Paolo Bonardi (0F11-9920-BA1C)

Curriculum Vitae

Paolo Bonardi

I hold a BA & MA (quadrennial Laurea) in analytic philosophy of language (title of the thesis: "The de dicto-de re Distinction in Belief Ascriptions", supervised by Marco Santambrogio) from the Università di Parma, Italy. On October 24th 2012, I defended my PhD thesis in analytic philosophy of language (title: "Believing without Modes of Presentation"), supervised by Kevin Mulligan (main supervisor) and Santambrogio (co-supervisor), at the Université de Genève, Switzerland; the PhD committee included Kit Fine (NYU) and François Recanati (Collège de France). During my doctoral studies, I spent as a visiting student three terms at the University of Sheffield (supervised by Jennifer Saul), three terms at NYU (supervised by Fine and Stephen Schiffer) and one term at Columbia University. After the completion of my doctoral studies, I was an instructor in logic, metaphysics, modern and contemporary philosophy at Rutgers University (2012-13), a lecturer in philosophy of language at the Université de Genève (2013-14) and at the Université de Fribourg (fall 2014). In 2015-17 I was in California as a postdoctoral mobility fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation; my research project (title: "Russellianism") was supervised by David Kaplan (UCLA), Nathan Salmon (UCSB) and Scott Soames (USC). In 2018-19 I was a postdoctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Tokyo Metropolitan University (host researcher: Naoya Fujikawa). In 2019-20 I was a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo (with Fujikawa). In 2020-21 I am again at Tokyo Metropolitan University as a visiting researcher (with Youichi Matzusaka). I have published nine articles in journals such as Philosophical Studies, Linguistics and Philosophy, Dialectica, Theoria, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Disputatio and in the volume "Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality: Themes from Kit Fine" (ed. M. Dumitru, Oxford University Press). In addition, two papers of mine are forthcoming in Theoria and in the linguistics journal Intercultural Pragmatics (thematic issue: Philosophy and Pragmatics). I am currently completing a book entitled "The Remnants of Modes of Presentation". I have a solid record of teaching experience, having taught during and after my doctoral studies nineteen courses in symbolic logic, critical thinking, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, applied ethics, modern and contemporary philosophy at seven universities in Switzerland (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Université de Genève, Université de Fribourg), UK (University of Sheffield) and USA (Rowan University, CUNY and Rutgers University).

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Paolo Bonardi

Citation names

Bonardi, Paolo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 0F11-9920-BA1C
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2419-8229

Addresses

Department of Philosophy, History and Cultural Studies, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, 1920-397, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, Japan (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy
Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy
Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Pure Mathematics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)
Italian (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2003/03/01 - 2012/10/24 Concluded	Analytic philosophy of language (Doctor of Philosophy) Major in Philosophy Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Switzerland "Believing without Modes of Presentation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2002/06/27 Concluded	Facoltà di lettere e filosofia (Laurea) Major in Philosophy Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy ""La distinzione de dicto-de re nelle attribuzioni di credenza" (tr. "The de dicto-de re distinction in belief ascriptions")" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Laurea quadriennale (BA+MA)
1997/05/31 Attended	Dipartimento di ingegneria (Laurea) Major in Electronic engineering Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/10/01 - Current	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Department of Philosophy, History and Cultural Studies, Tokyo Metropolitan University , Japan

2019/06/01 - 2020/04/30	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Department of history and philosophy of science, University of Tokyo , Japan

2018/03/04 - 2019/02/03	Postdoc (Research)	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan
	Department of Philosophy, History and Cultural Studies, Tokyo Metropolitan University , Japan
2017/09/01 - 2018/02/28	Visiting Researcher (Research)	University of California Los Angeles Department of Philosophy, United States

2015/02/01 - 2017/08/31	Postdoc (Research)	Swiss National Science Fundation, Switzerland
	University of California Los Angeles Department of Philosophy, United States (...)
2012/03/01 - 2012/08/31	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Columbia University Department of Philosophy, United States

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2014/09/01 - 2014/12/31	Lecturer (for BA and MA students)	Université de Fribourg Département de philosophie, Switzerland

2013/09/01 - 2014/07/31	Postdoc (80% research + 20% teaching)	Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Switzerland

2012/09/01 - 2013/06/30	Instructor	Rutgers University Camden, United States

2010/09/01 - 2011/12/31	Instructor	City University of New York, United States

2009/09/01 - 2011/12/31	Instructor (i.e. adjunct professor)	Rowan University, United States

2008/01/01 - 2009/08/31	Visiting student (supervisors: Kit Fine and Stephen Schiffer)	New York University, United States

2006/09/01 - 2007/06/30	Teaching assistant (i.e. tutor)	The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

2006/01/01 - 2007/06/30	Visiting student (supervisor: Jennifer Saul)	The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

2004/09/01 - 2005/08/31	Teaching assistant	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2018/03/04 - 2019/02/03	"Millian Russellianism, empty names and the unity of the proposition" (at Tokyo Metropolitan University, hosted by Naoya Fujikawa & funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) 00000000000 Post-doc Fellow Department of Philosophy, History and Cultural Studies, Tokyo Metropolitan University , Japan
2015/02/01 - 2017/08/31	"Russellianism" (at UCLA supervised by David Kaplan, UCSB supervised by Nathan Salmon, USC supervised by Scott Soames & funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation) P300P1_158399 Post-doc Fellow University of California Los Angeles Department of Philosophy, United States University of California Santa Barbara Department of Philosophy, United States University of Southern California Department of Philosophy, United States	Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung Concluded
2008/02/01 - 2008/10/31	"La logique des énoncés de croyance" (at NYU, supervised by Fine and Schiffer & funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation) PBGE11-117165 PhD Student Fellow New York University Department of Philosophy, United States	Swiss National Science Fundation Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Bonardi, Paolo. "Coordination, Understanding and Semantic Requirements". In Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality: Themes from Kit Fine. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2020. Published Bonardi, Paolo. "The Fregean Theory of Belief Reports, and Anaphora". In An Anthology of Philosophical Studies. Athens, Greece: Atiner, 2008. Published
Book review	Bonardi, Paolo. "Critical notice of Eros Corazza, 'Reflecting the Mind: Indexicality and Quasi-Indexicality', Oxford University Press". 62, 1 (2008): 135-141. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1746-8361.2007.01139.x. Published
Journal article	Bonardi, Paolo. "The Puzzling 'Cicero'/'Cicero' Case". Theoria (2021): Accepted Bonardi, Paolo. "Rational Belief and Dialetheism". Intercultural Pragmatics (linguistics journal. Thematic issue: Pragmatics and Philosophy) (2021): Accepted Bonardi, Paolo. "Frege’s Puzzle and Cognitive Relationism: An Essay on Mental Files and Coordination". Disputatio 12 56 (2020): 1-40. https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/disp/12/56/article-p1.xml?fbclid=IwAR2VC48n4ulOpJ10UVIKEn7fowJhR-jQMg1Fsx4G0LMe6Jm3s1NI_G7rphI. Published Bonardi, Paolo. "Manifest Validity and Beyond: An Inquiry into the Nature of Coordination and the Identity of Guises and Propositional-Attitude States". Linguistics and Philosophy 42 5 (2019): 475-515. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10988-018-9245-z. Published Bonardi, Paolo. "Kaplan's Counterexample to Quine's Theorem". Grazer Philosophische Studien 95 2 (2018): 196-223. http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/18756735-000034. Published Bonardi, Paolo. "Names of Truth Bearers, and 'That'-Clauses: A Dilemma for Millians". Theoria 83 3 (2017): 175-184. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/theo.12128/full. Published Bonardi, Paolo. "Semantic Relationism, Belief Reports and Contradiction". Philosophical Studies 166 2 (2013): 273-284. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-012-0017-2. Published Bonardi, Paolo. "Arguments against the Fregean Model of 'That'-Clauses: a Comment on Vignolo". Abstracta 3 2 (2007): 162-175. http://abstracta.oa.hhu.de/index.php/abstracta/article/view/70. Published

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2020	Millian Russellianism, Neo-Meinongianism and imaginary names	Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea)
2020	Millian Russellianism, Neo-Meinongianism and imaginary names	Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea)
2019	Millian Russellianism, Neo-Meinongianism and imaginary names	Université de Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
2019	Millian Russellianism, Neo-Meinongianism and imaginary names	University of Hiroshima (Hiroshima, Japan)
2019	Millian Russellianism, Neo-Meinongianism and imaginary names	University of Nagoya (Nagoya, Japan)
2019	Millian Russellianism, Neo-Meinongianism and imaginary names	Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan)
2019	Dismissing semantic coordination: A Millian-Russellian account of the semantic role of variables	APA Central Division (Denver, United States)
2019	Dialetheism and rational belief	University of Osaka (Osaka, Japan)
2018	Dialetheism and rational belief	Workshop in honor of Graham Priest's 70th birthday (with Priest, Varzi, etc.) University of Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan)
2018	Salmon, Schiffer and Frege's Constraint	Workshop Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 15 (LENLS 15) Keio University (Tokyo, Japan)
2018	Salmon, Schiffer and Frege's Constraint	Workshop University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
2018	Salmon, Schiffer and Frege's Constraint	APA Pacific Division (San Diego, United States)
2018	Millianism, nonexistence and classical logic	University of Okayama (Okayama, Japan)
2018	Millianism, nonexistence and classical logic	Graduate seminar University of California Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, United States)
2018	Dismissing semantic coordination	Israeli Philosophical Association (Haifa, Israel)
2018	Proper names and "that"-clauses: a dilemma for Millians	APA Eastern Division (Savannah, United States)
2018	Millianism, nonexistence and classical logic	Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (Jerusalem, Israel)
2017	On coordination: a reply to Kit Fine	European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (Munich, Germany)
2017	Millianism, nonexistence and classical logic	Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada)
2017	Modes of presentation, coordination, and occurrences of Russellian propositions	Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada)
2017	Modes of presentation, coordination, and occurrences of Russellian propositions	New York Philosophy of Language workshop New York University (New York, United States)
2016	Millianism, nonexistence and classical logic	University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China)
2016	Modes of presentation, coordination, and occurrences of Russellian propositions	Lingnan University (Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China)
2016	Modes of presentation, coordination, and occurrences of Russellian propositions	Tokyo Metropolitan University (Tokyo, Japan)
2016	Modes of presentation, coordination, and occurrences of Russellian propositions	Universitad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico City, Mexico)
2016	Modes of presentation, coordination, and occurrences of Russellian propositions	New York University Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
2016	The semantic content of empty names and the logic of nonexistence objects	Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan)
2015	Millianism, nonexistence and classical logic	Existence, Non-Existence and Intentionality (with Simons, Soldati, Voltolini, Berto, etc.) Université de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland)
2015	A sinnless solution to Frege's puzzle	APA Central Division (Saint Louis, United States)
2015	A sinnless solution to Frege's puzzle	Graduate seminar University of California Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, United States)
2015	The identity of modes of presentation and mental files	Thinking as the same: A workshop on mental files (with Recanati, Papineau, Jeshion, Pinillos, etc.) Bilkent University (Istanbul, Turkey)
2014	Coordination, understanding and semantic requirements	APA Pacific Division (San Diego, United States)
2014	Est-ce qu'il y a des modes de présentation? Et quelles sont leurs conditions de identité?	Phileas conferences, Université de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland)
2014	How should semantics and modes of presentation be constructed? Contemporary Russellianism vs. two-dimensionalism	Workshop Constructing the World (with Chalmers, Nida-Rümelin, etc.) Université de Fribourg
2014	Russellianism and connectives	European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (Bucarest, Romania)
2014	The identity of modes of presentation and mental files	Mind and Language seminar Institut Jean Nicod (Paris, France)
2013	Coordination and proper names	Swedish Congress of Philosophy (Stockholm, Sweden)
2013	Coordination, understanding and semantic requirements	The philosophy of Kit Fine (with Fine, MacBride, Correia, etc.) Université de Genève (Comabbio, Italy)
2013	Kaplan on Quine's Theorem	Congress of the Canadian Society for Philosophy (Victoria, Canada)
2012	Semantic Relationism, belief reports and contradiction	APA Eastern Division (Atlanta, United States)
2012	Semantic Relationism, belief reports and contradiction	New York Philosophy of Language workshop New York University (New York, United States)
2009	Kaplan on Quine's Theorem	Computational Logic Seminar City University of New York (New York, United States)
2008	Kaplan on Quine's Theorem	CUNY Graduate Student Philosophy Conference City University of New York (New York, United States)
2008	Kaplan on Quine's Theorem	APA Eastern Division (Chicago, United States)
2007	Kaplan on Quine's Theorem	Graduate seminar Università di Parma (Parma, Italy)
2007	Kaplan on Quine's Theorem	Graduate seminar University of Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
2007	The Fregean theory of belief reports, and anaphora	European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Geneva, Switzerland)
2007	The Fregean theory of belief reports, and anaphora	Second International Conference on Philosophy (Athens, Greece)
2006	Comment	British Postgraduate Analytic Philosophy Conference University of Warwick (Warwick, United Kingdom)
2006	Talk	Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy Freie Universität (Berlin, Germany)
2006	Talk	Congress of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan, Italy)
2006	Talk	Congrès de la Société de Philosophie Analytique (Aix-en-Provence, France)
2006	Talk	Graduate seminar Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
2005	Talk	Congress of the European Society of Philosophy and Psychology (Lund, Sweden)
2005	Talk (on Kaplan and Quine's Theorem)	European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (Lisbon, Portugal)
2005	Talk	Open Sessions of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association University of Manchester (Manchester, United Kingdom)
2004	Talk	Open Sessions of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association University of Kent (Canterbury, United Kingdom)
2004	Talk (on Kaplan and Quine's Theorem)	Congress of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy University of Murcia (Murcia, Spain)
2004	Talk	Graduate seminar Département de Philosophie, Université de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland)
2004	Talk	Barcelona-Geneva Meeting University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2006 - 2006	I helped Jennifer Saul to organize a conference at the University of Sheffield (2006)
2004 - 2004	I helped Philipp Keller-Blum to organize a conference at the Université de Genève (2004) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2016 - Current	eidos, the Centre for Metaphysics ( https://eidoscentre.org/members1/#paolobonardi )
2016 - Current	Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State	International Exchange Alumni (invited)
2008 - Current	The American Philosophical Association (APA)

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2014/09/01 - 2014/12/31	At the Université de Fribourg, I taught one course in philosophy of language for BA and MA students.
2013/09/01 - 2014/07/31	At the Université de Genève, I taught two courses in philosophy of language (one of them with Kevin Mulligan).
2012/09/01 - 2013/06/30	At Rutgers University (Camden, NJ), I taught the following courses: modern and contemporary philosophy (online course); metaphysics; formal logic.
2010/09/01 - 2011/12/31	At CUNY York College (Queens, NY), I taught several courses in informal logic.
2009/09/01 - 2011/12/31	At Rowan University (Glassboro & Camden, NJ, USA), I taught several courses in logic of everyday reasoning (i.e. informal logic).
2006/09/01 - 2007/06/30	At the University of Sheffield, I was a teaching assistant (tutor) for the following courses: history of philosophy (online course); mind, brain and personal identity; matters of life and death.
2004/09/01 - 2005/08/31	At the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, I was a teaching assistant in Philosophie Théorique (i.e. philosophy of language and philosophy of mind).

Distinctions

Award

2012	Bourse Doctorale Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Switzerland
2007	Borsa di studio "Le Basi Linguistiche dei Processi Mentali" Università degli Studi di Parma Dipartimento di Discipline Umanistiche Sociali e delle Imprese Culturali, Italy
2005	Bourse de la Fondation Schmidheiny Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Switzerland
2004	Prix Humbert de la Philosophie Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Switzerland
2004	Bourse Spir Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Switzerland
2004	Bourse Flournoy Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Switzerland
2004	Bourse Amiel Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Switzerland
2003	Grant of the research project IRIS "The Formal Concepts" Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Switzerland

Other distinction

2012	Mention très honorable avec les félicitations du jury à l'unanimité (PhD) Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Switzerland
2002	Summa cum laude (Laurea) Università degli Studi di Parma Dipartimento di Discipline Umanistiche Sociali e delle Imprese Culturali, Italy