Eva Picardi

In 1984, she received her PhD at Somerville College, Oxford under the supervision of Michael Dummett, with a dissertation on assertibility and truth.

[3] Picardi served as director and later principal Investigator of Cogito, Research Centre in Philosophy.

[6] She had a central role in the diffusion of analytic philosophy in Italy through her translation and editorship of the works by contemporary philosophers such as Donald Davidson, Paul Grice, Hilary Putnam and Michael Dummett, of whom she edited the Italian edition of The logical Basis of Metaphysics.

[9] Eva Picardi leaves a number of scholars who studied with her and are now teaching in Italy, England, Finland and the United States.

[10][11] She has worked with philosophical figures in contemporary philosophy of language and her work has been cited by important philosophers including Donald Davidson,[12] Saul Kripke,[13] and Michael Dummett.