Andrea Bianchi

Andrea Bianchi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Humanistic, Social and Cultural Enterprise Disciplines, University of Parma (M-FIL/05). With a PhD in Philosophy of Language from Università del Piemonte Orientale (2004) and MA in Philosophy from Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia (1999), he has held visiting positions at UCLA (2008, 2005) and Uppsala University (2002). His research focuses on Philosophy of Language, Semantics, and Cognitive Science, particularly reference theories, logically perfect languages, and linguistic theory intersections.

Key contributions include works on

• semantic uniformity of kind terms
• direct referentialism
• language-reality connections
• mental representation systems

As a Consulting Editor for the Journal of the American Philosophical Association and referee for 15+ journals, he actively shapes academic discourse. Notable conference participations (2001-2018) span topics like Frege puzzles, artifactual terms, and Kaplanian semantics.