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News: The Springer Outstanding Contributions to Logic volume on Kit Fine that I have been editing with Frederik van de Putte is finally out!

I am visiting the Center for Human Compatible AI in Berkeley, with Prof. Stuart Russell again in 2024. Get in touch if you are around!

I am pleased to announce that dr Olof Leffler has started working on the Structure of Reasons project with me in Pavia.

Research Interests

My current research is on AI safety and risk (esp. regulation and governance), AI alignment, reasons and their combination.

My research and teaching interests are in logic (esp. deontic and modal, justification logic, truthmaker semantics), metaphysics (hyperintensionality, supervenience), metaethics (reasons, normative uncertainty), philosophy of language (evaluative adjectives, generics) and philosophy of law (responsibility, legal and normative aspects of artificial intelligence). 

Bio

I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ethics, Law and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Pavia, in Italy, and director of the Normative Risk Lab.

I am the Principal Investigator of an Ambizione Grant funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNFS) at the University of Bern, where I was a Senior Researcher.

Starting in 2017/18, I was a (Senior) Researcher of the Flanders Research Foundation (FWO), which funded two 3-year research projects of mine. I was based at the Centre of Logic and Philosophy of Science of Ghent University (Belgium). I spent most of 2018/19 at the NYU Department of Philosophy, working with Kit Fine.

I was also awarded a Lise Meitner 2-year grant, which I spent at the University of Salzburg in 2019/20. I am part of the Nature and Normativity program of the JQY Academy of the Goethe University, Frankfurt, where I was elected the International Academy Program Fellow, in 2018/19.

I received my abilitazione as associate professor of logic and philosophy of science in July 2019, and as associate professor of philosophy of law in January 2020.

I got my PhD in logic and philosophy in 2017. I studied at the University of Florence and at the University of Pisa,  supervised by Pierluigi Minari (Florence); at NYU, supervised by Kit Fine in 2015/16; in Paris (IJN, ENS and EPHE), supervised by Paul Egré (in 2016); and at the Arché Research Centre at the University of St Andrews, supervised by Justin Snedegar (in 2014).

My examiners were Sergei Artemov (CUNY), Ralf Bader (Oxford) and Sergio Bernini (Florence).

I got my MA and BA from the University of Pavia (Italy), as a fellow of Almo Collegio Borromeo, with a dissertation supervised by Amedeo Giovanni Conte (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome) and Sergio Filippo Magni (Pavia).

I've been a visiting graduate student in Oxford (TT 2015), at Arché, St. Andrews (UK), in Fall 2014, and at Trinity College, Dublin, from Sept 2012 to Feb 2013. I also was a visiting research student at NAU (USA), in 2010.

My Erdős number is 5.