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Publications



Edited journals


2011

(With N. Pedersen). Special issue of Synthese dedicated to "Epistemic Transmission and Interaction".
(Expected contributors: A. Baltag & S. Smets, B. Fitelson, S. Hartmann, H. Leitgeb, E. Olsson, L. Moretti & T. Piazza, N. Pedersen, O. Roy, T. Shogenji).


2008


(With H. Price). Special issue of Philosophical Studies dedicated to "Ontological Commitment", vol. 141(1), October. (Contributors: B. Brogaard, M. Colyvan, U. Kriegel, M. Michaelis, L. Moretti, J. Shaffer, and A. Thomasson).



Articles and contributions to volumes


2010

Moretti, L. "Wright, Okasha and Chandler on transmission failure". Forthcoming in Synthese.


2009


Ciprotti, N. and L. Moretti. "Logical Pluralism is compatible with monism about modality". Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 87(2), pp. 275-284.



2008

Moretti, L. and H. Price. "Introduction". (Special issue on Ontological Commitment). Philosophical Studies 141(1), pp. 1-5.

Moretti, L. "The ontological status of minimal entities". Philosophical Studies 141(1), pp. 97-114.


Moretti, L. "On creeping minimalism and the nature of minimal entities", in H. Dyke (ed.), From Truth to Reality, London: Routledge, pp. 123-180. (The other contributors are: JC Beall, M. Colyvan, M. Devitt, J. Heil, F. Jackson, F. Kroon, D. H. Mellor, A. Musgrave, R. Nola, J.J.C. Smart, P. Snowdon, and D. Stoljar).

Moretti, L. "Brogaard and Salerno on antirealism and the conditional fallacy". Philosophical Studies 140(2), pp. 229-246.

Moretti, L. "Dummett and the problem of the vanishing past". Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations 7, pp. 37-47.
 

2007

Moretti, L. "
A thick realist consequence of Wright’s minimalism". Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 88(1), pp. 24-38.

Moretti, L. "Ways in which coherence is confirmation conducive". Synthese 157(3), pp. 309-319.

Moretti, L. and K. Akiba. "Probabilistic measures of coherence and the problem of belief individuation". Synthese 154(1), pp. 73-95.



2006

Moretti, L. "The tacking by disjunction paradox: Bayesianism versus Hypothetico-deductivism". Erkenntnis 64(1), pp.
115-138.


2005

Dietrich, F. and L. Moretti. "On coherent sets and the transmission of confirmation". Philosophy of Science 72(3), pp. 403-424.


2004

Moretti, L. "Grimes on the tacking by disjunction problem". Disputatio 1(17) (November), pp. 16-20.

Moretti, L. “From the indirect confirmation of theories to theory unification”. Kriterion 18, pp. 10-14.



2003

Moretti, L. "Why the Converse Consequence Condition cannot be accepted". Analysis 63(4) (October), pp. 297-300.



2002

Moretti, L. "For a Bayesian account of indirect confirmation". Dialectica 56(2), pp. 153-173.


2000

Moretti, L. “Sul problema della convergenza della verità nel realismo interno” (“On the problem of truth convergence in internal realism”). Iride, n.31, anno XIII, dicembre, pp. 595-617.



1999

Moretti, L. “Is auxiliary empirical support efficacious against the underdetermination of scientific theories?” Philosophical Writings 12 (Autumn), pp. 53-65



Papers in progress and under review


Moretti, L. "Weak dogmatism, hyper-empiricism, and ultra-scepticism" (in preparation for the special issue of Synthese on Scepticism and Justification, edited by A. Coliva).

Moretti, L. and T. Shogenji. "Moore's proof and epistemic closure" (submitted).

Moretti, L. "Scepticism, metaphysical possibilities and fuzzy probabilities" (submitted).

Girard, P. and L. Moretti. "Defusing the conditional fallacy: a semantical approach" (submitted).

Moretti, L. and T. Piazza. "When warrant transmits and when doesn't" (in progress).



Papers no longer in progress


Moretti, L. "A Bayesian vindication of Wright's account of failure of transmission of warrant".

Moretti, L. "A formal proof that Moore's proof is transmissive".