Giuliano Torrengo
Date and place of birth: 27/01/1975, Torino, Italy
Home Address: Carrer de Sòria 18, 3-1, 08003 Barcelona (Spain) Office Address: Dept. Lógica, Història i Filosofía de la Ciència, Universitat de Barcelona LOGOS – Grup de Recerca en Lògica, Llenguatge i Cognició Montalegre 6; Barcelona 08001 Telephone: +34 934031914 Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Present Affiliation 3/2011 - 2/2014 Juan de la Cierva Fellowship, LOGOS Group - Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència - Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Other Affiliations Labont — Department of Philosophy, University of Turin (Italy) 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. 2004 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. Col- laboration 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.
1 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
Work in progress (provisory titles)
Time Travel, Individuals, and the Space-time-actuality Manifold Metaphysical Explanations Error Theories and the Flow of Time Documentality: A Theory of Social Reality (with M. Ferraris) Are there any Austinian Propositions? (with S. Caputo)
Books
2011 I Viaggi nel Tempo. Una Guida Filosofica [Time Travels. A Philosophical Guide], Roma- Bari, Laterza 2008 Time and Cross-Temporal Relations, Mimesis, Milano
Peer Reviewed Articles in Journals and in Collective Works with a Scientific Board
2012, “Time and Simple Existence” forthcoming in Metaphysica (October 2012)
In this paper I argue against scepticism toward the substantivity of the distinction between eternalism and presentism.
2012, “Time Travel and the Thin Red Line”, fothcoming in P. Graziani and M. Sangoi (eds.) Open Problems in the Philosophy of Science, London, College Pubblications
2 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.
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.
2012 “The Metaphysics of the Thin Red Line” (with A. Borghini), forthcoming in F. Correia, A. Iacona (eds.), Around the Three, Berlin, Synthese Library, Springer Verlag. In this paper we defend the thin red line hypothesis against common misconceptions
2011 “The Modal Dimension”, Humana.Mente Journal of Philosophical Studies, 19: 105–120
In this paper I discuss Lewis modal realism and argue for a radical interpretation of it.
2011 “The Grounding Problem and Presentist Explanations”, forthcoming in Synthese (online first: 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.
2011 “The not so incredible shrinking future” (with R. Casati), Analysis, 71, 2: 240–44
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 (online first < U R L = http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s11406-009-9225-1>)
3 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 ontol- ogy, Frankfurt, Ontos: 137-154.
A discussion and a critique of Bergmann’s theory of persistence.
2008 “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
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
4 2012, “Filosofia della Scienza” [Philosophy of Science] (with E. Casetta), forthcoming in T. An- dina (ed.) Filosofia Contemporanea. Di cosa si occupano i filosofi oggi, Roma, Carocci
An opinionated introduction to central problems in contemporary philosophy of science (in particular, phi- losophy of physics and philosophy of biology).
2012, “Presentism and Cross-temporal Relations” (with R. Ciuni), forthcoming on R. Ciuni, K. Miller, G. Torrengo (eds.) New Papers on the Present. Focus on Presentism, Philosophia Verlag
A detailed discussion of all arguments from cross-temporal relations against presentism to be found in re- cent literature.
2012, “Una nota sulla filosofia dei viaggi nel tempo” [A note on the Philosophy of Time Travel], forthcoming on a volume of the “Collana CIRFS”, Milano, Mimesis
In this note I argue that the idea of time travel can be very useful in philosophical investigations.
2012, “L’ontologia del tempo” [The Ontology of Time], forthcoming in Carlo Tatasciore, Pier- luigi Graziani, Giorgio Grimaldi (eds.) Prospettive Filosofiche 2009: Ontologia, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici
An overview of the contemporary problems in the metaphysics of time.
2012 “Collective Intentionality, Documents, and Social Reality” forthcoming in Rivista di Es- tetica
A critique of Searle’s notion of collective intentionality
2012 “Esistere” e “essere esistito” [“Existing” and “Having existed”], Rivista di Estetica, 49:
This 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”, forthcoming in Rivista di Estetica, 50
An slightly 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.
5 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, 2:248−2 5 9
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 ontol- ogy], 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 designa- tors.
2008 “Lineamenti di Ontologia Formale”, in Maurizio Ferraris (ed.) Storia dell’Ontologia, Bom- piani: 296-322
An introductory overview on formal ontology, centered on the notions of existence, object, identity, parthood and dependence, for an Italian handbook.
2007 “«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 seman- tics.
2006 “Shoemaker, Sidney”, entry of the Enciclopedia Filosofica, Bompiani (ed. Virgilio Melchi- orre)
6 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 Berg- mann, 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 Ni- cod 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.
Non academics
2011 “Omosessualità e relativismo” [Homosexuality and Relativism], Alfabeta2, January- February 2011
Editorial 2012 New Papers on the Present. Focus on Presentism (with R. Ciuni and K. Miller), to be pub- lished by Philosophia Verlag
7 2012 “Social Ontology: from Intentionality to Documentality” (co-edited with Petar Bojanic and Elena Casetta), Rivista di Estetica (also as special international issue) 2006 “Semantica e Ontologia” (co-edited with L. Morena), Rivista di Estetica, 32 2004 “Il realismo ontologico di Gustav Bergmann”, with G. Bonino, monography, Rivista di Es- tetica, 25, 2004, XLV
Reviews 2012 “Gli Oggetti che popolano il Mondo. Ontologia delle relazioni” di M.G. Turri, L’indice 2011 “I confini sfumati” di 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, 1 5
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 (forthcoming) 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.
8 Talks
2012 15-16 November [scheduled], “Time Travel, Identity and the Space-Time-Actuality Mani- fold”, PERSP Space and Time Workshop on Time and Identity, University of Barcelona 2012 22-23 May [scheduled], “Metaphysics and Empirical Data”, Workshop on “Empirical Evi- dence and Philosophy”, Belgrade University 2012 14-15 May [Scheduled], “How Should a Error Theory of The Passage of Time be like”, Workshop in Analytical Metaphysics: Challenging Perspectives on the Ontology of Time, Univer- sity of Namur, Belgium 2012 4-6 May [scheduled], “Metaphysical Explanations”, Congrès SOPHA 2012, Paris 2012 19-20 March, “Metaphysical Explanations”, 4th IJN-LOGOS Workshop — Mind, Language and Metaphysics, Institut Nicod, Paris 2012 15 February “Past Existence, Cheaters, and The Sceptical Challenge”, Logos Seminar, University of Barcelona 2011 1-2 December, Commentator of Graeme A Forbes "Open but not Gaping", PERSP Space & Time Workshop on the Open Future, University of Barcelona 2011 28 October, “Metaphysical Explanations”, PERSP Metaphysical Seminar (PMS), Univer- sity of Barcelona 2011 6 October, Commentator of Teresa Marques “Doxastic Disagreement”, II LOGOS- LANGCOG workshop, University of Barcelona 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 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, Univer- sity of Padova 2011 18 March, “Spatial Parts, Temporal Parts, Modal Parts”, PERP Metaphysical Seminar (PMP), University of Barcelona 2011 2 March, “Past Existence and Presentism”, GRG meeting, University of Barcelona 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 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
9 2010 15-17 December “Time-travel, Individuals, and the Space-Time-Actuality Manifold”, SILFS 2010, Conferenza Triennale della Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia della Scienza, University 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) 2010 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 2010 27-9 May “Are there any Austinian Propositions?” (with S. Caputo), Semantics and Phi- losophy 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 Sci- enze, Cesena (IT)
2009 16 October “L’ontologia del tempo” [The ontology of Time], Prospettive Filosofiche 2009, Ontologia, Francavilla al Mare (CH) 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 be- tween philosophy and physics: theory of relativity and metaphysics of time], with Prof. Alessan- dro 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
10 2008 25-27 Settembre, ‘Two Dimensions in Metaphysical Disagreement’ (with L. Morena) pre- sented 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 2008 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- dependence, 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 (Univer- sity 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 Onto- logical 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
11 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 metaphisics 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 2005 30th August: “The Youngest Spy”, presented at the ECAP5 (European Congress for Ana- lytical 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 Wi- towski.
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 ordi- nary 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 organised by C.A. Viano at the Department of Philosophy, University of Torino.
Teaching Experiences
2010 (Fall) Assistant to the course at University of Turin, "Kant and the Critique of Pure Rea- son", Prof. M. Ferraris
2009 (Fall) Assistant to the course at University of Turin, “Ontology”, Prof. Tiziana Andina
2009 (February-March) Assistant to the course at University of Turin, “Ontology and Cognitive Science”, Prof. Roberto Casati
2008 (Fall) Assistant to the course at University of Turin, “Social Ontology”, Prof. Maurizio Fer- raris
12 2008 (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, Nor- mativity, Self, Properties”, University of Geneva
2007 (Fall) Assistant to the course at University of Turin, “Ontology”, Prof. Tiziana Andina
2006 “Facilitator” at the CNRS Summmer School “Cognitive Bases of Scientific Images”, Roscoff, 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
2012 15-16 November [scheduled] PERSP Workshop on Time and Identity (co-organised with Marta Campdelacreu and Bryan Pickel)
2012 15-16 June [scheduled] Workshop on Marriage and The Family (co-organised with Vera Tripodi), University of Barcelona
2012 January - June [in progress] Convenor (with Marta Campdelacreu) of the Reading Group on “Methodological Issues in Metaphysics” at the Logos Group, University of Barcelona
2011 Member of the Scientific Committee of Semantic Content and Context Dependence, Barce- lona, 4 - 6 November
(http://www.ub.edu/semcon/index.php?/workshops/3st-semantic-content-workshop/)
2011 6 September, Social Ontology and Documentality, ECAP7 Workshop, University of Milano
2008 29th October, A Workshop with Matthew Barney, with Labont - Department of Philosophy and Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti (Albertina Art School), Torino
2008 31st October – 1st November, “Brillo | Artist’s Thought. International Festival of Philosophy of Contemporary Art”, Fondazione Mertz, Torino
13 2006 “Facilitator” at the CNRS Summmer School “Cognitive Bases of Scientific Images”, Roscoff, France
Advisory
Associate Editor of Rivista di Estetica (http://www.labont.it/estetica/index.asp)
Associate Editor of Abstracta (http://www.abstracta.pro.br/english/presentation.asp)
Occasional referee for Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophia, Dialectica, Theoria, Acta Analitica
Grants 2011-14 Juan de la Cierva 2008-2011 postdoctoral research grant, University of Torino 2002 October – 2007 September: Ph.D. Student National Grant 1999 Erasmus Undergraduate Student Grant
Research Projects 2012-2014 Investigator in the MICINN Project (Code: FFI2011-25626) “Reference, Self- Reference and Empirical Data” (Principal Investigator José Martínez)
2006-2008 PRIN “Documentality. Ontologies and technologies for Citizenship and Democracy” 2002-2004 PRIN “Intellectual Property: Properties of Objects, properties of Ideas” 2004-2006 PRIN “Ontological Canon. An integrative Approach to Knowledge Organization”
Others Permanent member of Labont (Laboratory of Ontology) of the Università degli Studi di Torino
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