Associate Professor

Francesca Ervas is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Language at the University of Cagliari and Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD at Università Roma Tre, Rome and she worked as a postdoc researcher at the Department of Linguistics, University College London and the Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Her main writings focus on figurative language and imagination, translation, reasoning and argumentation, stereotypes and framing effects.

• Salis P., & Ervas F. (2020). Evidence, Defeasibility, and Metaphors in Diagnosis and Diagnosis Communication. Topoi.
• Ervas F. (2019) Metaphor, Ignorance, and the Sentiment of (Ir)rationality. Synthèse. doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02489-y.
• Ervas F., Ledda A., Ojha A., Pierro G. A., & Indurkhya B. (2018) Creative Argumentation: When and Why People Commit the Metaphoric Fallacy. Frontiers in Psychology.
• Ervas F., Gola E., & Rossi M. G. (2018) Argumentation as a bridge between metaphor and reasoning. In S. Oswald, J. Jacquin, T. Herman (eds.), Argumentation & Language – Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations, Springer, Berlin: 153-170.

You can find all the publications here.