Lavinia Picollo

I am an assistant professor in the Philosophy Department at NUS. I work in philosophical logic and the philosophy of logic and mathematics, and more occasionally in metaphysics and the philosophy of language.

Most of my current work is in metasemantics; in particular, how logical and mathematical vocabulary comes to mean what it does. I am mainly concerned with questions about categoricity and determinacy raised by limiting metatheoretic results such as Gödelian incompleteness, compactness, and the Löwenheim–Skolem theorems, and with how far views like logical inferentialism and mathematical conventionalism can get around them. Other things I am currently thinking about are deflationary truth vs determinate truth, reflection principles and implicit commitment, logical and mathematical pluralism, ontological commitment, modal logic as metaphysics, higher-order logic, absolute generality, logicality, and quantifier variance. My earlier work was on truth, with a focus on deflationism, disquotation, and the patterns of reference behind the paradoxes.

I am an editor of Philosophical Logic and a subject co-editor for philosophy of mathematics at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I took my PhD at the University of Buenos Aires in 2015 and held positions at LMU Munich and UCL before moving to Singapore.