Humanities and Social Sciences

Philosophy Program

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Research Interests

• Epistemology
• Formal Epistemology
• Metaphysics
• Philosophical Logic
• Philosophy of science

Personal web site: http://lucamoretti.org

List of Publications

Ciprotti, N. and L. Moretti (2009). "Logical Pluralism is compatible with monism about modality". Australasian Journal of Philosophy. (Forthcoming).

Moretti, L. and H. Price (2008). "Introduction". (Special issue on Ontological Commitment). Philosophical Studies 141(1), pp. 1-5.

Moretti, L. (2008). "The ontological status of minimal entities". Philosophical Studies 141(1), pp. 97-114.

Moretti, L. (2008). "On creeping minimalism and the nature of minimal entities", in H. Dyke (ed.), From Truth to Reality, London: Routledge, pp. 123-180.

Moretti, L. (2008). "Brogaard and Salerno on antirealism and the conditional fallacy". Philosophical Studies 140(2), pp. 229-246.

Moretti, L. (2008). "Dummett and the problem of the vanishing past". Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations 7, pp. 37-47. (Re-print forhcoming in Logos).

Moretti, L. (2007). "A thick realist consequence of Wright’s minimalism". Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 88(1), pp. 24-38.

Moretti, L. (2007). "Ways in which coherence is confirmation conducive". Synthese 157(3), pp. 309-319.

Moretti, L. and K. Akiba (2007). "Probabilistic measures of coherence and the problem of belief individuation". Synthese 154(1), pp. 73-95.

Moretti, L. (2006). "The tacking by disjunction paradox: Bayesianism versus Hypothetico-deductivism". Erkenntnis 64(1), pp. 115-138.

Dietrich, F. and L. Moretti (2005). "On coherent sets and the transmission of confirmation". Philosophy of Science 72(3), pp. 403-424.

Moretti, L. (2004). "Grimes on the tacking by disjunction problem". Disputatio 1(17) (November), pp. 16-20.

Moretti, L. (2004). “From the indirect confirmation of theories to theory unification”. Kriterion 18, pp. 10-14.

Moretti, L. (2003). "Why the Converse Consequence Condition cannot be accepted". Analysis 63(4) (October), pp. 297-300.

Moretti, L.(2002). "For a Bayesian account of indirect confirmation". Dialectica 56(2), pp. 153-173.

Moretti, L. (2000). “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.

Moretti, L. (1999). “Is auxiliary empirical support efficacious against the underdetermination of scientific theories?” Philosophical Writings 12 (Autumn), pp. 53-65

Edited journals

Moretti, L. and H. Price (2008). Special issue of Philosophical Studies dedicated to "Ontological Commitment" (vol. 141(1), October).