Alessandro Ciurnelli

(Tutor: Prof. Francesco Paoli)

The aim of my project is an analysis of the ways in which supporters of an epistemic conception of truth can approach the Paradox of Knowability.
It is common for an epistemic conception to claim that all truths are knowable but that there are truths that will never be known. This paradox is an argument that, from “all truths are knowable”, compels one to conclude “all truths will be known”. Faced with this problem, supporters of epistemic truth have reacted in various ways. A particularly promising avenue to be tested and developed is advanced by the new versions of semantic restriction on the thesis that all truths are knowable, grounded in an antirealist understanding of modality and of the semantics of modal and epistemic logic.
My other research interests are proof-theoretic semantics and substructural logics.