Alessandro Torza

🔷 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! 🚀

Not open access, alas, but if you need a copy you know the drill.

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 ...

If you too are worried about the unsettled future of Greenland, I have a new paper for you.

Does Williamson’s Suppositional Heuristic Have a Problem with Counterpossibles? - Argumenta - Journal of Analytic Philosophy Timothy Williamson has advanced two central hypotheses about counterfactual conditionals. The first holds that necessity can be defined in counterfactual terms. The second states that we follow a heur...

Paper alert:

Ubi faciunt solitudinem, pacem appellant.

Notre Dame receives $50 million grant from Lilly Endowment for the DELTA Network, a faith-based approach to AI ethics The University of Notre Dame has been awarded a $50.8 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support the DELTA Network: Faith-Based Ethical Formatio...

Under His eye.

Although my time with him has been limited, I was struck by his generosity and intellectual depth. It is totally on-brand for him, after a career on the bench spent fighting corruption both within and outside government, to be standing up now to the convicted-felon-cum-kleptocrat-in-chief.

Why I Am Resigning A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.

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.

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 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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2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics
December 15-16, 2025

Program & abstracts now available at the link below.
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** Deadline: September 15 **👇

Coming up: 8th Parma Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics.

2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics

Last Call for Abstracts

2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics

Submission deadline: 15th September

Info: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Is the Principle of Sufficient Reason just a useful heuristic? (Grounding intensifies.)

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...

American society in the 21st century is a dystopia. But why is it so? ...

A radical reform of education could be the answer, but what shape and form it would have is anyone’s guess. 3/3

@harveylederman.bsky.social

Education is by many seen instrumentally as a ticket to the job market, and if there is no job market, there might be just not enough motivation at the individual level to undertake college or even graduate school. 2/3

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 …

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

📌Framed Moments
Workshop: Quantum Indeterminacy
3-5 July, 2025

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...

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...

After a workshop on essence, nothing like a FINE coffee.

Trump vanishing Musk

Or come back to Europe?

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...

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 👇

Coming up:

Website of the INDIS project - Events 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...

In or around Lisbon over the next couple of days? Come say hi!

Updated schedule: sites.google.com/view/indeter...

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...

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