I am Outreach & Knowledge Transfer Officer for the Northern Institute of Philosophy. The primary aim of my work is to raise the public profile of Philosophy by making the subject accessible and enjoyable to wider audiences. In this connection, I coordinate the activities of NIP Public, which include our Café Philosophique programme of public engagement, our Social Partnerships with HM Prison Aberdeen and Aberdeen Foyer, the Philosophy in Schools and Philosophy with Children initiatives, and dissemination activities such as NIP Podcasts and Philosophers on Film

I am originally from Florence, Italy, but I have been living in the UK since 2001. I carried out my doctoral studies at St Andrews and Aberdeen under the supervision of Patrick Greenough and Crispin Wright. Before that, I took my M.Litt. at St Andrews and my BA at Sheffield.

My research focuses on the principle of Counter-Closure, according to which knowledge-yielding single-premise deduction requires knowledge of the premise. I am interested in most topics of epistemology and in some issues in the philosophy of language and ethics.

In my spare time I play football and cycle around Aberdeenshire. I like foreign languages and I can utter strings of words resembling Swedish and French (but not at the same time).

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Publications

Interest-Relative Invariantism and Knowledge from Ignorance (2012). Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 93(1): 31-42.

Contextualism and Counter-Closure (2012). dialectica 66(1): 187-199.

Counter-Closure (2010).The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88(4): 673-683.

Presentations

How To Abandon Knowledge Counter-Closure, Basic Knowledge Workshop, University of Aberdeen 14/07/11

Counter-Closure: Knowledge and Justification. European Epistemology Network, University of Lund, 17/03/11