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EMPLOYMENT
03.2014-02.2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the SNF Sinergia project “Grounding. Metaphysics, Science and Logic”, University of Geneva
01.2013-02.2014 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MCMP, LMU München
04.2012-12. 2012 Research Fellow, in the ANR-DFG project “CAUSAPROBA”, University of Konstanz
EDUCATION
2008 – 2013 PhD Philosophy, University of Kent
Dissertation: Causality in Complex Systems. An Inferentialist Proposal
Supervisors: Prof Dr J Williamson and Dr D Corfield
Examiners: Dr J Murzi and Prof Dr J Reiss
2007 – 2008 MA Philosophy, University of Kent
Dissertation: Are Bayesian Networks Causal Models?
Supervisor: Dr D Corfield
2001 – 2006 Laurea in Filosofia, Università degli studi di Firenze (110/110 cum laude)
Thesis: La Giustificazione Pragmatica dell’Induzione (The Pragmatic Vindication of Induction)
Supervisor: Prof P Parrini
1999 – 2001 Faculty of Engineering, Università degli studi di Firenze
'Can Interventions Rescue Glennan’s Mechanistic Account of Causality?' Forthcoming in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
'Not-so-minimal Models. Between Isolation and Imagination'. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2014, 44(5): 646-672
'Causation: Many Words, One Thing?' THEORIA, 2012, 27(74): 203-219
'Models for Prediction, Explanation and Control: Recursive Bayesian Networks'. THEORIA, 2011, 26(70): 5-33 (with P. Illari, F. Russo and J. Williamson)
'Recursive Bayesian Nets for Prediction, Explanation and Control in Cancer Science: A Position Paper'. In Fred, A., Filipe, J. and Gamboa, H. (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Conference in Bioinformatics. INSTICC, 2010, pp. 233-238 (with P. Illari, F. Russo, and J. Williamson)
'Mental Causation and Physical Causation'. In Hieke, A., Leitgeb, H. (eds), Reduction and Elimination in Philosophy and the Sciences. Kirchberg am Wechsel: Ontos Verlag, 2008, pp. 38-40