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.
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 explaining how rule-following matters to the justification of beliefs, and generally on the nature of belief and epistemic norms. I have also been working on theories of concepts, my broad view being that psychological and philosophical theories pursue different explanatory aims, and are therefore compatible.
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