Dr Salvatore Florio

Department of Philosophy
Reader in Philosophy

Contact details

Email
s.florio@bham.ac.uk
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My main research interests are in philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mathematics. I am currently focusing on philosophical issues concerning the nature of logic and the foundations of semantics.

Qualifications

  • PhD Philosophy (The Ohio State University, 2010)
  • MS Mathematics (The Ohio State University, 2010)
  • MA Philosophy (The Ohio State University, 2006)
  • BA Philosophy (Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2003)

Biography

Before joining Birmingham in 2016, I taught at Kansas State University (2011-2016) and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Birkbeck, University of London, and at the University of Oslo (2010-2013).

Teaching

I teach modules in logic, philosophy of mathematics, and applied ethics.

Postgraduate supervision

I welcome opportunities to supervise or co-supervise research students in philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of mathematics.

Find out more - our PhD Philosophy  page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

Research

My current research focuses on philosophical issues concerning the nature of logic and the foundations of semantics. Together with Øystein Linnebo, I am writing a monograph on the logic and meaning of plurals, titled The Many and the One: A Philosophical Study (under contract with Oxford University Press). I am also working on projects about the entanglement of logic and mathematics, the role of mereology in linguistic semantics, and the paradox of Burali-Forti.

Publications

Book

  • The Many and the One: A Philosophical Study (with Øystein Linnebo), forthcoming with Oxford University Press

Articles 

  • “Critical Plural Logic” (with Øystein Linnebo), forthcoming in Philosophia Mathematica
  • “Overgeneration in the Higher Infinite” (with Luca Incurvati), forthcoming in Gil Sagi and Jack Woods (eds.), The Semantic Conception of Logic, Cambridge University Press
  • “Unrestricted Quantification and the Structure of Type Theory” (with Nicholas Jones), forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
  • “Metalogic and the Overgeneration Argument” (with Luca Incurvati), Mind, 128:511, 761-793, 2019
  • “Logic and Plurals” (with Øystein Linnebo), in Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality, Routledge, 2018, 451-463
  • “What Russell Should Have Said to Burali-Forti” (with Graham Leach-Krouse), Review of Symbolic Logic, 10:4, 2017, 682-718
  • “On the Innocence and Determinacy of Plural Quantification” (with Øystein Linnebo), Noûs, 50:3, 2016, 565-583
  • “Plural Logic and Sensitivity to Order” (with David Nicolas), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 93:3, 2015, 444-464
  • “Untyped Pluralism”, Mind, 123:490, 2014, 317-337
  • “Unrestricted Quantification”, Philosophy Compass, 9:7, 2014, 441-454
  • “Semantics and the Plural Conception of Reality”, Philosophers’ Imprint, 14:22, 2014, 1-20
  • “Set Theory, Type Theory, and Absolute Generality”(with Stewart Shapiro), Mind, 123:489, 2014, 157-174 
  • “The Paradox of Idealization” (with Julien Murzi), Analysis, 69:3, 2009, 461-469

Special issues edited

  • “Abstraction Principles”, Philosophia Mathematica, 25:1, 2017
  • “Set Theory and Higher-Order Logic: Foundational Issues and Mathematical Developments” (with Øystein Linnebo, Sean Walsh, and Philip Welch), Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 56:1, 2015

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