GIORGIO SBARDOLINI

Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Logic and Language at the Philosophy Department of the University of Amsterdam and at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation.

My research is on logic, meaning, and reasoning, which I like to think about as skills we (human beings) achieved over time. How did we become the rational animal? How did we develop languages with logic in it?

Short bio. I have a Ph.D. in Philosophy and M.A. in Linguistics from Ohio State. From 2019 to 2023 I was a postdoc on the EXPRESS project at the University of Amsterdam, and then a postdoc on my Evolution of Logic project (MSC Fellow) at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich.

Together with Fausto Carcassi, I am one of the organizers of the Amsterdam Colloquium and Editor of its Proceedings.

photo by Angelica Hill

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Collaborations

Edited volumes

with F. Carcassi, W. Zhou, and H. Reilly. Proceedings of the 25th Amsterdam Colloquium. ILLC: Amsterdam, in preparation.

with F. Carcassi, T. Johnson, S. Brinck Knudstorp, S. Dominguez Parrado, and P. Rivas Robledo. Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium, ILLC: Amsterdam, 2024.

with A. Anntila, M. Gamsakhurdia, and S. Zobel. TbiLLC 2025 Postproceedings, Springer LNCS, in preparation.

with L. Bussière-Caraes, L. Incurvati, and J. Schlöder. Non-Assertoric Speech Acts. Synthese Topical Collection 204(5), 2024.

Publications

On what is said: Logic and Lies. Analysis (2026).

with V. Gradimondo: Quasi-Negative adverbs and NPI licensing. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (2026).

Negative Polarity, Presuppositions, and the Harmony Hypothesis. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (2026).

with T. Klochowicz and M. Aloni: Neglect Zero and No Split in the acquisition of disjunction. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (2026).

Who's afraid of common knowledge? Philosophical Studies (2024).

with L. Incurvati: The Rejection Game. Mind and Language (2024). [Abstract]

Shadows of Sentences. Thought (2024).

with L. Bussière-Caraes, L. Incurvati, and J. Schlöder: Nevermind: On Retraction as a Speech Act. In: D. Zeman and M. Hincu (eds.), Retraction Matters. New Developments in the Philosophy of Language. Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 139--160, 2024.

Homogeneity and the Illocutionary Force of Rejection. Proceedings of SALT 33 (2023).

The Logic of Lexical Connectives. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2023. [Abstract]

with B. Assadian: Performative Reference. Synthese (2023).

Is Honesty Rational? The Philosophical Quarterly, 72: 979--1001 (2022). [Abstract]

On the Origin of Negation. Erkenntnis (2022). [Abstract]

with F. Carcassi: Assertion, Denial, and the Evolution of Boolean operators. Mind and Language (2022). [Abstract]

with L. Incurvati: Update Rules and Semantic Universals. Linguistics and Philosophy (2022). [Abstract]

with L. Incurvati: The Evolution of Denial. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2022). [Abstract]

Assertion, Rejection, and Semantic Universals, Proceedings of LORI 2021. [Abstract]

Epistemic Modality and Coordination under Uncertainty, Proceedings of TARK 2021 [Abstract]

with A. Çapari: Modeling Human Communication as a Rejection Game. Proceedings of CogSci 2021. [Abstract]

Aboutness Paradox. The Journal of Philosophy (2021). [Abstract]

On Hierarchical Propositions. Journal of Philosophical Logic (2020). [Abstract]

Two-dimensional Paradox. Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2019). [Abstract]

with M. Girlando and S. Negri: Uniform Labelled Calculi for Conditional and Counterfactual logics, Logic, Language, Information, and Computation (2019). [Abstract]

Semantic Abstractionism. Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium (2017). [Abstract]

with S. Negri: Proof Analysis for Lewis Counterfactuals. The Review of Symbolic Logic (2016). [Abstract]

Graduate Teaching

Introduction to Mathematical Logic (Mathematical Proof Methods for Logic) • Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025, Fall 2026 • UvA

Philosophy of Cognition • Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025, Fall 2026 • UvA

Undergraduate Teaching:

Philosophical Logic • Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025, Fall 2026 • Amsterdam University College, UvA

Introduction to Logic • Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026, Fall 2026 • Amsterdam University College, UvA

Data Literacy • Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026 • UvA

Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics • Spring 2022, Spring 2026, UvA

Kripke on Naming and Necessity • Fall 2021, UvA

Logic and Legal Reasoning • Fall 2018, OSU

Introduction to Logic • Spring 2017, OSU

Extra. I recorded a podcast episode with The BJPS Short Reads, and published a piece on my research with The Reasoner. For Italian readers, I discuss the intensional paradoxes in this piece. To clear my mind I go rowing on the river, cycling in the countryside, and I spend money on fine-dining.