Events

Selected talks

- November 27, 2023 (invited): “Extra-Talks,” upon invitation by Prof. Manuel García-Carpintero, LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy, University of Barcelona (Spain). Title: “A Posteriori Physicalism, Two-Dimensional Semantics, and Varieties of Transparency.”

November 16, 2023 (invited): "Consciousness and Indexicality Workshop" upon invitation by Matheus Valente, Facultat de Filosofia, Universitat de Valencia (Spain). Title: “A Posteriori Physicalism, Two-Dimensional Semantics, and Varieties of Transparency.”

- June 19, 2023 (invited): “Extra-Talks,” upon invitation by Prof. Manuel García-Carpintero, LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy, University of Barcelona (Spain). Title: “Lewis on Indexical Belief.”

- May 20, 2023 (invited): Workshop on The Nature of Belief, organized by Tadeusz Ciecierski, University of Warsaw (Poland). Title: “Lewis on Indexical Belief.”

- March 25, 2022 (invited): Seminar of François Recanati, Chaire de Philosophie du langage et de l’esprit, Collège de France, Paris (France). Title: « Sens, connaissance, et possibilité. »

- November 3, 2021 (invited): EXRE Philosophy Colloquium, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Title: "Pragmatic Internalism."

- February 17, 2021 (invited): « Grandes conférences », Laboratoire d'histoire des sciences et de philosophie, Archives Henri Poincaré, Université de Nancy 2, France. Title: “Pragmatic Internalism.”

- August 24-28, 2020: ECAP 10 (10th European Conference of Analytic Philosophy), Utrecht University. Title: “Stalnaker on Externalism and Transparency.”

- November 28, 2019 (invited): International workshop Monsters, Demonstratives and Token-Reflexive Concepts New Thoughts on the Semantics of Indexicals, organized by Shimon Mercer-Wood, École normale supérieure, Paris. Title: “A Puzzle about Demonstrative Reference in Stalnaker’s Two-Dimensional Pragmatics.”

- April 20, 2019 (invited): One-day session, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran. Titles: “Centred Referentialism I and II.”

- April 5, 2019: EURIAS Meeting, Institute for Advanced Studies of Aarhus, Denmark. Title: “Essential Indexicality.”

- December 4, 2018: Seminar of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Paris. Title: “Indexicality, Perspective, and Truth.”

 - November 8-9, 2018: Workshop “Perspectives on Speech as Action,” University of Trieste. Title: “Two Pragmatic Notions of What Is Said.”

- July 3, 2018: Congrès International Triennal de la Société de Philosophie Analytique (SoPha), 2-5 July, Symposium Détermination des contenus sémantiques par accointance ou par description : un continu des cas intermédiaires, Université de Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique). Title: “Transparency and Pragmatic Internalism.”

 - March 8, 2018: International Linguistics Conference “Reference Determination: Literal and non-Literal Uses of Referring Expressions” organized by Dolf Rami (University of Göttingen), T. Ede Zimmermann (University of Frankfurt), and Sarah Zobel (University of Tübingen), University of Stuttgart (Germany). Title: “Two Pragmatic Notions of What Is Said.”

 - January 26, 2018: National Italian Conference SFL XXIV organised by the Società Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, Università Statale di Milano (Italy). Title: “L’identità informativa.”

- December 1, 2017 (invited): Workshop on Themes from François Recanati, organised by Michael Murez, Bruno Gnassounou (Université de Nantes) and Filipe Drapeau Vieira Contim (Université de Rennes), Université de Nantes. Title: « Deux problèmes de l’indexical essentiel ».

- November 22, 2017: EXRE Philosophy Colloquium, Université de Fribourg, Suisse. Title: “Two Problems of the Essential Indexical.”

 - September 21, 2017: International conference PLM4 organised by the European network Philosophy of Mind and Language, University of Bochum (Germany). Title: “Perceptual Experiences: Content, Situation, Mode.”

 - June 23, 2017: Tenth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT-17. UPMC Campus Jussieu (Paris). Title: “Assertion De Re.”

- April 27, 2017 (invited): Semantics seminar (led by Thomas Ede Zimmermann), Linguistics Department, Goethe Universität Frankfurt. Title: “Singular Truth-Conditions without Singular Propositions.”

- December 17, 2016: International conference Situations, Information, and Semantic Content. Ludwig-Maximilians University (Munich). Title: “The Problem of the Essential Index.”

- September 5, 2016: International Conference of the SIFA (Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica), Università di Pistoia, Italy. Title: “Indexical Judgements without Direct Reference through Singular Contents.”

 - September 11, 2015: ENFA 6 (Ponta Delgada), University of the Azores. Title: “The Problem of the Essential Index.”

 - May 15, 2015: Philang 2015: The 4th International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, University of Lodz, Poland. Title: “The Problem of the Essential De Re.

- September 30, 2014: Workshop Indexicality (in Language and Thought), organised by the European Network of Philosophy of Language & Mind (PLM), around the work of John Perry, Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language and Information (ILCLI), University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Donostia. Title: “The Transparency of Explicit Content.” Commentator: Peter Pagin (University of Stockholm)

- April 28, 2014 (invited): Seminar in Semantics: De Re/De Se, organised by Prof. Chris Barker, New York University, Linguistics Department. Title: “The Transparency of Explicit Content.”

 - July 3, 2013: International conference 7th Latin Meeting in Analytic Philosophy (ENS-IEC New Ideas in the Philosophy of Mind and Language), Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. Title: “Essential Indexicality and Modal Illusions.” Commentator: François Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod)

- May 28, 2013: Cogito Day VIII, Università di Bologna, Italy. Title: « Conoscenza de se e riferimento implicito ».

- July 8, 2012 (invited): International workshop What Did We Learn From Two-Dimensionalism? (organised by P. Blum), University of Geneva. Title: “Possible Words Considered as Actual.”

- March 20, 2012 (invited): International workshop New Ideas in Philosophy of Mind and Language, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. Title: “The Transparency of Linguistic Content.”

 - December 2, 2010 (invited): International conference Modalities: Epistemology and Semantics, Laboratoire d'Histoire des sciences et de philosophie, Archives Henri Poincaré, Université de Nancy 2, France. Title: “Modal Illusions and Transparency of Content.”

- June 17, 2010 (invited): International workshop Mental Files (organised by F. Recanati), Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. Title: “Cognitive Significance and Non-Descriptive Senses.”

 - April 1, 2010 (invited): Conference Le nécessaire et l'a priori après Kripke Université de Rennes I, France. Title: « L'interprétation métasyntaxique du bi-dimensionnalisme ».

 - September 8, 2009: International conference Self-Locating Beliefs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge MA, USA. Title: “The Metasyntactic Interpretation of Two-Dimensionalism.”

 - September 5, 2009: Congrès Triennal de la Société de Philosophie Analytique, Université de Genève, Switzerland. Title: « Trois versions du descriptivisme ».

 - August 9, 2009: International conference Meaning, Understanding and Knowledge: 5th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia. Title: “Reference and Knowledge of Reference.”

 - October 2, 2008: International conference Sinn Und Bedeutung 13, University of Stuttgart, Germany. Title: “Three-Dimensional Semantics.”

- August 22, 2008: European Congress of Analytical Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Title: “Perry on Reflexive Content.”

Organisation of international conferences

- Co-organisation (with François Recanati and Maryam Ebrahimi) of a workshop in the philosophy of society, The Social World: Foundational Issues at the Collège de France, Paris. Dates: October 12-13, 2023. Invited speakers: Manuel García-Carpintero (University of Barcelona), Katrhin Koslicki (University of Neuchâtel), Olivier Massin (University of Neuchâtel), Indrek Reiland (University of Vienna); chaired by Kevin Mulligan (University of Geneva). 

- Co-organisation (with François Recanati) of a workshop in philosophy of mind and psychology, Decoupling and Mentalizing, Fondation Hugot du Collège de France, Paris. Invited speakers: Gregory Currie (York), Daniel Horschler (Yale), Pierre Jacob (Institut Jean Nicod), Agnes Kovacs (Budapest), Josef Perner (Salzburg), Jonathan Phillips (Dartmouth), Victoria Southgate (Copenhague). 

- Co-organisation (with Maryam Ebrahimi and François Recanati) of the workshop in pragmatics and philosophy of language, Assertion and its Norms at the Institut d’études avancées and the École normale supérieure, Paris. Dates: June 3-5, 2019. Invited speakers: Manuel García-Carpintero (Barcelona), Bart Geurts (Rabhoud University), Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University), Teresa Marques (Barcelona).

- Co-organisation (with Philippe De Brabanter, Bruno Leclercq, Philippe Kreutz, and Antonin Thuns) of the Transparency Workshop (on the epistemic transparency of content) in philosophy of mind and epistemology at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Dates: 13-14 June, 2018. Invited speakers: Paul Boghossian (NYU), François Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod), and Robert Stalnaker (MIT).

- Co-organisation (with Philippe De Brabanter, Mikhail Kissine and Daniela Rossi) of the conference in semantics and pragmatics, Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models III (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; dates: February 05-07, 2010). Keynote speakers: Bart Geurts, Jean-Marie Marandin, Ira Noveck, Josef Perner, Dan Sperber.

- Co-organisation (with Philippe De Brabanter and Mikhail Kissine) of the conference in semantics and pragmatics, Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models II (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; dates: July 19-21, 2008). Keynote speakers: Nicholas Asher, Robyn Carston, Herbert Clark, Jim Hurford, Ruth Millikan, Rob Stainton, Leonard Talmy.