Dr LUCA MORETTI

Dr LUCA MORETTI The University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History & Philosophy Lecturer work +44 (0)1224 272385 work fax +44 (0)1224 273750 pref l.moretti@abdn.ac.uk http://lucamoretti.org pref Room OBG11 Philosophy Department University of Aberdeen Old Brewery, High Street Aberdeen AB24 3UB Scotland, UK

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Web Links

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Northern Institute of Philosophy

The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy

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Biography

I graduated with an MLitt in Logic & Metaphysics from St Andrews and with a PhD in Philosophy from King's College London with a thesis on "The Quantum Zombie-Sleeping Beauty Everettian Doomsday Argument". After that, I held a few Postdoctoral Research Fellowships around the world. Basically, I did some research in formal epistemology within the Philosophy, Probability and Modeling (PPM) Research Group in Konstanz University (Germany), and some research in metaphysics and philosophical logic at the Center for Time of Sydney University. My first Lectureship was at La Trobe University (Melbourne), which I left for Aberdeen.

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Research Interests

Epistemology; formal epistemology; philosophical logic; metaphysics; philosophy of science.

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Current Research

Scepticism; epistemic closure and transmission of warrant; basic justification; uncertainty and ignorance; modal epistemology; Bayesian analysis of scepticism.

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Research Grants

Visiting Fellowship, Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy (Sept-Dec 2012)

Visiting Fellowship, Tilburg Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (Sept-Dec 2011)

Research Grant, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (Sept-Dec 2011)

Research Fellowship, Centre for Time and School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI) of Sydney University (Feb 2008-Feb 2009)

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Centre for Time, University of Sydney (Feb 2006–Feb 2008)

Senior Research Fellowship, the Swedish Research Council (Feb 2006–Feb 2010) DECLINED

Research Fellowship, Center for Junior Research Fellows (ZWN), University of Konstanz (Sept 2005–Jan 2006)

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and the Program for the Investment in the Future (ZIP) of the German Government (May 2004–Aug 2005)

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Teaching Responsibilities

Courses: Knowledge and Mind (1st year, with Ulrich Stegmann); Scientific Methodology (3rd and 4th year); Metaphysics of Truth (4th year); Scepticism (4th year and M.Litt).

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Event Organisation

New Perspectives on External World Scepticism (9-10 July 2013). The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy

Epistemic Transmission and Interaction Workshop (14-15 October 2010). University of Copenhagen

Formal Epistemology School (14-18 June 2010). Northern Institute of Philosophy

AAP2009 (5–10 Jul 2009). Annual Meeting of the Australasian Association for Philosophy. University of Melbourne

Ontological Commitment Workshop (30 Nov–1 Dec 2007). University of Sydney

 

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Publications

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Working Papers

• Moretti, L. 'Introduction to Epistemology'.
• Moretti, L. & Shogenji, T. 'Moore's proof and epistemic closure'.
• Moretti, L. 'Global scepticism and metaphysical possibility'.
• Moretti, L. & Girard, P. 'Antirealism and the conditional fallacy: the semantic approach'.
• Moretti, L. 'In defence of dogmatism'.

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Moretti, L. (2012). 'Wright, Okasha and Chandler on transmission failure'. Synthese, vol 184, no. 3, pp. 217-234.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s11229-010-9771-x
• Moretti, L. & Piazza, T. (in press). 'When warrant transmits and when it doesn't: towards a general framework'. Synthese.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s11229-011-0018-2
• Moretti, L. & Ciprotti, N. (2009). 'Logical Pluralism is compatible with monism about modality'. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol 87, no. 2, pp. 275-284.
• Moretti, L. (2008). 'The ontological status of minimal entities'. Philosophical Studies, vol 141, no. 1, pp. 97-114.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s11098-008-9265-6
• Moretti, L. (2008). 'Brogaard and Salerno on antirealism and the conditional fallacy'. Philosophical Studies, vol 140, no. 2, pp. 229-246.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s11098-007-9139-3
• Moretti, L. (2008). 'Dummett and the problem of the vanishing past'. Linguistic & Philosophical Investigations, vol 7, pp. 37-47.
• Moretti, L. & Price, H. (2008). 'Ontological Commitment: Introduction'. Philosophical Studies, vol 141, no. 1, pp. 1-5.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s11098-008-9259-4
• Moretti, L. (2007). 'A thick realist consequence of Wright’s minimalism'. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, vol 88, no. 1, pp. 24-38.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2007.00279.x
• Moretti, L. (2007). 'Ways in which coherence is confirmation conducive'. Synthese, vol 157, no. 3, pp. 309-319.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s11229-006-9057-5
• Moretti, L. & Akiba, K. (2007). 'Probabilistic Measures of Coherence and the Problem of Belief Individuation'. Synthese, vol 154, no. 1, pp. 73-95.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s11229-005-0193-0
• Moretti, L. (2006). 'The tacking by disjunction paradox: Bayesianism Versus Hypothetico-Deductivism'. Erkenntnis, vol 64, no. 1, pp. 115-138.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s10670-005-5059-9
• Moretti, L. & Dietrich, F. (2005). 'On coherent sets and the transmission of confirmation'. Philosophy of Science, vol 72, no. 3, pp. 403-424.
• Moretti, L. (2004). 'Grimes on the tacking by disjunction problem'. Disputatio, vol 17, pp. 16-20.
• Moretti, L. (2004). 'From the indirect confirmation of theories to theory unification'. Kriterion, vol 18, pp. 10-14.
• Moretti, L. (2003). 'Why the Converse Consequence Condition cannot be accepted'. Analysis, vol 63, no. 4, pp. 297-300.
• Moretti, L. (2002). 'For a Bayesian account of indirect confirmation'. Dialectica, vol 56, no. 2, pp. 153-173.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-8361.2002.tb00236.x
• Moretti, L. (2000). 'Sul problema della convergenza della verità nel realismo interno: On the problem of truth convergence in internal realism'. Iride, vol 31, pp. 595-617.
• Moretti, L. (1999). 'Is auxiliary empirical support efficacious against the underdetermination of scientific theories?'. Philosophical Writings, vol 12, pp. 53-65.

Scientific Reviews

• Moretti, L. (in press). 'Review of P. Greenough and D. Pritchard (eds.), Williamson on Knowledge, Oxford: OUP (2009)'. Mind.

Special Issues

• Moretti, L. & Pedersen, N. (in press). 'Epistemic transmission and interaction'. Synthese.
• Moretti, L. & Price, H. (eds) (2008). 'Ontological Commitment: Philosophical Studies, Special lssue'. Philosophical Studies, vol 141, no. 1, pp. 1-123.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Moretti, L. & Piazza, T. 'Transmission of warrant and justification'. in: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Moretti, L. (2008). 'On creeping minimalism and the nature of minimal entities'. H Dyke (ed.), in: From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics. Routledge, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 123-180.

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