Logic

Logic was my main area of ​​specialisation during my PhD studies.

I was less interested in logic as a closed calculus than in how reasoning actually happens in human minds. I was drawn to the places where formal machinery meets messy cognition. Thus, my doctoral research was dedicated to a logical and cognitive analysis of the concept of thinking, in which I argued for a “cognitivisation” of logic that takes seriously the conditions under which we infer, decide, and err. In it, I analysed how cognitive biases facilitate logical manipulations (errors) in argumentation. My aim throughout my PhD research was a logic that stays answerable to real thinkers: one that helps people think more clearly and critically, rather than describing an idealised reasoner who never existed.