Luca Incurvati is a

logician Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premises ...

and philosopher, currently an Associate Professor at the

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is a research institute of the University of Amsterdam, in which researchers from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities collaborate. The ILLC's central research area is the st ...

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

. Incurvati's research areas include

set theory Set theory is the branch of mathematical logic that studies sets, which can be informally described as collections of objects. Although objects of any kind can be collected into a set, set theory, as a branch of mathematics, is mostly conce ...

philosophy of mathematics The philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies the assumptions, foundations, and implications of mathematics. It aims to understand the nature and methods of mathematics, and find out the place of mathematics in peop ...

philosophy of language In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world. Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of meaning, intentionality, reference, ...

, and

metaethics In metaphilosophy and ethics, meta-ethics is the study of the nature, scope, and meaning of moral judgment. It is one of the three branches of ethics generally studied by philosophers, the others being normative ethics (questions of how one ought ...

. In set theory and philosophy of maths, Incurvati has argued for the iterative conception of sets, based on a methodology he terms ''inference to the best conception''. Incurvati is currently the principal investigator in the Amsterdam-based project ''From the Expression of Disagreement to New Foundations for Expressivist Semantics'', for which he was awarded a prestigious ERC grant of 1.5 million euros. This project proposes a inferentialist expressivist treatment of disagreement, in particular arguing that the speech act of ''rejection'' is not reducible to negated assertion. For a paper produced as part of this project, Incurvati and coauthor Julian Schlöder received the 2019 Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics. Incurvati earned his MPhil and PhD at St John's College,

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

, where he worked under the supervision of Michael Potter and Peter Smith. He was awarded the Matthew Buncombe Prize for his MPhil thesis in 2005. Before his current position in Amsterdam, he was a lecturer at Cambridge, where he served as Director of Studies at Fitzwilliam, Gonville and Caius and Magdalene colleges.

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Personal webpageEXPRESS project websitePapers by Incurvati at PhilPapers
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