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Dario Vaccaro

Dario Vaccaro

November 5, 2023 by Dario Vaccaro

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McClung Tower, 801A

Email

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Dario Vaccaro

PhD Philosophy Student, Graduate Teaching Associate

I am originally from Milan, Italy. I received my Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Philosophy from the University of Milan. As part of my Master’s program, I also attended a full academic year at King’s College London. I moved to the US in August 2022, to pursue an academic career in philosophy.

I specialize in epistemology and value theory, but I have very wide-ranging philosophical interests and am passionate about most philosophical questions. My dissertation focuses on the relationship between epistemic and practical rationality.

Education

MA Philosophy, University of Milan, 110/110 summa cum laude

Dissertation: Naturalizing Kripkenstein: How Dispositional, Primitivist, and Skeptical Answers to Kripke’s Wittgenstein All Fit within an Evolutionary Account of Meaning (Theoretical Philosophy, Professors Andrea Guardo and Paolo Spinicci)

MA, Philosophy, King’s College London

Exchange student for the academic year 2019/2020

 

Teacher Training FOR24

Qualified to teach History and Philosophy in Secondary Education institutions.

 

BA, Philosophy, University of Milan, 110/110

Capstone: Reason and other Paradoxes in Robert Fogelin’s “Walking the Tightrope of Reason” (Theoretical Philosophy, Professor Paolo Spinicci)

 

Presentations

  • “Dario Vaccaro on Analytic vs Continental Philosophy and Reliability in Knowledge”, The Philosopher’s Nest Podcast, November 2022 (https://open.spotify.com/episode/ 2o6NsBRzUp0MWsiiOPTgyL?si=1396f7089cea4086)
  • “Kantian Fallibilism vs Kantian Infallibilism: An Analysis”, Tennessee Philosophical Association, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN) – 10/21/2023
  • “G. E. Moore’s Naturalistic Fallacy”, Binghamton University Graduate Conference, Binghamton University (Binghamton, NY) – 11/03/2023
  • “Epistemic Overshooting”, The Inquiry Network (online workshop for academic researchers in epistemology) – 11/29/2023
  • “Epistemic Privilege, Testimonial Evidence, and Disability”, presented as part of the panel “(Dis)Ability Studies”, Women and Gender Studies 50th Anniversary Conference, University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC) – 01/20/2024
  • “Williamson’s Epistemology and Knowledge from Falsehood”, 45th Annual UIUC Graduate Conference, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Urbana-Champaign, IL) – 04/06/2024
  • “Epistemic Privilege, Testimonial Evidence, and Disability”, Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference – 10/16/2024
  • “Epistemic Encroachment”,  VIII Congreso de Doctorandos en Filosofia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile) – 11/15/2024
  • “When Does a Player Finish a Videogame?”, AFK in Florida: 3rd Annual Philosophy of Videogames Conference, Florida Atlantic University (Jupiter, FL) – 01/31/2025
  • “Believing in Soulmates is, Typically, Rational”, Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College (Memphis, TN) – 03/29/2025
  • “Epistemic Privilege, Testimonial Evidence, and Disability”, Dimensions of Difference Conference, Beacon College (Leesburg, FL) – 04/05/2025
  • “Finitude and Meaninglessness”, PGSA@UTK: Meaning in Life, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN) – 04/13/2025
  • “What Kind of Things Make Our Beliefs Rational?”, GSSE 2025 – STEM in Society, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN) (Invited guest lecture) – 06/2025.
  • “Meaningful Gaming”, 4th Annual Philosophy of Videogames Conference, Florida Atlantic University – 02/27/2026.
  • “Does It Not Matter Because One Day It Will End?”, 8th International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life, University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) – 03/27/2026.

Teaching

For University of Tennessee, Knoxville (as Teaching Associate):

Summer 2024 – Contemporary Moral Problems (synchronous online) [syllabus]

Fall 2024 – Contemporary Moral Problems [syllabus]

Spring 2025 – Contemporary Moral Problems [syllabus]

Fall 2025 – Critical Thinking (forthcoming)

Spring 2026 – Critical Thinking (forthcoming)

 

For University of Tennessee, Knoxville (as Teaching Assistant):

Spring 2024 – Professional Responsibility (Primary: Alex Feldt & Ryan Windeknecht)

Fall 2023 – Professional Responsibility (Primary: Ryan Windeknecht)

Spring 2023 – Introduction to Philosophy (Primary: Sam von Mizener)

Fall 2022 – Introduction to Philosophy (Primary: Kristina Gehrman)

 

For “Parini” Classical High School:

Spring 2017 – The “Actio”: Voice, Proxemics and Interpretation

Department of Philosophy

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