Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Faculty Member, Dipartimento di Psicologia

Other Affiliations: University of Aberdeen, Department of Philosophy and Northern Institute of Philosophy

Ricercatore (Lecturer)

Thesis Title: Concepts and Normativity. A Realist Approach.

About

I am a lecturer of Philosophy of Language at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Psychology Department, and I am also a part-time PhD student at the Northern Institute of Philosophy in Aberdeen, where I am specializing in epistemology.

My main research interests are in epistemology, and in philosophy of mind and psychology.

I received my PhD in philosophy of language from Vercelli (Italy) in 2003. Before coming to Bicocca I held appointments in the universities of Modena, Parma, and Bologna, where I studied for the BA.

I've always been interested in the role of norms for language and thought. My PhD thesis was on the rule-following paradox, and I argued that it calls for a basic notion of normativity, which does not bear on the issue of whether semantic properties are natural or not. Now I'm interested in epistemic norms, in various problems concerning beliefs, and in the possibility of conceptual a priori knowledge. I have also been working on theories of concepts - I that psychological and philosophical theories pursue different explanatory aims, and are therefore compatible.

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