I am a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Padova, where I have recently submitted my thesis; my doctoral research was funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) fellowship. Originally from Sicily, I completed my BA and MA at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, where I first became interested in metaphysics and philosophical logic. I have held visiting positions at the University of Neuchâtel and the University of Oxford.

My research is on identity and individuation. My doctoral thesis, Beyond Equivalence: An Explanatory Framework for Identity Claims, develops an explanatory account of criteria of identity and rethinks individuation with respect to ontological admissibility.

More broadly, I work at the intersection of metaphysics, philosophical logic and the philosophy of language, with a particular interest in grounding, ontological dependence and other explanatory notions, and in metametaphysical questions about how identity and individuation bear on what we admit into our ontology. I also work on the metaphysics of artefacts, particularly the existence and identity conditions of digital and virtual artefacts.

In future work, I plan to pursue two lines of research. The first concerns the epistemology of identity claims, especially the role of conventions and public standards in justifying them, as they operate in scientific and engineering practice. The second concerns the theory of explanation and the relation between logic and metaphysics, in particular whether, and in what sense, logic can be metaphysically neutral.

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