Alberto Voltolini (PhD Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 1989) is a philosopher of language and mind whose works have focused mainly on intentionality, depiction and fiction, perception, and Wittgenstein. He is currently Professor in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Turin (Italy) and member of the Academy of Sciences, Turin. He has been President of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA) from September 2023 to August 2025. He has got post-doc scholarships at the Universities of Geneva (1990-91) and Sussex (1987). He has been visiting professor at the Universities of California, Riverside (1998), Australian National University, Canberra (2007), Barcelona (2010), London (2015), Auckland (2007, 2018), Antwerp (2019). He has been a member of the Steering Committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (2002-2008), of the Board of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2009-2012), and of the International Society for Fiction and Fictionality Studies (2018-2023). He has published 7 books in Italian (among which, Guida alla lettura delle Ricerche filosofiche di L. Wittgenstein, Laterza 1998, I problemi dell’intenzionalità, Einaudi 2009, Finzioni, Laterza 2010, Immagine, Il Mulino 2013). His books in English are How Ficta Follow Fiction (Springer, 2006), A Syncretistic Theory of Depiction (Palgrave, 2015), Down But Not Out (Springer, 2022), Intentionality as Constitution (Routledge, 2024). In English he also (co)edited various volumes, among which Wittgenstein: Mind, Meaning and Metaphilosophy (Palgrave 2010) and The Pleasure of Pictures: Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation (Routledge 2019). He has authored the “Fictional Entities” and the “Fiction” entries (with F. Kroon) of the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.