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The overall assumption of my research activity is that cognition is goal-directed, resource-bounded, and adaptively shaped. From this unifying perspective, I focus my research mainly on two areas of interest: decision-making for action (in particular, temporal preferences, long-term goals and risky choices) and belief dynamics, both individual (belief revision and critical thinking) and social (argumentation).

My work is interdisciplinary, combining theoretical analysis, conceptual modelling, behavioral experiments, and field observations. Although my main background is in psychology, I collaborate regularly with primatologists, economists, philosophers, computer scientists and educators to foster our shared research interests.

I am the current President of the Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences (AISC, 2017-2019) and the Chair of the Steering Committe of the European Conference on Argumentation (ECA, 2013-2021). Since 2012, I am Editor-in-Chief of Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy (Springer), and Director of Sistemi Intelligenti (Il Mulino), the leading Italian journal in cognitive science and Artificial Intelligence. I am also in the Editorial Board of the journal Argument & Computation (Taylor & Francis) and of the book series Studies in Logic and Argumentation (College Publications), and I am a member of the Workgroup on Psychology of the publishing house Il Mulino.

Tags:

impulsivity

intertemporal choice

self-control

temporal preferences

time discounting

willpower

Publications

2015

The fake, the flimsy, and the fallacious: Demarcating arguments in real life

Boudry, Maarten, Paglieri, Fabio, Pigliucci, Massimo

Source: Argumentation (Dordr.) 29 (2015): 431–456. doi:10.1007/s10503-015-9359-1, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Boudry, Maarten; Paglieri, Fabio; Pigliucci, Massimo/titolo:The fake, the flimsy, and the fallacious: Demarcating arguments in real life/doi:10.1007/s10503-015-9359-1/rivista:Argumentation (Dordr.)/anno:2015/pagina_da:431/pagina

When is it worth waiting for? Food quantity, but not food quality, affects delay tolerance in tufted capuchin monkeys

De Petrillo F., Gori E., Micucci A., Ponsi G., Paglieri F., Addessi E.

Source: Animal cognition (Print) 18 (2015): 1019–1029. doi:10.1007/s10071-015-0869-x, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:De Petrillo F.; Gori E.; Micucci A.; Ponsi G.; Paglieri F.; Addessi E./titolo:When is it worth waiting for? Food quantity, but not food quality, affects delay tolerance in tufted capuchin monkeys/doi:10.1007/s10071-015-0869-x/ri

2014

Accepted by whom? On the empirical roots of Aristotle's dialectic

Paglieri, Fabio

Source: Revue internationale de philosophie 270 (2014): 393–402., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Paglieri, Fabio/titolo:Accepted by whom? On the empirical roots of Aristotle's dialectic/doi:/rivista:Revue internationale de philosophie/anno:2014/pagina_da:393/pagina_a:402/intervallo_pagine:393–402/volume:270

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can wait, when they choose to: A study with the hybrid delay task

Beran, Michael J., Evans, Theodore A., Paglieri, Fabio, McIntyre, Joseph M., Addessi, Elsa, Hopkins, William D.

Source: Animal cognition (Print) 17 (2014): 197–205. doi:10.1007/s10071-013-0652-9, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Beran, Michael J.; Evans, Theodore A.; Paglieri, Fabio; McIntyre, Joseph M.; Addessi, Elsa; Hopkins, William D./titolo:Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can wait, when they choose to: A study with the hybrid delay task/doi:10.1007/s

Intentions: Philosophical and empirical issues

Schlosser, Markus, Paglieri, Fabio

Source: Topoi (Dordr.) 33 (2014): 1–3. doi:10.1007/s11245-014-9239-6, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Schlosser, Markus; Paglieri, Fabio/titolo:Intentions: Philosophical and empirical issues/doi:10.1007/s11245-014-9239-6/rivista:Topoi (Dordr.)/anno:2014/pagina_da:1/pagina_a:3/intervallo_pagine:1–3/volume:33

Intentions: Philosophical and empirical issues

Schlosser, Markus, Paglieri, Fabio

Source: Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, 2014

Menti in crisi: Per una scienza cognitiva della crisi economica, sociale e politica

Paglieri, Fabio

Source: Sistemi intelligenti (Testo stamp.) 26 (2014): 171–173. doi:10.1422/77225, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Paglieri, Fabio/titolo:Menti in crisi: Per una scienza cognitiva della crisi economica, sociale e politica/doi:10.1422/77225/rivista:Sistemi intelligenti (Testo stamp.)/anno:2014/pagina_da:171/pagina_a:173/intervallo_pagine:171–

Nonhuman gamblers: Lessons from rodents, primates, and robots

Paglieri, Fabio, Addessi, Elsa, De Petrillo, Francesca, Laviola, Giovanni, Mirolli, Marco, Parisi, Domenico, Petrosino, Giancarlo, Ventricelli, Marialba, Zoratto, Francesca, Adriani, Walter

Source: Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience 8 (2014). doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00033, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Paglieri, Fabio; Addessi, Elsa; De Petrillo, Francesca; Laviola, Giovanni; Mirolli, Marco; Parisi, Domenico; Petrosino, Giancarlo; Ventricelli, Marialba; Zoratto, Francesca; Adriani, Walter/titolo:Nonhuman gamblers: Lessons from

Nothing persuades like success: Reflections on partially and over-successful persuasion. A reply to Debowska-Kozlowska

Paglieri, Fabio

Source: Argumentation (Dordr.) 28 (2014): 341–348. doi:10.1007/s10503-014-9317-3, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Paglieri, Fabio/titolo:Nothing persuades like success: Reflections on partially and over-successful persuasion. A reply to Debowska-Kozlowska/doi:10.1007/s10503-014-9317-3/rivista:Argumentation (Dordr.)/anno:2014/pagina_da:341/p

Quando vale la pena aspettare? Ruolo di quantità, qualità e novità del cibo sulla capacità di attesa nel cebo dai cornetti (Sapajus spp.), una scimmia sudamericana.

De Petrillo, F., Gori, E., Micucci, A., Ponsi, G., Paglieri, Addessi

Source: Nea Science - Giornale Italiano di neuroscienze, psicologia e riabilitazione 5 (2014): 116–119., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:De Petrillo, F., Gori, E., Micucci, A., Ponsi, G., Paglieri, F. & Addessi, E./titolo:Quando vale la pena aspettare? Ruolo di quantità, qualità e novità del cibo sulla capacità di attesa nel cebo dai cornetti (Sapajus spp.), una

Research

I work mostly, albeit not exclusively, on the following topics:

intertemporal choice, temporal preferences, time discounting, self-control, willpower, impulsivity: here I do both experimental work, on humans (adults and children) and non-human primates (mostly capuchin monkeys), and theoretical work, mostly at the interface between philosophy, psychology and economics
argumentation theory, with an emphasis on resource-bounded rationality (e.g. the role of parsimony in enthymeme interpretation), decision-making (e.g. looking at arguments as sequences of decisions), and the integration with other socio-cognitive phenomena (e.g. belief change and trust dynamics): here I combine philosophical analysis with experiments and computational models
goal-oriented behavior, goal processing, intentional action, motivational influences on reasoning: here my contribution is mostly theoretical, occasionally with formal or computational models attached to it

All these topics are pursued in close collaboration with several colleagues, starting with GOAL members, but including also others, such as Elsa Addessi (intertemporal choice in humans and other animals), Mike Beran, Ted Evans, Jeff Stevens (temporal preferences in non-human animals), Anna Borghi, Claudia Scorolli, Bernhard Hommel, Lorenza Colzato (cultural effects on temporal preferences), Francesco Mancini (impulsivity and psychopathology), Francesca Bellagamba (intertemporal choice in children), John Woods (resource-boundedness and enthymeme interpretation), Dale Hample (decision-making in argumentation), Ioana Cionea (cultural differences in argumentative strategies), Serena Villata, Celia Da Costa Pereira and Andrea Tettamanzi (trust dynamics and argumentation).

Finally, recently I had a brief but intense and high-profile experience in scientific journalism, when in 2010 I acted as a postdoc journal keeper for Nature. Details on my entries can be found here.

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