – Nominated for the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences Faculty.
2021/22 – Nominated for the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences Faculty.
2021 – Postgraduate Award in Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning (30 credits, distinction).
2020 – Postgraduate Award in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (30 credits, distinction).
2019 – Departmental Teaching Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching.
2018 – Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA).
Selected Publications
I have a number of publications that are forthcoming, under review, and in preparation.
2025 – 'Nietzsche's Conception of Skepticism as Intellectual Virtue and ViceLink opens in a new window', European Journal of Philosophy.
2024 – 'Co-Creating a Podcast with Students: Working Together to Promote Wellbeing Literacy Through Digital Pedagogies in Higher EducationLink opens in a new window' (with Elena Riva, Charlotte Bjerre Meilstrup, Malene Kubstrup Nelausen, Line Nielsen). Routledge Open Resource.
2023 – 'Practices of Truth in Philosophy: Historical and Comparative PerspectivesLink opens in a new window' (edited with Pietro Gori), New York: Routledge.
2023 – 'Skepticism as a Truth-Seeking Practice: The Pyrrhonists, Diderot, and Regulative Epistemology', in Pietro Gori and Lorenzo Serini (eds) Practices of Truth in Philosophy: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, New York: Routledge.
2023 – 'Nietzsche and the Style of Non-Assertion: Skepticism, Fanaticism, and Hypothesis-Making', Nietzsche and/on Style, special issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose.
2023 – 'Stendhal, Nietzsche, and Beauvoir on Romantic Love', in Michael J. McNeal (ed) Nietzsche on Woman and the Eternal-Feminine. A Critique of Truth and ValuesLink opens in a new window, London: Bloomsbury.
2022 – 'Friedrich Nietzsche: Cheerful Thinker and Writer. A Contribution to the Debate on Nietzsche's CheerfulnessLink opens in a new window', (with Keith Ansell-Pearson), in Nietzsche-Studien, 40(3), pp.115-170.
Research Networks
Member of the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European PhilosophyLink opens in a new window, University of Warwick.
Affiliated Fellow of the Warwick Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts (CRPLA).Link opens in a new window
Co-Director of Seminario Permanente Nietzscheano (SPN)Link opens in a new window, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici.Link opens in a new window
Member of the Friedrich Nietzsche SocietyLink opens in a new window.
Member of HyperNietzscheLink opens in a new window.
Collaborator of the FCT-funded research project 'Mapping Philosophy as a Way of LifeLink opens in a new window', IFILNOVA, Nova University Lisbon.
Other Roles
Co-creator of Understanding WellbeingLink opens in a new window, an online interdisciplinary module open to all students at the University of Warwick.
Director of Student Experience and Progression
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Email: Lorenzo.Serini@warwick.ac.uk
Room: S2.61Link opens in a new window
Advice and Feedback Hours:
- Monday: 14:00-15:00
- Thursday: 14:00-15:00
Here is the linkLink opens in a new window to book a 15-minute slot in my essay writing support hours.
Essay Writing Support:
- Monday: 15:00-16:00
- Thursday 15:00-16:00
Here is the linkLink opens in a new window to book a 15-minute slot in my essay writing support hours. S2.61Link opens in a new window.
The mark of a good teacher: the ability to give a greater sense of possibility to another person.
'Ludendo docere' (Quintilian)
