Luca Tummolini

My interest is in social interaction and the cognitive mechanisms that enable humans to flexibly coordinate and collaborate with one another: from shared deliberation in small groups to conformity with population-wide regularities like conventions and social norms. Recently, I have worked on the interaction between high-level cognitive processes like reasoning and judgments of ownership over objects and low-level sensorimotor ones like the perception of object affordances both in individual and in social contexts.

My general aim is to develop a common framework between the cognitive and the social sciences and I believe that game theory can provide the ideal toolbox. I am also interested in exploring how the most recent advancements in the cognitive and social sciences can support the design of the new digital infrastructures of contemporary societies.

I have published in psychology, economics, philosophy and computer science journals. I am the author of more than thirty articles and co-editors of three volumes. I have published in several top journals in different disciplines (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 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 organised a series of international scientific 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) specifically intended to build networks and bonds between scholars within cognitive and social sciences.