Tommaso Bertolotti
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tommaso Bertolotti is involved.
Articles
2018 Chapter 4. The expert you are (not): Citizens, experts and the limits of science communication Science and Democracy: Controversies and conflicts, Barrotta, Pierluigi and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), pp. 71–86 | Chapter
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
2014 Gossip as a model of inference to composite hypotheses Pragmatics & Cognition 22:3, pp. 309–324 | Article
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