Talks

Upcoming Talks

• 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)
• A Relational General Relativistic A-theory, AMAMI-SIFA mid-term conference, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, 1-3 September 2026 (joint work with Nicola Bamonti)
• [TBD], Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, 9-10 September 2026
• [TBD], Philosophy Research Colloquium, Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern, 13 October 2026

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Selected Past Talks

• A Relational General Relativistic A-theory, SILFS 2026, Pavia, 29-2 July 2026 (joint work with Nicola Bamonti)
• Making Sense of Gravitational Thermodynamics, Gravitational thermodynamics and beyond workshop, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 10-12 June 2026, (Recording)
• A Relational General Relativistic A-theory, Lugano Philosophy Colloquia, USI Lugano, 11 May 2026 (joint work with Nicola Bamonti)
• 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

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Outreach and Other Lectures

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Conferences Organised