2025
119. 20/6. Vision, Action and Reality. Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre.
118. 17/3. Philosophy of Ultrarunning. Brain, Mind and Body. Motor Science, University of Bergamo.
117. 27/1. On Expertise, according to philosophers. Workshop. How sociology looks at expertise (in medicine). Sociology, University of Bergamo.
2024
116. 13/12. Seeing and Acting. Recent developments. Psychology, University of Bergamo.
115. 26/11. Mind, Body and World in the AI and Digital Era. A Critical Discussion. University of Bergamo.
114. 6/11. Reality and its Disorders. ITAB, Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies, Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti.
113. 25/10. Affordances, Behavior and the Brain. (With Silvano Zipoli Caiani). International society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind.
112. 25/10. The Philosophical Significance of Stereopsis. International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind.
111. 11/10. Reality and its Disorders. Re-Thinking Philosophy of Language, Mind and Science. Ruhr-University Bochum.
110. 28/9. Endurance and the Brain. University of Bergamo.
109. 26/9. Stereopsis, Presence and Reality. Workshop: Sense of Reality. Reality Monitoring in Perception and Cognition. Institute Jean Nicod, Paris.
108. 19/9. From Motor representations to Language and back (with Silvano Zipoli Caiani). AISC (Italian Association for Cognitive Science). Symposium (with Simona Monaco, Claudio Brozzoli, Francesco Mannella, Julian Zubek and Luca Tummolini). Sapienza University of Rome.
107. 2/8. On Perception and Action. (With Silvano Zipoli Caiani). Symposium: Perception, Action and Cognition at the Interface (with Anna Borghi, Albert Newen), World Congress of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome.
106. 10/7. How to Build an Embodied Robot. University of Bergamo.
105. 2/7. Practical Knowledge: Instructions for the Motor Use. (With Silvano Zipoli Caiani). Workshop on Practical Representations and Abilities. LMU, Munich.
104. 18/1. Ultrarunning. From Pathophysiology to Psychopathology and Psychiatry. Interdisciplinary Seminars on Ultrarunning. University of L’Aquila.
103. 18/1. Ultrarunning. Brain, Mind and Body. Interdisciplinary Seminars on Ultrarunning. University of L’Aquila.
102. 18/1. Ultrarunning. Between Evolutionary Biology and Existential Anthropology. Interdisciplinary Seminars on Ultrarunning. University of L’Aquila.
101. 17/1. Philosophy of Ultrarunning. An Interdisciplinary Story on Endurance. Interdisciplinary Seminars on Ultrarunning. University of L’Aquila.
2023
100. 1/12. Knowledge, Motor Skills and Mental Formats in the light of Motor Neuroscience (with Silvano Zipoli Caiani). International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind.
99. 22/11. Enactivism. Seminar, Master in Cognitive Science. Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
98. 15/11. Ecological Psychology. Seminar, Master in Cognitive Science. Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
97. 8/11. Predictive Processing and Psychopathology. Seminar, Master in Cognitive Science. Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
96. 30/10. Why the Pictorial needs the Motoric. Seminar, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Brazil.
95. 11/10. A New Motor-based Classification of Visual Metaphors. (with Francesca Ervas). University of Cagliari.
94. 10/10. Book Presentation. Correre e Ultracorrere. (*Running and Ultrarunning). University of Cagliari.
93. 21/9. Book Presentation. Correre e Ultracorrere. (*Running and Ultrarunning). University of Teramo.
92. 8/9. A New Motor-based Classification of Visual Metaphors (with Francesca Ervas). Sifa, Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Alessandria.
91. 6/9. Affordances? No more, please! Silfs, Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Urbino, Carlo Bo.
90. 5/9. A New Motor-based Classification of Visual Metaphors (with Francesca Ervas). Silfs, Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Urbino, Carlo Bo.
89. 31/5. Book Presentation. Correre e Ultracorrere. (*Running and Ultrarunning). University of L’Aquila.
88. 31/5. For an Epistemology of Visual Reality. University of L’Aquila.
87. 24/5. Vision-for-Action is Janus-faced. (With Silvano Zipoli Caiani). Workshop, Perception and Action at the Interface. University of Florence.
86. 24/5. Philosophy of Ultrarunning. University of Florence.
85. 3/5. A Distinction concerning Vision-for-Action and Affordance Perception. Understanding the Mind. 3rd RUB-UFMG Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science.
84. 13/4. Book Presentation. Correre e Ultracorrere. (*Running and Ultrarunning). University of Urbino, Carlo Bo.
83. 13/4. Perspectives on Reality. (Round Table). Conference on Realism vs. Antirealism in Metaphysics, Science and Language. University of Urbino, Carlo Bo.
82. 31/3. A Distinction concerning Vision-for-Action and Affordance Perception. Neural Mechanisms.
81. 17/3. How Knowing‐That and Knowing‐How Interface in Action: The Intelligence of Motor Representations. (With Silvano Zipoli Caiani). Workshop on the Interface Problem, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies. National Research Council (CNR), Rome.
80. 7/2. On Plant Affordances. Workshop on Philosophy of Ecology. University of Florence.
2022
79. 22/12. Why the Pictorial Needs the Motoric. University of Urbino, Carlo Bo.
78. 24/10. For an Epistemology of Visual Reality. University of Cagliari.
77. 26/8. Habits, Motor Representations and Practical Modes of Presentation. (with Silvano Zipoli Caiani). Workshop on Habitual Behavior: Habits, Routines and Rituals. GSIS Vienna.
76. 20/7. Propositional and Motor Knowledge in Action (with Silvano Zipoli Caiani). SPP and ESPP, University of Milan.
75. 14/7. Affordances? No more, please! ITAB Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies, Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti.
74. 23/6. For an Epistemology of Visual Reality. University of Milan.
73. 22/6. Why the Pictorial needs the Motoric. University of Venice Ca' Foscari.
72. 27/5. Affordances? No more, please! Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies. National Research Council (CNR), Rome.
71. 26/5. For an Epistemology of Visual Reality. University of Rome 3.
70. 20/5. For an Epistemology of Visual Reality. University of Florence.
69. 14/2. Out of our Skull, in our Skin. The Microbiota-Gut-Brain axis and the Extended Cognition Thesis. (with Silvano Zipoli Caiani and Federico Boem). Ruhr-University Bochum.
2021
68. 15/12. For an Epistemology of Visual Reality. University of Urbino, Carlo Bo.
67. 9/11. For an Epistemology of Visual Reality. Department of General Psychiatry, Section of Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy. University of Heidelberg.
66. 29/10. For an Epistemology of Visual Reality. Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich.
65. 26/10. For an Epistemology of Visual Reality. Conference: Reality, Presence and Vision: Inside the Pictorial Space. Eikones - Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel.
64. 22/10. On Plant Affordances. Conference: Green Intelligence - Debating Plant Cognition, University of Basel.
63. 19/10. For an Epistemology of Visual Reality. Workshop: Perception and Belief: Appearances, Belief Acquisition, and the Perception/Cognition Divide. Institute for Philosophy II, Ruhr-University Bochum.
62. 24/9. Why there is no such thing as Affordance Perception. Sifa, Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Noto, Sicily.
61. 16/9. On the Interface between Action Concepts and Intentions to Act. (With Silvano Zipoli Caiani). Workshop CARLA. ‘Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application’, Bolzano Summer of Knowledge 2021.
60. 14/5. On Pragmatic Modes of Presentation. (with Silvano Zipoli Caiani). The Italian Society for Neuroethics. Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan.
59. 14/5. Why there is no such thing as Affordance Perception. The Italian Society for Neuroethics. Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan.
2020
58. 2/12. Molyneux’s Question and the History of Philosophy. (with Brian Glenney). Online Book Presentation, University of Urbino, Carlo Bo.
57. 17/11. Visuomotor Consciousness. Online Workshop: Consciousness, Agency and First-person Representation, University of Barcelona.
56. 29/10. Why the Pictorial needs the Motoric. NOMIS Lecture. Eikones - Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel.
55. 8/10. Pictures, Action Properties and Motor Related Effects. NOMIS Seminar. Eikones - Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel.
54. 20/2. The Role of Action in Pictorial Experience. Department of Philosophy, University of Basel.
53. 23/1. Why the Pictorial needs the Motoric. Department of Philosophy, University of Florence.
2019
52. 18/12. Why the Pictorial needs the Motoric. Workshop. Human Nature: Philosophy and the Natural Sciences. University of Milan.
51. 18/12. Out of Our Skull, in Our Skin: The Gut-Microbiota-Brain Axis and Extended Cognition. (with Silvano Zipoli Caiani and Federico Boem). Workshop. Human Nature: Philosophy and the Natural Sciences. University of Milan.
50. 13/12. The Structure of Mental Representations in Action. (with Silvano Zipoli Caiani). AISC (Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences) International Conference of Cognitive Sciences. University of Roma Tre.
49. 3/9. On the Writing Style of Analytic Philosophers. University of Florence. Seminar for Ph.D. Students.
48. 11/7. Affective Visuomotor Interaction: a Functional Model for Socially Competent Robot Grasping (with Eris Chinellato and Lucy Irving). Living Machines Conference - 8th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Nara, Japan.
47. 6/6. Out of our Skull, within our Skin: The Gut Microbiota and the Extended Mind Thesis. (with Silvano Zipoli Caiani and Federico Boem). SILFS Postgraduate Conference, University of Urbino Carlo Bo.
46. 23/5. Why there is no such thing as Vision-for-Action. AISC (Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences) International Conference of Cognitive Sciences. IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca.
45. 4/4. “Do this Φ!” On the Transfer of Knowing-How. British Philosophy of Sport Association, 16th Annual Conference. Trinity College, Oxford.
44. 15/3. Propositional Attitudes, Motor Attitudes and the Interface between them. Rudolf Carnap Lectures. Ruhr University Bochum.
2018
43. 13/12. Why the Pictorial needs the Motoric. ITAB Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies, Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti.
42. 4/12. Dip it before you eat it! Recipes and Affordances. (with Andrea Borghini). Framing Recipes: Identities, Relationships and Norms. Culinary Mind - Centre for the Philosophy of Food. University of Milan.
41. 23/11. The Architecture of Recipes: Instructions for Use. (with Andrea Borghini). Workshop on Procedures. University of Florence.
40. 17/11. Why the Pictorial needs the Motoric. Depiction, Pictorial Experience and Vision Science Conference. University of Glasgow.
39. 13/9. Pictures, Holes, and Shadows: What Would Molyneux Do? (with Brian Glenney), ESPP, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. University of Rijeka, Croatia.
38. 13/9. Motor Mediators (with Silvano Zipoli Caiani), ESPP, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. University of Rijeka, Croatia.
37. 6/9. Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Roundtrip (with Marco Viola), Sifa, Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara.
36. 5/9. Why the Pictorial Needs the Motoric, Sifa, Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara.
35. 4/9. How the Propositional and the Motoric come together (with Silvano Zipoli Caiani), Sifa, Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara.
34. 8/7. Seeing Entities without Seeing N-Entities (with Francesco Marchi), Open Session of the Aristotelian Society. St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford.
33. 17/5. Philosophy and Neuroscience: a Roundtrip (with Marco Viola), The Italian Society for Neuroethics. Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan.
32. 18/4. A Philosophical Puzzle concerning Vision and Blindness, University of Pavia.
31. 29/3. Can we Solve Molyneux’s Puzzle? Talk Series in Florence.
30. 28/3. Molyneux’s Miracle: Experimental, Biological and Conceptual Issues, University of Urbino Carlo Bo. Workshop: Molyneux’s Question between Philosophy of Perception and Neuroscience.
2017
29. 14/12. Philosophy and Neuroscience: a Roundtrip (with Marco Viola), AISC (Italian Association for Cognitive Science) International Conference for Cognitive Sciences, University of Bologna. Winner of the Prize ‘Best Paper AISC 2017’.
28. 15/12. Interface Without Translation (with Silvano Zipoli Caiani), AISC (Italian Association for Cognitive Science) International Conference for Cognitive Sciences, University of Bologna.
27. 8/11. Pictorial Experience, Department of Pure and Applied Science, University of Urbino Carlo Bo
26. 23/09. An Action-Based Theory of Picture Perception. Forth Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of Language and Mind, Ruhr University Bochum.
25. 22/6. Is there a Pictorial Motor World? The case of Pictorial Action Properties. Silfs, International Conference for Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Bologna.
24. 23/5. The Nature of Pictorial Representations. San Raffaele Spring School of Philosophy 2017 (SRSSP 2017), Milan. Perception and Aesthetic Experience. Starting from Noe’s Strange Tools. Art and Human Nature.
23. 19/5. Do Pictures Afford Action? Italian Society for Neuroethics and Philosophy of Neuroscience, University of Padova.
22. 6/4. Visuomotor Habits. Conference: The Pragmatist Turn and Embodied Cognition: Habit and Experience at the crossroads between Pragmatism, Neurosciences, and Social Ontology. European Pragmatism Association. University of Parma.
21. 17/1. Visual Representations in Action. Lunch-Time Seminar, Neurophilosophy Research Group, University of Milan.
2016
20. 6/12. Molyneux’s Puzzle in the light of (contemporary) Vision Science, Department of Biomolecular Science, University of Urbino Carlo Bo.
19. 24/11. Is our Visual System a Modular Device? The Case of Vision for Action (with Silvano Zipoli Caiani). AISC (Italian Association for Cognitive Science) International Conference for Cognitive Sciences, University of Turin.
18. 6/9. Action and Pictures, Sifa, International Conference for Analytic Philosophy, Pistoia.
17. 18/5. Mixing Visuo-Motor and Visuo-Affective Representations in a Robotic Brain: A Case Study concerning Embodied Vision in Neurorobotics, Italian Society for Neuroethics and Philosophy of Neuroscience, University of Padova.
16. 12/4. Through the Forest of Motor Representations, Workshop: The Neuroscientific Turn in the Philosophy of Mind, University of Urbino.
2015
15. 02/07. An Extension of the Dorsal/Ventral Account of Picture Perception: Action Properties, Motor Related Effects and the Ventro-Dorsal Stream, Workshop: Cognition, Models and Rationality between Science and Philosophy, University of Urbino.
14. 27/06. Is Affordance Perception a Cognitive Bet? What Motor Neuroscience can tell us about Abductions, Visuomotor Representations and Ecological Semiosis. Conference on Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology – Models and Inferences: Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues – Computational and Applied Philosophy. Sestri Levante, Italy, University of Pavia, Centro Congressi Mediaterraneo.
13. 08/05. Pictures, Action Properties and Motor Related Effects, University of Antwerp. Ph.D. Seminar, Research Group – Between Perception and Action, Centre for Philosophical Psychology.
2014
12. 03/12. Is Knowing-How reducible to Knowing-That? Cognitive Neuroscience Knows (the Irreducibility of Knowing) How. Visuomotor Skills before Knowledge and Motor Intentions to Φ. AISC International Conference for Cognitive Sciences, University of Rome 3.
11. 25/09. Between Philosophy and Neuroscience, Disbef Seminar, University of Urbino.
10. 17/09. How to be a Moderate Enactivist: Knowing-How and Visuomotor Representations, ESPP, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, University of Messina, Noto.
9. 5/09. Reframing Embodiment: Knowing-How, Visuomotor Representations and Goals for Actions, Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Annual Conference, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
8. 3/09. Do we really need to be Radical Enactivists to explain Perception in Action? Sifa, International Conference for Analytic Philosophy, University of L’Aquila.
7. 31/08. Do we really need to be Radical Enactivists to explain Perception in Action? ECAP, European Conference for Analytic Philosophy, University of Bucharest.
6. 19/06. Perception without Representation. Can Enactivism really reject Representations? Silfs, International Conference for Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Rome 3.
5. 04/06. Perception in Action: Radicality in Cognition and How to Resist It, Disbef Seminar, University of Urbino.
2013
4. 18/09. Externalism, Enactive Approach and Canonical Neurons, Sifa, Italian Conference for Analytic Philosophy, University of Cagliari.
3. 16/09. Marr, Gibson and Motor Neuroscience. Disbef Seminar, University of Urbino.
2. 14/09. Externalism, Enactive Approach and Canonical Neurons, Salzburg Conference for Analytic Philosophy, University of Salzburg.
1. 31/05. Neurophenomenology and Mirror Phenomena, Silfs, Italian Conference for Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Urbino.
Organized
13. Workshop, Perception and Action at the Interface. University of Florence. (Co-Organized with Silvano Zipoli Caiani). (Speakers: Luca Tummolini, Francesco Mannella). May 24TH, 2023.
12. Conference: Realism vs. Antirealism in Metaphysics, Science and Language, University of Urbino, Carlo Bo. (Co-Organized with Adriano Angelucci, Giovanni Galli, Pierluigi Graziani). (Speakers: Vincenzo Fano, Evandro Agazzi, Dennis Dieks, Francesco Orilia, Stathis Psillos, Alberto Cordero, Massimo Dell’Utri, Flavia Marcacci, Tiziana Migliore, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Giorgio Volpe, Federica Malfatti, Michel Ghins, Fabio Minazzi, Stephen Stich, Mario Alai, Gino Tarozzi). April 11TH/12TH/13TH, 2023.
11. Workshop on the Interface Problem. Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies. National Research Council (CNR), Rome. (Speakers: Luca Tummolini, Francesco Mannella, Silvano Zipoli Caiani). March 17TH, 2023.
10. Conference: Reality, Presence and Vision: Inside the Pictorial Space. Eikones - Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel. (Speakers: Alberto Voltolini, Luisa Krauss, Celine Ott, Klaus Opwis, Andrea Meyer, and Jens Gaab, Dhanraj Vishwanath, Mohan Matthen, Paolo Spinicci, Bence Nanay, Jérôme Dokic). October 26-27, 2021.
9. Conference: Green Intelligence - Debating Plant Cognition, University of Basel. (Co-Organized with Markus Wild and Peter Schulte). (Speakers: Todd Ganson, Carrie Figdor, Fatima Cvrčková, Marc Artiga, Mohan Matthen, Paco Calvo, Ines Kreuzer, Fred Keijzer). October 21-23, 2021.
8. Talk Series in Florence: Josefa Toribio – Implicit Bias: Cognitive Vice or Bang on the Head? May 21ST 2019.
7. Talk Series in Florence: Alfredo Tomasetta – Is Physicalism obviously false? March 1ST 2019.
6. Talk Series in Florence: Andrea Borghini – Hunger: A Philosophical Perspective. June 13TH 2018.
5. Talk Series in Florence: Albert Newen - Perception and Cognition: Can our perceptual experience be influenced by concepts or beliefs? May 30TH 2018.
4. Talk Series in Florence: Bence Nanay - Action-initiation, self-control and the fragmentation of the mind. April 16TH 2018.
3. Talk Series in Florence: Fausto Caruana – Emotional Expressions. From Pragmatism to Electrical Stimulation. February 28TH 2018
2. Talk Series in Florence: Marco Viola - Neuroscience: A Bridge between the Mind and the Brain. February 7TH 2018.
1. Workshop: The Neuroscientific Turn in the Philosophy of Mind, University of Urbino. April 12 TH, 13TH 2016 (Speakers: Corrado Sinigaglia, Pierre Jacob, Chiara Brozzo, Bence Nanay)
As Discussant
9.6.2023. Newen, A. The case of cognitive penetration: Constraints on neural mechanisms. Neural Mechanisms.