Mauro Dorato
WORK ADDRESS::
University of Rome 3,
Department of Philosophy
Via Ostiense 234, 00144,
Rome, Italy
fax: +39 06 54577340
e-mail: dorato@uniroma3.it
CURRENT
OCCUPATION:
Full Professor for the Philosophy of Science
EDUCATION
The Johns Hopkins University
* Diploma from the Center for History and Philosophy of Science (1989)
* M.A. in Philosophy (1988)
The University of
Rome
*
Laurea (i.e., BS+MS) in Mathematics (27 Jan. 1993)
“La Sapienza”
* Laurea (i.e., BA+MA) in Philosophy (6 Dec. 1982)
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Spring 1996
Visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK).
Fall 1995-1996:
Visiting scholar at the Center for History and Philosophy of Science of
the University of Pittsburgh.
FELLOWSHIPS
Fullbright scholar at
the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Post-doc scholar at
the University of Padua (1995-1997)
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES Deputy Editor of the European Journal of Philosophy of Science (Springer)
Current Editor for L&PS (logic and philosophy of science)
On-line journal: http://www.units.it/~dipfilo/episteme/
Editor for the Encyclopedia for the History of Science Treccani
(1996)
MEMBERSHIPS Member of the PSA association;
Member of the directory board of the International Society for the Advanced Study of Spacetime
Elected member of the Steering Committee of the EPSA
(European Society for the Philosophy of Science)
ACTIVITY AS PEER REVIEWER
for scientific journals
Dialectica, International Studies for Philosophy of Science, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Philosophy of Science, Erkenntnis, Epistemologia, The Philosophical Quarterly, Foundations of Physics.
For application grants
Swiss National Science Foundation, British Reseach Council
AHRS, NSF
For publishing houses.
Elsevier
PUBLICATIONS (IN ENGLISH)
Books:
Time and Reality. Spacetime physics and the
objectivity of temporal becoming. CLUEB, Bologna, 1995.
The Software of the Universe. An introduction to the History and Philosophy of the Laws of Nature, Ashgate, Aldershott (translation from the italian of Il Software dell'universo. Saggio sulle leggi di natura. Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2000. See below
Reviews of Time and reality
:
C. Callender (London School of Economics), The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 48, n.1, March 1997, p.117-120.
J. Faye
(University of Copenhagen), “Dorato on Time and Reality”, Epistemologia,
20, pp. 355-372, 1997.
R. Le Poidevin
(University of Leeds), “Relative Realities”, Studies in History and
Philosophy of Physics, vol.28, n.4, 28, no.4, pp. 541-546, 1998.
J.
Roberts J., Studies
in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 37 (2006), pp. 738–744.
Tobin E., International Studies in Philosophy of Science, 2008, n.3, 230-233.
Forthcoming papers
“The natural ambiguity of the notion of “natural”, and how to overcome it”, in The Science Point Of View: Discoveries, Inventions And Technology, Lorenzo Leuzzi and Alessandro Toscano eds., pp.
Do dispositions and propensities have a role in the ontology of quantum mechanics? Some critical remarks, in M. Suárez (ed.) "Probabilities, Causes, and Propensities in Physics", Synthese Library, Springer
with Felline L., “Structural explanation and scientific
structuralism”, in Scientific Structuralism, A. Bokulich and P.
Bokulich (eds.), Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science, Springer,
with Felline L., “Structural explanations in Minkowski spacetime: which account of models?”, in V. Petkov (ed.) Space, Time, and Spacetime - Physical and Philosophical Implications of Minkowski's Unification of Space and Time, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2010
"Relativity
theory between structural and dynamical explanations”, International
Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 21, No. 1, March 2007, pp. 95–102
“Absolute becoming, relational becoming and the arrow
of time: Some non conventional remarks on the relationship between physics and
metaphysics”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern
Physics, Volume 37, Issue 3 , September 2006,
559-576, reprinted in The Philosophy of Time,
N. Oaklander (ed.), vol IV, Routledge, Critical Concepts in Philosophy,
London, 2009,
“Aristote au pays des quanta”, in Science et Avenir, Hors-Serie n 148, October-November 2006, p. 41.
“Properties and Dispositions: some Metaphysical Remarks on Quantum Ontology”, in A. Bassi, D. Dürr, T. Weber, N. Zanghì (eds.), Quantum Mechanics, American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference Proceedings, Vol. 844, 2006 pp. 139-157.
“Why are (most) Laws of Nature Mathematical?”, in Faye J., Needham, Scheffler U. and Urchs M. (eds.) Nature’s Principles, Springer, Dordrecht, 2005, pp. 55-75.
“On the technological and theological roots of the notion of “law of nature”, in Dio, la Natura e la Legge, God and the Laws of Nature”, in E. Sindoni and S. Moriggi (eds.), Proceedings of the international conference Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy, 11-13 Ottobre 2004, Angelicum, Mondo X, 2005, Milan, pp. 155-169.
“The Laws of Nature and the Effectiveness of Mathematics”, in Boniolo G., Budinich P., Trobok M. (eds.), The Role of Mathematics in Physical Sciences: Interdisciplinary and Philosophical Aspects, Springer, Dordrecht, 2005, pp.131-144.
“Epistemic and Non-epistemic Values in Science”, in P. Machamer and G. Wolters (eds.), Science, Values and Objectivity. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2004, pp.52-77.
with J, Faye, “Causation, Mental causation and the Laws of Nature”, in L&PS (Logic and Philosophy of Science), on line journal, http://www.units.it/~dipfilo/episteme/
“Cognitive Norms, the Methodology of Science
and the Naturalization of Ethics”, in R. Egidi, M Dell’Utri, M. De Caro (eds),
Normatività, fatti e valori (Normativity,
facts and values), Analisi
Filosofiche, Macerata, 2003, pp. 163-172.
“How legitimate is to talk about an evolving or a becoming universe?” in S. Colafrancesco, G. Giobbi, (eds.) Cosmology Through Time, Mimesis, Milan, 2003, pp. 247-253.
The Question of the Reality of Time and the
Model-Theoretic Approach to Scientific Theories”, in Logique et Analyse,
164 (1998), 313-325. (published in 2002).
“On Becoming,
Cosmic Time and Rotating Universes”, in C. Callender (ed.), Time,Reality and Experience, Proceedings of the Royal Institute of
Philosophy Conference for 2000, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 2002, pp. 253-276.
“Kant, Gödel and
Relativity”, in P. Gardenfors, J. Wolenski, and K.
Kijania-Placek (eds.), In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of
Science, Proceedings of the Invited Lectures for
the 11th International Congress of Logic Methodology and Philosophy
of Science, Synthese Library, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2002, vol. I, pp.
331-348.
“Measurability, computability, and
the problem of the existence of theoretical entities”, in E. Agazzi and M. Pauri
(eds.), The Reality of the Unobservable, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2000,
pp.207-217.
“Substantivalism, Relationism, and
Structural Spacetime Realism”, Foundations of Physics, 2000, 30, pp.
1605-1628.
“Becoming and the Arrow of
Causation”, Philosophy of Science, 67, 2000, pp.
523-534.
“The conflict between a static and a
dynamic theory of time in its relation to von Wright’s work and to human
freedom”, in R. Egidi (ed.), Study of Mankind in the
Philosophy of Georg Henrik von Wright, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1999, pp.
131-138.
“Cao on Substantivalism and the
Development of 20th Century Field Theories”, Epistemologia,
22, 1999, pp.151-166.
“Time, Relativity and the Spatiality of Mental Events’, in Language, Quantum, Music. Selected Contributed Papers of LMPS 95, a cura di M. L. Dalla Chiara, R. Giuntini, F. Laudisa, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1999, pp. 197-207.
“On John Earman’s Bangs, Crunches,
Whimpers, and Shrieks, in British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science, vol. 49, n. 2, June 1998, pp. 338-347.
“Three Wiews on the Relationship
between Time and Reality”, in J. Faye, U. Scheffler, M.Urchs (eds.),
Perspectives on Time, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol.
189, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1997, pp. 61-92.
“On Becoming, Relativity, and
Nonseparability”, Philosophy of Science, 64, 4, 1996, pp.585-604.
“Ontological Determinateness in Quantum
Mechanics and Special Relativity”, in Garola C. and Rossi A. (eds.), The
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1995, pp. 201-211.
“Objective temporal becoming and
spacetime physics”, Proceedings of the triennial congress of the Italian
Society of Logic and Philosophy of the Sciences (SILFS), held in Lucca on
7-10 Jan. 1993, ETS, Pisa, Italy, 1994, pp. 367-383.
“The problem of the relationship between
time and motion from Descartes to Newton”, in S. Tweyman (ed.), Studies in
Early Modern Philosophy, Caravan Books, Delmar, New York, 1993, 3,
pp.127-156.
“Methodology of science as a branch of
ethics?”, Methodologia, 10, vol.VI, 1992, pp. 14-35.
“The world of the worms and the quest for
reality”, Dialectica, 42, 1988, pp. 171-182.
“The frequency theory of probability and
single events”, Epistemologia, 10, 1987, pp. 323-334.
Reviews
Review of W. L. Craig,
Time and the Metaphysics of
Relativity, Kluwer, 2000, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern
Physics, Volume 34, Issue 1, March
2003, pp.
154-158.
Review
of Ferrari M. and Stamatescu I.-O. (eds.), Symbol and Physical knowledge,
Springer, 2001, International Journal for
Philosophy of Science,
2003, 17.1, pp.95-97.
Review of R.DiSalle, Understanding spacetime CambridgeUP, in Metascience, 17, pp.61-64, 2008
PUBLICATIONS (IN ITALIAN)
(In brackets I give the English
translation of the title of books and papers)
Edited
book:
La legge di natura. Analisi
storico-critica di un concetto, (Laws of nature: a Historico-Critical
Analysis of a Concept), G. Boniolo and Mauro Dorato (eds.), McGraw Hill
Italia, Milano, 2001.
Books:
Cosa c'entra l'anima con gli atomi? Introduzione
alla filosofia della scienza (What has the soul got to do with atoms?.
Introduction to the Philosophy of Science), Laterza, Roma-Bari,
2007
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Modalità e temporalità. Un raffronto tra le logiche modali e le logiche temporali. (Modality and Temporality. A Comparison between Modal and Temporal Logic). Il Bagatto, Roma, 1994.
Reviews
of Futuro aperto e libertà:
·
Michele di Francesco, “Libertà di
movimento”, Literary Supplement to Il Sole-24 Ore, 20 luglio 1997, p.
26.
·
Giovanni Boniolo, “Futuro aperto
e libertà”, Le Scienze, Novembre 1997, p.117.
·
Alberto Oliverio, “I ricordi tra
regole biologiche ed elaborazioni soggettive”, Corriere della Sera, 21
Dicembre 1997, p. 29.
·
Franca D’Agostini, “Ieri e domani
via col tempo”, Tuttilibri, supplemento a La Stampa, 26 febbraio
1998, p.6.
Reviews of Il Software dell’Universo
·
M. Di Francesco, “Il software che
fa girare la realtà”, il Sole 24 ore, 14.01.01.
·
intervista a L. Gabaglio “Alla
scoperta delle leggi di natura”, Sapere, Dic. 2000, p.86-88.
·
L. Massacra, “Il software
dell’universo”, Mediamente,
31.01.01.
·
F. Cimatti, “Quel che ci dice il
lessico dell’universo”, Il Manifesto,
26.05.01
·
E. Castellani, Le Scienze, Ottobre 2001
·
V. Ascheri, (http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/recensioni/index.htm), novembre 2001
Published papers
Tempo e divenire tra fisica e metafisica (Time and Becoming between Physics and Metaphysics), intervista di Laura Felline (interview by L. Felline), in Human-Mente, vol. 8, Jan. 2009, pp. 207-214, http://www.humana-mente.it/Volume8_Models.of.Time.pdf
“Dalla freccia di Lucrezio all’ascensore di Einstein: alcune considerazioni sul ruolo degli esperimenti mentali nella scienza” (From Lucretius’arrow to Einstein’s elevator: some remarks on the role of thought experiment in science), in Esperimenti Mentali (a cura di R. Casati A. Jacomuzzi, P. Kobau), Rivista di Estetica, n.s. 42, 3, anno 49, 2009, pp.21-37.
Ha senso parlare di “basi biologiche” della morale? (does it make sense to talk about the biological basis of morality), in B@belonline/print, a cura di M.T. Pansera, n. 5, 2008, p. 209-215.
“Determinismo, libertà e la biblioteca di Babele” (Determinism, Free Will and Babel's library), in Prometeo, Anno 27, 105, Marzo 2009, pp.78-85
“Brevi considerazioni sull’inevitabilità del conflitto fede-ragione” (Brief Remarks on the Inevitability of the Confict between Faith and Reason), in Scienze e Religioni, a cura di Rafael Pascual e Raffaele Pisano, UNI Service – TRENTO, pp.123-129.
“Tempo della mente e tempo della materia. La natura del presente e la teoria della relatività”(Mental Time and Material Time. The Nature of the Present and the Theory of Relativity), in C. Esposito e P. Porro (eds.), Quaestio 7/2007, La materia, Die Materie, Matter, Brepols Publishers, Belgium, 2008, pp.489-503.
“L’ossessione dello scientismo” (“The Obsession of Scientism”), Micromega, Almanacco di Scienze, 3, 2008, pp. 79-90.
“Uno sguardo al tempo fisico” (“A glance to physical time”), in G. Borio e C. Gentili (eds.), Armonia, Tempo. Storia dei concetti musicali, (Armony, Time) Carocci, Roma, 2007, pp. 305-319.
Entry
“Filosofia della Scienza” (Philosophy of
Science), in Historia. La grande storia della civiltà europea, U.
Eco, L. Barletta, M. A. Bazzocchi, A. Ottani Cavina, G. Corbellini, P. Corsi, L.
Marconi, E. Raimondi, L. Spaziante (eds), Federico
Motta, Milano, 2007, vol. 5, Il Novecento, pp. 423-426.
Entry “La teoria della relatività” (Theory of relativity), in Historia. La grande storia della civiltà europea, a cura di U. Eco, L. Barletta, M. A. Bazzocchi, A. Ottani Cavina, G. Corbellini, P. Corsi, L. Marconi, E. Raimondi, L. Spaziante, Federico Motta (eds), Milano, 2007, vol 5, Il Novecento, pp. 409-501.
“Einstein
e
“Uno
sguardo al tempo fisico” (“A glance to physical time”), in G. Borio e C.
Gentili (eds.), Armonia, Tempo. Storia dei concetti musicali,
(Armony, Time.
History of musical concepts) Carocci, Roma, 2007, pp. 305-319.
“Il dibattito tra compatibilisti e libertari tra metafisica e pragmatica: perché si deve abbandonare la prima per abbracciare la seconda.” (The debite between compatibilists and libertarians between metaphysics and pragramatics: why should we abandon the former to endorse the latter), in Le ragioni del conoscere e dell’agire, a cura di R. Calcaterra, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2006, pp.267-276.
"Wertbeziehung e Wertfreiheit nella filosofia della scienza contemporanea" (Wertbeziehung and Wertfreiheit in contemporary philosophy of science), in Bene Navigavi. Studi in onore di Franco Bianco, a cura di M. Failla, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2006, pp.39-48.
“Che cos’è la filosofia della scienza?” (What is philosophy of science?), Analysis, 3, 2003, pp.15-22 (this is a slightly modified version of the following on-line essay
“Filosofia della scienza - Fondamenti delle scienze”, voce per il
dizionario on -line di filosofia http://www.swif.it/biblioteca/lr/intro.php
“Filosofia della fisica” (Philosophy of Physics), in N. Vassallo (ed.), Filosofia delle scienze, (Philosophies
of the Sciences), Einaudi, Torino, 2003, pp. 99-139.
“Leggi naturali e libertà” (Natural Laws
and Freedom), in Nuova Civiltà delle
Macchine, XIX, 4, 2001,
pp.76-88 (published in September 2002)
“Il positivismo e l’uniformità della natura: le leggi in J. S. Mill”, (Positivism and the Uniformity of Nature: Natural Laws in J.S. Mill), cap. 7, in G. Boniolo e M. Dorato (eds.), La legge di natura. Analisi storico-critica di un concetto, McGraw Hill Italia, Milano, 2001, cap. 7, pp. 181-208.
with G. Boniolo, “Introduzione”, in G. Boniolo e M. Dorato (eds.), La legge di natura. Analisi storico-critica
di un concetto, McGraw Hill Italia, Milano, 2001, pp. XIII-XVIII.
“Sapere scientifico-tecnologico e sapere filosofico”, in C. dal Canto
e M. Paoli (eds.), Filosofia ed etica di fronte allo sviluppo
scientifico tecnologico, ITIS, Pontedera (PI), 2001, pp.79-92.
with P. Quintili e C. Stancati, “Filosofie della natura” (Philosophies of
Nature), Bollettino Filosofico,
Dipartimento Filosofia dell’Università della Calabria, 2001, pp.454-469.
“Tempo e
causalità mentale” (Time and Mental Causation), Rivista di Filosofia, 90,
3/1999, pp. 417-437.
“Determinismo, caso, libertà: in difesa del compatibilismo”, (Determinism, Chance and Freedom: in defense of Compatibilism),
Paradigmi, 51, 1999, pp.547-569.
“Novecento Fisico” (20th-Century Physics), in Novecento, Novecenti, a cura di E. Agazzi, La Scuola, Brescia, 1999, pp.249-273.
“Il tempo analizzato: origine e significato della metafora del flusso del tempo”, (Origin and Meaning of the Metaphor of the Passage of Time), in Nuova Civiltà delle macchine, 17, n.1 (65), 1999 pp. 28-37.
“La causalità fisica e il principio di causa comune” (Physical Causation and the Principle of Common Cause), Sistemi intelligenti, 11, n. 2, 1999, pp. 207-229.
“La natura del tempo” (The nature of time), Montag,1998, 4, pp.99-113.
“Chi ha bisogno di una fisica computabile della mente?” (Who needs a non-computable physics of the
mind?), V. M. Abrusci, C. Cellucci, Roberto Cordeschi, V. Fano (eds.),
Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy
of Sciences, 1998 V. M. Abrusci, C. Cellucci, Roberto Cordeschi, V. Fano, Pisa,
ETS, 1998, pp. 245-254.
“Tre fili di Arianna per il labirinto del tempo”, (Three Ariadne’s threads for the labyrinth of time), in Storia e Filosofia della Scienza. Un possibile scenario italiano. (History and Philosophy of Science. An italian possible scenario), E. Bellone, G. Boniolo (eds.), Milano, Fotolito Sebi, 1998, pp.69-78.
with Giovanni Boniolo: “Dalla relatività galileiana alla relatività
generale” (From galileian relativity to general relativity), in G.Boniolo (ed.),
Filosofia della fisica, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, Italy, 1997, pp.5-167.
(“Philosophy of physics”
(other authors of the book include S. Bergia, G. Boniolo, M.L. Dalla Chiara,
G.C. Ghirardi, R. Giuntini, and M. Pauri). The sections that I have written are
“Tempo e simultaneità”, “Il paradosso dei gemelli”, “Fisica e geometria”, (Time
and simultaneity, The Twin Paradox, Physics and Geometry).
“Tempo e nonseparabilità nella fisica relativistica”, (Time and
nonseparability in relativistic physics), paper presented at the Congress on the
Foundations and Philosophy of Physics, held on 27-29 September 1994 in Cesena
and Urbino, in V. Fano (ed.), Fondamenti e Filosofia della Fisica,
(Foundations and Philosophy of Physics), Accademia Nazionale di Scienze Lettere
e Arti, Società Editrice “Il Ponte Vecchio”, Cesena, 1996, pp.147-161.
“La teoria della relatività e l’identità del mentale e del fisico” (The special theory of relativity and the identity of the physical and the mental), paper presented at the first congress of the Italian Society for Analythic Philosophy (SIFA), held in Genova on 12-15 October 1994, in C. Penco e G. Sarbia (eds.), Alle radici della filosofia analitica, Atti del primo convegno di Filosofia Analitica, Genua, Erga Edizioni.
“Il problema del realismo tra
meccanica quantistica e relatività speciale” (The problem of realism between
quantum mechanics and special relativity), Epistemologia, 19,
1996, pp.133-176
“Aspetti epistemologici del concetto
di tempo”, (Epistemological aspects of the concept of time), Nuova Civiltà
delle Macchine, Anno 13, n. 1-2, 1995, pp. 99-111.
“Sapere come e sapere perchè”,
(Knowing how and knowing why), Technological Review, italian edition of
the MIT journal, 74, Dec. 1994, pp. 36-39.
“La realtà del futuro e la
relatività speciale”, (The reality of the future and the special theory of
relativity), Rivista di Filosofia, 85, 3, 1994, pp. 383-409.
“Il dibattito Mill-Whewell e la
prima legge di Keplero”, (The Mill-Whewell debate and the first law of Kepler),
Nuova Civiltà delle Macchine, 25, 1989, pp. 68-76.
“Come nascono le teorie
scientifiche”, (The origin of scientific theories), interview with Mary Hesse,
in Prometeo, 11, Sept. 1985, pp. 94-100.
“Scienza ed arte”, (Science and Art), Prometeo, 12, Dec. 1985, pp. 155-157.
“Creatività e scoperta scientifica” (Creativity and scientific discovery), Sapere, Dec. 1983, pp. 48-52.
Journal articles
“Nella Fisica sta tutta la realtà”, Recensione (review) di M. Lange, Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics, Blackwell, 2002, Il SOLE 24 ORE, Domenica 23.XI.2003, p. 34.
"L'Università non merita questa riforma", Darwin, Settembre, pp.65-66
TALKS AND INVITATIONS TO
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIA AND CONGRESSES
2009
15 April Talk at the Conference Metaphysics in Science, Dubrovnik
22 May talk at the conference organized by the Academia Europea, Causation in the Science, Venice
4 July Talk at the conference Metaphysics and Science, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
2008
2 April Presentation at the conference Causal Power and Disposition at the Hotel Sonloup, Les Avants, Lousanne, Switzerland
7, 8 9 May Presentation at the International Conference, Pragmatism and Naturalism, Tilburg, NL
11 June Conference at the Time and the Universe Society Tau (Montreal)
13 June Presentation at the 3rd Internazional Conference The Ontology of Spacetime, Concordia Montreal
15-16 September International Conference in Rovereto, organized by the Academie de Philosophie de Sciences on Natural and Human sciences
2007
29-31 Marzo
“Do dispositions and propensities have a role in the philosophy of
quantum mechanics?”, 15th
22 Giugno
“The natural ambiguity of the notion of
‘natural law’ and ‘natural limit’ and how to overcome it”, Conference Materiali
micro e nano-strutturati: come andare oltre la natura senza andarvi contro
10-11 Settembre “On connecting becoming with the conventionality of
simultaneity”, for te
9
Ottobre
Discussant to the paper of Carlo Rovelli at Milan, per il congress of the
italian society for logic and philosophy of science (SILFS)
17 Ottobre Talk to the conference Autonomy of Reason? Rome
2006
13-14 October “Structural spacetime realism and the evaporation of the substantivalism-relationism debate”, at the meeting “Physics meets Philosophy at every scale”, Parma, Italy
6-7 October Do dispositions and propensities have a role in the ontology of quantum mechanics, second international workshop on Causal and classical concepts in science: Quantum probabilities (Universidad Complutense)
14-18 June Talk with Marcello Montibeller at the first meeting of the History of Philosophy of Science Society (Paris)
8-11 June Talk at the Second Meeting of the Ontology of space and time, Montreal, Concordia University
2005
27-31 August, Lisbon, presentation at the 5th European Congress for Analytic Philosophy;
27-31 August Presentation at the workshop Philosophy and Quantum Information
17-22 January, Bielefeld, presentation at the conference Endophysics, Time, the Quantum and the Subjective
2004
7-8 May
Presentation at the conference “The Arrow of Time in Physics and
Philosophy”, organized at the l’ULB of Louvain, Belgium, by Michel
Ghins on account of the European Science Foundation
11-14 May
Presentation at the conference The Ontology of Spacetime, held at the Concordia University,
Montreal, Canada. For this conference I have contributed to evaluate the
submitted papers
15-19 July Presentation at the conference “Time in the Natural sciences” at the University of Sydney
11-13 October Presentation at the conference "God and the Laws of nature", Varenna
2003
May 8
Seminar at the Dept. of
Phyisics at the University of Florence:
“Why are most laws of nature mathematical?”
25-29 August:
talk at the International conference on the relation between mathematics and
physics,Lussino, Croazia
8-11 October : Conference at
the meeting “Reason and Reasonableness”
26-28 November The nature of scientific
explanation University of Milano Bicocca
2002
19-21September: Presentation of a paper at the international
meeting organized by Paris X Nanterre and by the Ecole Politecnique on
Causal Power and Dispositions
3-6
October
Sixth meeting of the Pittsburgh-Konstanz colloquium at the University
of Pittsburgh
28-30
November Commentator at the IX
meeting of the Italian-Spanish philosophy
2001
24-27 May:
“Language Rules and Laws of
Nature” The 5th Baltic Workshop on Logic and
Philosophy of Science.
4-8 June: Invitation to
present “Determinism, Chance and Freedom, at the international congress on
Determinism,
Tegernsee, Freiburg
17-21
June: History and philosophy of cosmology (Monteporzio)
28 June: Seminar at
the Institut für Grenzgebiet der Psychologie und Psychohygienie (Freiburg)
2000
2-4 November
Talk
at the PSA 2000 meeting in Vancouver
4-6 October
Talk
at the meeting of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy
27-29 September
Talk at the meeting on the philosophy of time at the London School of Economics, for the Royal Series in Philosophy,
1999
20-26 August, Congress of the
Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, Poland, Invited lecture on the
philosophy of space and time for the philosophy of
physics session
1998
21-25 October
PSA
98 meeting in Kansas City, USA
Participation to the symposium Special
Relativity and Ontology; co-symposiasts J. Balashov and S. McCall,
commentator R. Clifton.
23-25 September Bologna
Italian congress of the society for analytic philosophy.
1997
17-20 April. Triest, Italy
Invitation to present “Gödel’s two relativistic arguments for the
ideality of time” at the international conference organized by the SIFF
(Italian Society for the Philosophy and the Foundations
of physics).
1996
5-8 September, Leeds, England
Invitation to present the paper “Mental
causation and the reality of tenses” at the congress of the ESAP (European
Society for Analytic Philosophy).
19-26 May, Castiglioncello,
Italy
Commentator in the section “Space
and Time” to John Norton’s and Andreas Bartel’s papers, presented at the annual
meeting of the Fellows of the Center for History and Philosophy of Science of
the University of Pittsburgh.
14 May, Cambridge, England
“The tensed theory of time and spacetime
physics”, paper presented at the Department of philosophy of the
University of Cambridge.
1995
29 September 1995, Pittsburgh
Talk for the Lunchtime Colloquium Series
“On Becoming, Relativity, Nonseparability”.
19-25 August, Florence
“Becoming in Minkowski spacetime”,
presented at the 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and
Philosophy of science in the section philosophy of physics.
24-28 May, Parma Italy
“Measurability, computability and the
existence of theoretical entities”, presented at the International congress of
the Acadèmie de Sciences.
18-21 May, Poel, Germany
“Three views of the relationship between
time and reality”, presented at the Internation congress on the philosophy of
time, organized by J. Faye, M. Urchs and Scheffler.
1993
19 e 26 November, Vienna, Austria
Two seminars on Tarski’s
indefinability theorem within the course held by prof. Herbert Hrachovec of the
University of Vienna on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems (Gödel
Unentscheidbarkeitsbeweis).