Ilaria Canavotto
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About me
I’m an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I’m also affiliated with the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM).
My research focuses on the logical and computational analysis of normative reasoning. In practice, I work at the intersection of logic (especially deontic logic and logics of agency), AI and law, and social choice theory.
Before my current position, I was a postdoc here at the University of Maryland, with support from the Philosophy Department and the Values Centered AI (VCAI) initiative. I received my PhD in logic from the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) in Amsterdam.
Here is my CV.
My email address is icanavot@umd.edu.
My office is in Skinner Building, room 1101A.
Publications
Journal articles
Reasoning with Inconsistent Precedents, Artificial Intelligence and Law, 33, pp. 137-166, 2025, (PDF) (DOI)
Choice-Driven Counterfactuals, (with Eric Pacuit), Journal of Philosophical Logic, 51, pp. 297-345, 2022 (open access)
Voluntary Imagination: A Fine-Grained Analysis (with Francesco Berto and Alessandro Giordani), Review of Symbolic Logic, 15(2), pp. 362-387, 2022 (PDF) (DOI)
An Extensional Mereology for Structured Entities (with Alessandro Giordani), Erkenntnis, 87, pp. 2343-74, 2022 (open access)
Enriching Deontic Logic (with Alessandro Giordani), Journal of Logic and Computation, 29(2), 241-263, 2019 (PDF) (DOI)
Book chapters
Causal Agency and Responsibility: A Refinement of STIT Logic (with Alexandru Baltag and Sonja Smets), in Trends in Logic, 56, pp. 149-176, 2021 (PDF) (DOI)
Selected conference proceedings (peer reviewed)
The Importance of Intermediate Factors (with John Horty), in Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2023), IOS Press, pp. 13-22, 2023 (open access)
Reasoning with Hierarchies of Open-Textured Predicates (with John Horty), in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2023), ACM Press, pp. 52-61, 2023 (open access)
Precedential Constraint Derived from Inconsistent Case Bases, in Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2022), IOS Press, pp. 22-32, 2022 (open access)
Piecemeal Knowledge Acquisition for Computational Normative Reasoning (with John Horty), Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2022), ACM Press, pp. 171-180, 2022 (PDF) (DOI)
PhD Thesis
Where Responsibility Takes You: Logics of Agency, Counterfactuals and Norms, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 2020. (PDF)
Winner of the 2021 E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize. and published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science in 2022 as part of the award (open access)
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