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Principal Investigators
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Gustavo CevolaniGustavo Cevolani is Assistant Professor at the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca. He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Bologna and held postdoctoral positions in Bologna and Turin thereafter. His research interests are in general philosophy of science, formal epistemology and the methodology of social sciences, with a focus on rational decisions in scientific and ordinary reasoning, the notion of cognitive progress, and the emergence and evolution of social institutions. His approach combines conceptual analysis, formal methods (probability, decision and game theory) and results from the psychology of reasoning, cognitive science, and social sciences in general. Click here for his personal website.
Jan SprengerJan Sprenger is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of Turin. After graudating in mathematics, he pursued a PhD in philosophy at the University of Bonn and took up a post at Tilburg University thereafter. In the same university, he served from 2014 to 2017 as Full Professor and director of the research center TiLPS. He currently directs an ERC Starting Grant about scientific objectivity (2015--2020), but his research interests include various topics in philosophy of science and formal epistemology, such as confirmation, explanation, and statistical inference. In 2019, his book "Bayesian Philosophy of Science" (with Stephan Hartmann) came out with Oxford University Press. Click here for his personal website.
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Carlo MartiniCarlo Martini is Assistant Professor at the University of San Raffaele in Milan. He obtained his PhD at Tilburg University under the supervision of Stephan Hartmann (jointly with Pieter Ruys from the School of Economics) and held postdoctoral positions at the universities of Bayreuth and Helsinki, His primary research interests are in social epistemology and philosophy of science, particularly in philosophy of economics and the social organization of science (including the study of expertise, disagreement, and consensus). At San Raffaele, he works with medical scientists on the problem of science communication for a general audience. Click here for his personal website.
Giovanni Valente
Giovanni Valente is Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Milan (PoliMi). He obtained his PhD in philosophy from the University of Maryland at College Park and was Assistant Professor at Pittsburgh University before coming to Italy. His research deals with the philosophy and foundations of physics and mathematics, as well as with general issues of philosophy of science, such as probability, symmetries, time, reduction and climate modeling. Click here for his personal website
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Postdoctoral Researchers
Lina LissiaLina Lissia obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Turin in 2020. Her dissertation The trouble with modus ponens. Some explorations on modus ponens and its failures investigates the role of modus ponens in various paradoxes, both epistemic and non-epistemic. Her main research topics are the Lottery Paradox, the Sorites Paradox (which she investigates mainly via the Lottery Paradox), and McGee’s so-called “counterexample to modus ponens”. She is interested, more generally, in all the attempts to provide counterexamples to modus ponens and modus tollens. Among her more recent research interests are Lewis-style Triviality results and semantic paradoxes. Since she got her PhD, she held a research position at the University of Turin. Click here to find out more about her work.
Saúl Pérez-GonzálezSaúl Pérez-González is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of Turin. He obtained his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Valencia in 2020. As PhD candidate, he conducted research stays at Durham University (2017) and University of Helsinki (2019). His main areas of interest are general philosophy of science, philosophy of the social sciences, and philosophy of the life sciences. His current work focuses on the new mechanical approaches and their relevance in medicine, social science, and policymaking. Click here for his personal website.
Caterina SistiCaterina Sisti is postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of Turin. After a Master in Logic, Philosophy and History of Science, she obtained her PhD in Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (2020), with a thesis on Frank Ramsey's account of conditionals. During her studies, she held visiting positions at the LMU Munich, the University of Oxford and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Before joining the PRIN project, she was IVC fellow at the Institut Wiener Kreis at the University of Vienna. Her research interests are in philosophy of logic and language, formal epistemology and general philosophy of science. She is also interested in history of philosophy, and in history of analytic philosophy in particular, with a focus on Frank Ramsey's work. She is currently working on analogical reasoning in mathematical practice, as well as on possible solutions to Hempel's raven paradox through a non-propositional account of laws.Paragraph. Clicca qui per modificare.
Nicolò CangiottiNicolò Cangiotti is postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Department of Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Milan (PoliMi). He obtained his PhD in Mathematics at the Università di Trento in 2020, with a thesis on the mathematical formulation of Feynman path integrals. His investigations include probability, stochastic analysis, general relativity, quantum mechanics, and quantum gravity. He is also interested in the formalization of the mathematical aspects in economic theories, and the associated models developed during the last century. Click here for his personal website.
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Michele LubranoMichele Lubrano is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of Turin, and associated to the PRIN project via a borsa di ricerca. He got a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Turin in 2016, after visiting at the university of Oslo, where he studied under the guidance of Øystein Linnebo. He specializes in philosophy of mathematics, but has has broader interests in philosophy of science, too. His main research topics are abstractionism and structuralism in philosophy of mathematics, explanatory proofs, and mathematical explanations. See this page for more information.
Camilla ColomboCamilla Colombo is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. After her MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy, she obtained in 2019 her PhD in Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics, with a thesis on causal models grounding the doing/allowing distinction. Before joining the PRIN project, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Milano, where she collaborated with the newly funded PhiLab for experimental philosophy.
Her current research interests are in applied ethics and decision theory, with a focus on the cognitive foundations of decision theory, non-standard reasoning processes, moral heuristics, and moral framing. She is particularly interested in how cooperation is sustained and achieved in interactions, and in the use of moral principles as decision tools. . Clicca qui per modificare. 
Francesco NappoFrancesco Nappo is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Milan. He obtained his PhD at the University of North Carolina (US) in 2020. His area of specialization is the history and philosophy of science. Much of his current work consists in articulating a systematic account of analogical reasoning that exposes its central role in the production of scientific and mathematical knowledge. He is also interested in various topics at the intersection of climate science, environmental ethics, and political philosophy. In the past few years, he has been involved in several projects aiming to bring philosophy closer to the public. His outreach activities include organizing post-show discussions in theaters and offering classes in Ancient Greek philosophy for adult inmates in prison. To know more about his research, teaching and outreach, click here.
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Doctoral Researchers
Monica ConsolandiMonica Consolandi is a Ph.D. Student in Philosophy of Science at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan. She received her Master degree in Philosophy at the University of Trento, where she still collaborates with FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler. She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, Department of Philosophy, working together with the Department of Medicine. Her Ph.D. research focuses on doctor-patient interactions, combining philosophy of language and philosophy of science tools to analyse doctor-patient communication to improve the effectiveness of the therapeutic alliance.
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