Hi! I am an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Philosophy Department (GW) at the University of Salzburg, and an external member of the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy. I specialise in the philosophies of language and logic, but I have also serious interests in logic proper, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics. I am currently part of the FWF Knowledge in Crisis Cluster of Excellence – a large research project involving the CEU, the University of Vienna, the University of Salzburg, and the University of Graz.

Nuno da Silva Maia and I have recently been awarded a four year FWF project (2025-2029) on arithmetical determinacy in a non-classicality setting, titled Determinacy and non-classicality in arithmetic (Grant DOI: 10.55776/PAT2449425).    

Together with Brett Topey and Nuno da Silva Maia, I am still running a five year FWF project (2021-2026) on the determinacy of logical and mathematical language, titled Categoricity by convention (Grant DOI: 10.55776/P33708). The project develops a moderate inferentialist metasemantics for logical and mathematical language – one that is both naturalist-friendly and non-revisionary, and that makes available a unified solution to Carnap’s Categoricity Problem for propositional and first-order logic and to the metasemantic challenge to mathematical determinacy advanced by (e.g.) Skolem and Putnam.

Together with Lorenzo Rossi and Brett, I ran a third FWF project on semantic paradox (Grant DOI: 10.55776/P29716), titled The Liar and its Revenge in Context. This project modestly sought to solve the Liar Paradox, once and for all. Lorenzo and I are currently writing a book on the paradoxes, under contract with OUP. 

I did my British PhD in Sheffield (2010), I held an Analysis Studentship at Arché (2009-2010), and I was a post-doctoral fellow at the MCMP (2010-2012). Before coming to Salzburg, I was a lecturer at the University of Kent (2012-2015), when it still had a Philosophy department. Before all that, I was an undergraduate in Rome, and a cellist.

A copy of my CV is available here. You can find my Salzburg webpage here, my PhilPapers profile here, my Academia webpage here, and my ORCID page here. Some say I look philosophical.

I live near Salzburg with my partner Barbara and our two sons.