Francesca Righetti

Francesca Righetti serves as a Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy II at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, where her work integrates phenomenology, cognitive sciences, and psychopathology to investigate memory and self-consciousness.

Her academic foundation includes doctoral studies at the University of Catania, a visiting period at the University of Warsaw, and a 2018-2019 research internship at Freiburg's Husserl Archive focusing on genetic phenomenology and inner-time consciousness.

Dr. Righetti's research centers on embodied subjectivity in episodic recollection, particularly examining bodily memory, mental time travel, and pre-reflective self-awareness. Her dissertation "Embodied Remembering: Exploring the Subject in Episodic Recollection" bridges philosophy of memory with phenomenological theories of embodiment, seeking to reconcile experiential accounts with cognitive science frameworks.

Analysis of her 2021-2024 publications reveals consistent thematic focus on the phenomenological dimensions of memory construction, with increasing emphasis on embodied resonance mechanisms and the reconciliation of first-person experience with third-person cognitive models. Her book reviews further demonstrate engagement with contemporary European philosophical discourse.

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She actively contributes to the THINK Center for Mind & Cognition and EEG-Lab at Ruhr University, while participating in eight major research initiatives including the DFG Research Group on Constructing Scenarios, DFG Priority Program on Experimental Pragmatics, and Mercator Research Group on Memory, reflecting her embeddedness in interdisciplinary cognitive science networks.