Tommaso Bertolotti
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tommaso Bertolotti plays a role.
Articles
2018. Chapter 4. The expert you are (not). Science and Democracy: Controversies and conflicts, Barrotta, Pierluigi and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), pp. 71–86
Considering any democratic government, it goes without saying that the more knowledgeable the citizens are, the better the democratic process will work. Therefore, leveraging scientific information among laypeople is intuitively linked to the growth of an educated population; some factors, though,… read more | Chapter
2014. Gossip as a model of inference to composite hypotheses. Pragmatics & Cognition 22:3, pp. 309–324
In this paper we seek an inferential and cognitive model explaining some characteristics of abduction to composite hypotheses. In the first section, we introduce the matter of composite hypotheses, stressing how it is coherent with the intuitive and philosophical contention that a single event can… read more | Article