Luca Moretti
Luca Moretti
I'm a Reader
at the Department of Philosophy of the University of
Aberdeen, a Visiting Professor at the Munich Center
for Mathematical Philosophy, a member of the Research
Group From Perception to Belief and Back Again
of the University of Bochum (Germany), and a faculty
member of the Doctoral Programme of FINO
(North-Western Italian Philosophy Consortium).
From June 2024 I will be a Full Professor in Logic and
Philosophy of Science at the University of Eastern
Piedmont (Italy).
My current areas of investigation are general epistemology, philosophy of education and social ontology. In the past I did research in metaphysics and philosophical logic.
Biography
I graduated with an MLitt in Logic &
Metaphysics from St Andrews in 1998 and with a PhD in
Philosophy from King's College London in 2003.
After my graduation with a PhD, I had
teaching positions at University College London and
King's College London. I also did research in formal
epistemology at the Zukunftskolleg of the University
of Konstanz (Germany) and research in metaphysics and
philosophical logic at the Centre for Time of the
University of Sydney.
My first Lectureship was at La Trobe
University (Melbourne), which I left for Aberdeen in
2009. I was a member of the steering committee of the
Northern Institute of Philosophy at Aberdeen till
March 2013. I have been a Visiting Professor at the
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy since August
2014.
Forthcoming and recent
publications
Moretti, Luca and Alessia Marabini
(2024). The
Betrayal of Education: The Failure of
Competence-Based Learning and the Demand for
Bildung. London: Bloomsbury (forthcoming).
McCain, Kevin and Luca Moretti (2024). “Précis of Appearance
and Explanation”. Forthcoming in Asian
Journal of Philosophy.
McCain, Kevin and Luca Moretti (2024). “Replies to our
critics”. Forthcoming in Asian Journal of
Philosophy.
McCain, Kevin and Luca Moretti (2024). “Reflective
awareness, phenomenal conservatism and phenomenal
explanationism”. Forthcoming in Erkenntnis.
Moretti, Luca and Tommaso Piazza (2023). "Epistemologia"
("Epistemology"). In T. Andina and G. Fracchia (eds),
Filosofia Contemporanea (Contemporary
Philosophy) (pp. 63-99). Roma: Carrocci
McCain, Kevin and Luca Moretti (2023). “Phenomenal
explanationism and the look of things”. In K.
McCain, S. Stapleford and M. Steup (eds), Seemings:
New Angles, New Arguments (pp. 217-232). New
York: Routledge.
Moretti, Luca and Crispin Wright (2023). "Epistemic
Entitlement, Epistemic Risk and Leaching". Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research 106(3): 566-580.
McCain, Kevin and Luca Moretti (2021). Appearance
and Explanation: Phenomenal Explanationism in
Epistemology. Oxford: OUP.
“In this carefully argued book, McCain and Moretti present an attractive theory with rich resources for tackling not only the problems besetting phenomenal conservatism but epistemology more broadly, from the problem of how immediate justification is possible to the perennial challenge of how to reply to the skeptic. It is a ‘must read’ for anyone working in epistemology.”
Matthew McGrath, Washington University at St.
Louis
“A compelling and
comprehensive account of the nature and epistemic role
of
appearances. Highly recommended.”
Declan Smithies,
Ohio State University
See
Calb Estep's book
review in Review of Metaphysics.
Moretti, Luca and Nikolaj Pedersen (editors) (2021). Non-Evidentialist Epistemology.
Contributors: N. Ashton, A. Coliva, J. Kim, K. McCain,
A. Meylan, L. Moretti, S. Moruzzi, J. Ohlorst, N.
Pedersen, T. Piazza, L. Zanetti. Leiden: Brill.
See
Drew Johnson's book
review in International Journal for the
Study of Skepticism.
Pedersen, Nikolaj and Luca Moretti (2021). “Non-Evidentialist
Epistemology: Introduction and Overview” in L.
Moretti and N. Pedersen (eds), Non-Evidentialist
epistemology (pp. 1-24). Leiden: Brill.
Moretti, Luca (2021). “Problems
for Wright’s entitlement theory. In L. Moretti
and N. Pedersen (eds), Non-Evidentialist
Epistemology (pp. 121-138). Leiden: Brill.
Moretti, Luca (2021). “Entitlement,
epistemic risk and scepticism“. Episteme 18(4):
576-586.
Moretti, Luca, Hartl, Peter and Akos Gyarmathy (2021).
“The
value of truth: introduction to the topical
collection”. Synthese 199(1), pp.
1453-1460.
Moretti, Luca, Hartl, Peter and Akos Gyarmathy (guest
editors) (2020). Topical collection of Synthese on “The
value of truth”. (Contributors: Joseph Bjelde,
Anna-Maria Eder, Filippo Ferrari, Jim Hutchinson,
Tihamér Margitay, Miriam McCormick, Kate Nolfi,
Tommaso Piazza, Duncan Pritchard, Daniel Weissglass).
Moretti, Luca (2020). Seemings and Epistemic Justification: How Appearances
Justify Beliefs.
Cham: Springer.
You can download Contents,
Ch 1,
Ch 2, Ch 3, Ch 4, Ch 5,
Ch 6.
Marabini, Alessia and Luca Moretti
(2020). “Goldman
and Siegel on the epistemic aims of education“.
Journal of Philosophy of Education 54(3):
492-506.
Moretti, Luca and Tommaso Piazza (2019). “The many
ways of the basing relation”. In A. Carter and
P. Bondy (eds), Well Founded Belief: New Essays
on the Epistemic Basing Relation (Ch. 4).
London: Routledge.
Georgakakis, Christos and Luca Moretti (2019). "Cognitive
penetrability of perception and epistemic
justification". Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy.
Moretti, Luca (2019). “Inferential
seemings and the problem of reflective awareness”.
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
49(2): 253-271.
Moretti, Luca and Tommaso Piazza (guest
editors). Special issue of Synthese
on "Defeaters in
current epistemology", vol. 195(5) (2018).
(Contributors: Carla Bagnoli, Berit Brogaard, Adam
Carter, Albert Casullo, Kathrin Gluer-Pagin, Peter
Graham, Kevin McCain, Matthew McGrath, Nikolaj
Pedersen, Duncan Pritchard and Matthias Steup.)
Moretti, Luca and Tommaso Piazza (2018).
"Defeaters
in current epistemology: introduction to the special
issue”. Synthese
195(7): 2845-2854.
Moretti, Luca (2018). “Phenomenal
conservatism and the problem of reflective awareness”.
American Philosophical Quarterly 55(3): 267-280.
Marabini, Alessia and Luca Moretti
(2017). “Assessing
concept possession as an explicit and social
practice”. Journal
of Philosophy
of Education
51(4): 801-816.
Moretti, Luca and Tomoji Shogenji
(2017). "Skepticism
and epistemic closure: two Bayesian accounts". International Journal for the
Study of Skepticism
7(1): 1-25.
Moretti, Luca (2017). “Ted Poston, Reason and
Explanation: A Defense of Explanatory Coherentism.
UK: Palgrave Macmillan (2014)”. Philosophical Quarterly 67(266): 204-206.
Moretti, Luca (2016). “Evidence
of expert’s evidence is evidence”. Episteme 13(2): 209-218.
Moretti, Luca. (2016). “Tal and
Comesaña on evidence of evidence”. The Reasoner
10(5): 38-39.
Moretti, Luca and Tommaso Piazza (2015).
"Phenomenal
conservatism and Bergmann's dilemma". Erkenntnis 80(6), pp.
2071-2090.
Moretti, Luca (2015). "Phenomenal
conservatism". Analysis
75(2), pp. 296-309.
Moretti, Luca (2015). "Phenomenal conservatism". Oxford Bibliographies Online.
Moretti, Luca (2015). "In defence
of dogmatism". Philosophical
Studies 172(1), pp.
261-282.
Girard, Patrick and Luca Moretti (2014). "Antirealism
and the conditional fallacy: the semantic approach".
Journal of
Philosophical Logic 43(4), pp. 761-783.
Moretti, Luca (2014). "The
dogmatist, Moore's proof and transmission failure".
Analysis
74(3), pp. 382-389.
Moretti, Luca (2014). "Global
scepticism, underdetermination and metaphysical
possibility". Erkenntnis
79(2), pp. 381-403.
Moretti, Luca (2014). "Chris Tucker
(ed.), Seemings and Justification: New Essays on
Dogmatism and Phenomenal Conservatism. New
York: OUP (2013)". Philosophical
Quarterly
64(255), pp. 364-366.
Work in progress
Guli, Sandro and Luca Moretti. "Critique
of telic power".
Guli, Sandro and Luca Moretti. "Internalism and
externalism about social normativity".
Contact:
Philosophy Department, University of Aberdeen
50-52 College Bounds, Aberdeen AB24 3DS
Scotland, UK
Web:
http://lucamoretti.org
Email: l.moretti @ abdn.ac.uk (remove spaces)
Tel: +44 (0)1224 272913