•  264
    Gottlob Frege and Gongsun Long in Dialogue
    Asian Studies 11 (1): 267-295. 2023.
    This work addresses the critical discussion featured in the contemporary literature about two well-known paradoxes belonging to different philosophical traditions, namely Frege’s puzzling claim that “the concept horse is not a concept” and Gongsun Long’s “white horse is not horse”. We first present the source of Frege’s paradox and its different interpretations, which span from plain rejection to critical analysis, to conclude with a more general view of the role of philosophy as a fight against…Read more
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    Possibilities regained: neo-Lewisian contextualism and ordinary life
    with Mario Piazza
    Synthese 197 (11): 4887-4906. 2020.
    According to David Lewis, the predicate ‘knows’ is context-sensitive in the sense that its truth conditions vary across conversational contexts, which stretch or compress the domain of error possibilities to be eliminated by the subject’s evidence. Our concern in this paper is to thematize, assess, and overcome within a neo-Lewisian contextualist project two important mismatches between our use of ‘know’ in ordinary life and the use of ‘know’ by ‘Lewisian’ ordinary speakers. The first mismatch i…Read more
  •  24
    The Phantasmatic "I". On Imagination-based Uses of the First-person Pronoun across Fiction and Non-fiction
    Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 7 (3): 321-337. 2016.
    : Traditional accounts regard the first-person pronoun as a special token-reflexive indexical whose referent, the utterer, is identified by the linguistic rule expressed by the term plus the context of utterance. This view falls short in accounting for all the I-uses in narrative practices, a domain broader than fiction including storytelling, pretense, direct speech reports, delayed communication, the historical present, and any other linguistic act in which the referent of the indexical is not…Read more
  •  24
    Moral Beliefs and Cognitive Homogeneity
    Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 9 (1): 89-94. 2018.
    : The Emotional Perception Model of moral judgment intends to account for experientialism about morality and moral reasoning. In explaining how moral beliefs are formed and applied in practical reasoning, the model attempts to overcome the mismatch between reason and action/desire: morality isn’t about reason for actions, yet moral beliefs, if caused by desires, may play a motivational role in agency. The account allows for two kinds of moral beliefs: genuine moral beliefs, which enjoy a relatio…Read more
  •  19
    The World and Other Stories
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 262 (4): 483-491. 2012.
    Not only do we enjoy the company of fictional characters (such as Emma Bovary, Pinocchio, and the like) as we read a novel, watch a movie, or listen to a story ; but we also become emotionally involved with them and their adventures. This interaction with fiction constitutes the starting point of the ongoing philosophical debate on the ontological and metaphysical status of fictional objects, and challenges with various problems the theories of fiction currently found on the market. A survey of …Read more
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    Minding the Developmental Gap: A Theoretical Analysis of the Theory of Mind Data
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 17 (7-8): 7-8. 2010.
    In contemporary philosophy and psychology there is an ongoing debate about Theory of Mind , which mainly concerns our ability to understand other people. For almost two decades, authors have argued in favour of a crucial relationship between language and children's development of ToM. Studies based on verbal tasks suggest that children possess a ToM not earlier than about the age of four. Nevertheless, in recent years, this paradigm has been almost replaced by a 'new' nativist paradigm conceivin…Read more
  •  11
    The Mixed Blessing of Psychological Explanations
    Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 6 (2): 335-340. 2015.
    After the recent “cognitive turn” it is commonly assumed that the domain of the cognitive is much broader than the domain of the linguistic. Consequently, the quickly decreasing appeal of “linguistic idealism” is now totally clouded by the view that language is not necessary for thought. I here highlight how the target paper is fully attuned to this mainstream view, which originally and fundamentally rejects any linguistic idealist claim. Furthermore, I propose a new formulation of an “old” meth…Read more
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    The advent of experimental philosophy has recently expanded the domain of philosophical debates so as to include discussions about survey-based methodology and the validity of its employment in philosophical inquiry. One of the main criticisms of this approach questions the alleged response-intuition equation, by claiming that ‘pragmatic cues’ might prevent the subjects from reporting their genuine intuitions about the survey scenarios and questions. The pragmatic cues discussed by the literatur…Read more
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    Semantica e pragmatica degli indicali nelle teorie di Reichenbach e Benveniste
    Annali Della Facoltà di Lettere E Filosofia. Università di Macerata 38 397-412. 2005.
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    Gli indicali tra referenzialismo e descrittivismo
    Annali Della Facoltà di Lettere E Filosofia. Università di Macerata 36 31-56. 2003.
  • Approccio neuropsicologico agli aspetti della multimedialità
    Annali Della Facoltà di Lettere E Filosofia. Università di Macerata 37 147-166. 2004.