M.A., 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)

M.A., Philosophy, King’s College London

Exchange student for the academic year 2019/2020

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Qualified to teach History and Philosophy in Secondary Education institutions.

B.A., 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)

Here is a list of works in progress and ideas I am currently focusing my research on:

MAIN PROJECTS:

• Radical Encroachment and Radical Skepticism (…and Immortality?): I am in the early stages of developing a project for my final doctoral dissertation. I want to answer radical skeptical worries by employing what I call “radical encroachment”, the view that if we risk nothing in believing that p, then we are rationally allowed to believe that p without evidence. I am also considering applying the same principle to defend the rationality of believing we are immortal.
• How is Pereboom’s Free Will Skepticism a Form of Skepticism?: I provide a general taxonomy of the term “skepticism” as used in different areas of philosophy, and show that all -apparently very different- understandings of the term have one core commitment in common. I then apply the finding to the free will skepticism debate, and show that Derk Pereboom’s use of the term in reference to his view is problematic. This was approved as my “Bridge Paper” for the PhD Philosophy Program at UTK.

SIDE-PROJECTS:

• Finishing Videogames: I believe that part of the uniqueness of the videogame medium consists in the plurality of “finishing conditions” different videogames feature. Unlike movies, songs, and novels, videogames do not have a one-size-fits-all finishing condition. In this project, I explore the different ways in which videogames can be (or cannot be!) finished, and discuss the major implications this discovery has on the metaphysics of videogames as a distinct form of art and entertainment, and on the justification of our aesthetic judgments on videogames.

• “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