Research
"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after." (J.R.R. Tolkien)
| Ongoing Research: | statistical methods, scientific explanation, Bayesian reasoning, logic and semantics of conditionals |
| Area of Specialization: | philosophy of science, formal epistemology, logic |
| Area of Competence: | formal semantics, epistemology, game and decision theory, social choice theory |
Research Projects and Collaborations
Most of my actual work consists in joint projects with Paul Égré, my Turin colleague Lorenzo Rossi and my former PhD student Giuliano Rosella on the semantics, logic and probability of conditionals. Eventually we also want to write a book on the topic.
Until recently, I was the Principal Investigator of the PRIN Project "From Models to Decisions" (2019--23). This is a collaborative project in philosophy of science funded by the Italian Ministry for University in Research. The other PIs are Gustavo Cevolani (IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca), Carlo Martini (San Raffaele University) and Giovanni Valente (Polytechnical University Milan).
Not too long ago, I was PI of the ERC Starting Grant project "Making Scientific inferences More Objective" (2015--2021). The project investigates various aspects of objectivity in scientific inference and tries to improve the objectivity of statistical, causal and explanatory inferences. Click here for a short project description.
In September 2021, together with my colleague Vincenzo Crupi, I headed the local organizing committee of the EPSA21 Conference.
Publication Overview and Scientometrics
Up to you what you think about h- and i10-indexes. Anyway, if you want to know what I have written, with whom I collaborate and who cites my work, just check out the links below.