Sandro Sozzo

Camminavamo, io e Einstein, quando a un tratto egli si fermò. “Veramente è convinto – mi chiese – che la luna esista solo quando la si guarda?”
A. Pais

Sandro Sozzo

Logica e filosofia della scienza (PHIL-02/A)

Professore associato
Tel: 0432 556558
Email: sandro.sozzo@uniud.it
Studio: Casa Solari, second floor, room L2-01
Insegnamenti: Philosophical Logic and Mathematics; Philosophy of Science

Sandro Sozzo

Logica e filosofia della scienza (PHIL-02/A)

Professore associato
Tel: 0432 556558
Email: sandro.sozzo@uniud.it
Studio: Casa Solari, second floor, room L2-01
Insegnamenti: Philosophical Logic and Mathematics; Philosophy of Science

Camminavamo, io e Einstein, quando a un tratto egli si fermò. “Veramente è convinto – mi chiese – che la luna esista solo quando la si guarda?”
A. Pais

Born in 1978, I received a Master’s Degree in Physics in 2002 and a PhD in Physics in 2006 at the University of Salento. After a period of training as a postdoctoral researcher at the “Free University of Brussels” (VUB), I took up positions as a “lecturer” in 2013 and as an “associate professor” in 2015 at the “University of Leicester” (UK). Since 2022 I have been an associate professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the “University of Udine”, and I have the scientific qualification as full professor in the sector "Logic, History and Philosophy of Science".

My research interests mainly concern the logico-epistemological foundations of natural and cognitive sciences. I contributed to the elaboration of a new approach to the foundations of scientific theories that uses a methodology that is typical of analytical philosophy. This approach has, in particular, been applied to physical theories, through an accurate analysis of the language and of the constituent elements of these theories and their mathematical and interpretative structure. The analysis allowed to reach interesting conclusions regarding the crucial themes of realism, causality, indeterminism and the interpretation of probability in classical and quantum theories. The approach was later extended to cognitive sciences. In particular, a new theoretical perspective has been developed for the representation of concepts, which is internationally recognized and explains in a unitary way the origin of numerous "cognitive fallacies" and "deviations from rationality" in probabilistic judgments and decisions in the presence of uncertainty. This perspective has also had significant applications in computer science, in relation to information retrieval and natural language processing.

I am the author of a hundred of articles on the foundations and philosophy of science (2004-2022), I am co-author of the book "The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Historical Analysis and Open Questions" (World Scientific, 2006), I have organized 5 international conferences, and I have been invited to give lectures in the United Kingdom (“University of Oxford”), the United States, Canada, the European Union, New Zealand and China. In 2014 I founded and currently direct the "Centre for Quantum Social and Cognitive Science" (CQSCS) research centre, which aims to develop an interdisciplinary research program for the epistemological foundations of natural and cognitive sciences. As part of the activities of the centre, I acted as principal investigator in the international consortium "Quantum Information Access and Retrieval Theory" (QUARTZ), which received funding for a "Marie Curie Innovative Training Network". In different periods, I have taken on positions as director for teaching, research and internationalization. Member since 2015 of the "Higher Education Academy" (HEA), I won awards for the quality of teaching in 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022. Since 2012 I have been elected secretary of the "International Quantum Structures Association" (IQSA) based in the United States, and "managing editor" of the Springer Nature magazine "Foundations of Science".

Progetti

Digital Humanities e Intelligenza artificiale

Centre for Quantum Social and Cognitive Science (CQSCS)

Pubblicazioni

Towards a Quantum World Wide Web

Theoretical Computer Science 752 (2018) 116–131 (con D. Aerts, J. Arguëlles, L. Beltran, L. Beltran, I. Distrito, M. Sassoli de Bianchi, T. Veloz)

Quantum Structures in Cognitive and Social Science

Lausanne 2016 (a cura di D. Aerts, J. Broekaert, L. Gabora, S. Sozzo)

Sandro Sozzo

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Sandro Sozzo

Logica e filosofia della scienza (PHIL-02/A)

Sandro Sozzo

Logica e filosofia della scienza (PHIL-02/A)

Progetti

Pubblicazioni

Towards a Quantum World Wide Web

Quantum Structures in Cognitive and Social Science

New Fundamental Evidence of Non-Classical Structure in the Combination of Natural Concepts

Concepts and Their Dynamics: A Quantum-theoretic Modeling of Human Thought

Recovering Quantum Logic within an Extended Classical Framework

Modeling Human Decision-making: An Overview of the Brussels Quantum Approach

Explaining versus Describing Human Decisions. Hilbert Space Structures in Decision Theory

Quantum Entanglement in Physical and Cognitive Systems: A Conceptual Analysis and a General Representation

Quantum Structure in Cognition and the Foundations of Human Reasoning

Conjunction and Negation of Natural Concepts: A Quantum-theoretic Modeling

Quantum Structure and Human Thought

Extended Representations of Observables and States for a Noncontextual Reinterpretation of QM

Generalized Observables, Bell's Inequalities and Mixtures in the ESR Model for QM

The ESR Model: A Proposal for a Noncontextual and Local Hilbert Space Extension of QM

A Semantic Approach to the Completeness Problem in Quantum Mechanics

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