Talks and Conferences

"The best research you can do is talk to people." (Terry Pratchett)

Conference Organization

I have accumulated quite a bit of experience with organizing scientific events. Some major events are listed below.

List of Talks

So far, I took part in every EPSA conference so far and in many PSA's. But I am often around for smaller workshops or departmental seminars, too.

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2024

  • Semantic Modeling between Empirical Data and Norms of Rationality. Methodological Trends and Challenges in Contemporary Philosophy, University of Ljubljana (keynote)
  • Semantic Modeling between Empirical Data and Norms of Rationality. Science & More work-in-progress seminar, University of Turin
  • Disagreement about Conditionals (with Caterina Sisti and Giuliano Rosella). Disagreement in the Sciences workshop, University of Bologna
  • Causal and Counterfactual Reasoning. Probabilistic Reasoning in the Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University (keynote)
  • The Epistemic and the Deontic Preface Paradox. CONCEPT Research Colloqium, University of Cologne
  • Reframing Minimal Change Semantics for Counterfactuals. Research Colloquium, Chair for Theoretical Philosophy, University of Hamburg
  • The Productive Model of Explanation in Psychological Science. Research Colloquium, philosophy of science group, University of Stockholm

2023

  • Certain and Uncertain Inference with Trivalent Conditionals. Workshop on Non-Contradictory Logics, Ruhr University Bochum
  • The Epistemic and the Deontic Preface Paradox. Science & More work-in-progress seminar, University of Turin
  • Probabilistic Reasoning with Non-Monotonic Conditionals. Reasoning with Imperfect Information in Social Settings, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
  • The Productive Explanation Model in Psychological Science. Emerging Ideas in Philosophy of Science, Belgrade (keynote)
  • Certain and Uncertain Inference with Trivalent Conditionals. SIFA Conference, Alessandria
  • The Productive Explanation Model in Psychological Science. Triennial SILFS Conference, University of Urbino
  • Certain and Uncertain Inference with Trivalent Conditionals. PROGIC23, University of Amsterdam
  • The Productive Explanation Model in Psychological Science. Research Colloquium, University of Gdansk
  • The Productive Explanation Model in Psychological Science. Research Colloquium, University of Salzburg
  • Counterfactuals: Semantics, Logic and Probability. Science & More work-in-progress seminar, University of Turin
  • The Productive Explanation Model in Psychological Science. Philosophy of Science Research Seminar, University of Pavia
  • Indicative Conditionals: Semantics, Logic and Probability. 16th Graduate Conference in Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics, University of Cambridge (keynote)
  • Counterfactuals: Semantics, Logic and Probability. LINGUAE Seminar, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris

2022

  • The Productive Explanation Model in Psychological Science. Science and More Research Seminar, University of Turin
  • Lewis's Counterfactuals as Strict Stalnaker Conditionals. Annual PRIN Workshop "From Models to Decisions", Castelveccana
  • Severe Testing in Bayesian Inference. Research Seminar, University of Valencia
  • Indicative Conditionals: Trivalent Semantics and Probabilistic Reasoning. Research Seminar, LOGOS group, University of Barcelona
  • Indicative Conditionals: Trivalent Semantics and Probabilistic Reasoning. Research Seminar, University of Florence
  • Indicative Conditionals: Trivalent Semantics and Probabilistic Reasoning (with Lorenzo Rossi). LLC Research Seminar, University of Turin

2021

  • Symposium on Bayesian Models in Philosophy of Science. Discussants: Stephan Hartmann, Christopher Hitchcock, John Norton, Mike Titelbaum, and myself. PSA20/21, Baltimore (online session).
  • Causal Attribution and Partial Liability: A Probabilistic Model. EPSA21, Turin.
  • Book discussion "Bayesian Philosophy of Science". . University of Pittsburgh graduate student seminar (online session).
  • Statistical Inference in Psychology: Severity in Bayesian Inference, and anything else you always wanted to know about statistics (with Noah van Dongen). Workshop "Scientific Models and Scientific Inference", Castelveccana.
  • Bayesian Philosophy of Science: A Guide for Hypothesis Testing in Psychology. Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Tübingen (online session).
  • Causal Attribution and Partial Liability: A Probabilistic Model. EENPS 2020/21, Belgrade (online session).
  • Bayesian Networks in Philosophy. Arizona State University graduate student seminar (online session).

2020

  • Tutorial on "Significance Testing and Severe Testing" (with Noah van Dongen). Perspectives on Scientific Error 4, Castelveccana.

2019

  • EPSA Symposium: A New Look on Objectivity in Science. EPSA19, Geneva.
  • Conditional Degree of Belief and Bayesian Inference with Idealized Models. "Bayes By the Sea" Conference, Ancona.
  • Scientific Philosophy: The Bayesian Way. "Bayes By the Sea" Summer School, Ancona.
  • Degree of Corroboration: An Antidote to the Replication Crisis. Perspectives on Scientific Error 3/12th MuST Conference in Philosophy of Science, Munich.
  • De Finettian Logics for Indicative Conditionals. FEW 2019 (presentation given by Lorenzo Rossi), Turin.
  • Conditionals, Causality, and Probability Judgments: an experimental study. FEW 2019 (poster presentation), Turin.
  • De Finettian Logics for Indicative Conditionals. INALCO summer school on conditionals, Paris.
  • Degree of Corroboration: An Antidote to the Replication Crisis. Symposium on Philosophy of Statistics, Durham (UK).
  • Meta-Analysis and Conflicts of Interest. Conference "Bias in Science" (joint presentation with Lorenzo Casini), Munich.

  • 2018

    • Statistical Hypothesis Testing and Measures of Corroboration. Part of the Symposium "The Replication Crisis: How Should Science Change?". Biennal Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Seattle.
    • Tutorial on Philosophy of Statistics. Perspectives on Scientific Error 2, Groningen.
    • Causality, Probability and Conditionals: an experimental study. Science & More Talks, Turin.
    • The Semantics of Conditionals: The Return of the Trivalent Knights. Keynote at the Bayes by the Sea workshop, Ancona.
    • The Semantics of Conditionals: The Return of the Trivalent Knights. Keynote at the FINO Graduate Conference, Novara/Vercelli.
    • Statistical Hypothesis Testing Meets Philosophy of Science: Towards a Measure of Corroboration. Physics Departmental Colloquium, University of Turin, Turin.
    • Semantic Intuitions: A Meta-Analysis. Seminar of the Philosophy Department, Santiago de Compostela.
    • Statistical Hypothesis Testing Meets Philosophy of Science: Towards a Measure of Corroboration. META Lecture, Politecnico di Milano, Milan.
    • Chess and Human Creativity in the Machine Age. John Cabot University, Rome.
    • The Semantics of Conditionals: The Return of the Trivalent Knights. 3rd EUNOC Workshop on Non-Categorical Reasoning, Amsterdam.
    • The Precautionary Principle and Environmental Decision-Making. Keynote at the conference "Our Species and Its Responsibilities---An Ontology for the Environmental Crisis", Turin.

    2017

    • A Bayesian Unification of Causal Strength and Explanatory Power. VIU Meeting on Causal Explanation, Venice.
    • Conditionals and Causality. Keynote at the Conference "Inferentialism, Bayesianism and Scientific Explanation", LMU Munich.
    • Foundations of a Probabilistic Theory of Causal Strength. Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan.
    • Scientific Self-Correction: The Bayesian Way. EPSA 17, Exeter.
    • The Objectivity of Subjective Bayesianism. Annual Meeting of the BSPS, Edinburgh.
    • Scientific Self-Correction: The Bayesian Way. Workshop "Perspectives on Scientific Error", Tilburg.
    • Scientific Self-Correction: The Bayesian Way. Triennal Conference of the SILFS, Bologna.
    • Scientific Self-Correction: The Bayesian Way. Reasoning Club Conference, Turin.
    • Three Arguments for Absolute Outcome Measures. Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Seattle.
    • Scientific Self-Correction: The Bayesian Way. Departmental Seminar, University of Sydney, Sydney.
    • Foundations for a Probabilistic Theory of Causal Strength. 10th Munich-Sydney-Tilburg (MuST) Conference "Causation and Complexity", Sydney.
    • Conditional Degree of Belief. Departmental Seminar, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong.
    • Three Arguments for Absolute Outcome Measures. Departmental Seminar, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
    • The Objectivity of Subjective Bayesianism. Workshop on the Occasion of Marta Sznajder's PhD Defense, Groningen.

    2016

    • Determinants of Judgments of Explanatory Power. TiLPS Seminar in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University, Tilburg.
    • Foundations for a Probabilistic Theory of Causal Strength. Workshop "Realism, Progress, and Cognitive Values", Trieste University.
    • Scientific Objectivity and the Replication Crisis in Psychology. 5th René Descartes Lectures, Tilburg University.
    • Foundations for a Theory of Causal Strength. Causality in the Sciences of the Mind and Brain, Aarhus University.
    • Conditional Degree of Belief. Chance Encounter, University of Groningen.
    • Foundations for a Theory of Causal Strength. FEW 2016, University of Groningen.
    • Two Impossibility Results for Measures of Corroboration. Popper Seminar, London School of Economics.
    • Applying a Measure of Corroboration in Statistical Inference. MuST 9: Evidence, Inference and Risk, LMU Munich.

    2015

    • Foundations for a Theory of Causal Strength. Logic and Interactive Rationality Seminar, ILLC Amsterdam.
    • Conditional Degrees of Belief. TiLPS Seminar in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg.
    • Symposium "Measure sensitivity and robust model-based argumentation in the study of reasoning and cognition" (with Peter Brössel, Gustavo Cevolani, Vincenzo Crupi, Roberto Festa and Michael Schippers). Bi-annual Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Science "EPSA15", Düsseldorf.
    • Explanatory Value and Probabilistic Reasoning. Colloquium of the Gießener Abendgespräche Kognition und Gehirn, Gießen.
    • Symposium "Measure sensitivity and robust model-based argumentation in the study of reasoning and cognition" (with Peter Brössel, Gustavo Cevolani, Vincenzo Crupi and Michael Schippers). Conference "Model-Based Reasoning in Science" (MBR015), Sestri Levante.
    • Statistical Reasoning and Conditional Probability. Conference "Model-Based Reasoning in Science" (MBR015), Sestri Levante.
    • Graded Causation and Explanatory Power, Explicated Probabilistically. Conference "Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning", Munich.
    • Conditional Degrees of Belief. Center for Logic, Language, and Cognition, Torino.
    • Statistical Reasoning and Conditional Probability. 8th Munich-Sydney-Tilburg (MuST) Conference "Objectivity in Science", Tilburg.
    • Explanatory Value and Probabilistic Reasoning. Colloquium of the Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC), Tilburg.
    • Statistical Reasoning and Conditional Probability. Conference "PROGIC15", Canterbury.
    • Explanation, Causation and Probability. Annual Meeting of the DFG Priority Program "New Frameworks of Rationality", Etelsen.
    • Scientific Objectivity and Popperian Corroboration. Philosophical Colloquium, Department of Values, Technology and Innovation, TU Delft.
    • A Novel Solution to the Problem of Old Evidence. Epistemology Reading Group, MIT, Cambridge/MA.
    • Two Impossibility Results for Measures of Corroboration. Lunchtime talk, Center for Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh University, Pittsburgh.
    • Explicating Degree of Corroboration. Colloquium, Department of Statistics, Duke University, Durham/NC.
    • Two Impossibility Results for Measures of Corroboration. Lunchtime talk, philosophy of science group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

    2014

    • The Probablistic No Miracles Argument. TiLPS Seminar on Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg.
    • The Probablistic No Miracles Argument. Keynote at the conference "Non-Causal Explanations in the Sciences", Munich.
    • Explicating Degree of Corroboration. Workshop "Full and Partial Belief", Tilburg University, Tilburg. The Probablistic No Miracles Argument. Workshop on Norms of Reasoning, Bochum.
    • Corroboration and Evidential Support: An Explication of Popper's Criticial Rationalism. SILFS 2014 (Congress of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science), Rome.
    • A Novel Solution to the Problem of Old Evidence. 41st Philosophy of Science conference, Dubrovnik.
    • An Introduction to Bayesian Confirmation Theory (III): From Evidential Support to a Measure of Corroboration. TiLPS Seminar on Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg.
    • Explanatory Value, Probability and Abductive Reasoning. 3rd meeting of the DFG priority program 1516 "New Frameworks of Rationality", Schloss Etelsen.
    • Corroboration and Evidential Support: An Explication of Popper's Criticial Rationalism. Keynote at the Philogica III conference (Third Colombian congress of Logic, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science), Bogota.

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    2006

    • Bayeisanism, unification and coherence. GAP.6 conference, Berlin.
    • Bayesian confirmation: No inductive logic. Philosophical Research Colloquium, University of Düsseldorf.
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