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CURRICULUM VITAE November 2019

Personal Details Name Federica Isabella Malfatti

B.A., M.A., PhD cand. Address Karl-Rahner-Platz 1

Department for Philosophy University of Innsbruck

6020 Innsbruck, Austria Contact fede.malfatti89@gmail.com Website www.federicamalfatti.weebly.com Education 2015 – today University of Innsbruck, PhD program

Dissertation: Verstehen verstehen (Understanding understanding) Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Jäger

2019 Harvard University, Research Assistant of Prof. Catherine Z. Elgin. 2017 University of Cologne, Visiting Fellow (funded by the DAAD). 2014 – 2015 University of Heidelberg, Visiting Fellow. 2008 – 2014 IUSS Pavia (Deputy Director: Prof. Andrea Moro), Degree in Human Sciences

(Outstanding). 2011 – 2013 University of Pavia, M.A. in Philosophy (Summa Cum Laude). 2012 University of Mainz, Exchange Semester. 2008 – 2011 University of Pavia, B.A. in Philosophy (Summa Cum Laude). Employment

Current Research and Teaching Assistant (Universitätsassistentin), University of Innsbruck,

Department for Philosophy. 2016 – 2017 Research Fellow (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in the project “Agency and Quantum

Physics”, University of Innsbruck, Department for Philosophy. Areas of Specialization Epistemology, Social Epistemology, Philosophy of Science. Areas of Competence Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Logic, History of Ancient Philosophy.

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Publications forthcoming Can Testimony Transmit Understanding? Theoria (Sweden).

2019 On Understanding and Testimony. Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-019-00157-8

2019 Can Testimony Generate Understanding? Social Epistemology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2019.1628319

2019 True Enough? Themes from Elgin. Synthese, Topical Collection. (Guest Editor with Christoph Jäger.)

2019 Der Wert des Wissens. In: Handbuch Erkenntnistheorie, M. Grajner, G. Melchior (Eds.), J. B. Metzler, Springer, Stuttgart, pp. 102-109 (with Christoph Jäger).

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-476-04632-1_13

2018 On the Epistemological Potential of Worrall’s Structural Realism. In: Philosophical Inquiries, 2, pp. 9-24. https://doi.org/10.4454/philinq.v6i2.168

2018 Scientific Realism as the Most Reasonable Choice? In: Isonomia - Epistemologica, pp. 1-17.

2016 Willard Van Orman Quine e l’incertezza ontologica. Mimesis, Milano, pp. 1-120. Under Review A paper on Epistemic Authority and Understanding (with Christoph Jäger). (Synthese: Major Revisions) Work in Progress An introduction to the Synthese Topical Collection: "True Enough? Themes from Elgin". A paper on the grasping component of understanding. A paper on understanding and epistemic autonomy. A paper on the difference between knowledge and understanding. My PhD Thesis "Verstehen verstehen” (Understanding understanding). Invited Talks June 2020 Epistemology Seminar (organized by Anna-Maria Eder, Peter Brössel, and Branden

Fitelson), University of Bochum. Paper: “Is the Best We Can Do Good Enough for Understanding?”

May 2020 Colloquium in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP). Paper: “On Understanding Theories”.

Jan. 2020 Workshop on Epistemic Autonomy (organized by Jesús Vega Encabo), Universitad Autonoma de Madrid. Paper: “Understanding and the Division of Epistemic Labor”.

Nov. 2019 Brownbag Seminar (organized by Luis Rosa), University of Cologne. Paper: “Can Testimony Transmit Understanding?”.

Nov. 2019 Research Seminar (organized by Gerhard Schurz), Düsseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Düsseldorf. Paper: “Modelling Understanding”.

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Sept. 2019 Austrian Neuroscience Association Conference, University of Innsbruck. Paper: “What Is This Thing We Call ‘Model’?”.

June 2019 Bled Epistemology Conference, Social Epistemology and the Politics of Knowing. Paper: “On Understanding and Testimony”.

Dec. 2018 International Workshop on Understanding, University of Hannover. Paper: “Understanding, Truth, and Awareness of Limits”.

May 2018 Workshop: Realismo Scientifico e Spiegazione [Scientific Realism and Explanation], University of Urbino. Paper: “Sul rapporto tra comprensione e spiegazione” [On understanding and explaining].

Dec. 2017 Copenhagen Political Epistemology Workshop, organized by Clemens Kappel, University of Copenhagen. Paper: “Towards an Inquirer Model of Epistemic Authority” (with Christoph Jäger).

Nov. 2017 International Workshop: Understanding Quantum Mechanics, organized by Michael Esfeld and Mario Hubert, University of Lausanne. Paper: “Do We Understand (Through) Quantum Mechanics?”.

May 2017 Workshop: Reflections on Scientific Realism, University of Urbino. Paper: “La verità e i suoi limiti” [Truth and its Limits].

Peer–Reviewed Talks

Aug. 2018 SMS 2018, IV Conference of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science, University of Milan. Paper: “Worrall’s Structural Realism, Knowledge, and Scientific Understanding”.

June 2018 EEN, European Epistemology Network, University of Amsterdam. Paper: “Do We Need a (True) Explanation in Order to Understand?”.

May 2018 International Workshop Explanation and Understanding, Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Ghent, and Research Group Philosophy of Science and Technology, VU Amsterdam. Paper: “On the Possibility of Understanding Without (True) Explanation”.

Sept. 2017 SOPhiA2017, Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy, University of Salzburg. Paper: “Worrall’s Structural Realism: From the Limits of Knowledge to the Possibility of Understanding”.

Aug. 2017 ECAP9, 9th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, MCMP, LMU Munich. Paper: “What Worrall’s Structural Realism Might Have Been About”.

June 2017 SILFS2017, Triennal International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Bologna. Paper: “Understanding Quantum Mechanics: a Tentative Modal Account”.

June 2017 New Trends in Epistemology, FINO/SIFA Graduate Conference in Mind, Language and Science, University of Pavia. Paper: “Testimony as a Source of Understanding?”.

Nov. 2016 SEFA, 8th Meeting of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy, University of Oviedo. “How We Understand Through Models in Science”.

Sept. 2016 Portuguese Philosophical Society, The second Portuguese Congress for Philosophy, University of

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Oporto. Paper: “Understanding Through Models. The Role of Structure”. Aug. 2016 SIFA, XII Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, University of Pistoia. Paper:

“Scientific Realism as the Most Reasonable Choice?”. May 2016 SILFS, Third Postgraduate Conference for Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Urbino. Paper:

“Understanding Through Models. The Role of Structure”: Nov. 2014 GAP, Doktorandenworkshop, University of Köln/Bonn. Paper: “Ontologische Relativität. Was

bleibt von Quines Realismus übrig?”.

Talks in events I co-organized (with Christoph Jäger and Katherine Dormandy)

March 2018 “Epistemic Authority, Reflective Equilibrium, and Understanding” (with Christoph Jäger), International Book Symposium: “True Enough?” with Prof. Catherine Z. Elgin, Harvard University, Department of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck.

May 2017 “Testimony as a Source of Understanding?” (with Johannes Findl, University of Barcelona), International Workshop: “Believing on authority?” with Dr. Arnon Keren, University of Haifa, Department of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck.

Lectures for the wider audience

Sept. 2019 Philosophisches Café Meran. “Unwissenheit und Illusion des Wissens”.

Jan. 2019 Philosophisches Café, Die Bäckerei Innsbruck. “Unwissenheit und Illusion des Wissens”.

May 2017 Dialoghi: Intorno all’infinito, Biblioteca Provinciale Italiana “Claudia Augusta”, Bolzano. “How to Think about the Unlimited. Philosophy meets Theology”.

Teaching experiences University of Innsbruck – Bachelor Courses 2020 Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind. 2018/19 Theoretical Philosophy – Quine on Language and Reality. 2018 Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind. University of Innsbruck – Master Courses 2019/20 Practical Philosophy – Ethics Without Ontology? 2019/20 Research Seminar (with Christoph Jäger). 2019 Practical Philosophy – Exemplarist Moral Theory (with Bruno Niederbacher). 2019 Epistemology Master Course – Social Epistemology (with Christoph Jäger). 2017 Epistemology Master Course – Social Epistemology (with Christoph Jäger). University of Urbino – Seminar (Erasmus+) 2020 Introduction to Social Epistemology

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Additional Information Refereeing for Journals Mind, Kriterion, Ratio, Social Epistemology Languages

Italian and German (native), English (Toefl [IBT] 109/120), Spanish (advanced), modern Hebrew (basics), Latin and ancient Greek (advanced). Referees Prof. Dr. Catherine Z. Elgin Harvard University catherine_elgin@harvard.edu

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christoph Jäger University of Innsbruck christoph.jaeger@uibk.ac.at

Prof. Dr. Branden Fitelson Northeastern University branden@fitelson.org

Prof. Dr. Henk de Regt University of Amsterdam h.w.de.regt@vu.nl