Andrea Polonioli

Curriculum Vitae

Department of Philosophy Research Interests

University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK Philosophy of Science (esp. Psychology); Science Ethics; Philosophical
M +44 7513464065 Methodology; Judgement and Decision-Making; Digital Scholarship and
E a.polonioli@bham.ac.uk Open Science
www.andreapolonioli.com
Academic Employment
Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, (UK). 2016-
Associate Research Scholar, Columbia University, Spring 2017
(US).
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hebrew University of 2016
Jerusalem, (IL).
Teaching Assistant, University of Edinburgh, (UK). 2012-2015

Education
PhD in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh (UK), 2011-2015
Passed with no Corrections.
MA in Philosophy, San Raffaele University (IT), 20102011
110/110 summa cum laude.
BA in Philosophy, San Raffaele University (IT), 110/110 20062009
summa cum laude.

Publications (Original Articles)

Forthcoming: New issues for new methods: ethical and editorial chal-
lenges for an experimental philosophy. Science and Engineering Ethics
2016: Adaptive rationality, biases, and the heterogeneity hypothesis.
Review of Philosophy and Psychology.7: 787-803
2016: Reconsidering the normative argument from bounded rationality
Theory & Psychology. 26 (3): 287-303
2016: Metrics, flawed indicators, and the case of philosophy journals.
Scientometrics. 108 (2): 987-94
2016: Debunking unwarranted defenses of the status quo in the humanities
and social sciences.Scientometrics. 107 (3): 1519-22
2015: Stanovichs arguments against the adaptive rationality project:
an assessment. Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and
Biomedical Sciences. 49: 55-62
2015: The uses and abuses of the coherence/correspondence distinction.

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Frontiers in Psychology. 6: 507.
2014: Evolution, rationality, and coherence criteria. Biological Theory. 9:
309-317
2014: Blame it on the norm. The challenge from adaptive rationality.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 44 (2): 131-150
2012: Gigerenzers external validity argument against the heuristics and
biases project: an assessment. Mind & Society. 11 (2): 133-148

Publications (Book Reviews)

2014: Rationality and the reflective mind. Philosophical Psychology. 27
(5): 760-764
2013: Re-assessing the heuristics debate. Mind & Society. 12 (2):
263-271

Additional Training
2015: Research Visit at the University of Pittsburgh, Department of
History and Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh (US)
2014: Summer School organized by the European Association for Decision
Making (EADM) and Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective
Goods, Bonn (DE)
2013: Research Visit at the London School of Economics, Centre for
Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, London (UK)
2012: Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality - Max Planck Institute
for Human Development, Berlin (DE)
2012: Summer School in Microeconomics at the London School of
Economics, London (UK)

Grants and Awards

2017: Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University
($29500)
2014-2015: Jacobsen Fellowship. Royal Institute of Philosophy (8000)
2015: Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities - University of
Edinburgh (UK). Grant to visit the History and Philosophy of Science
Department at the University of Pittsburgh (3000)
2013-2014: Runner-up, Three-Minute Thesis Competition, University of
Edinburgh - School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Heat
2013-2014: Nominated for EUSA (Edinburgh University Students Asso-
ciation) Teaching Award (Best Feedback and Best Tutor)
2011-2014: College of Humanities and Social Sciences Scholarship -
University of Edinburgh (36000)
2011-2014: School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Research Support Travel Grants - University of Edinburgh (2500)

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Selected Presentations
2017: University of Bonn (DE). Workshop on Theories of Rationality:
Descriptive and Normative Aspects. Talk: Arguments and Challenges for
a Theory of Adaptive Rationality
2017: Columbia University (US). Talk: A Plea for Minimally Biased
Empirical Philosophy
2016: University of Milan (IT). Talk: The Adaptive Rationality of Con-
fabulation(s)
2014: Bristol Decision Making, Bristol (UK). Talk: Stanovichs arguments
against the adaptive rationality project: an assessment
2014: Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting,
Charleston, (US). Talk: An argument against adaptive rationality
2013: British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting,
Exeter (UK). Talk: Evolution, rationality and coherence criteria
2013: Philosophy of the Social Sciences Roundtable, Santa Cruz (US).
Talk: Blame it on the norm! Gigerenzers challenge to coherence criteria
2012: SIFA, Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Alghero (IT). Talk:
Are evolutionary psychologists really acquainted with evolutionary biology?

Outreach and Impact Activities

2016: Talk on the role of rationality in understanding psychiatric disorders
at King Edward s High School, Birmingham (UK)
2016: Talk on rationality and life outcomes during meeting with the UAE
Prime Minister s Office at the University of Birmingham (UK)

Teaching Experience
Lecturing, First Term Lectures (5 lectures) on Mind 2014/2015
Matter and Language , Topics covered: Philosophy of
Mind and Philosophy of Cognitive Science.
Teaching Assistant, Course: Mind Matter and Lan- 2014/2015
guage, Topics covered: Philosophy of Language, Philos-
ophy of Mind and Philosophy of Cognitive Science.
Teaching Assistant, Course: Morality and Value, 2013/2014
Topics covered: Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics,
Metaethics.
Teaching Assistant, Course: Morality, Rationality and 2012/2013
Value, Topics covered: Normative Ethics, Metaethics.

Service to the Profession

Journal Referee
Synthese Philosophical Psychology Journal of Medical Ethics Philos-
ophy of the Social Sciences Journal of Cognitive Science Consciousness

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and Cognition

Grant Proposal Referee

U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation

Administrative Experience
2016-2017: Blog maintenance for Project PERFECT (Imperfect Cogni-
tions), University of Birmingham
2016: Support in organizing the conference Information and information
processing in science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2012: Support in organizing a Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Mind
and Cognitive Science (CoMiC), University of Edinburgh

Skills
Computer Skills
Microsoft Office LATEX

Languages
English (full proficiency) Italian (native language) German (basic)
Spanish (basic) Greek (read only) Latin (read only)

Referees
Prof Lisa Bortolotti
University of Birmingham, Department of Philosophy: l.bortolotti@bham.ac.uk
Prof Michela Massimi
University of Edinburgh, Department of Philosophy: Michela.Massimi@ed.ac.uk
Dr Tillmann Vierkant
University of Edinburgh, Department of Philosophy: T.Vierkant@ed.ac.uk
Prof Thomas Sturm
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Departament de Filosofia: Thomas.Sturm@uab.cat
Prof David Freedberg
Columbia University, The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America:
freedberg@columbia.edu
Prof Francesco Guala
University of Milan, Department of Economics: Francesco.guala@unimi.it

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