A Relational General Relativistic A-theory, Lugano Philosophy Colloquia, USI Lugano, 11 May 2026 (joint work with Nicola Bamonti)
A Relational General Relativistic A-theory, European Congress for Metaphysics, Munich, 9-11 July 2026 (joint work with Nicola Bamonti)
Newton-Cartan Lessons for the Metaphysics of Time, APSA Biennial Conference 2026, Singapore, 22-24 July 2026 (joint work with Enrico Cinti and Marco Sanchioni)
Selected Past Talks
Newtonian Lessons for the Metaphysics of Time, Geneva Symmetry Group seminar, Geneva, 5 March 2026 (based on joint work with Enrico Cinti and Marco Sanchioni)
Limiting Reduction and Modified Gravity, Modeling the Cosmos: Frontiers in Philosophy of Astrophysics and Cosmology, Milan, 3–4 March 2026 (joint work with Antonis Antoniou)
An Effective Approach to Naturalistic Metaphysics, 2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics, Parma, 15–16 December 2025
Saving Functionalism from Inconsistency, Functionalism workshop, University of Oslo, 26–27 November 2025 (joint work with Joshua Babic)
Newton-Cartan Lessons for the Metaphysics of Time, Metaphysics of Cosmology workshop, Lugano, 10–12 September 2025 (joint work with Enrico Cinti and Marco Sanchioni)
Making Sense of Gravitational Thermodynamics, 10th biennial meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Groningen, 27–30 August 2025
Quantum Physics and Effective Realism, Workshop on Metaphysical and Epistemological Perspectives on Quantum Theory, Lugano, 28 June 2025 (based on joint work with James Ladyman)
Limiting Reduction and Modified Gravity, The Epistemology of Dark Matter and Modified Gravity workshop, Athens, 19–20 June 2025 (joint work with Antonis Antoniou)
Making Sense of Gravitational Thermodynamics, Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science (SILFS) Postgraduate Conference, Turin, 11–13 June 2025
Limiting Reduction and Modified Gravity, Harvard University's Black Hole Initiative foundations seminars, online, 14 April 2025 (joint work with Antonis Antoniou), (Recording)
Saving Functionalism from Inconsistency, Workshop on Theoretical Equivalence and Related Topics, Lugano, 8 April 2025 (joint work with Joshua Babic)
Separatism and Unitism about Spacetime, Geneva Symmetry Group seminar, University of Geneva, 13 March 2025 (joint work with Damiano Costa)
Separatism and Unitism about Spacetime, 4th Ca’ Foscari–Lugano Workshop in Analytic Metaphysics, Venice, 16 December 2024 (joint work with Damiano Costa)
The Justification Gap Problem for Theory Reduction, PSA’s 29th biennial meeting, New Orleans, 14–17 November 2024
Making Sense of Gravitational Thermodynamics, 2nd History & Philosophy of Cosmology Conference, Milan, 10–13 September 2024
Metaphysical Naturalism and Reduction in Biochemistry (‘Metaphysical Naturalism 2.0’ symposium), The British Society for the Philosophy of Science annual conference, York, 17–19 July 2024 (joint work with Francesca Bellazzi)
Two Forms of Functional Reductionism in Physics, 21st European Conference on Foundations of Physics, Bristol, 8–10 July 2023
Two Forms of Functional Reductionism in Physics, The British Society for the Philosophy of Science annual conference, Bristol, 5–7 July 2023
Is Functionalism Trivial in Science?, Spacetime Functionalism Workshop, King’s College London, 16 June 2023
Two Forms of Functional Reductionism in Physics, Beyond Spacetime speaker series, University of Geneva, 8 March 2023, (Recording)
Two Forms of Functional Reductionism in Physics, Philosophy of Physics graduate seminar, Oxford, 14 February 2023
Nagelian Reduction as Functional Reduction, 7th Panhellenic Conference on Philosophy of Science, Athens, 1–3 December 2022
How Functional Reduction bolsters Reductive Explanations, Society for the Metaphysics of Science 7th Annual Conference, Bristol, 7–9 September 2022
Functionalism, Reductionism, and Levels of Reality, 5th SILFS Postgraduate Conference on Logic and Philosophy of Science, Milan, 13–17 June 2022
Wave Function Realism vis-à-vis Functional Reduction, 8th biennial meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Turin, September 2021
Wave Function Realism vis-à-vis Functional Reduction, 6th Annual Conference of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science, online, September 2021
Wave Function Realism vis-à-vis Functional Reduction, The British Society for the Philosophy of Science annual conference, online, July 2021
Wave Function Realism vis-à-vis Functional Reduction, Geneva Symmetry Group seminar, Geneva, March 2021
Putting Coherentism to Work: Redefining the Nature of the Wave Function, Annual Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference, online, September 2020
Is there room for Entanglement Relations in the Humean Mosaic?, 10th European Conference for Analytic Philosophy, online, August 2020
GRW, Dispositions, and Objective Probabilities, British Society for the Philosophy of Science annual conference, online, July 2020
Lectures and Outreach
The metaphysics of scientific laws (`Metafisica delle leggi scientifiche'), three-lecture series, Catholic University of Milan, April 2026 (with Alessandro Giordani)
Key Concepts and Problems in the Philosophy of Thermodynamics, introductory seminar, USI, Lugano, 14 April 2026 (Slides)
What does science tell us about reality?, three lectures to high school students on scientific realism, Switzerland, Spring 2026
What does physics tell us about free will?, two lectures to high school students on free will, Switzerland, Spring 2025
Il dado è tratto, public lecture on quantum physics and free will, Lugano, 24 March 2025 (with Cesare Alfieri)
