Luca Moretti
Luca Moretti
I am a Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Department of Humanities of the University of Eastern Piedmont, 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).
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 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) in 2009. In the same year I left for the University of Aberdeen (UK), where I became a Reader in Philosophy in 2015. I moved to the University of Eastern Piedmont with a Full Professorship in Logic and Philosophy of Science in June 2024.
Forthcoming and recent
publications
Moretti, Luca and Alessia Marabini
(2025). The
Failure of Competence-Based Education and the
Demand for Bildung. London: Bloomsbury
(forthcoming).
"We
are grateful to the authors for providing such a
thoughtful and timely account of the
problems besetting our social and political worlds,
and of their asphyxiating effects on
education. This vision of how things might be done
differently constitutes an invaluable
contribution to the series."
Paul Standish,
UCL Institute of Education, Director of the
Bloomsbury
series “Inquiries in Philosophy and Education”
Moretti, Luca (2025). “C. Witt,
Social Goodness: The Ontology of Social Norms. NY:
OUP (2023)”. Philosophical Quarterly
(forthcoming).
McCain, Kevin and Luca Moretti (2025). “Reflective
awareness, phenomenal conservatism and phenomenal
explanationism”. Forthcoming in Erkenntnis.
McCain, Kevin and Luca Moretti (2024). “Defending
Phenomenal Explanationism: Responses to Fumerton,
Huemer, McAllister, Piazza, Steup and Zhang”. Asian
Journal of Philosophy 3: article no. 80.
McCain, Kevin and Luca Moretti (2024). “Explaining
Phenomenal Explanationism: A Précis of Appearance
and Explanation”. Asian Journal of
Philosophy 3: article no. 85.
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 role normativity: the
Hegelian model".
Department of Humanities
University of
Eastern Piedmont
Contact:
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università del
Piemonte Orientale, Palazzo Tartara,
Via Galileo Ferraris 109, 13100 Vercelli (TO),
Italy
Web:
http://lucamoretti.org
Email: luca.moretti@uniupo.it
Tel: +39 (0)161 228 218