Curriculum Vitae

EMPLOYMENT

University of Maryland, College Park

  • Professor and Chair, Philosophy (2024– )
  • Professor, Philosophy (2022– )
  • Affiliate Faculty, AIM (2024– )
  • Associate Professor, Philosophy (2020–2022)

Northwestern University

  • Associate Professor, Philosophy (2016–2020)
  • Assistant Professor, Philosophy (2010–2016)
  • College Fellow (tenure track), WCAS (2009–2010)
  • Affiliated Faculty, Linguistics (2010–2020)
  • Affiliated Faculty, Cognitive Science (2014–2020)

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. in Logic & Methodology of Science (2009)

University of Bologna
B.A. in Philosophy, cum laude (2003)

SPECIALIZATIONS

Philosophy of Language; Epistemology; Philosophical Logic.

COMPETENCIES

Cognitive Science; Decision Theory and Social Choice Theory; Mathematical Logic; Metaphysics; Philosophy of Mathematics; Philosophy of Science; Philosophical Themes in Artificial Intelligence.

RESEARCH AWARDS

Mellon Foundation, New Directions Fellowship (2017–2019).
Two-year fellowship to acquire post-PhD training in Computer Science (specifically AI & agent-based modeling), Psychology, and Statistics ($196,000).

Mellon Foundation, Sawyer Seminar in Social Epistemology.
Co-winner of a $175,000 grant (with Sanford Goldberg and Jennifer Lackey, Northwestern University) to organize a series of workshops on topics in social epistemology.

TEACHING AWARDS

Faculty Honor Roll, Associated Student Government of Northwestern University (2018–2019).

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley, Philosophy (2004).

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

  1. The Modal Future.
    Cambridge University Press, 2021.

ARTICLES

  1. Anankastic Conditionals and the Default Theory of Reasons.
    Forthcoming in Linguistics and Philosophy.

  2. Normative Credences Are Not Classical.
    Forthcoming in Analysis.

  3. Future Displacement and Modality.
    In Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Language
    (E. Lepore & U. Stojnić, eds.), 2025.

  4. Intention Reconsideration in Artificial Agents: A Structured Account.
    Philosophical Studies, special issue on Normative Theory and AI,
    182, pp. 205–228, 2025.

  5. Confidence Reports
    (with Paolo Santorio and Alexis Wellwood).
    Semantics & Pragmatics, 17(14), 2024.

  6. Experimenting with (Conditional) Perfection
    (with Lance J. Rips).
    In Conditionals: Logic, Semantics, Psychology
    (S. Kaufmann, D. Over & G. Sharma, eds.), 2023.

  7. On Stalnaker’s Indicative Conditionals.
    In A Reader’s Guide to Classic Papers in Formal Semantics, SLAP 100
    (L. McNally & Z. Gendler Szabó, eds.), pp. 387–406, 2022.

  8. Human Foreknowledge.
    Philosophical Perspectives, 35(1), pp. 50–69, 2021.

  9. Deontic Logic and Natural Language.
    In Handbook of Deontic Logic, vol. 2
    (D. Gabbay, J. Horty, X. Parent, R. van der Meyden & L. van der Torre, eds.), pp. 499–548, 2021.

  10. Normative Indeterminacy in the Epistemic Domain
    (with Nick Leonard).
    In Epistemic Dilemmas: New Arguments, New Angles
    (K. McCain, S. Stapleford & M. Steup, eds.), 2021.

  11. On Predicting.
    Ergo, 7(11), 2020.

  12. Conditional Heresies
    (with Simon Goldstein).
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 101(2),
    pp. 251–282, 2020.

  13. Assertion and Modality.
    In Oxford Handbook of Assertion (Sanford Goldberg, ed.),
    Oxford University Press, pp. 505–528, 2020.

  14. A Context Principle for the Twenty-first Century.
    In Eva Picardi: Language, Analysis and History
    (A. Coliva, P. Leonardi & S. Moruzzi, eds.),
    Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 183–203, 2018.

  15. Will Done Better: Selection Semantics, Future Credence and Indeterminacy
    (with Paolo Santorio).
    Mind, 127(505), pp. 129–165, 2018.

  16. Credences, Chances, and Circles.
    Episteme, 14(1), pp. 49–58, 2017.
    (Special issue on Richard Pettigrew’s Accuracy and the Laws of Credence.)

  17. Choice Points for a Modal Theory of Disjunction.
    Topoi, 36(1), pp. 171–181, 2017.

  18. Consequence and Contrast in Deontic Semantics.
    The Journal of Philosophy, 113(8), pp. 396–416, 2016.

  19. Conditionals, Context and the Suppression Effect
    (with Lance J. Rips).
    Cognitive Science, 2016.

  20. Local Supermajorities.
    Erkenntnis, 81(2), pp. 391–406, 2016.

  21. Deontic Modals and Probabilities: One Theory to Rule Them All?.
    In Deontic Modality (N. Charlow & M. Chrisman, eds.),
    Oxford University Press, pp. 11–46, 2016.
    Reprinted in The Philosopher’s Annual 36.

  22. Attitudes, Deontics and Semantic Neutrality.
    Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 95(4), pp. 491–511, 2014.

  23. Individual Coherence and Group Coherence
    (with Ray Briggs, Kenny Easwaran & Branden Fitelson).
    In Essays in Collective Epistemology (J. Lackey, ed.),
    Oxford University Press, pp. 215–239, 2014.

  24. Epistemic and Deontic Should.
    Thought, 2(1), pp. 73–84, 2013.

  25. Deliberative Modality under Epistemic Uncertainty
    (with Magdalena Kaufmann & Stefan Kaufmann).
    Linguistics and Philosophy, 36(3), pp. 225–259, 2013.

  26. Aggregating with Reason(s).
    Synthese, 190(15), pp. 3123–3147, 2013.

  27. Ought and Resolution Semantics.
    Noûs, 47(3), pp. 534–558, 2013.

  28. Epistemology in Group Agency: Six Objections in Search of the Truth.
    Episteme, 9(3), pp. 255–269, 2012.

  29. Judgment Aggregation.
    Philosophy Compass, 6(1), pp. 22–32, 2011.

  30. Decision Framing in Judgment Aggregation.
    (with Marc Pauly & Josh Snyder).
    Synthese, 163, pp. 1–24, 2008.
    Reprinted in The Philosopher’s Annual 28.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  1. Default Premise Semantics for Anankastic Conditionals.
    Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 2024.

  2. Past-Future Asymmetries, Evidential Grounding, and Projection.
    Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 2022.

  3. Positive gradable adjective ascriptions with states, not degrees
    (with Paolo Santorio & Alexis Wellwood).
    Forthcoming in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2022.

  4. Conditionals in Selection Semantics.
    Proceedings of the 2019 Amsterdam Colloquium.

  5. Homogeneous Alternative Semantics
    (with Simon Goldstein).
    Proceedings of the 2017 Amsterdam Colloquium.

  6. Selection Semantics for Will
    (with Paolo Santorio).
    Proceedings of the 2015 Amsterdam Colloquium, pp. 80–89.

REVIEWS

  1. Review of Patrick Todd’s The Open Future.
    The Philosophical Review, 132(4), pp. 650–654, 2023.

  2. Review of Robert C. Stalnaker’s Knowledge and Conditionals.
    Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 9/2020.

  3. Comments on Roger White’s “The Problem of the Problem of Induction”.
    Episteme, 12(2), pp. 291–296, 2015.

  4. Review of François Recanati’s Truth-Conditional Pragmatics.
    Philosophical Quarterly, 62(247), pp. 415–418, 2012.

IN ITALIAN

  1. Modus Ponens. Aphex (blind refereed), 7, 2013.

EDITED PROCEEDINGS

  1. Proceedings of DEON 2014.
    Co-edited with Davide Grossi, Joke Meheus & Xavier Parent.
    Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 8554, Springer.

VISITING

University of Michigan, Philosophy Department.
Visiting Scholar (Fall 2013).

Tilburg University, Philosophy Department.
Short-term Visiting Fellow (September–October 2010).

Australian National University, Research School for the Social Sciences.
Visiting Student in the Philosophy Program
(July–August 2007; July 2008).

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY

Editorships and Editorial Boards

  • Linguistics and Philosophy, Editorial Board Member (2019– ).
  • Philosophers’ Imprint, Editor (2018–2024).

REVIEWING

Journal Reviewing
(Served as reviewer, often multiple times, for the journals below)

American Philosophical Quarterly; Analysis; Analytic Philosophy;
Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Canadian Journal of Philosophy;
Cognition; Dialectica; Economics and Philosophy; Episteme;
Erkenntnis; Ergo; European Journal for the Philosophy of Science;
Ethics; Glossa; Journal of the American Philosophical Association;
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy; Journal of Philosophical Logic;
Journal of Philosophical Research; The Journal of Philosophy;
Journal of Semantics; Linguistics and Philosophy;
Logic Journal of the IGPL; Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences;
Mind; Mind and Language; Noûs; Pacific Philosophical Quarterly;
Philosophy Compass; Philosophers’ Imprint; The Philosophical Review;
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research; Philosophical Studies;
Philosophy of Science; Ratio; Res Philosophica;
The Review of Symbolic Logic; Semantics & Pragmatics;
Studia Logica; Synthese; Theoria; Thought.

Reviewing for Edited Volumes

Cambridge Handbook of Modality; Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Language;
Topics in Contemporary Philosophy;
Essays in Collective Epistemology;
Deontic Modality;
Conditionals.

Book Proposal Reviewer

Oxford University Press (x5); Routledge.

Fellowship and Grant Reviewing

  • Flanders Research Foundation
  • Research Committee of Lingnan University (x2)
  • Austrian Science Fund
  • University of Maryland, Grand Challenges Individual Competitions
  • Core Fellowship Reviewer, Helsinki Collegium

ORGANIZING

Conference Organization
(Main organizer, e.g. program committee co-chair)

  • DEON 2014
  • Northwestern University, Deontic Modality Workshop (2013)
  • Northwestern University, Philosophy of Language Pre-APA Conference (2012)

Program Committee Member

AIES (2021);
Formal Approaches to Rationality and Meaning (FARM) (2025);
Formal Ethics (2020, 2024);
Amsterdam Colloquium (2019, 2022);
Central APA (2015, 2018);
SALT (2016–2019);
DEON (2016, 2018, 2023);
Lori-V (2015);
FEW (2014–2016; 2018–2019; 2024);
Norms, Actions and Games (2014);
ESSLLI Workshop on Logical Models of Group Decision Making (2013).

Co-organizer

UC Berkeley Townsend Center Working Group in
History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics and Science (2005–2009).

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Main Departmental Roles

  • Department Chair, University of Maryland (2024– )
  • BA in AI Design Committee, University of Maryland (2023– )
  • Director of Graduate Studies, University of Maryland (2022–2024)
  • Faculty Advisory Committee, University of Maryland (2022–2024)
  • Philosophy Department Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,
    University of Maryland (2022–2024)
  • Director of Instructor Training, UMD Philosophy (2020–2022)

Committee Roles

  • Chair, Search Committee for Chair of the Department of Communication,
    University of Maryland (2025–2026)
  • Chair, APT Promotion Subcommittee (Full Professor Case),
    University of Maryland (2023)
  • Chair, APT Promotion Subcommittee (Full Professor Case),
    University of Maryland (2022)
  • Member, ARHU Doctoral Education Task Force,
    University of Maryland (2021)
  • Member, Open Rank M&E Search Committee,
    Northwestern University, Philosophy (2016–2017)
  • Member, Graduate Admission Committee,
    Northwestern University, Philosophy (2015–2016)
  • Member, Open Rank M&E Search Committee,
    Northwestern University, Philosophy (2015–2016)
  • Member, Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Search Committee,
    Northwestern University, Philosophy (2013–2014)
  • Chair, Speaker Series Committee,
    Northwestern University, Philosophy (2012–2013)
  • Member, Undergraduate Committee,
    Northwestern University, Philosophy (2011–2012; 2014–2015; 2016–2017; 2019–2020)
  • Member, Space Committee,
    Northwestern University, Philosophy (2011–2012)
  • Logic Coordinator,
    Northwestern University, Philosophy (2010–2020)
  • Member, Senior M&E Search Committee,
    Northwestern University, Philosophy (2009–2010)