Luca Ferrero, Assistant Professor
Office: Curtin Hall 627
Phone: (414) 229-5903/4719
Fax: (414) 229-5022
e-mail: ferrero@uwm.edu
Web Page: http://www.uwm.edu/~ferrero
Degree:
Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests:
Main research project concerns the nature of future-directed intentions and their relations to personal identity and diachronic agency. He is also working on some questions about reasons for action and practical reasoning.
Teaching Interests:
Teaches courses in philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, personal identity, and philosophy of biology.
Publications:
"Three Ways of Spilling Ink Tomorrow" in Rationality in Belief and Action, Rijeka, Filozofski fakultet, E. Baccarini, S. Prijic-Samarzija (eds.) (2006, pp. 95-127).
"The Will: Interpersonal Bargaining versus Intrapersonal Prediction" Brain and Behavioral Sciences (2005, Oct 28.5, pp. 654-655).
"An Elusive Challenge to the Authorship Account of First-Person Authority" Philosophical Psychology, (2003, Dec 16.4, pp. 565-577).
"The Difference Principle: Incentives or Equality?" (in Italian), Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche (1995, I, pp. 47-63).
Parfit's Theory of Personal Identity and Utilitarianism" (in Italian), Annali del Dipartimento di Filosofia di Firenze, (1993, IX, pp. 161-196).
