Francisca Silva
Francisca is a PhD student at the Arché Research Centre, University of St Andrews where is she is supervised by Francesco Berto and Greg Restall. She has been a student member of LanCog since 2019, when she was a Master’s student at the University of Lisbon.
Francisca’s main research interests are philosophy of logic, metaphysics, epistemology and feminist philosophy.
In her PhD project, Francisca investigates the foundations of hyperintensional semantic systems (subject matters-based, impossible worlds-based and truthmakers-based) and how to best put them to work in accounting for different phenomena, such as knowledge, belief and grounding.
francisca-silva@edu.ulisboa.pt
Selected Publications
Silva, F. (2024) What the States of Truthmaker Semantics Could (Not) Be. Topoi.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10106-y
Silva, F. (2024). Epistemic logic with partial grasp. Synthese 204, 92.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04738-1
Silva, F. (2024). Question-relative knowledge for minimally rational agents. Inquiry, 1-31.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2024.2338794
Bruno Jacinto e Francisca Silva. Normatividade da Lógica. In Compêndio em Linha de Problemas de Filosofia Analítica (2022), Ricardo Santos e Pedro Galvão (eds.), Lisboa: Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa.