Giada Fratantonio

Research group: LanCog

I am a philosopher working at the University of Lisbon, where I currently hold a FCT-fellowship. I’m a member of the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon, and associated member of the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow.

Before joining Lisbon, I held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Glasgow, Lingnan University, University of Edinburgh, Harvard University, and the University of Helsinki.

I received my PhD in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in 2018, with a thesis entitled “Evidential Externalism”. During my PhD, I spent some time as visiting PhD student at University of Oxford. I obtained my MA and BA in Philosophy at the University of Milan, and spent one year of my MA at KCL, on an Erasmus Scholarship.

I specialise in analytic epistemology, both theoretical and social. In particular, I am very interested in various issues surrounding the epistemology and normativity of evidence and risk-management, and how these topics interacts with a clusters of issues in ethics, law, and feminist philosophy.

My current FCT-funded project explores the extent to which demanding speakers to provide evidence for their claims can be both ethically and epistemically problematic.

Email contact: gfratantonio@edu.ulisboa.pt

Personal Webpage: https://giada-fratantonio.weebly.com/

Philpeople page: https://philpeople.org/profiles/giada-fratantonio

Selected Publications

Evidentialism [philpapers]
forth., The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, ed. Kurt Sylvan, Blackwell

How to combine evidentialism with knowledge-first epistemology
2025. Evidentialism at 40: New arguments, new angles, eds. McCain K., Stapleford, S., Steup, S, Routledge Studies in Epistemology, Routledge, pp. 85-99

Can epistemic paternalistic practices make us better evidentialist agents? [DOI]
​2024. Educational Theory  

Evidential Internalism and Evidential Externalism [draft]
2024. The Routledge Handbook for The Philosophy of Evidence, eds. Maria Lasonen-Aarnio and Clayton Littlejohn, Routledge

Refuting two dilemmas for infallibilism. (with Maria Lasonen-Aarnio) [DOI]
​2022. Philosophical Studies

Evidence, Risk, and Proof Paradoxes: Pessimism about the Epistemic Project [DOI]
2021, The International Journal of Evidence and Proof

No Infelicity for the Infallibilist [DOI] [open access] [philpapers]
2021. Theoria

Reflective Access, Closure, and Epistemological Disjunctivism [DOI] [philpapers]
2019. Episteme

Armchair Access and Imagination [DOI] [philpapers]
2018. Dialectica

Reassessing the Case Against Evidential Externalism (with Aidan McGlynn) [DOI] [final draft]
2018. The Factive Turn in Epistemology, ed. V. Mitova, Cambridge University Press