My interest is in social interaction and the cognitive mechanisms that enable humans to exibly coordinate and collaborate with one another, from simple joint actions in small groups to population-level regularities sustained by norms and institutions.
Adopting an embodied approach to cognition, I am also interested in how social interaction can ground the mental representation of abstract categories.
These two interests converge in the study of ownership of property, from how ownership is mentally represented to how norms regulating con icts around resources arise and persist. In my work, I develop and test formal models (computational modelling, game theory) combining experi- mental methods spanning from cognitive psychology, neuroscience and AI to experimental economics and sociology. Ultimately, I aspire to contribute to a common uni ed framework between the cognitive and the social sciences.
I am also interested in exploring the consequences of these studies for the design of the new digital infrastructure of contemporary societies.I have published in philosophy, psychology, economics and computer science journals.
I am the author of more than seventy articles and co-editors of four volumes. I have published in several top journals in di er- ent disciplines (Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Psychology, Synthese, Psychological Bulletin, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Behavioral and Brain Sciences among others) and top conferences in the eld of AI and Multi-Agent Systems (the International Conference of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems). I have been invited to give keynote lectures in several international conferences (CFS Conference on Collective Intentionality at the University of Copenhagen, Cognitive Foundations of Group Attitudes at IRIT in Toulouse, New Trends in the Philosophy of Social Sciences at UNED in Madrid, International conference on Conventions at the University of Paris X) and in international lecture series (Social Action Series at the University of Milan; Mind in Action at University of Palermo). I have also organized a series of international scienti c conferences workshops and events (The Conditional Games Workshop in Ariccia (RM); the IV edition of the International Conference on Collective Intentionality in Siena; the II edition of the European Network of Social Ontology in Rome) speci cally intended to build networks and bonds between scholars within cognitive and social sciences.
