Daniela Falcioni studies philosophy at the universities of Rome and Heidelberg. In 1991 she receives a Ph.D from La Sapienza University of Rome. From 1992 to 2001 she is a researcher at UniCal University of Calabria. In 2001 she becomes associate professor at the same university.
In collaboration with Roma Tre University, she directed a research about the genesis of the social bound in the light of the gifts paradigm. The results of this project have been published in: D. Falcioni (edited by), Cosa significa donare? Napoli, Guida 2012; D. Falcioni, Das Band und die Bindekraft der Gabe, in «Memoria und Mimesis. Paul Ricoeur zum 100. Geburtstag», Dresden, Text & Dialog, 2013, pp. 79–89. In the same field, she produced a research about gifts conceptions and practices in Islam: D. Falcioni, Conceptions et pratiques du don en Islam, «Revue du MAUSS semestrielle», 2012, vol. 39, n. 1, pp. 339–360.
In collaboration with the Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali (SNS), she directed a research about several concepts of western civilization. The result in: D. Falcioni (a cura di), Genealogie dell’Occidente, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri 2015. Supported by CNR and DAAD and in collaboration with Marburg University, she investigated Kant’s political thought. Some of the results are in: D. Falcioni, Immanuel Kant und Adolf Reinach: Zwei Linien des Widerstandes im Vergleich, Kant–Studien, 2002, n. 3, pp. 351–370. D. Falcioni, Aporien des Strafrechts bei Kant. Eine Alternative zum Ius Talionis, in «Kant und die Berliner Aufklaerung», New York, NY: Gruyter, Walter de, & Co, 2001, pp. 106–115.
