PAOLO SANTORIO

I'm a philosopher at the University of Maryland, College Park. I work on modal language, causal reasoning, expressivism, intentionality, variables, future-oriented talk, scalar implicature, and a few more things.

Before coming to Maryland, I did my graduate studies at MIT, was a postdoc at the Australian National University, and was a faculty member at the University of Leeds and UC San Diego.

I'm originally from Italy and was born and raised in Turin, the homeland of some of the finest wines and best soccer in the country.

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Last modified: 3. 30. 2022

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CURRENT DRAFTS

Comments welcome!

The Semantics and Logic of Counterfactuals

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Abstract: An overview article on counterfactuals, forthcoming in the next edition of the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language.

Probabilities of Counterfactuals are Counterfactual Probabilities

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Abstract: I defend a plasible bridge principle that replaces Skyrms' Thesis: the probability of "If A, would C" equals the probability of C, in the counterfactual scenario that we reach by supposing A.

Confidence Reports, with Fabrizio Cariani and Alexis Wellwood

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Abstract: We give a semantics for confidence reports that is based on states, and that generalizes to both nouns ("confidence") and adjectives ("confident").

OLDER DRAFTS

These drafts have either been superseded by published work, or are on a long-term backburner. They are here because they have been cited. Comments are welcome anyway!

Credence for Epistemic Discourse

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Abstract: Classical consequence is the logic of credence, informational consequence the logic of acceptance. It's harder than you think to vindicate this intuitive idea.

Superseded by "Trivializing Informational Consequence" (go to paper)

On the Plurality of Indices

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Abstract: A new semantics for belief reports, where the heavy lifting is done by a second layer of syntactic indices.