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Francesco Antonio Zaccarini

Research fellow

Department of Industrial Engineering

Research

Keywords: Mereolology Metaphysics & Meta-Metaphysics (Formal) Ontology Applied Ontology Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Language Knowledge Representation Philosophy of Information Philosophy of Observation Radical Constructivism & 2nd Order Cybernetics Cellular Automata

Analytic Metaphysics & Meta-metaphysics: in the context of contemporary analytic philosophy, metaphysics has risen back to popularity. I investigate the central notion of Structure of Reality and the so-called relations of (Ontologio-Metaphysical) Dependence; I believe that the discipline lacks proper foundations, and suggest that it should be rebuilt on informational grounds.

 

Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: My research revolves around the Problem of Access and the Upward Path to Epistemic Structural Realism via the Helmholtz-Weyl Principle; I investigate the topic of representation across the board, and the formal preconditions for the possibility of transmitting knowledge in the representation of something in particular.

 

Applied Formal Ontology: I take part in the development of EMMO (Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology); I'm interested in the comparative analysis of the pragmatic viability/utility of ontological theories and metatheories (and formal tools) to the end of developing and aligning ontologies for the applied sciences. I investigate new semantic alignment techniques grounded in the philosophy of language as well as mathematical logic.

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