Understanding: Between Contents and Phenomena The research project, “Understanding: Between Contents and Phenomena”, is funded by the University of Zürich until to December 2025 and by an SNSF Starting Grant from January 2026. This project aims to offer a novel and unified approach to the relationship between our understanding of linguistic representations and our understanding of non-linguistic phenomena, as mediated by representations. One of the project's main objectives is to show that the manner in which representations, such as explanations, must be grasped to achieve understanding hinges on the nature of the phenomena that these representations purport to depict. Specifically, the nature of the cognitive engagement with representations required to understand empirical phenomena differs significantly from that required to understand normative phenomena, such as moral phenomena. Full Description
Books Rational Understanding: From Explanation to Knowledge. Routledge, 2023. (open access) Journal Articles From Seeing to Knowing: the Case of Propositional Perception. Philosophical Studies, forthcoming. (link to article) Moral Understanding: From Virtue to Knowledge. Noûs, 59, 2025, pp. 219-233. (link to article) Explanationism, Circularity and Non-Evaluative Grounding. Grazer Philosophische Studien, 110, 2024. pp. 28-46. Grasping in Understanding. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 74, 2023, pp. 603-617. (link to article) Confusion, Understanding and Success. International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 13, 2023, pp. 44-60. (link to article) Reassessing Lucky Understanding. Episteme, 20, 2023, pp. 513-527. (link to article) The rational Dimension of Understanding. Synthese, 200, 2022. (link to article) (pdf) Why Explanatory Considerations Matter. Erkenntnis, 86, 2021, pp. 473-491. (link to article) Acting Upon Uncertain Beliefs (with Patryk Dziurosz-Serafinowicz). Acta Analytica, 35, 2020, pp. 253-271. (link to article) (pdf) What Should We Believe about the Future? Synthese, 197, 2020, pp. 2375-2386. (link to article) Normalcy, Understanding and the Problem of Statistical Evidence. Theoria, 85, 2019, pp. 202-218. (link to article) What Are Explanatory Virtues Indicative Of? Logos and Episteme, 8, 2017, pp. 179-193. (link to article) Encyclopedia Entries Certainty (with Jacques-Henri Vollet). Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2022. (link to article) Certitude (with Jacques-Henri Vollet). l'Encyclopédie Philosophique, 2021. (link to article) PhD Dissertation An Inquiry into the Conditions of Rationality. 2018. (contact for the manuscript)
Junior Honours Epistemology (Lecture) Fall 2022 University of Glasgow: given with Prof. Christoph Kelp. Introduction to Philosophy (Lecture) 2016 - 2022 Université de Fribourg: given as part of the Quali+ program in Philosophy. Introduction to Epistemology (Lecture) Fall 2020 Université de Fribourg. On Certainty (Seminar) Fall 2017 Université de Fribourg: given with Prof. Gianfranco Soldati. Introduction to Epistemology (Seminar) Spring 2016 Université de Genève: given with Michal Haldky.