
I am a philosopher of art, language and mind, currently a Ricercatore Tenure-Track (Assistant Professor) at the University of Cagliari [/’kaʎʎari/]. Before Cagliari, I was a Research Fellow at the University of Milan and, before that, a Juan de la Cierva and then a Beatriu de Pinós (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Barcelona (working in the LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy). Before Barcelona, I was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Temple University, and before that an École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Postdoc at the Jean Nicod Institute. I did my PhD at the University of York (supervised by Peter Lamarque, and examined by Emily Brady and Greg Currie), after studying at Leeds and, before that, at Bari and Oxford (under Luciano Floridi‘s supervision). I have written about various issues in the empirically informed philosophy of affects (disgust, horror, epistemic affects), aesthetics (style, paradox of negative emotions, paradox of fiction, paradox of taste), on propaganda and on linguistic justice and diversity in philosophy. Intellectual freedom and high accessibility for readers drive my choice of publication style and venues (I subscribe to DoRA). I also have a rich history of academic service and outreach, again in an effort to make philosophy more interdisciplinary, outward-facing and inclusive. As a graduate student, I founded the Minorities and Philosophy UK network. Since 2020, I have been convening, and making publicly accessible, webinars exploring issues related to art, language, mind and to linguistic justice. In 2021, I launched the “Barcelona Principles for a Globally Inclusive Philosophy” manifesto, and then co-founded the Barcelona Principles institutional scheme. More recently, I was lead author of the Online Accessibility Pledge, co-created the philosophy post-publication peer-review site Freelosophy, founded the interdisciplinary Aesth-L mailing list and co-founded the ARS research network. Here are a few interviews on my philosophical views and activities.