Daniela Tagliafico

qualification
Ph.D., Philosophy of Language.

areas of competence
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Social and Moral Cognition, Social Ontology.

education
2009 Discussion of Ph.D. dissertation, University of Piemonte Orientale (Vercelli). Title of the dissertation: “It is raining… Somewhere, in my mind. A relativist account of pretense”. Supervisor: Prof. C. Meini (University of Piemonte Orientale). Jury: Prof. Pierre Jacob (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), Prof. Zoltán Szabó (Yale University), Prof. Crispin Wright (University of Aberdeen).
2007-2008 visiting scholar at Institut Jean Nicod (Paris).
2004-2008 Ph.D. student in Philosophy of Language at University of Piemonte Orientale (Vercelli).
2003 B.A. in Philosophy, University of Torino. Thesis: “Il ruolo dell’imitazione mentale nel processo di mindreading” [The role of mental imitation in the mindreading process]. Supervisors: Prof. M. Ferraris (University of Torino) and C. Meini (University of Piemonte Orientale). Mark: 110/110 magna cum laude.

schools
2011 June, 7-9, participation in the Spring School “Making the Social World”, University Vita-Salute “San Raffaele”, Milan.
2009 September 20-27, participation in “The Social Self. Summer School in Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind”, University of Sassari, Alghero.

prizes
2004 “Emilio Bocca” Prize for B.A. thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa).

publications

books
(2011) Pretense. A relativist account, Mimesis, Milano, in press.

edited volumes
(2011) Lezioni urbinati 2003/2009, Codice Edizioni, Torino.
(2007) Documentalità. L’ontologia degli oggetti sociali, “Rivista di Estetica”, n.s., 36.

articles and reviews
(in course of publication) “Mente. Ovvero della natura dei soggetti” (with L. Angelone), in T. Andina, Filosofia contemporanea, Carocci, Roma
(2011) “La colonna emozioni” (with E. Terrone), in “Fata Morgana”, 12: 83-92.
(2010) “Mirror neurons and the ‘radical view’ on simulation”, in M. D’Agostino, G. Giorello, F. Laudisa, T. Pievani and C. Sinigaglia (eds.), SILFS. New Essays in Logic and Philosophy of Science, College Publications, London: 515-527.
(2008) “Teorie ingenue” (with Y. Berio Rapetti), in M. Ferraris (ed.), Storia dell’ontologia, Bompiani, Milano: 273-295.
(2007) “Neuroni specchio e simulazione radicale. Alcune critiche alla proposta di Robert Gordon”, in A. Falzone and M. Campochiaro (eds.), Cultura, evoluzione, simulazione. Atti del Convegno 2007 del CODISCO, CoRiSco ed., Roma: 357-371.
(2007) “Introduzione”, in “Rivista di Estetica”, n.s., 36: 3-12.
(2006) “Passare il sale”, review of M. Marraffa and C. Meini, La mente sociale. Le basi cognitive della comunicazione, “L’Indice”, 5, may: 25.

translations
(2011) P. Valore, “Scripta manent. Marĝenaj notoj pri freŝa libro de Maurizio Ferraris”, “InKoj. Interlingvistikaj Kajeroj”, 2 (2): 160-166.
(2010) L. Caffo, “D. Bickerton, Bastard Tongues”, “InKoj. Interlingvistikaj Kajeroj”, 1(1): 82-86.
(2007) L. Goehr, “Per gli uccelli / contro gli uccelli: narrazioni moderniste sulla fine dell’arte”, “Rivista di Estetica”, n.s., 35: 189-222.
(2007) N. Zangwill, “L’irrilevanza dell’avanguardia”, “Rivista di Estetica”, n.s., 35: 387-395.

non-academics
2011 “La mamma cucina, ma lo chef è maschio”, Alfabeta, july, 11.
2010 “La lunga vita del replicante”, Alfabeta, november, 4.

talks
(2011) September, 21-23, “The Ontology of Revolutions. The Libyan Case and the Foundation of Social Reality”, Second Conference of the European Network on Social Ontology (ENSO), LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome.
(2011) September, 1-6, “Memory, Imagination, and Imagistic Memory”, ECAP7, University Vita-Salute “San Raffaele”, Milan.
(2011) June 7-9, “The Paradox of Government. Explaining the Life and Death of a Regime”, Spring School “Making the Social World”, University Vita-Salute “San Raffaele”, Milan.
(2011) May 6-8, “Explaining the Knobe Effect: Relevance Theory, Counterfactuals, and Intentional Actions”, 7th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication, “Morality and the Cognitive Sciences”, University of Latvia, Riga.
(2010) December 15-17, “Can we really speak of ‘pretend desires’?”, SILFS10, University of Bergamo.
(2010) September 23-25, “Can we imagine to desire?”, IX SIFA National Conference, University of Padua, Padua.
(2010) February 3, “A Relativist Account of Pretense”, PLM Seminar, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris.
(2009) September 1-5, “A Relativist Account of Simulation. (Or How Becoming Someone Else Without Contradiction)”, SoPhA 2009 (Triennial Congress of the Francophone Society for Analytic Philosophy), Uni Mail, Geneva.
(2008) August 21-26, “Fearing the green slime: Pretending to feel or pretending to refer?”, ECAP6 (VI European Congress of Analytic Philosophy), Jagiellonian University, Krakow.
(2008) January 21-24, “La nozione di simulazione mentale”, XVIII Convegno Nazionale dei Dottorati di Ricerca in Filosofia, Reggio Emilia.
(2007) October 8-10, “Mirror neurons and the ‘radical view’”, SILFS07 (International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science), University of Milan.
(2007) June 6-8, “Neuroni specchio e simulazione radicale. Alcune critiche alla proposta di Robert Gordon”, I Convegno Nazionale dei Dottorati di Ricerca in Scienze Cognitive, Messina/Noto.
(2006) September 28-30, “The Paradox of Fictional Emotions. Against Walton’s Account”, VII SIFA National Conference, University Vita-Salute “San Raffaele”, Cesano Maderno (Milan).

didactics
2010, November, teaching assistant in Cognitive Psychology, University of Piemonte Orientale.
2008, October–November, tutorial activity in Cognitive Psychology, University of Piemonte Orientale.
2007, November–2008, April, tutorial activity in Cognitive Psychology, University of Piemonte Orientale.
2006, October- 2007, April, tutorial activity in Cognitive Psychology, University of Piemonte Orientale.
2006, October–December, tutorial activity in Italian Grammar (Creative Writing Laboratory), University of Piemonte Orientale.
2005, October–December, tutorial activity in Italian Grammar (Creative Writing Laboratory), University of Piemonte Orientale.

participation to search projects
2008-2010 Participation to National Search Project: DOC. Documentality and Organization of social Complexity (scientific coordinator: Prof. Maurizio Ferraris).
2006-2008 Participation to National Search Project: Documentality. Ontologies and technologies for citizenship and democracy (scientific coordinator: Prof. Maurizio Ferraris).

advisory
Since 2007, associate editor of Rivista di Estetica.

services to the profession
2011 april 27-28, co-organization of the IX Convegno della Società Italiana di Estetica, University of Torino.
2010 april 15, organization of the Paolo Bozzi Prize for Ontology, first edition, University of Torino.
2010 january 11-12, organization of Monumentum.doc, 11th Annual LabOnt Workshop, University of Torino.
2007 january 25-26, organization of Documentality: The ontology of social objects, 8th Annual LabOnt Workshop, Fondazione Rosselli, Torino.
2005 referee for CogSci2005, International Congress of the Cognitive Science Society.

other activities
Since 2010, contributor of Alfabeta2.

languages
Mother tongue: Italian.
Fluent in spoken and written English.
Fluent in spoken and written French.
Fluent in spoken and written Esperanto.
Fair in spoken and written German.