I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Central European University, within the MODREQUAM project. I obtained my PhD at Scuola Normale Superiore, under the joint supervision of Mario Piazza (SNS) and Igor Sedlár (Czech Academy of Sciences).
My research lies at the intersection of (non-classical) logic and formal epistemology. More in details, here are some topics I've been thinking about recently, in order of decreasing frequency:
Relevant and substructural logics;
Formalisation of epistemic attitudes;
Hyperintensional logics;
Dynamic epistemic logic;
Philosophical aspects of logical connectives;
Topic sensitive logics;
Logical Pluralism;
Deontic logics.
2025
Logical Reasoning in Social Settings (Edited Volume).
Piazza, Mario and Tesi, Matteo and Vigiani, Pietro (Editors). Logical Reasoning in Social Settings. Edizioni della Normale. 2025
Contextual Entailment and Containment: A Ternary Approach to Information and Topic Inclusion.
Vigiani, Pietro and Ferguson, Thomas. Contextual Entailment and Containment: A Ternary Approach to Information and Topic Inclusion. Erkenntnis, 2025.
Reasoning with Relevant Epistemic Logics.
Vigiani, Pietro. Reasoning with Relevant Epistemic Logics. PhD dissertation, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2025
Explicit and Implicit Belief in First Degree entailment with Strict Implication:
Sedlár, Igor and Vigiani, Pietro. Explicit and Implicit Belief in First Degree Entailment With Strict Implication. New Directions in Relevant Logic. Ed: Igor Sedlár, Shawn Standefer and Andrew Tedder, pp.425-452. Trends in Logic Series, Spinger, Cham. 2025
Relevant Epistemic Logic with State-Sensitive Topics:
Vigiani, Pietro. Relevant Epistemic Logic with State-Sensitive Topics. Synthese, 205 (1). pp. 1-35. 2025
2024
Epistemic Logics for Relevant Reasoners:
Sedlár, Igor and Vigiani, Pietro. Epistemic Logics for Relevant Reasoners. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 53. pp. 1383-1411. 2024.
A Hyperintensional Logic of Non-Prime Evidence:
Vigiani, Pietro. A Hyperintensional Logic of Non-Prime Evidence. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 53 (3). pp. 761--788. 2024.
2023
Relevant Reasoners and Implicit Beliefs: (pdf)
Sedlár, Igor and Vigiani, Pietro. Relevant Reasoning and Implicit Beliefs. Logic, Language, Information, and Computation. WoLLIC 2023. Ed: Hansen, Helle H. Hansen, Andre Scedrov and Ruy J. de Queiroz. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13923. Springer, Cham.
2022
Proportionality in Liquid Democracy and Representative Democracy:
Ade, Leyla; Michelini, Matteo; Vigiani, Pietro: Proportionality in Liquid Democracy and Representative Democracy. Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2022 Student Session. Ed: Dean McHugh and Sasha Mayn. University of Amsterdam / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Conference contribution. 2022.
Relevant Reasoners in a Classical World:
Sedlar, Igor and Vigiani, Pietro: Relevant Reasoners in a Classical World. Advances in Modal Logic, Volume 14. Ed: David Fernández Duque and Alessandra Palmigiano and Sophie Pichinat. pp. 697-718. College Publications, London. 2022.
Further work:
Conditional Logic with Relevant Updates.
Under review.
An invitation to Contextual Modal Logics. 2nd KCL-SNS Workshop 2025.
Ramsey Conditionals through Dynamic Extensions of Contextual Modal Logic. SNS logic seminars 2025.
Ternary Entailment and Containment. 1st KCL-SNS Workshop; SLSS 2024.
Explicit and Implicit Belief in FDE with strict implication. RPI CogSci Seminars. 2024.
Non-Classical Reasoning with Update-based Implication. PhDs in Logic XIV 2023.
Relevant Reasoners and Implicit Belief. WoLLIC 2023. Slides
Non-Classical Reasoning with Update-based Implication. SNS logic seminars 2023.
Evidence Logic for Substructural Agents. PLEXUS 2023. Abstract
A Hyperintensional Logic of Non-Prime Evidence. KSU logic group 2023.
Relevant Reasoners in a Classical World. MOSAIC 2022. Abstract
Relevant Modal Logics with Possible Worlds. SNS logic seminars 2022.
Proportionality in Liquid Democracy and Representative Democracy. ESSLLI 2022 (best presentation award).
Reach me for a chat about possible common interests at pietro.vigiani@sns.it.