Selected Publications (by subject)

On assertion and truth



Literature review:
(forthcoming) THE TRUTH ABOUT ASSERTION AND RETRACTION: a review of the empirical literature, In Alex Wiegmann (ed.), Lying, Fake News, and Bullshit.
(forthcoming) THE DEFINITION OF ASSERTION: Commitment and Truth, ​Mind & Language

(2021) ASSERTION (with P. Pagin), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

​(2021) TRUTH: the rule or the aim of assertion?, Episteme.

(2021) ASSERTION: a (partly) social speech act (with M.Green), ​Journal of Pragmatics.

(2021) SHOULD I SAY THAT? An experimental investigation of the norm of assertion (with A. Wiegmann), ​Cognition.
(2019) THE NORM OF ASSERTION: a constitutive rule?, Inquiry.

(2018) TRUTH AND ASSERTION: rules vs aims, Analysis.

(2015) NORMATIVE ACCOUNTS OF ASSERTION: from Peirce to Williamson, and back again, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio.

On lying and deception

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  • I also edit the Deception and Lying bibliographies at Philpapers.
(2023) SAYING, COMMITMENT, AND THE LYING/MISLEADING DISTINCTION (with Guido Löhr), Journal of Philosophy

(2021) LYING: Knowledge or Belief?, Philosophical Studies.
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(2021) LYING, COMMON GROUND, AND PERFORMATIVE UTTERANCES, Erkenntnis.

(2020) LYING, SPEECH ACTS, AND COMMITMENT, Synthese.

​(2019) IMMORAL LIES AND PARTIAL BELIEFS, Inquiry.

(2018) LYING AND CERTAINTY, in J. Meibauer (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Lying. 

(2016) LYING BY PROMISING: a study on insincere illocutionary acts, The International Review of Pragmatics.

(2014) LYING AS A SCALAR PHENOMENON: insincerity along the certainty-uncertainty continuum, in Cantarini, Abraham & Leiss (ed.) Certainty-uncertainty – and the attitudinal space in between. 

On online communication
​and disinformation

(2025) HOW ONLINE MISINFORMATION WORKS: a costly signalling perspective, ("Misinformation and Other Epistemic Pathologies", edited by Mihaela Popa-Wyatt, Cambridge University Press) ​arXiv. 
(2025) MISPLACED TRUST IN EXPERTISE: pseudoexperts and unreliable experts (with Michel Croce), Social Epistemology.
​(2020) RETWEETING: ITS LINGUISTIC AND EPISTEMIC VALUE, Synthese.
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(blogpost) Sharing bullshit on social media, Open for Debate.
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On fiction



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(forth) FICTIONS THAT DON'T TELL THE TRUTH, Philosophical Studies.

(2022) FICTIONS THAT PURPORT TO TELL THE TRUTH, Philosophical Quarterly.


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Speech act theory & more

(forthcoming) COUNTEREVIDENTIALS (with Laura Caponetto), Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

(2023) TOWARDS A UNIFIED THEORY OF ILLOCUTIONARY NORMATIVITY, in Caponetto and Labinaz (eds.) Sbisà on speech as Action​ (Palgrave Macmillan).

(2023) GROUP ASSERTIONS AND GROUP LIES, in Topoi.

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