Research Outputs

Damiano Costa

(forthcoming), “What is priority monism? Reply to Kovacs”, Inquiry.

(forthcoming), “Le teorie dell’essenza nel dibattito contemporaneo” (with A. Giordani), Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica.

(2025), “Pluralisms in Gunky Worlds” (with C. Calosi), Philosophical Studies, 182, 2101-2122.

(2024), “Aristotelian universals, strong immanence, and construction” (with A. Giordani), Synthese, 203(2), 1-15.

(2024), “Location and mereology” (with C. Gilmore and C. Calosi), in Zalta, E. and Nodelman, U. (eds), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Lorenzo Lorenzetti

(2025) Limiting Reduction and Modified Gravity (with A. Antoniou) British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

(2025) Making Sense of Gravitational Thermodynamics, Philosophy of Physics

Andrea Lupo

Byron Simmons

Damiano Costa

• An argument for the transcendentist theory of persistence, Metaphysics then and now, University of Venice (11/2025)
• Aristotelian universals and ground, UNAM (10/2025)
• What biology can tell us about temporal existence, SSLPS annual meeting, University of Geneva (10/2025)
• Unitism and separatism about space and time, Metaphysics of Cosmology, USI (9/2025)
• Aristotelian universals and ground, University of Tübingen (4/2025)
• Multi-location and metaphysical indeterminacy, Quodlibeta, University of Geneva (5/2025)
• The instant of change and metaphysical indeterminacy, Themes from Graham Priest, University of Vercelli (4/2025)
• The many-objects interpretation of relativistic change, University of Lisboa (3/2025)
• Unitism and Separatism about spacetime (with L. Lorenzetti), 4th Lugano-Venice workshop in analytic metaphysics, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice (11/2024)
• Unitism and Separatism about spacetime, Columbia University, New York (11/2024)
• Gunky Pluralisms (with C. Calosi), CUNY Logic and metaphysics workshop, City University of New York (11/2024)
• Gunky Pluralisms (with C. Calosi), ELLMM talks, University of Yale (11/2024)
• The many chairs interpretation of relativistic change, New Trends in Philosophy of Persistence, University of Geneva, Geneva (6/2024)
• Higher order theories of Aristotelian universals (with A. Lupo), New York University (5/2024)
• Higher order theories of Aristotelian universals, University of Southern California (5/2024)
• Higher order theories of Aristotelian universals, University of California, Irvine (5/2024)
• The many chairs interpretation of relativistic change, Space, Time, and Location II, University of California, Davis (5/2024)
• A chair for Minkowksi (with A. Cecconi, C. Calosi), Lugano Philosophy Colloquia, USI, Lugano (2/2024)
• Aristotelian universals and modes of being (with P. Natali), ECAP 11, CEU Vienna (8/2023)

Lorenzo Lorenzetti

• Limiting Reduction and Modified Gravity (with A. Antoniou), Modeling the Cosmos: Frontiers in Philosophy of Astrophysics and Cosmology, Milan (03/2026)
• An Effective Approach to Naturalistic Metaphysics, 2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics, Parma (12/2025)
• Saving Functionalism from Inconsistency (with J. Babic), Functionalism workshop, University of Oslo (11/2025)
• Newton-Cartan Lessons for the Metaphysics of Time, Metaphysics of Cosmology workshop (with E. Cinti and M. Sanchioni), Lugano (09/2025)
• Making Sense of Gravitational Thermodynamics, 10th biennial meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Groningen (08/2025)
• Quantum Physics and Effective Realism, Workshop on Metaphysical and Epistemological Perspectives on Quantum Theory, Lugano (06/2025)
• Limiting Reduction and Modified Gravity (with A. Antoniou), The Epistemology of Dark Matter and Modified Gravity workshop, Athens (06/2025)
• Making Sense of Gravitational Thermodynamics, Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science (SILFS) Postgraduate Conference, Turin (06/2025)
• Limiting Reduction and Modified Gravity (with A. Antoniou), Harvard University's Black Hole Initiative foundations seminars, online (05/2025)
• Saving Functionalism from Inconsistency (with J. Babic), Workshop on Theoretical Equivalence and Related Topics, Lugano (04/2025)
• Separatism and Unitism about Spacetime (with D. Costa), Geneva Symmetry Group research seminar, University of Geneva (03/2025)
• Separatism and Unitism about Spacetime (with D. Costa), 4th Ca’ Foscari-Lugano Workshop in Analytic Metaphysics, Venice (12/2024)
• The Justification Gap Problem for Theory Reduction, Philosophy of Science Association 29th biennial meeting, New Orleans (11/2024)
• Making Sense of Gravitational Thermodynamics, 2nd History & Philosophy of Cosmology Conference, Milan (09/2024)

Andrea Lupo

• Fregean Aristotelianism, AMAMI Conference, University of Vercelli (12/2024)
• The Least Discerning Ground, Eidos, University of Geneva (05/2025)
• The Least Discerning Ground, 16th Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, University of Turin (08/2025)
• The One Fundamental Ground, Arché Graduate Conference, University of St. Andrews (10/2025)

Byron Simmons

• Is Temporal Existence a Relational Way of Being?, Eidos seminar, University of Geneva (10/2025)
• Being and Logic, Workshop on Existence, Quantification and Identity, Università della Svizzera italiana (04/2025)
• Ontological Pluralism and the ‘Thin’ Conception of Being, Monism vs. Pluralism in Logic, Metaphysics, and Philosophical Methodology Workshop, University of Bergen (03/2025)
• Ontological Pluralism and the ‘Thin’ Conception of Being, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, New York, New York. Comments from Anna Marmodoro and Ned Markosian. (01/2025)