I'm a lecturer of Philosophy, Neuroscience and Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis.
My research deals with states and situations that muddle our minds, sometimes also artificial minds. These include uncertainty, inconclusive evidence, ambiguity, doubts about our cognitive powers, disagreement, indeterminacy, incoherence, ambivalence, paradoxes, defective questions. How does a rational agent respond to these challenges? And how do different cognitive systems make room for them?
I also investigate the logic and semantics of sentences featuring deontic modals such as 'ought' and 'can', as well as ascriptions of attitudes involving verbs such as 'think', 'doubt' and 'want'. These two types of sentence behave in mysterious but similar ways.
Email: lrosa@wustl.edu