Samuele Chilovi
University of Barcelona [email protected] Department of Philosophy Carrer Montalegre, 6-8 08001, Barcelona, Spain https://barcelona.academia.edu/samuelechilovi
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Areas of Specialization: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Law
Areas of Competence: Meta-ethics, Philosophy of Language ______
Current Appointments
PhD candidate in Philosophy – University of Barcelona 2014–present
Pre-doctoral researcher with the project Derivative Metaphysics 2016–present (FFI2015–66372-P Mineco/Feder, UE) – University of Barcelona, Department of Philosophy
Member of the Law and Philosophy Research Group – Pompeu Fabra 2018–present University, Law Department
Positions Held
Member of the Globalization and Legal Theory Programme, run by the 2017–2018 Universities of Glasgow, Louvain and Tilburg
Member of LOGOS – Research Group in Analytic Philosophy, led at the 2014–2018 University of Barcelona, Department of Philosophy
Pre-doctoral researcher with the project The Makings of Truth: Nature, 2014–2015 Extent, and Applications of Truthmaking (FFI2012–35026) – University of Barcelona, Department of Philosophy
Research student at the University of Antwerp, Faculty of Law (Centre 2013–2014 for Law & Cosmopolitan Values)
Pre-doctoral researcher at Pompeu Fabra University, Law Department 2013–2014
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Visiting Positions
August – December 2017: Visiting PhD student at Rutgers University, Fall 2017 Department of Philosophy, New Brunswick, NJ (USA) Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Schaffer
Grants
Holder of an FPI grant (doctoral research contract) funded by the Spanish 2014–2018 Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO)
Education
Metaphysical Mayhem: selected participant for the Metaphysical Spring 2018 Mayhem Workshop, a week-long bi-annual graduate student workshop in Metaphysics, Rutgers University, 21-25 May 2018
ESSLLI 2016: attendant at the 28th European Summer School in Logic, Summer 2016 Language and Information – Free University of Bolzano, Faculty of Computer Science, 15-26 August 2016
ESSLLI 2015: attendant at the 27th European Summer School in Logic, Summer 2015 Language and Information – Pompeu Fabra University, Faculty of Linguistics, 3-14 August 2015
Attendant at the Summer School on Law and Logic, organized by Summer 2014 the European University Institute and Harvard Law School, 14-25 July 2014
Laurea Magistrale (B.A. and M.A.) in Law, summa cum laude 2007–2012 University of Bologna Supervisors: Professor Carla Faralli and Professor Renzo Orlandi External supervisor: Professor José Juan Moreso Thesis: ‘The Pragmatics of Legal Language: Paul Grice and the Philosophy of Law’
Publications
Forthcoming: ‘The Speaker Dilemma in Legal Implicatures’ Anchoring Institutions. Democracy and Institutions in a Half-automated World, edited by Casanovas, P., and Moreso, J.J.. Springer
2018: ‘Grounding Entails Supervenience’ Synthese, special issue on New Frontiers in Ground, Essence, and Modality, edited by O'Conaill D. and Tahko T.E.
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2018: ‘Interpretative Arguments and the Application of the Law’ (with J.J. Moreso) Handbook of Legal Reasoning and Argumentation, edited by Bongiovanni, G., Postema, G., Rotolo, A., Sartor, G., Valentini, C., and Walton, D.. Springer
2016: ‘The Semantics and Pragmatics of According to the Law’ (with J.J. Moreso) Pragmatics and Law: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Capone, A. and Poggi, F.. Springer
2016: (in Italian) ‘Il Diritto come Linguaggio (nella Filosofia Analitica Contemporanea)’ (‘Law as Language (in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy)’) (with J.J. Moreso) Che cosa è il diritto. Ontologie e concezioni del giuridico, a cura di Bongiovanni, G., Pino, G., e Roversi, C.. Giappichelli
2016: ‘The Speaker Dilemma in Legal Implicatures: Comparisons and Further Issues’ Archives for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, edited by Ferreira Leite de Paula, A., Santacoloma, A., and Villa Rosas, G.. Franz Steiner Verlag
Completed Manuscripts
‘Supervenience-based Implications of Exclusive Legal Positivism’ Synopsis: An argument that a kind of strong supervenience can be used to capture the strongest modal implications of exclusive legal positivism.
‘Positivism, Naturalism, and Hume’s Law’ (with D. Wodak) Synopsis: An account of the problem posed by Hume’s Law to legal positivism and moral naturalism, and a comparative assessment of the main solutions to it.
Commissioned Chapters
(in Spanish) ‘Introducción a la Metafísica’ (‘Introduction to Metaphysics’), to appear in Filosofía para Juristas. Una Introducción (Philosophy for Lawyers. An Introduction) Synopsis: A short introduction to metaphysics for lawyers and law students.
Work in Progress
‘The Explanatory Demands of Grounding in Law’ (with G. Pavlakos) Synopsis: A review of explanatory gap arguments in legal philosophy, and an assessment of their bearing on the explanatory nature of grounding in law.
‘Ground-theoretic Formulations of Views on the Nature of Law’ Synopsis: An assessment of various ground-theoretic formulations of positivism and anti- positivism in the philosophy of law, culminating in the defence of a positive proposal.
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Selected Talks
Refereed
25/5/18: Metaphysical Mayhem Workshop, Rutgers University (USA) Title: ‘What Would it Be for Grounding to Be Explanatory?’
5-7/9/16: XII SIFA Conference, Pistoia (Italy) Title: ‘Law and Supervenience’
28-29/1/16: XVIII TIF – Taller de Investigación en Filosofía, University of Valencia (Spain) Title: ‘The Speaker Dilemma in Collective Implicatures’
29-30/6/15: FINO Graduate Philosophy Conference –Thinking the Impossible, University of Turin (Italy) Title: ‘Maurice Dispelled’
12-14/11/14: UCSIA Workshop on Decision Making Processes on the European Level, University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp (Belgium) Title: ‘The Speaker Dilemma in Legal Implicatures’
10-11/10/14: UCLA & University of Antwerp Joint Conference on Law and Philosophy, University of California Los Angeles (USA) Title: ‘Maurice v. Judd: a Case Study on the Interplay between Law and Language’
28/8/14-2/9/14: 8th European Conference in Analytic Philosophy, Bucharest (Romania) Title: ‘The Speaker Dilemma in Legal Implicatures’
24/4/14: Social and Political Philosophy Workshop, City University of New York (USA) Title: ‘The Speaker Dilemma in Legal Implicatures’
23-25/10/13: 3rd Conference of the European Network on Social Ontology, University of Helsinki (Finland) Title: ‘The Speaker Paradox in Statutory Implicatures’
8-10/5/13: OLPP Graduate Conference for Legal Theory, McMaster University, York Universty & Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto (Canada) Title: ‘Legislation as Communication? An Assessment of a Normative Objection’
Invited
7/6/18: (discussant) Conceptual Analysis and the Future of Jurisprudence – Legal Theory Festival, University of Edinburgh (UK) Title: ‘Two and a Half Kinds of Ameliorative Projects’
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11/5/18: Philosophy and Law Workshop, University of Glasgow’ (UK) Title: ‘Is Hume’s Law a Threat to Positivism and Naturalism?’
19/4/18: Legal Theory Seminar, University of Edinburgh (UK) Title: ‘Rational Determination as Grounding’ (with G. Pavlakos)
23/2/18: Seminar in Metaphysics, University of Barcelona (Spain) Title: ‘Rational Determination as Grounding’
6/12/17: Metaphysics Seminar, Rutgers University (USA) Title: ‘Supervenience-based Implications of Exclusive Legal Positivism’
7/9/17: Law and Philosophy Seminar, UCLA (USA) Title: ‘Rational Determination as Grounding’ (with G. Pavlakos)
1/6/17: Law and Metaphysics Workshop –Legal Theory Festival, University of Edinburgh (UK) Title: ‘Law and Supervenience’
22/5/17: Workshop DM1: Metaphysics in the law, University of Barcelona (Spain) Title: ‘Rational Determination as Grounding’
10/5/17: Metaphysics WIP Seminar, University of Glasgow (UK) Title: ‘From Grounding to Supervenience’
31/3/17: Seminar in Metaphysics, University of Barcelona (Spain) Title: ‘From Grounding to Supervenience’
17/2/17: Philosophy Postgraduate Seminar, University of Glasgow (UK) Title: ‘Law and Supervenience’
19/10/16: LOGOS Seminar, University of Barcelona (Spain) Title: ‘Law and Supervenience’
15-16/9/16: (discussant) Collective Action and the Law, Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)
6/6/16: (discussant) Jurisprudence Symposium, LUISS University, Rome (Italy)
12/5/2016: Law and Philosophy Seminar, Pompeu Fabra University (Spain) Title: ‘Law and Supervenience’
13/4/16: Deu qüestions de Filosofia Política. Seminari de Formació del Professorat del Grup de Filosofia Analítica (training seminar for philosophy high school teachers), Barcelona (Spain) Title: ‘Semántica, Pragmática e Interpretación del Derecho’ (‘Semantics, Pragmatics, and Legal Interpretation’)
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8/4/16: Seminar in Metaphysics, University of Barcelona (Spain) Title: ‘Supervenience-based Formulations of Legal Positivism’
27/11/15: IV Catalan Philosophy Congress – Ethics & Legal and Political Philosophy Symposium, Vilafranca del Penedès (Spain) Title: ‘The Speaker Dilemma in Legal Implicatures’
20/11/15: PERSP Metaphysics Seminar, University of Barcelona (Spain) Title: ‘Jurisprudence as Metaphysics’
6/11/15: 2nd UPF-Girona Legal Philosophy Conference, University of Girona (Spain) Title: ‘The Metaphysics of Law’
26/6/15: Legal Philosophy Seminar, University of Genoa (Italy) Title: ‘The Semantics and Pragmatics of ‘According to the Law’’
12/6/15: 8th Disputationes Quadrangulae, University of Antwerp (Belgium) Title: ‘Maurice Dispelled’
8/6/15: Law and Philosophy Seminar, Pompeu Fabra University (Spain) Title: ‘The Semantics and Pragmatics of ‘According to the Law’’
21/5/15: GRSeminar (Gender, Race, and Sexuality seminar), University of Barcelona (Spain) Title: ‘Law as Fiction’
2/6/14: (discussant) Legal Philosophy Seminar, University of Antwerp (Belgium) Title: ‘Determinacy in Hard Cases (Based Solely on Social Facts)’
30/5/13: Law and Philosophy Seminar, Pompeu Fabra University (Spain) Title: ‘Legal Ontology and Communication Theory’
Internal
13/4/16: LOGOS Graduate Student Seminar, University of Barcelona (Spain) Title: ‘Semántica, Pragmática e Interpretación del Derecho’ (‘Semantics, Pragmatics, and Legal Interpretation’)
6/4/16: LOGOS Graduate Student Seminar, University of Barcelona (Spain) Title: ‘Supervenience-based Formulations of Legal Positivism’
27/5/15: LOGOS Graduate Student Seminar, University of Barcelona (Spain) Title: ‘The Semantics and Pragmatics of ‘According to the Law’’
22/10/14: LOGOS Graduate Student Seminar, University of Barcelona (Spain) Title: ‘Maurice vs. Judd: a Case Study on the Interplay between Law and Language’
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30/5/14: LOGOS Graduate Student Seminar, University of Barcelona (Spain) Title: ‘The Speaker Dilemma in Legal Implicatures’
27/5/14: Research Project Presentation, Tilburg University (Netherlands) Title: ‘The Metaphysics of Legal Content’
Teaching Experience
Spring 2016: Analytical Approaches in Legal Theory Seminar, Globalisation and Legal Theory PhD Programme (co-taught with G. Pavlakos), University of Glasgow, 16-20 May 2016
Fall 2015: Philosophy of Language (practice part), University of Barcelona
Organization of Events
Spring 2018: co-organizer of the Philosophy and Law Workshop Series, University of Glasgow
Spring 2017: co-organizer of the workshop DM1: Metaphysics in the Law, University of Barcelona, 22-23/5/17
Spring 2017: co-organizer of the Philosophy and Law Workshop Series, University of Glasgow
Fall 2015: convenor and organizer of the Metaphysics Reading Group at the University of Barcelona
Fall 2015: co-organizer of the 5th PERSP Metaphysics workshop and 2nd workshop on The Makings of Truth, University of Barcelona, 10-11/12/15
Spring 2015: convenor and organizer of the reading group on formal semantics at the University of Barcelona
Spring 2015: junior convenor of the LOGOS Seminars and Colloquia at the University of Barcelona
Service to the Profession
Referee of paper manuscripts for: Ethics Forum; Jurisprudence; Phenomenology and Mind.
Professional Memberships
2016–2018: Collaborator of the Law and Philosophy Research Group (led at Pompeu Fabra University)
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2013–2014: Student member of the Globalization and Legal Theory Programme (run by the Universities of Antwerp, Glasgow, Kiel and Tilburg)
Languages
Italian (native), English (excellent reading, writing, and verbal skills), Spanish (good reading, writing, and verbal skills), Ancient Greek (reading), Latin (reading)
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