Pleased to announce the program for the joint Mid-Term Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA) and the Association of Analytic Metaphysics in the Italian-Speaking World (AMAMI): www.amami-philo.com/programme-2/
Alessandro Torza
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Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science @unipr, cinephile, apostate. 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 🇪🇺
The International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd edition) is out, and with it my entry ‘Language in the Ontology Room’. The text is behind a paywall, but let me know if you wish to have a copy. www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...
Language in the Ontology Room
The way we answer questions about what there is crucially depends on the language and the logic in which they are framed. This entry introduces the or…
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Spread the word! The Philosophical Quarterly is celebrating the philosopher philosophers love: 'Themes from David Lewis's Metaphysics' will be our next Special Issue, call for papers here: academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal... @oupphilosophy.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social
Join me in boycotting the Biennale. No to the normalization of rogue countries (and that includes not just Russia and Israel, but the US as well.) www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
EU to cut Venice Biennale funding over Russia’s participation, Kallas says
The Italian art exhibition is set to host Russia for the first time since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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I stepped in in defense of Pope Leo on X, formerly known as Twitter (how could I not?), and this is what I woke up to. Fortunately he already took it down.
🔷 Program Committee SMS 2026. Chair: C. Calosi. Members: E. Adlam, S. Baron, E. Casetta, S. Dulani, S. Fletcher, F. Guala, S. Leonelli, L. Letrêtre, L. Lorenzetti, C. Mariani, R. Michels, M. Miller, U. Meyer, M. Nathan, A. Ney, V. Seifert, A. Torza, J. Wilson. See you in Toronto! 🚀
If you too are worried about the unsettled future of Greenland, I have a new paper for you.
A Chancy Theory of Metaphysical Indeterminacy
Metaphysical indeterminacy (MI) is indeterminacy originating in the nonrepresentational world. I develop a theory of MI in terms of objective chance with a number of attractive features: it provides ...
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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... I have known Judge Mark Wolff through my wife, to whom he has long been a friend and mentor. He is also the guy who kindly agreed to officiate our wedding in 2012—just the three of us in his office overlooking Boston Harbor.
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
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LMU Munich Metaphysics Colloquium David Papineau (Kings College London) 'Causal Inference and the Metaphysics of Causation' 22.10.2025, 16:00 to 18:00, in Ludwigstraße 31, Room 021
🚨 2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics December 15-16, 2025 Program & abstracts now available at the link below. Save the date! philevents.org/event/show/1...
2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics
December 15 Polo Didattico di via Kennedy, Aula K11 9.50 - 10.00 Introduction 10.00 - 11.20 Claudio Calosi (Ca’ Foscari Venezia): Presence and Absence 11.20 - 11.30 Break 11.30 - 12.50 Cristia...
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Coming up: 8th Parma Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics.
Last Call for Abstracts 2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics Submission deadline: 15th September Info: philevents.org/event/show/1...
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Is the Principle of Sufficient Reason just a useful heuristic? (Grounding intensifies.)
American society in the 21st century is a dystopia. But why is it so? ...
A ★★★★ review of Eddington (2025)
American society in the 21st century is a dystopia. But why is it so? Ari Aster gives us his diagnosis: the average Joe, here embodied in sheriff Joe Cross of a small New Mexico town, is manipulated b...
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My 2 cent: humans might end up looking for meaning in some of the old places. Religion, which has been gradually pushed to the margins of our post-Enlightment society, might make a comeback—not only because it is comforting, but also because it is typically set aside as a result of education. 1/3
ChatGPT and the Meaning of Life: Guest Post by Harvey Lederman
Scott Aaronson’s Brief Foreword: Harvey Lederman is a distinguished analytic philosopher who moved from Princeton to UT Austin a few years ago. Since his arrival, he’s become one of my …
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📌Framed Moments Workshop: Quantum Indeterminacy 3-5 July, 2025
The impossibility of grieving publicly in the face of a secret can be a harrowing experience. These are the premises, which I thought were interesting and introduced in a most compelling way. Full review: letterboxd.com/torschau/fil...
A ★★½ review of When the Light Breaks (2024)
The impossibility of grieving publicly in the face of a secret can be a harrowing experience. These are the premises, which I thought were interesting and introduced in a most compelling way. Unfortun...
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After a workshop on essence, nothing like a FINE coffee.
CFA: 2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics December 15-16, 2025 University of Parma (Italy) Invited Speakers: Claudio Calosi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Catharine Diehl (Leiden University) Carl Hoefer (University of Barcelona) Submission guidelines 👇
2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics
Call for Abstracts 2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics Dates: December 15-16, 2025 Venue: University of Parma (Italy) All scholars are invited to submit an abstract for presentat...
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In or around Lisbon over the next couple of days? Come say hi! Updated schedule: sites.google.com/view/indeter...
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We'll organize two workshops which will bring team-members and collaboration partners to the University of Lisbon. First Workshop: Thursday 22 May 2025 - Friday 23 May 2025, University of Lisbon - Mo...
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A Frankenstein of old (analog) and new (digital) footage, narratively too thin to not be tedious, and with too much show-don't-tell for non-Chinese viewers to pick up on the trail of cultural references, other than a few obvious ones. Read more: boxd.it/9JtXu5
A ★★½ review of Caught by the Tides (2024)
A Frankenstein of old (analog) and new (digital) footage, narratively too thin to not be tedious, and with too much show-don't-tell for non-Chinese viewers to pick up on the trail of cultural referenc...
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