Workshops

• 25/05/26. A Tale of Two Substances: New Perspectives on the Mind-Body Problem. Speakers: 

       John Bickle (Mississippi State University)

       Philip Goff (Durham University)

       John Marenbon (Cambridge University, USI)

       Michele Paolini Paoletti (Università di Macerata)

       Michael Pauen (Humboldt-University, Berlin)

       David Papineau (King's College London)

       Ralph Weir (University of Lincoln)

       Link: www.usi.ch/en/feeds/34827

• Informal Events: Philosophical Issues in Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, and Information Theory

      14/04/2026. Key Concepts and Problems in the Philosophy of Thermodynamics. Speaker: Lorenzo Lorenzetti (USI)
       21/04/2026. Physical Information. Speaker: Niccolò Covoni (Università di Urbino, USI)
       27/04/2026. Thermodynamics without Time. Speaker: Francesca Vidotto (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), USI)

       Link: www.usi.ch/en/feeds/34675

• 02-03/02/26. Location, Grounding, and Mereology.

       Speakers:
       Claudio Calosi (University of Venice) 

       Christabel Cane (University College London) 

       Fabrice Correia (University of Geneva) 

       Damiano Costa (FTL, USI) 

       Aaron Cotnoir (University of St Andrews) 

       Cody Gilmore (University of California, Davis) 

       Alessandro Giordani (Catholic University of Milan) 

       Jacopo Giraldo (University of Padua) 

       Shieva Kleinschmidt (University of Southern California) 

       Francisca Silva (University of St Andrews) 

       Gabriel Uzquiano (University of Southern California) 

       Achille Varzi (Columbia University)

       Link: www.usi.ch/en/feeds/34016

• 16/11/24. Takes on Essentialism.

       Speakers:
       Anna Marmodoro (Durham University)
       Fabrice Correia (University of Geneva)
       Link: www.usi.ch/en/feeds/30147

Talks

• 6/12/24. Alessandro Giordani (Catholic University Milan, USI), Vita Saitta (Catholic University Milan). "A Truthmaker Semantics for Modal Logic".
• 21/6/24. Shira Yechimovitz (Tel Aviv University & University of Sidney). “The Growing Block’s Past Genesis Problem”.
• 27/5/24. David Albert (Columbia University). “A Guess at the Riddle”.
• 19/2/24. Benj Hellie (University of Toronto). “Which Modal Model Theory Underlies ‘Naming and Necessity’?”.

Reading Groups

Metaphysics

Metaphysics reading group: A-Tomos

• 14/12/24. D. Lewis, The Paradoxes of Time Travel (1976). Speaker: Stephan Leuenberger (University of Glasgow).
• 28/11/24. K. Fine, Guide to Ground (2012). Speaker: Fabrice Correia (University of Geneva).
• 25/11/24. K. Fine, Essence and Modality (1994). Speaker: Kathrin Koslicki (University of Neuchâtel).
• 21/11/24. J. Schaffer, Monism: the Priority of the Whole (2010). Speakers: Claudio Calosi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) and Damiano Costa (USI).
• 16/11/24. S. Bernstein, Ontological Pluralism about Non-Being (2021). Speaker: Ana Elisa Ulloa Labariega (USI).
• 19/10/24. C. Gilmore, Building Enduring Objects out of Spacetime (2014). Speaker: Jonathan Gentizon (USI).
• 12/10/24. R. Loss, Composition as Identity and the Innocence of Mereology (2021). Speaker: Giacomo Ferrari (USI).
• 05/10/24. E. McTaggart, The Unreality of Time (1908). Speaker: Davide Paccagnella (USI).
• 28/09/24. N. Markosian, Simples (1998). Speaker: Sabrina Conforti (USI).

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Mind reading group: A-Consciousness

• Book

Logic

• A Shorter Model Theory  (W. Hodges)

Philosophy of Physics

• A Guess At The Riddle (D. Albert) 
• 10/4/24: Introduction to the measurement problem.
• 24/4/24; 1/5/24; 8/5/24; 15/5/24: 1st and 2nd chapters.
• 22/5/2024: Discussion with Allori, Maudlin and Albert. Allori: “Quantum Ontology and Intuitions”.

General Reading Sessions

• 21/3/24. deRosset and Linnebo (forthcoming). “Abstraction and Grounding” with prof. Linnebo.
• 14/12/24. Schaffer (2015). “What Not to Multiply Without Necessity”. 
• 11/12/24. Leuenberger (2008). “Ceteris Absentibus Physicalism” with prof. Leuenberger.
• 6/12/24. Williamson (2003). “Everything” with prof. Williamson. 
• 29/11/24. Putnam (1981). “Brains in a Vat”.
• 22/11/24. Baron and Colyvan (2020). “Explanation impossible”.
• 16/11/24. Frege (1879). “Begriffsschrift” (first part).
• 13/11/23. Correia and Skiles (2019). “Grounding, Essence and Identity”with prof. Correia.
• 8/11/23. Correia and Skiles (2019) “Grounding, Essence and Identity”.
• 2/11/23. Baylis and Ryle (1951). “'If', 'So', and 'Because'”.
• 13/10/23. Quine (1951). “Ontology and Ideology”.