Publications


Books

Reasoning with Attitude: Foundations and Applications of Inferential Expressivism (with Julian Schlöder). 2023, Oxford University Press.

Conceptions of Set and the Foundations of Mathematics. 2020, Cambridge University Press.

Journal Articles

The Evolution of Denial (with Giorgio Sbardolini) - forthcoming in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

The Rejection Game (with Giorgio Sbardolini) - 2024, Mind and Language 39(2): 271-292. Final version

Epistemic Modals in Hypothetical Reasoning (with Maria Aloni and Julian Schlöder) - 2023, Erkenntnis 88: 3551-3581. Final version

Inferential Deflationism (with Julian Schlöder) - 2023, The Philosophical Review 132(4): 529-578. Preprint

Update Rules and Semantic Universals (with Giorgio Sbardolini) - 2023, Linguistics and Philosophy 46: 259-289. Final version

Epistemic Multilateral Logic (with Julian Schlöder) - 2022, The Review of Symbolic Logic 15(2): 505-536. Final version

Meta-Inferences and Supervaluationism (with Julian Schlöder) - 2022, The Journal of Philosophical Logic 51(6): 1549-1582. Final version

The Varieties of Agnosticism (with Filippo Ferrari) - 2022, The Philosophical Quarterly 72(2): 365-380. Final version

Inferential Expressivism and the Negation Problem (with Julian Schlöder) - 2021, Oxford Studies in Metaethics 16: 80-107. Winner of the Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics. Preprint

Weak Assertion (with Julian Schlöder) - 2019, The Philosophical Quarterly 69(277): 741-770. Final version

Metalogic and the Overgeneration Argument (with Salvatore Florio) - 2019, Mind 128(511): 761-793. Selected for OUP's Best of Philosophy 2019. Final version

Weak Rejection (with Julian Schlöder) - 2017, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95(4): 741-760. Final version Supplement 

Maximality Principles in Set Theory - 2017, Philosophia Mathematica 25(2): 159-193. Preprint Free-access 

Maximally Consistent Sets of Instances of Naive Comprehension (with Julien Murzi) - 2017, Mind 126(502): 371-384. Preprint Free-access

Can the Cumulative Hierarchy Be Categorically Characterized? - 2016, Logique et Analyse 59(236): 367-387. Preprint

Restrictiveness Relative to Notions of Interpretation (with Benedikt Löwe) - 2016, The Review of Symbolic Logic 9(2): 238-250. Preprint

On the Concept of Finitism - 2015, Synthese 192(8): 2413-2436. Preprint

The Graph Conception of Set - 2014, The Journal of Philosophical Logic 43(1): 181-208. Preprint

How To Be a Minimalist about Sets - 2012, Philosophical Studies 159(1): 69-87. Preprint

Is 'no' a force-indicator? Sometimes, possibly (with Peter Smith) - 2012, Analysis 72(2): 225-231.

Rejections and valuations (with Peter Smith) - 2010, Analysis 70(1): 3-10. Preprint

Does truth equal provability in the maximal theory? - 2009, Analysis 69(2): 233-239.

Too Naturalist and Not Naturalist Enough: Reply to Horsten - 2008, Erkenntnis 69(2): 261-274. Preprint

How basic is the Basic Revisionary Argument? (with Julien Murzi) - 2008, Analysis 68(4): 303-309. Preprint

On Adopting Kripke Semantics in Set Theory - 2008, The Review of Symbolic Logic 1(1): 81-96. Preprint

Articles in Collected Volumes

Three Kinds of Logical Expressivism - forthcoming, in F. Ferrari, E. Brendel, M. Carrara, O. Hjortland, G. Sagi, G. Sher and F. Steinberger (eds), Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Logic, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Iteration and Dependence Again - forthcoming, in C. Antos, N. Barton and G. Venturi (eds), Palgrave Companion to the Philosophy of Set Theory, Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Nevermind: On Retraction as a Speech Act (with Lwenn Bussière-Caraes, Giorgio Sbardolini and Julian Schlöder) - forthcoming, in D. Zeman and M. Hincu (eds), Retraction Matters. New Developments in the Philosophy of Language, Springer (Synthese Library Collection), Dordrecht.

Overgeneration in the Higher Infinite (with Salvatore Florio) - 2021, in G. Sagi and J. Woods (eds), The Semantic Conception of Logic, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 142-159. Preprint

Interpreting Natural Deduction: Reply to Sundholm - 2011, in C. Cellucci, E. Grosholz and E. Ippoliti (eds), Logic and Knowledge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, pp. 62–65.

On Some Consequences of the Definitional Unprovability of Hume's Principle - 2007, in P. Joray (ed.), Contemporary Perspectives on Logicism and the Foundations of Mathematics, Travaux de Logique, 18, CDRS, Universite de Neuchatel, pp. 131-146.

The Realism/Anti-Realism Debate and the Intuitionistic Solution to the Knowability Paradox (with Julien Murzi) [In Italian] - 2007, in C. Tatasciore, P. Graziani and C. Grimaldi (eds), Prospettive Filosofiche: Il Realismo, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Napoli, pp. 99-113.

Articles for a General Audience

Rejection, Denial and the Democratic Primaries - 2022, Think 21(61): 105-109. Final version

Why 'not'? (with Giorgio Sbardolini) - 2022, BJPS Short Reads.

Arguing about Sets - 2020, Cambridge Core Blog.

Foundations and Justification - 2014, Cimedart 44(4): 33–38.

Edited volumes

Topical collection on Non-Assertoric Speech Acts - forthcoming, Synthese. (L.Incurvati, L. Bussière, G. Sbardolini and J. Schlöder eds).

Special issue on Semantics and Philosophy - 2018, Topoi 37(3).  (M. Aloni, F. Berto, L. Incurvati and F. Roelofsen eds). 

Reviews

Review of 'James Studd, Everything More or Less' - 2022, Mind 131(524): 1311-1321. Final version

Review of 'Jason Turner, The Facts in Logical Space' - 2018, Analysis 78(2): 367-371. Free access

Review of 'John Hawthorne and David Manley, The Reference Book' - 2013, Analysis 73(3): 582-585.

Review of 'W. D. Hart, The Evolution of Logic' - 2012, Mind 121(483): 822-825.

Review of 'Penelope Maddy, Defending the Axioms' (with Peter Smith) - 2012, Mind 121(481): 195-200.