Talks
Uncertainty as a Space of Possibility. Architecture and Technology, Landscape and Environment - Conference, University of Naples, 7 December 2023, Italy.
Precision Research in an Uncertain World. Values and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Towards a European Health Data Space, University of Pisa, 10 Nov 2023, Italy.
AI and Risk: A Philosophical Analysis (with Giacomo Zanotti, V. Schiaffonati), 4th Lisbon International Conference in Philosophy of Science, 12-15 July, CFCUL | Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Two Dogmas of Trustworthy AI (with M. Petrolo, Giacomo Zanotti, V. Schiaffonati), 4th Lisbon International Conference in Philosophy Of Science, 12-15 July, CFCUL | Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Two Types of Hypothesis and Denial. A Logical Analysis (with C. De Florio). Ninth International MBR Conference Model-Based Reasoning, Abductive Cognition, Creativity. Inferences & Models in Science, Logic, Language, and Technology, 7-9 June 2023 - Rome, Italy.
Trustworthy AI: A Pragmatic Stance (with M. Petrolo, V. Schiaffonati, G. Zanotti. Ninth International MBR Conference Model-Based Reasoning, Abductive Cognition, Creativity. Inferences & Models in Science, Logic, Language, and Technology, 7-9 June 2023 - Rome, Italy.
Beyond Reliability: Values and Trustworthy AI (with L. Zanotti, V. Schiaffonati, M. Petrolo). 2023 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, & Technology, 19-21 April 2023, TU Delft, Netherlands.
Frege. A Fusion of Horizontals. Reasoning Seminar, CFCUL Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 3 November 2022, Lisbon, Portugal.
Placebo Effect and Nursing (with M. Andreoletti), International Workshop on Logic, Philosophy and History of Medicine, 6-7 October 2022, Seville, Spain.
Types of Uncertainty: Cities from a Post-Pandemic Perspective (with F. Curci). New Metropolitan Perspectives. 25-27 May, 2022, Reggio Calabria.
Bias, Risk and Opacity in AI: Design, Verification and Development of Trustworthy AI (with G. Primiero, F.A. D'Asaro, G. Fasano, R. Ferrario, M. Frixione, D. Porello, R. Prevete, V. Schiaffonati, G. Tamburrini). Ital-IA 2022 Conference, Workshop: Responsible and Reliable AI, 10 February, 2022, Turin.
Local Authorities and the Dilemmas of Pandemic Regulation (with C. Pacchi and F. Curci). Workshop: Geographies of the law. Inquiries into the space-law tangle. https://www.omero-urban.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/GeoLaw_book-ofabstracts.pdf, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, 13-14 December, 2021.
Types of Uncertainty and the Possibility of Quantification. Thinking the Future without Predicting it. Conference of the Italian Society of Appraisal and Valuation, Milan, 19 Novembre 2021, https://siev.org/en/thinking-the-future-without-predicting-it-risk-and-uncertainty-assessment-in-appraisals-real-estate-investments-and-spatial-policies/.
Lost in Translation. A Philosophical Look at Translational Research. Roundtable: Biomaterials. Bench-to-Bedside. Italian National Biomaterials Congress, 11-14 July, 2021, University of Salento, Lecce, https://www.biomateriali.org/sib2021/
Cost-Benefit Analysis and Ethics, Scuola Nazionale dell’Amministrazione, Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Italy), Rome, 12 April 2021.
Fragility: Conceptual Analysis and Allied Notions. Dipt. di Architettura e Studi Urbani (Ciclo di Seminari del Progetto di Eccellenza sulle “Fragilità Territoriali”), Politecnico di Milano, 23 June, 2020.
Beta Assertive Graphs (with F. Bellucci & Ahti Pietarinen), DIAGRAMS 2020, 11th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Tallinn, 24-28 August 2020.
A Dialogue on the Notion of Fragility. DAStU, Politecnico di Milano, 23 June 2020.
Beyond Risk: Managing the Unknown. Critical Thinking Seminar Series, Bocconi University, 22 May, 2020 (online seminar org. by Damiano Canale).
Models of Placebo Effect. Philosophy of cognitive science seminars, University of Pavia. 23 March, 2020 (online seminar org. by Lorenzo Magnani & Selene Arfini).
Risk Assessment and Uncertainty. Approaches to Resilience: Social, Economic, Environmental and Technological Challenges of Contemporary Human Settlements. PhD Course, Politecnico di Milano (org. by Alessandro Balducci & Francesco Curci)
Points of Assertion (with M. Carrara). Workshop: Linguistic Acts. University of Padova, 13 December 2019.
Can You Believe the Results of a Meta-analysis? The Heterogeneity, the Power and the Case of Small Meta-analyses (with P. Berchialla), Workshop: Scientific Rationality and Strategic Interaction, Bocconi University, Milan, 8 November 2019.
Peano, Frege and Assertion. Figures and Themes of Contemporary Italian Philosophy. University of Salento. Lecce, Italy. 7 November 2019 (org. by F. Ciracì).
The ‘Affective-Meaning-Making’ Model of Placebo Effect (with A. Grecucci). Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics workshop, Nordic-Baltic Network of Philosophy of Medicine, University of Tartu, 11-12 June, 2019, Tartu, Estonia.
How to Do Things with Assertions: Assertive Graphs and Pragmatic Logic of Assertion (with Massimiliano Carrara). The Philosophy of Notation: Operational Iconicity and Observational Advantages in Diagrams. University of Bologna, Bologna 23-24 May, 2019, Italy.
Fragility and Uncertainty. Toward a glossary of fragility: interdisciplinary aspects. Politecnico di Milano, DastU, Progetto di Eccellenza, Milan, 18 April 2019.
Philosophical Remarks on Cost-Benefit Analysis. Virtues and Limitations of Economic Evaluations. DAStU, Politecnico di Milano, 25 March, 2019. Discussant of Marco Ponti's lectio magistralis.
Can You Believe the Results of a Meta-analysis? The Heterogeneity, the Power and the Case of Small Meta-analyses (with P. Berchialla), Science & More Talks, Center for Logic, Language and Cognition (LLC), University of Turin, 13 March 2019.
Vulnerability in Disaster Risk (with S. Chiodo), The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 28 January 2019.
Values between Risk and Uncertainty. DAStU, Politecnico di Milano, Milan (Italy), 12 December 2018.
Relative Confirmation & Abductive Inference. Inferences: logic, science and language. Workshop on the occasion of the retirement of Pierdaniele Giaretta. University of Padova (Italy), 29 November 2018.
Illocutionary Acts in the Gabbay-Woods Schema of Abduction (with A.-V. Pietarinen). Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Inferential Models for Logic, Language, Cognition. University of Seville (Spain), 24-26 October 2018.
Pragmatic Logics for Hypotheses (with M. Carrara & C. De Florio). The Ninth Conference: Non-Classical Logic. Theory and Applications. September 24–27, 2018; Toruń, Poland and Trends in Logic 2018, Fine-Grained Semantics for Modal logic: Formal and Foundational Issues, Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy, September 24–27, 2018.
Pragmatic Logics and Abduction. International Symposium of Abduction and Diagrams. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, 6-8 August, 2018.
Assertion and Attitudes. A Pragmatic View. Value Research Seminar series, the ArgLab at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, 29.06.2018.
Logical Consequence in the Diagrammatic System of Assertive Graphs (with A-V. Pietarinen). Workshop: Around Peirce (org: Jean-Marie Chevalier and Benoit Gaultier). 6th World Congress and School on Universal Logic. Vichy, France. June 21-26 2018.
Assertive and Existential Graphs (with A.-V. Pietarinen). Diagrams 2018. Edinburgh, Scotland. June 18-22 2018.
Fundamental Uncertainty and Values. Nova Institute of Philosophy, Universitate Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 13 April 2018.
Validity and Limitations of Clinical Equipoise. University of Sevilla, Grupo de investigación en Lógica, Lenguaje e Información (GILLIUS), org. Cristina Barés Gómez. 19. Feb 2018.
Abduction in a Pragmatic Framework. Explanatory Practices: Interaction, Dialogues, and Cognitive Processes, (org. Matthieu Fontaine) CFCUL, Lisbon, Portugal, 15-16 February 2018.
Logical Inference in the Diagrammatic System of Assertive Graphs. Department of Computer Science. Tubingen University, (org. Luca Tranchini), 6 Feb 2018.
Assertive Graphs: A Diagrammatic System for Logical Inference. Workshop: Assertion and Belief. University of Padua (org. Massimiliano Carrara & Vittorio Morato). 26 January 2018.
Uncertainty, Risk and Conjecturing (with A-V. Pietarinen). Anticipation 2017 Conference. School of Advanced Studies, London, 8-10 Nov. 2017.
Assertive Graphs. Logic Day. Philosophy of Logic. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, 2th June, 2017.
Beyond Risk. Fundamental Uncertainty and Abduction. Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Salento, 19th April 2017.
Clinical Equipoise: A Critical View. Biom-Conference. Società Italiana di Storia, Filosofia e Studi Sociali della Biologia e della Medicina. Humanities in Biomedicine. Present and Future. Pistoia, Uniser, 28.01.2016.
Clinical Hypotheses and Prognostication, II, Student Colloquium, 18 August, Department of Public Health, Tallinn, Estonia.
Clinical Hypotheses and Prognostication, I, WORKSHOP ON ABDUCTION, 17August 2016, Chair of Philosophy – Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia.
The Epistemology of Placebo Effect. XII Estonian Philosophy Conference, Tallinn, 3-4 June 2016.
Knowledge and Belief in Placebo Effect - 3PCLPS - Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science. University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy, 30 May - 1 June, 2016 - XII Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA), Pistoia (Italy), 5-7 September, 2016.
Epistemological Foundations of the Placebo Effect. School of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, 20 May 2016.
The Logical Burdens of Proof. Assertions and Hypotheses (with F. Schang). Nordic Network for the Philosophy of Science. Annual Conference. Pärnu, Estonia, 21-22 April, 2016.
Carnap’s Categoricity Problem, Philosophers of science of the twentieth century, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, 30 March, 2016.
On Pragmatic Denial (with M. Carrara & C. De Florio). Workshop: How to Say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’: Logical Approaches to Modes of Assertion and Denial. University of Salento, Lecce (Italy), 21-22 January, 2016.
A Pragmatic Logic for Denial (with M. Carrara & C. De Florio), 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, CLMPS 2015 (University of Helsinki, 3-8 August 2015).
Towards a Pragmatic Logic for Denial (with M. Carrara & C. De Florio), VIII Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, University of Barcelona, 7-10 July 2015.
Steps Towards a Pragmatic Logic for Denial (with M. Carrara & C. De Florio), Unilog 2015, 5th World Congress and School on Universal Logic, Non-Classical Abstract Logics, orgs. Fabien Schang - James Trafford, June 25-30, 2015 Istanbul, Turkey.
Synthesis of Evidence: A Formal Treatment of Forest Plot in Meta-analysis (with P. Berchialla & D. Gregori), 11th National Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA), 'Philosophy, Analysis and Public Engagement', University of L’Aquila - 3-5 September 2014.
A Multimodal-Pragmatic Treatment of the Knowability Paradox, (with M. Carrara & D. Sergio), Trends in Logic XIV, Entia et Nomina, The Road Less Travelled: Off-stream applications of formal methods, Ghent University, Belgium, July 8-11, 2014.
A Logical Framework for Hypotheses and their Opposition Relations, (with M. Carrara), 4th World Congress on the Square of Opposition, Vatican, May 5-9, 2014.
A Multimodal-Pragmatic Approach to the Knowability Paradox, (with M. Carrara & D. Sergio), FILOG_2 - Formal Pragmatics and Epistemology, University of Salento, Lecce (Italy), 28th March 2014.
On the boundaries of a pragmatic treatment of the knowability paradox (with C. De Florio & M. Carrara). Philosophy of Science in the 21st Century – Challenges and Tasks International Conference 4-6 December, 2013 | Lisbon, Portugal.
Forest Plot in Meta-analysis: A Formal Treatment (with I. Baldi and D. Gregori), VII SISMEC National Conference in Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology, Rome 25-28 September, 2013.
A critical assessment of some nursing diagnoses, (with R. Zanotti and D. Gregori), VII SISMEC National Conference in Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology, Rome 25-28 September, 2013.
The Knowability Paradox in a Pragmatic Revision of Logic (KILP), (with M. Carrara) LOGICA Conference 2013, Hejnice Monastery (Czech Republic), 17 – 21 June, 2013.
The crossing-over of probabilities in clinical diagnosis, ISBEM (EuroMediterranean-Scientific-Biomedical-Institute), Mesagne (BR), 11.01.2013.
A pragmatic framework for hypothetical reasoning in decision making, The Communication of Certainty and Uncertainty. Linguistic, Psychological, Philosophical Aspects, 5th October 2012, Macerata, Italy, University of Macerata.
The Possibility of Assertion (with Alfredo Di Giorgio), Judgment and Justification Conference, University of Tampere, Finland 24-26 September, 2012.
Comparing Bayesian networks, artificial neural networks, classification trees and classical logistic models in quantitative risk assessment. (with D. Gregori, P. Berchialla, A. Haxhiaj), Society for Risk Analysis Europe - 21th Annual Conference, 18-20 June 2012, ETH Zurich.
On the Bounds of a Pragmatic Interpretation of Intuitionistic Logic, (with G. Bellin & M. Carrara), Trends in Logic XI - Studia Logica International Conference; Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, June 3, 2012.
The Paradox of Knowability in the Light of Logic for Pragmatics, (with Silvia Gaio), Sopha2012: Congrès SOPHA 2012 Paris: Société de Philosophie Analytique; École Normale Supérieure Paris 4-6 May 2012.
In and Out of the Black Box: The ‘Inferential Challenge’ of Weak Associations (with F. Foltran, D. Gregori), International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable, Nov. 2-3, 2011 at the University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain.
Time and Proof: From a Pragmatic Point of View (with Carlo Dalla Pozza), ECAP 7 Seventh European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Milan: 5 September 2011.
Inequality of what? Ethical and methodological perspectives on clinical research. Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics, Padova, May 17th, 2011.
A World in Time, University of Amsterdam – Logic and Cognition, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation.
Gettier problem: Remarks on justification, proof, and probability (with Carlo Dalla Pozza), SIFA (Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy)-Conference, Genova. 24 September 2004.