Matteo Colombo is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science at Tilburg University and Humboldt Research Fellow in the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charité University Clinic Berlin. He earned his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Eastern Piedmont, M.A. in Cognitive Science and Philosophy from Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, M.Sc. in Philosophy and History of Science from the London School of Economics, and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh.
Professor Colombo’s work is mostly in the philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of science and moral psychology.
Representative Publications
Wright, Cory, Matteo Colombo, and Alexander Beard. “HIT and Brain Reward Function: A Case of Mistaken Identity (Theory).” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 64 (2017): 28-40.
Colombo, Matteo, and Stephan Hartmann. “Bayesian Cognitive Science, Unification, and Explanation.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 68.2 (2015): 451-484.
Colombo, Matteo. “Experimental Philosophy of Explanation Rising: The Case for a Plurality of Concepts of Explanation.” Cognitive Science 41.2 (2017): 503-517.
