Federico Arena is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy, supported by the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence grant CEX2021-001169-M (funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), and a member of the Cátedra de Cultura Jurídica research group at the University of Girona.

His research project addresses the way in which problematic forms of social categorization (mainly stereotypes and implicit bias) may affect the justification of the factual premise of judicial reasoning, by enhancing or reducing the probability of attaining knowledge. Indeed, the incidence of implicit bias and stereotypes can appear both in the context of discovery and in the context of justification, infiltrating the evidentiary reasoning of judges. The project aims at offering a set of criteria to assess the epistemological impact of implicit bias and stereotypes as a key component of a sophisticated or non-naive form of a rationalist conception of legal evidence.

For further information, please visit Federico’s personal web page HERE.