Salvatore Pistoia-Reda is an Italian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of language, semantics, logic, and formal pragmatics. He is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Language at the University of Siena.
He received his PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Siena in 2013. During his research, he studied and worked at Harvard University, École Normale Supérieure – Institut Jean Nicod, and Rutgers University. He then worked as a researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, before returning to the University of Siena.
Pistoia-Reda's research focused on the meaning of natural language, particularly the relationship between semantics, pragmatics, and logic. He was interested in analytical philosophy and formal linguistics, and also studied the history of philosophy and linguistics.
Pistoia-Reda has received international research scholarships from Fulbright, DAAD, Alexander von Humboldt, and Beatriu de Pinós. He is the author of numerous works on semantics and pragmatics, including the monographs Semantica e pragmatica linguistica (2014) and Senso e controsenso (2024), as well as many international articles on scalar implicatures and the logic of natural languages.
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