Education Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Macerata MAres in Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy of Mind, University of Siena MAres in Philosophy and Psychology, University of Macerata MA/BA in Philosophy (cum laude), University of Macerata. Courses Regularly Taught Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Language; Introduction to Philosophy; Contemporary Philosophy.

Research Areas Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Epistemology. Current Research Self-Deception and Irrational Beliefs; Epistemic Contextualism; Theory of Indexical Reference.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters Dolcini, N. (2018). Moral Beliefs and Cognitive Homogeneity, Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 9, 89-94. Gozli, D.G. & Dolcini, N. (2018). Reaching Into the Unknown: Actions, Goal Hierarchies, and Explorative Agency”, Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 266. Dolcini, N. (2016). The Phantasmatic ‘I’. On Imagination-based Uses of the First-Person Pronoun Across Fiction and Non-fiction, Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 7, 321-327. Dolcini, N. (2016). Philosophy Made Visual: an Experimental Study, in L. Magnani and C. Casadio (Eds.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues, Springer, Berlin, 101-118. Dolcini, N. (2016). The Pragmatics of Self-Deception, in L. Felline et al. (Eds.), New Directions in Logic and the Philosophy of Science, College Publications, Cambridge, 67-76. Piazza, M. & Dolcini, N. (2015). Possibilities Regained. Neo-Lewisian Contextualism and Ordinary Life, Synthese, 1-20. Dolcini, N. (2015). The Mixed-Blessing of Psychological Explanations, Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 6, 335-340. Dolcini, N. (2014). A Kind of Glue: Castañeda on Fiction, in A. Palma (Ed.), Castañeda and his Guises. Essays on the Work of Hector-Neri Castañeda, de Gruyter, Berlin-Boston, 19-28. Dolcini, N. (2012). The World and Other Stories, Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 483-491. Dolcini, N. (2011). The Phenomenological Words, in Tymieniecka A.-T. (Ed.), Transcendentalism Overturned, Analecta Husserliana, 108, Springer, Dordrecht, 663-674. Dolcini, N. (2010). Minding the Developmental Gap: a Theoretical Analysis of the Theory of Mind Data, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 17, 37-46. Dolcini, N. (2010). Is the migration of ficta fiction?, in Venanzio Raspa (Ed.), The Aesthetics of the Graz School, Ontos Verlag, de Gruyter, Berlin, 237-260. Dolcini, N. (2010). Indexicals and Perception, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, 2, 19-41. Dolcini, N. (2008). The Attribution of Intentional States in Preverbal Children, Gestalt Theory Journal, 30, 419-424. Dolcini, N. (2007) The Analytic/Continental Divide: Entities and Being, Soochow Journal of Philosophical Studies, 16, 283-302. Orilia, F. & Dolcini, N. (2005). Il pronome ‘Io’. Dati protofilosofici, in L’io allo specchio, Simple, Macerata, 61-75. Dolcini, N. (2005). Personaggi Fittizi e Coefficienti di concretezza, Rivista di Estetica, 30, 238-243. Authored Books: Dolcini, N., This is not a Book: Essays on Fictionality, eum, Macerata, 2012. Dolcini, N., Le parole e i sensi. Una teoria degli indicali basata sulla percezione, eum, Macerata, 2009.