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Giuliano Torrengo
Date and place of birth: 27/01/1975, Torino, Italy
Office Address: Dipartimento di Filosofia
Università degli Studi di Milano
Via Festa del Perdono 7
10122 Milano (Italy)
Telephone: +39 02-503.12388
Email: giuliano.torrengo@unimi.it or giuliano.torrengo@gmail.com
Present Affiliation
11/2012 Senior Assistant Professor
Dipartimento di Filosofia — Università di Milano, Italy
2013 Founder and coordinator of the Centre for Philosophy of Time
Past Affiliations
3/2011 - 10/2012 Juan de la Cierva Fellowship
LOGOS Group - Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
2008-2011 Research Fellow (Assegnista)
Dipartimento di Filosofia
Università degli Studi di Torino
2014-16 Treasurer of the Steering Committee
SIFA - Italian Society of Analytical Philosophy
Other Affiliations
2013 - present; Founder and Coordinator of the Center for the Philosophy of Time, University of
Milan
2013 - present; Member of the interdepartmental Center for the Study of Social Action (CSSA),
University of Milan
2014 - present; Member of Neurophilosophy Group, University of Milan
2002- present: Labont — Department of Philosophy, University of Turin (Italy)
Visiting Poistions
2016 April, Visiting fellow at Space and Time after Quantum Gravity Research Group (Universi-
ty of Geneva)
2015 January-February, Visiting fellow at STEP Research Group (University of Duisburg-Essen)
2006 March – June: Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, NY.
2004 September – 2005 June: Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy, Columbia Uni-
versity, NY.
!12004 August: Visiting Scholar at the Philosophy Department, Delhi University. Collaboration
with Prof. N. Mukherjee.
2004 February – April: Visiting scholar at the Philosophy Department, Delhi University. Collab-
oration with Prof. N. Mukherjee.
2003 March – April: Visiting scholar at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris.
Education
2002 October – 2007 September: Ph.D. Student in Philosophy of Language, UPO (Vercelli).
Title of the dissertation: Cross-Temporal Relations.
Supervisor: Alberto Voltolini.
Commission: Michele Di Francesco, Marco Santambrogio, Achille C. Varzi.
2001 October: B.A., University of Turin, supervisors Prof. M. Ferraris and P. Kobau.
Title of the Thesis: Descartes on the non-correspondence between stimulus and representation.
1999 I have spent a year as an undergraduate Erasmus-student at the Erasmus University of Rot-
terdam (NL), under the supervision of Prof. Hans Blom.
Summer Schools
2008 May, Scuola di Alta Formazione Filosofica, “Workshop with John Searle”, Torino, Italy.
2006 June, CNRS Summer School “Cognitive Bases of Scientific Images”, Roscoff, France.
2004 June: CNRS Summer School “Reference to Objects”, Ile d’Oléron, France.
2003 March: “Ray Jackendoff Workshop” at the Jean Nicod Institute, Paris, France.
Areas of competence
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Cognitive science.
Languages
Native speaker of Italian
Fluent in spoken and written English
Fluent in spoken Spanish
Good in spoken French
Strong reading comprehension skills in German
Elementary knowledge of spoken Dutch and German
Notions of Portuguese and Catalan
Bibliography
Books
2018 La filosofia del Futuro [Philosophy of the Future] (with S. Iaquinto), Raffaello Cortina
!22011 I Viaggi nel Tempo. Una Guida Filosofica [Time Travels. A Philosophical Guide], Roma-
Bari, Laterza
2008 Time and Cross-Temporal Relations, Mimesis, Milano [2015, 2nd edition for Mimesis In-
ternational]
Peer Reviewed Articles in Journals and in Collective Works with a Scientific Board
2017 “Feeling the passing of time”, The Journal of Philosophy, 114, 4: 165-188 (https://www.p-
d c n e t . o r g / / p d c / b v d b . n s f / p u r c h a s e ?
openform&fp=jphil&id=jphil_2017_0114_0004_0165_0188&onlyautologin=true)
2017 “Perspectival Tenses and Dynamic Tenses”, Erkenntnis (online first: http://link.springer.-
com/article/10.1007/s10670-017-9928-9)
2017 “Nunc pro tunc. The Problem of Retroactive Enactments”, Philosophia (online first: https://
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-017-9885-1?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAu-
thorOnlineFirst)
2017 “The Myth of Presentism's Intuitive Appeal”, Phenomenology and Mind, 12: 50-55 (http://
dx.doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-21105)
2017 “Hyper-Russellian Skepticism”, Metaphysica (online first: https://www.degruyter.com/
view/j/mp.ahead-of-print/mp-2017-0016/mp-2017-0016.xml)
2017 “Time travel and coincidence-free local dynamical theories”, Synthese (online first: https://
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-017-1433-9)
2016 “Presentism and the Sceptical Challenge”, Manuscrito 39, 4: 101-116 (http://www.sci-
elo.br/pdf/man/v39n4/2317-630X-man-39-04-00101.pdf)
2016 “Institutional Externalism”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 47, 1: 67-85 (http://
pos.sagepub.com/content/47/1/67.full.pdf?ijkey=uZztVkkulZDzZTB&keytype=finite)
2015 “Chronometric Explanations”, Philosophia, 44,1: 275-287
(https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-015-9669-4)
2014 “Ostrich Presentism”, Philosophical Studies 170: 255-276 (http://link.springer.com/article/
10.1007%2Fs11098-013-0211-x)
In this paper I argue for three different kinds of metaphysical explanations, and use such a distinction against
“ostrich presentism”, i.e. the view that a presentist can use all the expressive resources of the tensed language,
without thereby paying any price in terms of ontology or basic ideology.
!32014 (with R. Casati) “The Identity of Indiscernibles and the Principle of No co-location”, in M.
Dell’Utri, F. Bacchini, and S. Caputo (eds.), Realism and Ontology without Myths, Newcastle
UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 101-109
In this paper we argue for a version of Black’s thought experiment of the two indiscernible and yet distinct
spheres that seems to challenge certain plausible assumption about to role of our ordinary intuitions.
2014 “Social Objects. An Overview on the Light of Contemporary Social Ontology” (with E.
Casetta) in Rivista di Estetica 57: 3-10
2014 “Documentality: A Theory of Social Reality” (with M. Ferraris) in Rivista di Estetica 57:
11-28
By starting from a critique of Searle’s notion of collective intentionality, we explore an alternative view,
based on the idea that documents have a constitutive role in social reality.
2013 “The Grounding Problem and Presentist Explanations”, Synthese 190: 2047–2063 (http://
rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-011-9955-z)
In this paper I argue against presentism, in particular against the deflationist solution to problem of grounding
past truths.
2013, “Yet Another Confusion about Time-Travel”, Disputatio, 1, 35: 49-56 (http://www.disputa-
tio.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Torrengo-Giuliano_Yet-another-confusion-about-time-
travel2.pdf)
In this paper I argue against the possibility of multiplying oneself (or a gold bar) through time travelling to
both the past and to the future.
2013, “Time Travel and the Thin Red Line”, in P. Graziani and M. Sangoi (eds.) Open Problems
in the Philosophy of Science, London, College Publications: 245-258.
In this paper I argue that Time travel is compatible with a branching future topology of time, provided that
we endorse the thin red line view.
2013 “The Metaphysics of the Thin Red Line” (with A. Borghini), in F. Correia, A. Iacona (eds.),
Around the Tree, Berlin, Synthese Library, Springer Verlag: 105-125.
In this paper we defend the thin red line hypothesis against common misconceptions
2012, “Time and Simple Existence”, Metaphysica, 13:125–130 (https://link.springer.com/article/
10.1007/s12133-012-0096-8)
!4In this paper I argue against scepticism toward the substantivity of the distinction between eternalism and
presentism.
2012, “La Filosofia del Tempo”, AphEx - Portale italiano di Filosofia Analitica, Giornale di Filo-
sofia Network, 5
This is an overview of the state of the art in philosophy of time and an attempt to draw the borders of this
area of research.
2011 “The Modal Dimension”, Humana.Mente Journal of Philosophical Studies, 19: 105–120
(http://www.humanamente.eu/PDF/Issue_19_Paper_Torrego.pdf)
In this paper I discuss Lewis modal realism and argue for a radical interpretation of it.
2011 “The not so incredible shrinking future” (with R. Casati), Analysis, 71, 2: 240–44 (https://
doi.org/10.1093/analys/anr006)
In this paper we argue that the “shrinking future” view of time, that is the tenet that reality is composed
only by the future (which keeps on shrinking or eroding) and the present, has no less intuitive appeal than the more
common “growing block” view.
2010 “Perspectival Truth and Perspectival Realism”, in F. Recanati, I. Stojanovic, N. Villanueva
(eds.) Context-dependence, perspective and relativity in language and thought, De Gruyter,
Mouton Series in Pragmatics: 333-48
In this paper I argue that genuine relativism implies perspecitval realism; I raise then certain problems with
the latter.
2010, “Time, Context, and Cross-temporal Claims”, Philosophia, 38: 281-296 (https://link.s-
pringer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-009-9225-1)
In this paper I argue that a proper treatment of cross-temporal relations clashes with a A-theoretic view of
time.
2009 “Bare Particulars and Persistence in Bergmann” (with Luca Angelone), in Bruno Langlet &
Jean-Maurice Monnoyer (eds.) G. Bergmann : phenomenological realism and dialectical onto-
logy, Frankfurt, Ontos: 137-154.
A discussion and a critique of Bergmann’s theory of persistence.
!52008 “Relative Truth and The Metaphysics of Tense”, in M. Carrara & V. Morato (eds.), Lan-
guage, Knowledge, and Metaphysics: selected papers form the 1st SIFA Graduate Conference,
College Publications, London: 211-228
In this paper I discuss MacFalane’s “retrospective assessment” semantics, and propose a metaphysics of
time suitable for it.
2008 “Tensed Time vs. Tensed Truth-Makers”, in G. Bonino and R. Egidi (eds.) Fostering the
Ontological Turn, Gustav Bergmann 1906-1987, Frankfurt, Ontos: 253-260
In this paper I criticize Dean Zimmermann’s distinction between taking tense seriously and tense realism.
2006, “Crimes and Punishments”, with A.Varzi, Philosophia, 34: 395-404.
In this paper we argue that our criteria for counting actions, and therefore crimes and their punishments,
only in few cases are ontologically grounded.
2006, “Tenseless cross-temporal Relations”, Metaphysica, Vol. 7, No. 2: 117-129
In this paper I argue that Berit Brogaard’s proposal of construing cross-temporal claims (such as “my son is
now taller than my daughter was at twelve”) as expressing relations irreducibly tensed has two major problems that
a tenseless construal of cross-temporal claims can cope with.
Proceedings
2013, “Filosofia, web e società”, in Il Corpo e La Rete. Strumenti di apprendimento intercul-
turale, Biblioteca della Fondazione. Fondazione Intercultura Onlus. Atti del convegno, 73-92
2006, “Cross-temporal Relations”, in Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the Spanish Society
of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Granada
In this paper I argue that presentism (the thesis that, quantifying on absolutely everything, only
present things exist) is not compatible with a satisfying semantics for cross-temporal claims.
Other Papers
2017 “What’s Next? Time travel and phenomenal continuity” (with V. Buonomo), in (ed.)
Valerio Buonomo, The Persistence of Persons. Studies in the metaphysics of personal identity
over time, Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, Editiones Scholasticae, 183-201.
2016 “Si fa troppo presto a dire “Frocio!””, Blog del corso di filosofia dell’Università degli Studi
Carlo Bo di Urbino [http://filosofia.uniurb.it/si-fa-troppo-presto-a-dire-frocio/]
!62016 “Dalla Fiat al Web. Che cosa una ontologia sociale basata sui documenti permette di spie-
gare” (with E. Casetta), Postille a Ferraris, Rivista di Estetica, 60, 3: 54-62.
2015 “Introduction: Time and Time Experience” (with R. Ciuni) in Topoi, 34, 1: 133-6
2015, “”Frocio!” significa “omosessuale”? — sul ruolo delle convenzioni sociali nell’uso degli
epiteti denigratori”, Post n.4 — Convenzioni, linguaggio, realtà: 48-61
2014, “Il caso Tridim” in E. Casetta & V. Giardino (eds.), Mettere a fuoco il mondo. Conver-
sazioni sulla filosofia di Achille C. Varzi — Isonomia, Rivista online di Filosofia — Epistemolo-
gica — ISSN 2037-4348: pp. 85-94.
2013, “Experimental Philosophy and Metaphysics”, Methode. Analytical Perspective, II, 2: 195-
205
2013, “Presentism and Cross-temporal Relations” (with R. Ciuni), in R. Ciuni, K. Miller, G. Tor-
rengo (eds.) New Papers on the Present. Focus on Presentism, Philosophia Verlag: 211-252
A detailed discussion of all arguments from cross-temporal relations against presentism to be found in re-
cent literature.
2013, “Una nota sulla filosofia dei viaggi nel tempo” [A note on the Philosophy of Time Travel],
in U. Curi (ed.) Pensare il Tempo. Tra Scienza e Filosofia, Milano, Mimesis: 137 - 150
In this note I argue that the idea of time travel can be very useful in philosophical investigations.
2013, “Filosofia della Scienza” [Philosophy of Science] (with E. Casetta), in T. Andina (ed.)
Filosofia Contemporanea. Di cosa si occupano i filosofi oggi, Roma, Carocci: 223-256 [English
Translation as: 2014, “Science” in T. Andina (ed.) Bridging the Analytical Divide. A Companion
to Contemporary Western Philosophy, Leiden-Boston, Brill: 177-205]
An opinionated introduction to central problems in contemporary philosophy of science (in particular,
philosophy of physics and philosophy of biology).
2012, “L’ontologia del tempo” [The Ontology of Time], in Carlo Tatasciore, Pierluigi Graziani,
Giorgio Grimaldi (eds.) Prospettive Filosofiche 2009: Ontologia, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi
Filosofici, Acireale - Roma, Bonanno Editore: 107-120
An overview of the contemporary problems in the metaphysics of time.
2012 “Esistere” e “essere esistito” [“Existing” and “Having existed”], in Andrea Bottani and
Richard Davies (eds.) “Ontologie Analitiche”, Rivista di Estetica, 49: 115-140
!7This paper contains a critique of presentism based on the grounding objection with respect to past truths.
2012 “Perché l’intenzionalità collettiva non dà conto del mercato azionario e i documenti sì”, in
Elena Casetta, Pietro Kobau, Ivan Mosca (eds.) “A Partire da Documentalitá”, Rivista di Estet-
ica, 50: 199-209
An expanded version of my paper of the same title published in Etica & Politica, 2010
2011, “L’assassino del nonno viaggia sulla macchina del tempo” [The grandfather’s killer travels
on the time machine], L’Indice, XXVIII, n. 1: p. 10
An introductory short presentation of the philosophical problems connected to the issue of time travel.
2010, “Perché l’intenzionalità collettiva non dà conto del mercato azionario e i documenti sì”,
[Why collective ontentionality cannot account for the stock market, while documentality does]
Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, XII, 2:248−259
In this paper I argue against Searle’s tenet that collective intentionality is the ground of social ontology, and
defend the view that written records are more fundamental for the identity of social objects than intentions.
2009 “Documenti e Intenzioni. La Documentalità nel dibattito contemporaneo sull’ontologia so-
ciale” [Documents and Intentions. Documentality in the contemporary debate on social
ontology], Rivista di Estetica, 42: 157-188
An overview of contemporary social ontology, with a defense of the constitutive role of documents in so-
cial reality.
2009 “Tempo e convenzioni: Il Paradosso dell’Artificiere” [Time and Conventions: the paradox
of the bomb disposal expert] in Casetta E. and Varzi A. (eds.) “Convenzioni”, Rivista di Estetica,
41: 85-100
In this paper I present an argument against chronometric conventionalism.
2009 “Titolo e Necessità” [Titling and Necessity] (with L. Morena) in P. Kobau (ed.) “Titoli”,
Rivista di Estetica, 40: 41-55
A defence of the idea that titles of artworks, as used in metaphysical inquiries about art, are rigid designat-
ors.
2008 “Ontologia Formale”, in Maurizio Ferraris (ed.) Storia dell’Ontologia, Bompiani: 296-322
An introductory overview on formal ontology, centred on the notions of existence, object, identity, parthood
and dependence, for an Italian handbook.
!82007 “«Arriverò ieri!» Filosofia, linguaggio e viaggi nel tempo”, with L. Morena, Notable, 1
An informal overview of theories of time travel, theories of time, and the semantics of tenses.
2006 “Introduzione” (with L.Morena) to “Semantica e Ontologia”, in Rivista di Estetica, 32
A brief introduction, in Italian, to the contemporary debate on the bearings between ontology and se-
mantics.
2006 “Shoemaker, Sidney”, entry of the Enciclopedia Filosofica, Bompiani (ed. Virgilio Melchi-
orre)
An encyclopaedic entry (in Italian) on the contemporary metaphysicians and philosopher of mind Sidney
Shoemaker.
2004 “La percezione” (with C. Barbero) third chapter of Il realismo ontologico di Gustav
Bergmann, ed. G. Bonino and G. Torrengo, Rivista di Estetica, 25, 2005, XLIII: 75 – 96
An analysis of Gustav Bergmann’s theory of perception.
2004 “Introduzione” (with G. Bonino) to Il realismo ontologico di Gustav Bergmann, ed. G.
Bonino and G. Torrengo, Rivista di Estetica, 25, 2004, XLIII: 5 – 14
An overview of Gustav Bergmann’s philosophy.
2004 “Raccontami cosa vedi”, Rivista di Estetica, 24, 2004, XLIV: 130-133
This is a short story written in memory of the experimental phenomenologist Paolo Bozzi.
2004 Discussion on the internet forum published in R. Casati, “The unity of the kind Artwork”,
Rivista di Estetica, 23, 2003, XLIII: 27-28
A contribution on an internet forum on the ontology of the artwork after R.Casati’s article.
2003 “La cognizione sociale in Ray Jackendoff”, Rivista di Estetica, 23, 2003, XLIII: 220-237
A Critical note on a conference on ‘Social Cognition’ held by Ray Jackendoff for the conferring of the
Nicod Prize.
2002 “Oggetti percepiti e oggetti dimostrati”, Rivista di Estetica, 20, 2002, XLII: 107-125
A defence of a realistic interpretation of Descartes’ theory of perception.
!9Non academics
2014 “Perché scriverò un libro tre anni fa”, ArteSera (November)
2012 “Il Matrimonio? Meglio Minimo” [Marriage? Better Minimal], Il Sole24Ore (10 Giugno)
2011 “Omosessualità e relativismo” [Homosexuality and Relativism], Alfabeta2, January-Febru-
ary 2011
Editorial
2018 “Empirical Data and Philosophy” (co-edited with P. Bojanic and S.Iaquinto), Rivista di Es-
tetica
2015 “Time and Time Experience” (co-edited with R.Ciuni), special issue of Topoi. An Interna-
tional Review of Philosophy (April 2015, Volume 34, Issue 1)
2014 “Social Ontology: from Intentionality to Documentality” (co-edited with Petar Bojanic and
Elena Casetta), Rivista di Estetica, 57 (3/2014)
2013 New Papers on the Present. Focus on Presentism (co-edited with R. Ciuni and K. Miller),
Munich, Philosophia Verlag
2006 “Semantica e Ontologia” (co-edited with L. Morena), Rivista di Estetica, 32
2004 “Il realismo ontologico di Gustav Bergmann” (co-edited with G. Bonino), Rivista di Estet-
ica, 25, 2004, XLV
Reviews
2017, Review of “James Harrington, Time: A Philosophical Introduction, London, Oxford, New
York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, 304 pp., $23.00 (Paperback), ISBN 978-1472506474.” (with
C. Mariani), Dialectica, 71, 4: 628-631
2017, “The worst and the best of Propaganda” (with B. Cepollaro), forthcoming in Disputatio
(Disputatio’s Symposium on Jason Stanley’s How Propaganda Works, Princeton and Oxford,
Princeton University Press, 2016).
2015, “The March of Time. Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discover-
ies”, by F. Weinert, Dordrecht, Springer, 2013, 284 pp., Kairos. Revista de Filosofia & Ciência
12: 113-117
2013, “Propositions and the Metaphysics of Time”, Disputatio V, 37: 315-321 (Disputatio’s
Symposium on Berit Brogaard’s Transient Truths, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012).
2013, “Il presente cosmico e la direzionalità del divenire” (recensione di “Filosofia del Tempo. Il
dibattito Contemporaneo” di F. Orilia, e di “Che cos’è il tempo? Einstein Gödel e l’esperienza
comune” di M.Dorato), L’indice.
!102012 “Commentary of ‘Minimizing Marriage. Marriage, Morality, and the Law’”, E. Brake, Hu-
mana.mente — Journal of Philosophical Studies 22: 211-224
2011 “I confini sfumati”, T. Andina, Epistemologia XXXIII: 329-31
2011, “Delete. Il diritto all’oblio nell’era digitale, V. Mayer-Schoerberg”, L’Indice, 3: 29
2011, “Living Without Free Will, Derek Pareboom, Cambridge, CUP, 2001”, Humana.mente —
Journal of Philosophical Studies, 15
2010 “Recensione di T. Merricks, Truth and Ontology, 2007”, in M. Carrara and V. Morato (eds.)
Verità. Annuario e Bollettino della Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica (SIFA) 2010: 187-194
2010 “Lost in the Labyrinth of Time” (long commentary, in English, of M. Lockwood The
Labyrinth of Time, Oxford, OUP, 2005), Humana.mente – Journal of Philosophical Studies, 13:
247-258 < http://www.humanamente.eu/PDF/Issue13_Commentary_Torrengo.pdf>
2010 “Beyond Conceptual Realism” di G. Vicari, Rivista di filosofia, April/1: 139-141
2009 “Fourdimensionalism” by T.Sider (a commentary in Italian of the book and its historical
relevance), Humana.mente – Journal of Philosophical Studies
2007 "Il Concetto di Mente" by G.Ryle (new translation into Italian of The Concept of Mind,
with an introduction of D. Dennet), L'Indice, January: 31
2007 "Storie del Tempo" by P.Redondi, L'Indice, January: 31
2007 “A Future for Presentism” by C. Bourne, Rivista di Filosofia XCVIII/2: 289-90
2006 “Logica” by A.Varzi, J.Nolt, D.Rohantyn, Rivista di Estetica, 31, 2006, XLVI: 230-1
2004 “La sintassi del mondo” (rewiev of Claudia Bianchi, Pragmica del linguaggio, Laterza,
2004), L’Indice, XXI, 5, May: 26
Translations
S. White/H. Putnam, “In the Absence of an Interface: Putnam, Direct Perception, and Frege’s
Constraint”; tr. it. “L’assenza dell’interfaccia: Putnam, la percezione diretta e il vincolo di
Frege”, Rivista di Estetica
A. Hazen, “Platonism and Convention”; tr. it. “Platonismo e Convenzioni”, Rivista di Estetica,
41, 2009
A. Varzi, “Failures, Omissions, and Negative Descriptions”, in Kepa Korta and Joana Garmendia
(eds.), Meaning, Intentions, and Argumentation, Stanford, CSLI Publications, 2008, pp. 61-75.;
tr. it. “Mancanze, omissioni e descrizioni negative”, Rivista di estetica, 32:2 (2007), 109-127.
R.W. Peltz, “Ontology and the Work of Art,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 24, 4,
1966: 486-489; tr. it. “Ontologia e Opera d’Arte” in P. Kobau, G. Matteucci, S. Velotti (a c. di)
Estetica e Filosofia Analitica, Bologna, Il Mulino: 89 – 110.
Talks
2018 18-20 June [scehduled] “Action in the tenseless sunshine”, Fifth IAPT Meeting, University,
Seoul (also organiser)
!112018 25 January “Cos’è una spiegazione filosofica?”, Lost in Physics and Metaphysics. Ques-
tioni di realismo scientifico, Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere (Brera, Milano,
Italy)
2017 6 December, “Tenses in Action”, NZAP 2017, Otago University, New Zealand
2017 28 November, “The times of fear”, First Tokyo-Milan Workshop, University of Tokyo (also
organiser)
2017 25 November, “Tenses and the experience of passage”, Philosophy of Mental Time VI: the
Experience of Time, Nihon University, Tokyo Japan [invited]
2017 21-3 September, “The times of fear” (with D. Bordini), Workshop on Emotions, Imagina-
tion, and Time, University of Milan, Gargnano del Garda (Italy) [invited, organiser]
2017 11-12 September, “Philosophy of time: networks of people and of ideas”, Time in Twentieth
and Twenty-first Century Philosophy, University of Durham [invited]
2017 1 June, “Institutions and distributed cognition”, Workshop “Cognition in Groups”, CSSA,
University of Milan [invited]
2017 9 May, “La natura del cambiamento” [The nature of change], Il Tempo — Questioni Onto-
logiche e Epistemologiche, University of Macerata (Italy) [invited]
2017 28 April, “How could time really flow?”, Hiroshima Philosophy Forum #1: Mind & Cogni-
tion, Hiroshima (Japan) [invited]
2017 26 April, “The flow of time”, Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy, Tokyo (Japan) [in-
vited]
2017 21 April, “How could time really flow?”, Irvine, California [invited]
2017 17 April, “How could time really flow?”, UC Davies, California [invited]
2017 12-5 April, “The Moving Spotlight(s)”, Pacific Division meeting of the American Philo-
sophical Association, Seattle, Washington
2017 12 January, “Temporal Experience and Absolute Present”, University of Barcelona [invited]
2016 15 November, “Temporal experiences: duration, change, passage”, Mini-symposium Flow
of Time, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Humanities, Institute of Philo-
sophy, Budapest (Hungary) [invited]
2016 15 November, “The dynamic present of experience”, Central European University, Bud-
apest (Hungary) [invited]
2016 9 November, “Tense, Flow, and Action”, University of Tuebingen (Germany) [invited]
2016 28-9 October, “Explanation Makers”, Grounding Grouding, University of Sassari (Alghero,
Italy).
2016 15-17 September, Comments on Torin Alter (University of Alabama) “Are There Brute
Facts about Consciousness”, Second Annual Meeting of the Society for the Metaphysics of Sci-
ence, University of Geneva [invited]
2016 5-7 September, “The moving spotlight(s)” (with Giuseppe Spolaore), Biannual Meeting of
the SIFA, Pistoia
2016 2 September, “Philosophy, and Science Fiction”, A Night of Philosophy, Helsinki [invited]
2016 5-6- July, “Perspectival Tenses and Dynamic Tenses”, International Graduate Conference:
The Metaphysics of Space, Time and Spacetime, University of Sassari (Alghero, Italy) [invited]
!122016 27-9 June, “The moving spotlight(s)” (with Giuseppe Spolaore), Fifth Italian Conference
on Analytic Ontology, University of Padova
2016 15 June, “On what the Flow of Time could be”, University of Hamburg [invited]
2016 10-12 June, “The Varieties of Temporal Experience”, Third annual meeting of the Interna-
tional Association for the Philosophy of Time, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA
[invited]
2016 3 June, “On Institutional Wholes”, Composition as Diversity: Experiencing Ontological
Wholes, University of Ferrara [invited]
2016 14 April, “The Experience of the Passage of Time”, SPACE AND TIME AFTER QUAN-
TUM GRAVITY Colloquium, University of Geneva [invited]
2016 5 April, “Perché è giusto usare il linguaggio in maniera politicamente corretta. Un proble-
ma fra etica e semantica” [“Why we should use language in a politically correct way. A problem
between ethics and semantics”], Seminars at Università Vita e Salute San Raffaele, Milano [invi-
ted]
2016 30 March, “Tempo”, Voci della Filosofia del Linguagio e della Mente, University of Ca-
gliari [invited]
2015 1 December, “La Natura del Tempo — I viaggi nel tempo”, Conferenze del I.T.I. “E. Ma-
jorana”, Grugliasco (TO), Italy
2015 10-12 Settembre, “Feeling time to pass”, ENFA6, University of Azores (Pontadelgada, Por-
tugal)
2015 1-4 July, “Tenseless Sunshine of the Conscious Mind. The Hyper-Russellian Skeptics”, 8è
Congrés de la Soc. de Lògica, Metodologia i Filosofia de la Ciència (8-CSLMFC), University of
Barcelona
2015 1-3 June Comments to P. van Inwagen “In Defence of Transcendent Universals”, The
Metaphysics of Properties and Relations, University of Bergamo [invited]
2015 12-13 June “Tenseless Sunshine of the Conscious Mind”, Workshop of “New Agendas for
the Study of Time”, Centre for Time, University of Sydney [invited]
2015 8 June “The Hyper-Russellian Skeptic”, Seminari di Filosofia del Linguaggio e della
Mente, University of Milan
2015 24-29 May “Truth, Grounding, and Past-tensed Truth” (with S. Iaquinto), Eidos Conference
on Truth and Ground, Ascona (Switzerland)
2015 9 April “The structure of objective and experienced time”, SFB-Colloquium, University of
Düsseldorf (Germany) [invited]
2015 8 April “Explanation and Fundamentality”, Departmental Colloquium, University of Düs-
seldorf (Germany) [invited]
2015 2 April “Time and Explanation” (with J. Tallant), Ontoformat Seminar on The Metaphysics
of Time, University of Milan [invited]
2015 24 March “Tenseless Sunshine of the Conscious Mind”, Departmental Seminar, University
of Bergamo (Italy), [invited]
2015 18-21 March “The Invisible Thin Red Line” (with S. Iaquinto), Real Possibilities, Inde-
terminism and Free Will, University of Konstanz (Germany)
!132015 18 February “Institutional Externalism”, Workshop on Social Groups, University of Duis-
burg-Essen (Germany) [invited]
2015 16 February “Explanation Makers”, Oberseminar, University of Duisburg-Essen (Ger-
many) [invited]
2015 12 January, “Tenseless Sunshine of the Conscious Mind”, Departmental Seminar, Uni-
versity of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) [invited]
2015 22-23 January “Futuro Aperto e Scorrere del Tempo”, Possibilità Future— Workshop, Uni-
versity of Padova (Italy) [invited]
2014 14 November “The Tenseless Sunshine of a Conscious Mind”, LangCog Seminars, Uni-
versity of Lisbon [invited]
2014 30 October (with A. Varzi, M.Dorato, F. Patrone)“8243° Raduno della Confederazione dei
Crononauti. I viaggi nel tempo tra realtà e paradosso”, Festival della Scienza, Genova [invited]
2014 3-5 September “Nunc pro tunc” SIFA Conference, L’aquila
2014 28 August - 2 September “The Invisible Thin Red Line” (with S. Iaquinto), ECAP 8, Bu-
carest, Romania
2014 18-10 June, “Metaphysical Explanations in Science”, SILFS 2014, University of Rome III
2014 8 April, “Predelli on Slurs” [comments to Stefano Predelli “Prolegomena to a semantics of
slurs”], The Dark side of Language: Derogatory Epithets, Insults, and Taboo Words, IUSS Cen-
ter for Neuro-linguistics and Theoretical Syntax, Pavia [invited]
2014 2 April, “Institutional Externalism”, Center for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of
Oslo [invited]
2014 18 Marzo, “La Filosofia fra Arte e Scienza. Presentazione di Filosofia contemporanea.
Uno sguardo globale (a cura di Tiziana Andina)”, discussion with Chiara Cappelletto, Giulio
Giorello, and Andrea Pinotti, Libreria Coop, Milan [invited]
2013 5 December, “Che cosa spiega la metafisica?” [What does metaphysics explain?], Uni-
versity of Pavia [invited]
2013 4 December, “Writing and Philosophy”, Notes for the Future, Triennale di Milano [invited]
2013 21-21 November, Comments to Pierluigi Graziani “On Euclid’s Prototype Deductions”,
Second Barcelona-Urbino Meeting, University of Barcelona [invited]
2013 7-8 November, “Slurs and Semantic Indeterminacy”, Third Workshop: Meaning, Transla-
tion and Context, University of Barcelona [invited]
2013 11 October, “L’importanza sociale della conservazione dei documenti”, Eredità Digitale:
Quale Futuro? — Prospettive Giuridiche nell’era del web, e-mails, blogs e social networks,
Parma (Italy) [invited]
2013 19-22 September, Comments to Ned Markosian “The A-theory of Time and Time Travel to
the Past”, PERSP Workshop on the As and Bs in the Philosophy of Time, Univerity of Barcelona
[invited]
2013 16-18 September, “Primitivism and The Illusion of Passage of Time”, Perception, Memory,
and Imagination. Milan — York Workshop, Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano del Garda (Italy) [in-
vited]
!142013 21 June, “The Illusion of Passage of Time”, PERSP Space and Time Workshop, University
of Barcelona [invited]
2013 10 June, “L’inarrestabile fiume del tempo”, Seminario di Filosofia del Tempo (Progetto in-
terarea di ateneo “Logiche tempo-modali per gli agenti deontici. Una teoria ed alcune riflessioni
filosofiche”), University of Padova [invited]
2013 24 May, “Ostrich Presentism”, Time, Eternity, and God’s Knowledge, Catholic University
of Milan [invited]
2013 16-17 May, “Chronometrical Explanations”, Rome-Barcelona Workshop in the Philosophy
of Science, University of Roma III [invited]
2013 21 March, “Time Travel and Circular Explanations”, LunchTime Seminar @ Neurophilo-
sophy, University of Milan [invited]
2013 4 March, “Il caso Tridim” [The Tridim Case], Logica, Metafisica, Ontologia: sulla filosofia
di Achille C. Varzi, Università di Urbino [invited]
2013 1 March, “Il web e la filosofia” [Web and Philosophy], Il corpo e la rete — strumenti di
apprendimento interculturale, Firenze [invited]
2013 25 February, “Ostrich Presentism”, Seminar at Institut supérieur de philosophie (ISP),
Université de Louvain (Belgium) [invited]
2013 19 February, “Il realismo e ciò che (forse) vale la pena salvare del postmoderno” [Realism
and what is (perhaps) worth saving in postmodernism], Le molte facce del realismo. Storia e
geografia di un problema filosofico, San Raffaele University, Milan [invited]
2013 11 February, “Gli insulti e il politicamente corretto” [Slurs and the politically correct],
Seminari di filosofia del linguaggio e della mente, University of Milan [invited]
2012 15-16 November, “Past Existence and Ostrich Presentism”, PERSP Space and Time Work-
shop on Time and Identity, University of Barcelona [invited]
2012 2-3 November, “Time Travel, Identity, and Physical Laws”, Perspectives on Science and
Metaphysics. First Barcelona-Urbino Meeting, University of Urbino [invited]
2012 14-19 October, “Keeping Track of Identity in Time Travel”, The Time Machine Factory,
Polytechnic University of Turin [invited]
2012 12-15 September, “Metaphysical Explanations”, SIFA Conference, Alghero (Italy)
2012 3-4 September “Slurs and Semantic Indeterminacy”, PML Workshop at the “Mental Phe-
nomena” Conference, Dubrovnik (Croatia) [invited]
2012 28-31 August, “Collective Intentionality and Social Reality”, Collective Intentionality VIII,
University of Manchester (UK)
2012 18-21 July, “La metafisica analitica del tempo”, Nomi del Tempo, 2a Scuola Estiva del
CIRSFIS — Università di Padova, Feltre (BL, Italy) [invited]
2012 22-23 May, “Metaphysics and Empirical Data”, Workshop on “Empirical Evidence and
Philosophy”, Belgrade University
2012 14-15 May, “How Should a Error Theory of The Passage of Time be like”, Workshop in
Analytical Metaphysics: Challenging Perspectives on the Ontology of Time, University of
Namur, Belgium [invited]
2012 4-6 May, “Metaphysical Explanations”, Congrès SOPHA 2012, Paris
!152012 19-20 March, “Metaphysical Explanations”, 4th IJN-LOGOS Workshop — Mind, Language
and Metaphysics, Institut Nicod, Paris [invited]
2012 15 February “Past Existence, Cheaters, and The Sceptical Challenge”, Logos Seminar,
University of Barcelona [invited]
2011 1-2 December, Commentator of Graeme A Forbes "Open but not Gaping", PERSP Space &
Time Workshop on the Open Future, University of Barcelona [invited]
2011 28 October, “Metaphysical Explanations”, PERSP Metaphysical Seminar (PMS), Uni-
versity of Barcelona [invited]
2011 6 October, Commentator of Teresa Marques “Doxastic Disagreement”, II LOGOS-LANG-
COG workshop, University of Barcelona [invited]
2011 6 September, Commentator of M.Gilbert and P.Bojanic, Social Ontology and Documental-
ity, ECAP7 Workshop, University of Milano
2011 5 September, “Explanations and Metaphysical Debates”, ECAP 7, University of Milano
2011 8 July “Collective Intentionality, Documents, and Social Reality” JAM - 4th Joint Action
Meeting, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
2011 16-8 June, Commentator of V. Fano, David Lewis. Another World is Possible, University of
Urbino [invited]
2011 1-2 June, “Collective Intentionality, Documents, and Social Reality”, Social Ontology:
From Intentionality to Documentality, Institute for Philosophy, Belgrade
2011 27 May, “Dialoghi sul Tempo. Scambio fra Achille Varzi e Giuliano Torrengo. Modera
Maurizio Ferraris”, Circolo dei Lettori, Torino
2011 13 May, “I Viaggi nel Tempo”, Pensare il tempo. Tra scienze e filosofia. CIRSFIS, Uni-
versity of Padova [invited]
2011 18 March, “Spatial Parts, Temporal Parts, Modal Parts”, PERSP Metaphysical Seminar
(PMS), University of Barcelona [invited]
2011 2 March, “Past Existence and Presentism”, GRG meeting, University of Barcelona [invited]
2011 28 April, “Estetica come Aisthesis. In occasione della nuova edizione di Estetica razionale”
(with Maurizio Ferraris, Federico Vercellone, Pietro Kobau, Tiziana Andina, Carola Barbero,
Elena Casetta, Davide Grasso, Alessandra Jacomuzzi, Daniela Tagliafico), University of Torino
[invited]
2011 8 March, “Presentation of the book I viaggi nel tempo. Una guida filosofica” (with
Prof. Mario De Caro, Prof. Maurizio Ferraris, Dott. Enrico Terrone), Circolo dei Lettori, Torino
2010 15-17 December “Time-travel, Individuals, and the Space-Time-Actuality Manifold”, SIL-
FS 2010, Conferenza Triennale della Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia della Scienza, Uni-
versity of Bergamo
2010 10 December, “Parti spaziali, parti temporali, parti modali” [Spatial, temporal, and modal
parts], Scuola Normale, Pisa [invited]
2010 4-16 October, “Time Travel in a Branching Universe", Sexto Congreso de la Sociedad Es-
pañola de Filosofía Analítica (SEFA 2010), Universidad de la Laguna (Tenerife, Spain)
!162010 23-25 September “Are there any Austinian Propositions” (with S. Caputo) 9th National
Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy: Truth, Knowledge, and Science, Uni-
versity of Padua
2010 27-8 August “Past Existence and Presentism”, 19th Eidos Metaphysics workshop on the
Metaphysics of Time, Geneva
2010 17 June “Esistere ed essere esistito” [Existing and to having existed], Quarto Convegno di
Ontologia Analitica, Bergamo [invited]
2010 27-9 May “Are there any Austinian Propositions?” (with S. Caputo), Semantics and Philo-
sophy in Europe 3 (SPE 3), Paris
2010 12 May “Social Objects and Documents”, IFOMIS, Saarbrueken
2010 17 April “Time Travel and the Thin Red Line”, Problemi Aperti nella Filosofia delle Scien-
ze, Cesena (IT)
2009 16 October “L’ontologia del tempo” [The ontology of Time], Prospettive Filosofiche 2009,
Ontologia, Francavilla al Mare (CH) [invited]
2009 10 September “Spiegazione e Forma Logica degli Enunciati Tensionali” [Explanations and
logical form of tensed statements], Forme e Formalizzazioni – XVI Convegno Nazionale – Soci-
età Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, University of Cagliari (Italy)
2009 8 September “The Language of Time in Explanations”, Latin Meeting 2009, University of
L’Aquila (Italy), commentator José Diez (University of Barcelona)
2009 2-5 September “The Identity of Indiscerniles and the Principle of No-Colocation” (with R.
Casati), SOFA 2009, University of Geneva
2009 25 May “Il dibattito fra presentismo e eternalismo: disaccordo genuino o verbale?” [The
debate between presentism and eternalism: genuine or merely verbal?], Seminario di Logica e
Filosofia Analitica, University of Padova (invited speaker).
2009 26 February “Il dibattito fra presentismo e eternalismo: disaccordo genuino o
verbale?” (discussion with prof. Mauro Dorato) [The debate between presentism and eternalism:
genuine disagreement or verbal disagreement?], University of L’Aquila (Italy)
2009 21 January “Il Tempo fra filosofia e fisica. Relatività e metafisiche del tempo” [Time
between philosophy and physics: theory of relativity and metaphysics of time], with Prof. Aless-
andro D’adda, dep. of Physics, University of Torino.
2008 17-19 December, ‘Nunc Pro Tunc (Now for Then) – Temporal Aspects of Social Reality’
presented at Twelfth eidos Meeting – Time and Time experience, University of Geneva
2008 25-27 Settembre, ‘Two Dimensions in Metaphysical Disagreement’ (with L. Morena)
presented at Ontology, Mind and Language – VII National Meeting SIFA, University of Bergamo
2008 15-18 July, ‘Presentism, Disagreement, and Grounding Problem’, presented at eidos Meta-
physics Conference, University of Geneva
2008 8 May, ‘Le due dimensioni delle dispute metafisiche’ [The two dimensions of metaphysical
disputes] (with L. Morena) presented at the Seminario di Filosofia, University of Bologna
2008 12 April, ‘Dispute Metafisiche e comprensione reciproca’ [Metaphysical disputes and mu-
tual understanding] (with L. Morena) presented at the Seminario di Filosofia, University of
Parma
!172008 12 February, ‘Tensed Truths and Their Truth-makers’, presented at eidos Graduate Confer-
ence, University of Geneva (invited speaker)
2008 23-5 January, Comment to Dan Zeman, ‘Knowledge attributions and Relevant Contexts’,
presented at Spanish-Italian Meeting, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (invited commentator).
2007 9-11 November, ‘Perspectival Truth and Perspectival Realism’, presented at Context-de-
pendence, perspective, and relativity in language and thought, Insititut Nicod, Paris
2007 20 September, ‘Cross-temporality and Causality’, presented at the APhEX Workshop on
Causality, University of Roma III (invited speaker).
2007 10-12 September, ‘Relative Truth and Perspectival Realism’, presented at the SIFA Gradu-
ate Conference, University of Padova
2007 7-9 September, ‘Relative Truth and Tense Realism’, presented at the Fifth Conference of
the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy SEFA 5, University of Barcelona
2007 6-8 September ‘Cross-Temporal Instantiation and Presentism’, presented at the SIFA Meta-
physics of Time Conference, University of Bergamo
2007 15-16 June, ‘Time, Context, and Cross-temporal Claims’, presented at the VI Incontro
Italo-Tedesco di Filosofia Analitica, University of Parma. Discussant: Thomas Mueller (Uni-
versity of Bonn).
2007 16 May, ‘Time, Context, and Cross-temporal Claims’, presented at Seminario di Filosofia
Analitica, University of Bologna (invited speaker)
2007 18-19 May, ‘Tenseless Time vs. Tensed Truth-makers’, presented at Fostering the Ontolo-
gical Turn, Gustav Bergmann 1906-1987, Università degli Studi di Roma (invited speaker)
2006 9-11 December, “Bare Particulars and Persistence in Bergmann” (with Luca Angelone),
presented at Colloque International. Gustave Bergmann (1906-1987), Université de Provence,
Aix, France (invited speaker)
2006 1st December, “Cross-temporal Relations”, presented at the Fifth Conference of the Span-
ish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Granada, Spain
2006 17-19 November, "Time, Context, and Cross-Temporal Claims", Third Arché Graduate
Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland. Respondent Prof. K. Hawley.
2006, 30th September, "van Inwagen and Cross-Temporal Relations", presented at Brain, Per-
sons, and Society, SIFA2006, Milano
2005 17th December: “Tensed Predication and Relations” presented at XVI Convegno Nazionale
dei Dottorati di Ricerca in FIlosofia, Istituto Banfi, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2005 16th December: “Expressing Ontological Disagreement” (with L.Morena), presented at De-
scriptions and Logical Form/100 years of "On Denoting", University of Padua, Italy
2005 2nd December: “What’s the whole story?” presented at Colloque des doctorants de l'Uni-
versité de Genève, hiver 2005—2006, Geneva, Switzerland (with a preliminary lesson in french
on the metaphysics of time)
2005 11th November: “But you loved me this morning. Two ways of explaining the role of time
in the context of Utterance”, presented at the Third International Workshop on Semantics, Prag-
matics and Rhetoric (SPR-05) Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain
!182005 30th August: “The Youngest Spy”, presented at the ECAP5 (European Congress for Analyt-
ical Philosophy), Lisbon University, Portugal
2005 10th July: “The Youngest Spy”, presented at the Open Session of the Aristotelian Society
and Mind Association, Manchester University, GB
2005 26th May: “Tibbles, Identity, and delayed relations” presented at Identity: Ontological Per-
spectives, conference organized by the Vrij Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2005, 30th April: “I am where I am, therefore I am not here now”, presented at New Jersey Re-
gional Philosophical Association, Rowen University, Glassboro, NJ, USA. Discussant Abe
Witowski.
2004, 5th May: Presentation of the 25th issue of “Rivista di Estetica” – Il realismo ontologico di
Gustav Bergmann, ed. G. Bonino and G. Torrengo. With Dott. Guido Bonino and Prof. Rosaria
Egidi. Chairman: Prof. Maurizio Ferraris.
2004, 24th March: “How to handle a metaphysical problem. An example: relations among ordin-
ary objects”, presented at the Delhi University, chairman of the seminar: Prof. P. Jetli.
2002, 12th March: “Realist interpretations of Cartesian gnoseology: Yolton and Perler”, presented
at the doctoral seminar organized by C.A. Viano at the Department of Philosophy, University of
Torino.
Teaching Experiences
2018 Spring, MA Course (28 hrs, English), Time Travel, Master in Philosophy, Università della
Svizzera Italiana (https://www.usi.ch/en/map)
2018 Spring, BA Course (60 hrs, Italian), Semiotics, title “Comunicare, mentire, offendere”,
University of Milan
2016 Fall, MA Course (60 hrs, English), Analisi Filosofica/Philosophical Analysis, title “Ques-
tioni di tempo/It’s All about Time”, Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze Filosofiche, Uni-
versity of Milan
2016 October, Course (10 hrs, English) for PhD Students on “The Metaphysics of Time” (with
Prof. J. Tallant, University of Nottingham), PhD Program in Philosophy and the Human Sci-
ences, University of Milan
2015 April, Course (10 hrs, English) for PhD Students on “The Nature and Scope of Indetermin-
acy” (with Proff. E. Paganini and C. Calabi), PhD Program in Philosophy and the Human Sci-
ences, University of Milan
!192014 December, Lessons (4 hours, Spanish) for a BA course Philosophical Problems on “El sig-
nificado de la vida” [“The meaning of life”] at the University of Barcelona, Spain (Erasmus
Teaching Exchange)
2014 Fall, MA Course (60 hrs, English), Analisi Filosofica/Philosophical Analysis, title “Ex-
planations in Philosophy”, Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze Filosofiche, University of Mil-
an
2014 Fall (20 hrs, Italian), Laboratorio on “Aristotele, l'eternità del mondo e la metafisica del
tempo” [“Aristoteles, the eternity of the cosmos, and the metaphysics of time”] (with S. Zucchi
and F. Franco Repellini), University of Milan
2014, 8-12 April, Course (10 hrs., English) for PhD Student on “Metaphysical Explanation”,
University of Oslo, Norway (Erasmus Teaching Exchange)
2014, March, Course (10 hrs., English) for PhD Student on “The Nature and Scope of Indeterm-
incy” (with Proff. E. Paganini and C. Calabi), PhD Program in Philosophy and the Human Sci-
ences, University of Milan
2013, Fall, MA Course (60 hrs, English) Analisi Filosofica, title“The Paradoxes of Time and
Modality”, Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze Filosofiche, University of Milan
2013, 10 May, Lessons (2 hrs, English) on McTaggart’s Paradox at the doctoral school of Uni-
versity of Milan
2013 February - May (20 hrs, Italian), Laboratorio on “Metafisica del Passaggio del
Tempo” [“The Metaphysics of the Passage of Time”], University of Milan
2012 (Fall) MA Course (20 hrs, English) Language and Cognition, title “Propositional Attitudes
Ascription” for the Master in Ciencia Cognitiva i Lenguatge at the University of Barcelona
2010 (Fall) Assistant to the course at University of Turin, "Kant and the Critique of Pure
Reason", Prof. M. Ferraris
2009 (Fall) Assistant to the course at University of Turin, “Ontology” (BA level) , Prof. Tiziana
Andina
2009 (February-March) Assistant to the course at University of Turin, “Ontology and Cognitive
Science” (MA level), Prof. Roberto Casati
2008 (Fall) Assistant to the course at University of Turin, “Social Ontology”, Prof. Maurizio Fer-
raris
!202008 (Spring) Assistant to the course at University of Turin, “Social Ontology”, Prof. Maurizio
Ferraris
2008 12- 14 February – Lessons on Metaphysics of time, graduate school Pro*Doc “Mind,
Normativity, Self, Properties”, University of Geneva
2007 (Fall) Assistant to the course at University of Turin, “Ontology”, Prof. Tiziana Andina
2006 “Facilitator” at the CNRS Summer School “Cognitive Bases of Scientific Images”, Ro-
scoff, France
2004 (Spring) Assistant to the course at University of Turin. “Filosofia Teoretica I, Specialistica:
Il mondo ha le sue leggi e le fa rispettare: l’a priori materiale”. Prof. Maurizio Ferraris
2003 (Fall) Assistant to the course at University of Turin. “Filosofia e Scienze Cognitive: Art and
Cognition”. Prof. Roberto Casati.
Services to the profession
Organisation of Conferences and workshops
2018 18-20 June [scheduled], Fifth IAPT Meeting, Yonsei University, Seul, Korea (with N. Deng,
A. Bardon, C. Callender, K. Miller, U. Meyer, G. A. Forbes)
2018 24-6 January, XXIV Convegno Nazionale della Società Italiana di Filosofia del linguaggio.
Forme dell’identità, University of Milan, Italy (with D. Bordini, A. Borghini, C. Calabi. A. Fri-
gerio, S. Iaquinto, E. Paganini, F. Panzeri, S. Raynaud, G. Spolaore, S. Zucchi).
2017 21-3 September, “Workshop on Emotions, Imagination, and Time”, University of Milan,
Lake Garda, Gargnano, Italy (with C. Bagnoli, D. Bordini, C. Calabi, D. Debus, C. Todd, and N.
Young)
2017 28 June, “TMW: The Moving Spotlight”, Center for Philosophy of Time, University of
Milan (with S. Iaquinto, D. Ingram, and N. Young)
2017 12-14 June, “Fourth Annual Meeting of the IAPT”, University of Milan, Lake Garda,
Gargnano, Italy (with A. Bardon, D. Bordini, V. Buonomo, C. Calosi, F. Correia, S. Iaquinto, D.
Ingram, U. Meyer, K. Miller, B. Neeser, C. Wüthrich, and N. Young)
2017 2-3 May, “TMW: The Open Future”, Center for Philosophy of Time, University of Milan
(with G. Andreoletti, S. Iaquinto, and D. Ingram)
2016/17 CPT Colloquia (with S. Iaquinto, D. Ingram, N. Young, and D. Bordini)
!212016 24-5 November, “Temporal Experience”, Center for Philosophy of Time, University of
Milan (with D. Bordini, S. Iaquinto, D. Ingram, and D. Vitasovic)
2016 September, “TMW: Presentism”, Center for Philosophy of Time, University of Milan (with
S. Iaquinto)
2016 5-7 September, XII Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA), Pis-
toia (with the other members of the SIFA Steering Committee)
2016 5 September, “Symposium on Time“ at the XII Conference of the Italian Society for Analyt-
ic Philosophy (SIFA) (with E. Paganini, and S. Iaquinto), Pistoia
2016 17 June, “Space-Time and Fundamentality”, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (with F. Correia, C.
Calosi, B. Neeser, and S. Iaquinto)
2016 9-11 June (as a member of the Steering committee of the IAPT), “Third Annual Meeting of
the IAPT”, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
2016 31 May, “Time and Emotions” (with C. Calabi, and S. Iaquinto), Center for Philosophy of
Time, University of Milan
2016 12 May, “Explanation Within and Without Metaphysics” (with V. Buonomo, and S. Ia-
quinto), Center for Philosophy of Time, University of Milan
2016 Spring and Summer, Time-Methods Colloquia (with S. Iaquinto)
2016 21 January, “Filosofia e Discriminazione”, University of Turin (with V. Tripodi and M.
Santoro)
2015 24-26 September, SIFA Midterm Conference on “Truth and Persuasion”, Alghero (Italy)
(with the other members of the SIFA Steering Committee)
2015 4-6 June, 8th Latin Meeting, University of Milan (with G. Spolaore, S. Zucchi, C. Calabi,
E. Paganini)
2014 November - 2015 June; Seminari di Filosofia del Linguaggio e della Mente [Seminars of
Philosophy of Language and Mind] (with Elisa Paganini), University of Milan
2014 15-17 September; Names and Expressives, University of Milan, Gargnano del Garda, Italy
(with A. Zucchi, C. Calabi, E. Paganini)
2014 11-14 May; Gargnano Philosophy of Time Conference, University of Milan, Gargnano del
Garda, Italy (with U. Meyer)
2013 November - 2014 June; Seminari di Filosofia del Linguaggio e della Mente [Seminars of
Philosophy of Language and Mind], University of Milan (with Elisa Paganini)
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