I am an Associate Professor at the School of Philosophy of Zhejiang University (China), and Research Associate at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Johannesburg.
Before that, I have been post-doctoral researcher at the University of Geneva and Visiting Scholar at the University of Southampton and King's College London. I earned my PhD in philosophy at the University of Geneva.
I work on issues at the intersection of epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind and theory of rationality. My published works cover a wide range of topics, including the aims and norms of belief, epistemic norms of action and assertion, the relation between knowledge and practical rationality, shifty epistemology, epistemic paradoxes (in particular, the Knowability Paradox), the role of the epistemic perspective in moral evaluation, knowledge-based decision theory, the nature of risk and danger.
See this page for an overview of my specific research interests and contributions.
RECENT NEWS
* The list includes news in the past year (Jun 2023-Jul 2024)
My article "Are Reasons Answers to Questions?" has been accepted for publication in Philosophia, as part of a Symposium on Arturs Logins' book "Normative Reasons: Between Reasoning and Explanation (CUP).
The article "Self-Effacing Reasons and Epistemic Constraints: Some Lessons from the Knowability Paradox", co-authored with Massimiliano Carrara, has been accepted for publication in The Philosophical Quarterly. The article is now available in the July 2024 journal issue: Link.
Two introductory articles (one co-authored with Jie Gao) are forthcoming in the 3rd edition of the Blackwell Companion to Epistemology: The Knowability Paradox and Cross-Linguistic Studies in Epistemology (with Jie Gao).
In June 2023, I successfully passed the evaluation to get a tenured position! Since July 2023, I am an Associate Professor.
My article “Justification and Gradability”, co-authored with Arturs Logins, has been accepted for publication on Philosophical Studies. It is now available online here.
CONTACT
School of Humanities
Zhejiang University
Yuhangtang Road, 866
310058
Hangzhou
Zhejiang
China
Email address:
davidefassio(at)gmail(dot)com
You can find me also on Academia.edu, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, and PhilPeople. My website at ZJU.