Francesco Testini is currently adjunct professor of History of Political Theories at the University of Milan. Before coming to Milan, he was MCSA Fellow (Polonez Bis Program) at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (Jagiellonian University) in Krakow. He got his Ph.D. in Political Studies from the University of Milan and the University of Genova in 2021. His research interests comprise methodological issues in political theory, the justifocation(s) of punishment, the dynamics of moral progress, the normativity of social norms, and the relationship between empirical inquiries (especially genealogy) and philosophy.