Giuliano Torrengo

Qualification

Juan de la Cierva Fellowship, University of Barcelona

 

Areas of competence

Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Cognitive science

 

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 DiFrancesco, 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 Rotterdam (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.

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

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)

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

2012, “La Filosofia del Tempo”, AphEx – Portale italiano di Filosofia Analitica, Giornale di Filosofia Network, 5

<http://www.aphex.it/public/file/Content20120201_APHEx5TemiTorrengoFilosofiadelTempo.pdf>

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.

 

2011 “The Modal Dimension”, Humana.Mente Journal of Philosophical Studies, 19: 105–120

2011 “The Grounding Problem and Presentist Explanations”, Synthese (online first: http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-011-9955-z)

2011 “The not so incredible shrinking future” (with R. Casati), Analysis, 71, 2: 240–44

 

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

2010, “Time, Context, and Cross-temporal Claims”, Philosophia, 38: 281-296

 

2009 “Relative Truth and The Metaphysics of Tense”, in M. Carrara & V. Morato (eds.), Language, Knowledge, and Metaphysics: selected papers form the 1st SIFA Graduate Conference, College Publications, London: 211-228

2009 “Bare Particulars and Persistence in Bergmann” (with Luca Angelone), in Bruno Langlet & Jean-Maurice Monnoyer (eds.) G. Bergmann : phenomenological realism and dialectical ontology, Frankfurt, Ontos: 137-154.

 

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

 

2006, “Crimes and Punishments”, with A.Varzi, Philosophia, 34: 395-404.

2006, “Tenseless cross-temporal Relations”, Metaphysica, Vol. 7, No. 2: 117-129

 

Other Papers:

2012, “Filosofia della Scienza” [Philosophy of Science] (with E. Casetta), forthcoming in T. Andina (ed.)  Filosofia Contemporanea. Di cosa si occupano i filosofi oggi, Roma, Carocci

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

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

2012, “L’ontologia del tempo” [The Ontology of Time], forthcoming in Carlo Tatasciore, Pierluigi Graziani, Giorgio Grimaldi (eds.) Prospettive Filosofiche 2009: Ontologia, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici

2012 “Collective Intentionality, Documents, and Social Reality” forthcoming in Rivista di Estetica

2012 “Esistere” e “essere esistito” [“Existing” and “Having existed”], Rivista di Estetica, 49:

2012 “Perché l’intenzionalità collettiva non dà conto del mercato azionario e i documenti sì”, forthcoming in Rivista di Estetica, 50

 

2011, “L’assassino del nonno viaggi sulla macchina del tempo”, L’Indice, XXVIII, n.1: 10

2011, “Perché l’intenzionalità collettiva non dà conto del mercato azionario e i documenti sì”, Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, XII, 2:248−259 <http://www2.units.it/etica/2010_2/TORRENGO.pdf>

 

2010 ”L’ontologia del tempo” [The Ontology of Time], forthcoming in Carlo Tatasciore, Pierluigi Graziani, Giorgio Grimaldi (eds.) Prospettive Filosofiche 2009: Ontologia, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici

 

2009 “Documenti e Intenzioni. La Documentalità nel dibattito contemporaneo sull’ontologia sociale” [Documents and Intentions. Documentality in the contemporary debate on social ontology], Rivista di Estetica, 42: 157-188

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

2009 “Titolo e Necessità” [Titling and Necessity] (with L. Morena) in P. Kobau (ed.) “Titoli”, Rivista di Estetica, 40: 41-55

 

2008 “Lineamenti di Ontologia Formale”, in Maurizio Ferraris (ed.) Storia dell’Ontologia, Bompiani: 296-322

 

2007 “«Arriverò ieri!» Filosofia, linguaggio e viaggi nel tempo”, with L. Morena, Notable, 1

 

2006 “Introduzione” (with L.Morena) to “Semantica e Ontologia”, in Rivista di Estetica, 32

2006 “Shoemaker, Sidney”, entry of the Enciclopedia Filosofica, Bompiani (ed. Virgilio Melchiorre)

2006, “Cross-temporal Relations”, in Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Granada

 

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

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

2004 “Raccontami cosa vedi”, Rivista di Estetica, 24, 2004, XLIV: 130-133

2004 Discussion on the internet forum published in R. Casati, “The unity of the kind Artwork”, Rivista di Estetica, 23, 2003, XLIII: 27-28

2003 “La cognizione sociale in Ray Jackendoff”, Rivista di Estetica, 23, 2003, XLIII: 220-237

 

2002 “Oggetti percepiti e oggetti dimostrati”, Rivista di Estetica, 20, 2002, XLII: 107-125

 

 

Editorial

2012 Present and Eternity. Focus on Presentism (with R. Ciuni and K. Miller) to be published by Philosophia Verlag

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 Estetica, 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, 15 <http://www.humanamente.eu/PDF/Issue15_Commentary_Torrengo.pdf>

2010 “I confini sfumati” di T. Andina, Epistemologia (forthcoming)

2010 “Truth and Ontology” di T. Merricks, Bollettino SIFA

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 < 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 <http://www.humana-mente.it/Commentary_%20Fourdimensionalism_issue%208.pdf>

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, Pragmatica 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 (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.

 

Non-academics

“Omosessualità e relativismo” [Homosexuality and relativism], Alfabeta2, January-February 2011

 

 

TALKS

2012 15-16 November [scheduled], “Time Travel, Identity and the Space-Time-Actuality Manifold”, PERSP Space and Time Workshop on Time and Identity, University of Barcelona

2012 22-23 May [scheduled], “Metaphysics and Empirical Data”, Workshop on “Empirical Evidence 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, University 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), University 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 Documentality, 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, University 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

 

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], University of Pisa (invited)

2010 4-16 October “Time Travel in a Branching Universe”, Sexto Congreso de la Sociedad Española 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, University 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 Philosophy 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 Scienze, 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 – Società 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. Alessandro 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 Metaphysics 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 mutual 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 Conference, 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 Graduate 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 Metaphysics 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 (University 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 Ontological 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 Spanish 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, Persons, and Society, SIFA2006, Milano

2005 17^th December: “Tensed Predication and Relations” presented at XVI Convegno Nazionale dei Dottorati di Ricerca in FIlosofia, Istituto Banfi, Reggio Emilia, Italy

2005 16^th December: “Expressing Ontological Disagreement” (with L.Morena), presented at Descriptions and Logical Form/100 years of “On Denoting”, University of Padua, Italy

2005 2^nd December: “What’s the whole story?” presented at Colloque des doctorants de l’Université de Genève, hiver 2005—2006, Geneva, Switzerland (with a preliminary lesson in french on the metaphisics of time)

2005 11^th 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, Pragmatics and Rhetoric (SPR-05) Donostia – San Sebastian, Spain

2005 30^th August: “The Youngest Spy”, presented at the ECAP5 (European Congress for Analytical Philosophy), Lisbon University, Portugal

2005 10^th July: “The Youngest Spy”, presented at the Open Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, Manchester University, GB

2005 26^th May: “Tibbles, Identity, and delayed relations” presented at Identity: Ontological Perspectives, conference organized by the Vrij Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2005, 30^th April: “I am where I am, therefore I am not here now”, presented at New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association, Rowen University, Glassboro, NJ, USA. Discussant Abe Witowski.

2004, 5^th May: Presentation of the 25^th 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, 24^th March: “How to handle a metaphysical problem. An example: relations among ordinary objects”, presented at the Delhi University, chairman of the seminar: Prof. P. Jetli.

 

2002, 12^th 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 Reason”, 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 Ferraris

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, 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 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 2-3 November [scheduled] Barcelona — Urbino Meeting, University of Urbino (co-organised with Mario Alai, Claudio Calosi, Pierluigi Graziani), University of Urbino

2012 15-16 June [scheduled] Workshop on Marriage and The Family (co-organised with Vera Tripodi), University of Barcelona

2012 22-23 May [scheduled] Workshop on “Empirical Evidence and Philosophy” (co-organized with Petar Bojanic), Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade

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, Barcelona, 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 29^th October, A Workshop with Matthew Barney, with Labont – Department of Philosophy and Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti (Albertina Art School), Torino

2008 31^st October – 1^st November, “Brillo | Artist’s Thought. International Festival of Philosophy of Contemporary Art”, Fondazione Mertz, Torino

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, 

 

Research Projects

2012-2014 Investigator in the MICINN Project (Code: FFI2011-25626) “Reference, Self-Reference and Empirical Data” (Principal Investigator José Martínez) <URL = http://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/project_card.php?idProj=41>

2012-2014 Investigator in the MICINN Project (Code: FFI2011-29560-C02-01) “Knowledge, Reference and Realism” (Principal Investigator Manuel Pérez Otero) <URL = http://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/project_card.php?idProj=43>

 

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”