Research
I am an Epistemologist, working in both classical and social domains that concern theories of knowledge.
Of particular interest for me is the nature and character of evidential support, the basing relation, justification, the structure of defeat, and the problem of skepticism.
In my work in social epistemology, I have focused on the topics of disagreement, trust, epistemic injustice, and the role of normative recognition.
I am currently working on the following topics, mostly in connection with papers I'm writing:
I have furthermore extensive interests in the history of philosophy, in particular German Idealism, the later Wittgenstein, Pyrrhonism, Descartes, the Pittsburgh School, and post-Popperian philosophy of Science.
I generally defend a default-and-challenge conception of epistemic justification, styled along a variety of social externalism that maintains, nevertheless, as central for justification and knowledge the subject's responsiveness to intersubjective reasons.
Influential figures for my philosophical outlook are: Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. F. W. Hegel, Robert Brandom, Helen Longino, Wilfrid Sellars, Paul Feyerabend, Imre Lakatos, Crispin Wright, Catherine Elgin, Edward Craig, Stanley Cavell, Duncan Pritchard, Martin Kusch, Michael Williams and, perhaps surprisingly, Hans-Georg Gadamer.
In the past, I've been a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS) in Pavia, Italy, within the project "Scientific Disagreement and its Impact on Society", with PIs Dr. Silvia De Toffoli (IUSS Pavia) and Dr. Filippo Ferrari (Bologna). Here is the Website of the Project.
Under this project, I have also been a Visiting Researcher at the Technische Universität Berlin in 2024 and 2025, at the chair of Prof. Dr. Axel Gelfert.
Before that, I was an FCT Research Fellow at the ArgLab Institute of IFILNOVA, New University of Lisbon (Portugal), in the FCT-Funded Project "Epistemic Injustice in Public Arguments," where I worked with Professor Nuno Venturinha and Dr. Maria Grazia Rossi. During that time, I was also a research team member of Dr. Pietro Gori's FCT-funded project "Mary Hesse's New Epistemology. Principles and Legacy"
Furthermore, I have been a guest lecturer at the Linguistics & Philosophy Department of IUSS Pavia, a teaching assistant at the PPLS department of the University of Edinburgh, and twice a DAAD-funded Gastwissenschaftler at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Universität Leipzig.
I obtained my BA and MA in philosophy from the University of Pavia, with abroad study periods at the Universität Konstanz and the Freie Universität Berlin.
My PhD Thesis can be found here: era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/38380
During my PhD, I was supervised by Professor Duncan Pritchard (University of California, Irvine), Professor Modesto Gomez-Alonso (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain), and Dr. Dave Ward (University of Edinburgh). During a year-long stay at the FAGI-Centre in 2018/19, I was hosted by the Chair of Professor Andrea Kern (Universität Leipzig, Germany).
My examiners were Dr. Beri Marusic (University of Edinburgh) and Dr. Neil Gascoigne (Royal Holloway, University of London).
The PhD was awarded with no corrections.
Of particular interest for me is the nature and character of evidential support, the basing relation, justification, the structure of defeat, and the problem of skepticism.
In my work in social epistemology, I have focused on the topics of disagreement, trust, epistemic injustice, and the role of normative recognition.
I am currently working on the following topics, mostly in connection with papers I'm writing:
- Disagreement about Philosophy, Pyrrhonism, and Practical Reasons for Belief
- Scientific Disagreement, Cognitive Division of Labor, and Peerhood
- Epistemic Injustice, Philosophical Arguments and Recognition
- Non-Ideal Epistemology, Dialectical Justification, and Epistemic Duties
- The debate and dialectic between Evidentialism and Pragmatism
- The apparent conflict between Epistemic Authority and Epistemic Autonomy
- The connection between Non-Doxastic Theories of Trust and Epistemic Echo Chambers
- The Knowledge Paradox, Factivity of knowledge, and Fallibilism
- Rule-Following Skepticism and the social sources of normativity
- The relationship between Knowledge-That and Knowledge-How
- Epistemic Underdetermination and Social Values
I have furthermore extensive interests in the history of philosophy, in particular German Idealism, the later Wittgenstein, Pyrrhonism, Descartes, the Pittsburgh School, and post-Popperian philosophy of Science.
I generally defend a default-and-challenge conception of epistemic justification, styled along a variety of social externalism that maintains, nevertheless, as central for justification and knowledge the subject's responsiveness to intersubjective reasons.
Influential figures for my philosophical outlook are: Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. F. W. Hegel, Robert Brandom, Helen Longino, Wilfrid Sellars, Paul Feyerabend, Imre Lakatos, Crispin Wright, Catherine Elgin, Edward Craig, Stanley Cavell, Duncan Pritchard, Martin Kusch, Michael Williams and, perhaps surprisingly, Hans-Georg Gadamer.
In the past, I've been a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS) in Pavia, Italy, within the project "Scientific Disagreement and its Impact on Society", with PIs Dr. Silvia De Toffoli (IUSS Pavia) and Dr. Filippo Ferrari (Bologna). Here is the Website of the Project.
Under this project, I have also been a Visiting Researcher at the Technische Universität Berlin in 2024 and 2025, at the chair of Prof. Dr. Axel Gelfert.
Before that, I was an FCT Research Fellow at the ArgLab Institute of IFILNOVA, New University of Lisbon (Portugal), in the FCT-Funded Project "Epistemic Injustice in Public Arguments," where I worked with Professor Nuno Venturinha and Dr. Maria Grazia Rossi. During that time, I was also a research team member of Dr. Pietro Gori's FCT-funded project "Mary Hesse's New Epistemology. Principles and Legacy"
Furthermore, I have been a guest lecturer at the Linguistics & Philosophy Department of IUSS Pavia, a teaching assistant at the PPLS department of the University of Edinburgh, and twice a DAAD-funded Gastwissenschaftler at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Universität Leipzig.
I obtained my BA and MA in philosophy from the University of Pavia, with abroad study periods at the Universität Konstanz and the Freie Universität Berlin.
My PhD Thesis can be found here: era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/38380
During my PhD, I was supervised by Professor Duncan Pritchard (University of California, Irvine), Professor Modesto Gomez-Alonso (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain), and Dr. Dave Ward (University of Edinburgh). During a year-long stay at the FAGI-Centre in 2018/19, I was hosted by the Chair of Professor Andrea Kern (Universität Leipzig, Germany).
My examiners were Dr. Beri Marusic (University of Edinburgh) and Dr. Neil Gascoigne (Royal Holloway, University of London).
The PhD was awarded with no corrections.
