Talks

2024

• “A tese tardia da incomensurabilidade de Thomas Kuhn”, Physikos lectures in philosophy of science, 19 September 

• “Expanding the Epistemological Framework of Natural Science: Mary Hesse (and Thomas Kuhn) on Hermeneutics, Translation, and Interpretation”, HOPOS International Conference, University of Vienna, 8 July

2023

• “Incommensurability and (un)translatability in Thomas Kuhn's mature philosophy”, Epistemic Translation Conference, NOVA University of Lisbon, 14-16 December

• “Questões da Metafísica e Prática de Ação em William James”, Praxis Seminar: Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy, Universidade de Lisboa, 17 October

• “Per il vecchio problema: il poema Zarathustra è un testo filosofico?”, Biennale Nietzscheana, Università del Salento, 20-22 September

• “Remarks on Mary Hesse’s hermeneutic account of scientific knowledge”, 4th Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon, 12-15 July

• “‘Vom Chaos zur Wirchlichkeit.’ The Nietzschean Account”, Seminar series Reconstructing Carnap, University of Naples “Federico II”, 8 June 

2022

• “Nietzsche’s and Wittgenstein’s Pragmatist view of Language and Knowledge”, European Pragmatism Conference, UCL London, 3 August

• “Nietzsche e Wittgenstein. Linguaggio, conoscenza e forme di vita”, International Conference Actualidad de los estudios nietzscheanos, University of Valencia, 13 May

• “Il realismo scettico di Nietzsche. A partire da Lange”, International Conference Nietzsche lettore di filosofia, University of Bologna, 29 April

• “Verità, realtà, finzione”, ciclo di seminari Che cosa cambia con Nietzsche?, Università Vita-Salute S. Raffaele, Milano, 5 April

• “Mary B. Hesse’s Post-Empiricist Epistemology. An Overview”, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 4 March

• “Pragmatismo, pluralismo e realismo filosofico in William James”, PhD seminar, Università del Salento, 21 January

2021

• “Il realismo filosofico dell'ultimo James”, Giornata di studi jamesiani, Università di Udine. 15 September

• "Uma abordagem pragmatista ao perspectivismo de Nietzsche", Núcleo de pesquisa Nietzsche UFG. 5 May

• "William James: questões de filosofia e pluralismo existencial", Art Of Living Research Group, NOVA University of Lisbon.  22 June 

• “Ernst Mach”, Lecture, University of Naples “Federico II”, 2 March

• “Il buon europeo secondo Nietzsche”, Italian Institute for German Studies (Rome). 12 February

2020

• “Tempo e attualità. Perché non possiamo non dirci nietzscheani”, Ischia and Naples International Festival of Philosophy. 26 September

2019

• “William James on the Function of Philosophy”, International Workshop Pragmatism as a Way of Life, NOVA Universityof Lisbon 2 December 

• “The Practice of truth. Nietzsche and Foucault in Dialogue”, II Biennale Nietzscheana, École Normale Superieur, Paris, 7 November 

• “Nietzsche, l’Umanesimo, l’Europa”, Udine, Festival Mimesis, 25 October

• "Ernst Mach's Constructivism and Post-Empiricism", International conference "Open Epistemologies", University of Lisbon, 20-21 September 

• “Nietzsche’s Moralist Demon. A New Account of Perspectival Anti-Realism”, APL International Conference “Truth Fiction Illusion: Worlds and Experience”, University of Klagenfurt, 29 May – 1 June

2018

• "Il realismo tragico di Nietzsche", GIRN XI International Conference, University of Nice, 25-27 June 

• “‘Trovo che egli sia molto migliore di quanto la sua reputazione porterebbe a pensare.’ Su percorsi meno battuti della Nietzsche-Rezeption di inizio novecento” International Workshop “Tra filosofia e letteratura Nietzsche nella prima metà del Novecento tedesco”, University of Padova, 28-29 March

2017

• “Un pragmatisme artistique”. On R. Berthelot’s Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Perspectivism, International Conference “Nietzsche and the Arts. I Biennale Nietzscheana”, New University of Lisbon, 15-17 November

• Essere “buoni europei” secondo Friedrich Nietzsche, UAAR Padova, Libreria “La forma del libro”, Padova, 12 October

• Pragmatism, Perspectivism, Anthropology. A Consistent Triad, International Conference “Nietzsche als anthropologischer Denker”, University of Erfurt, 12-14 July

• Nietzsche e o problema da verdade. Perspectivismo, pragmatismo e transvaloração, International Workshop “Nietzsche & Wittgenstein – On Values”, New University of Lisbon, 29-30 May

2016

• Ernst Mach dal punto di vista storico-critico, International Workshop “Ernst Mach tra scienza e filosofia”, Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori, University of Padua, 04 November 

• Prospettivismo e/o pragmatismo, LabOnt Seminar, University of Turin, 02 November

•  Kant and Nietzsche on Anthropology: Two Comparable Approaches?, International Workshop “Nietzsche, Kant, and Aristotle on Life”, University of Milan, 21 October

•  Ernst Mach’s Pragmatist Epistemology, International Conference “Duhem and Mach. Science, Philosophy and History”, CBPF, Rio de Janeiro, 27-29 September

•  Para uma filosofia sem alma. Uma abordagem psicofísica da subjetividade de Nietzsche, International conference “Recepção Contemporânea da filosofia de Nietzsche”, UNIFESP (São Paulo), 20 September

• A componente pragmática do perspectivismo nietzschiano, II Congreso do Núcleo de Estudios Nietzscheanos, UFPR (Curitiba), 22-23 September

• What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Science? On Ernst Mach’s Pragmatism, International Conference “Ernst Mach. Werk und Wirkung”, University of Wien (16-18 June)

• Pragmatism and Perspectival Thought as “Programs of Behaviour” for Dealing with Relativism, International conference “Nietzsche et le relativisme”, University Paul Valéry, Montpellier (19-20 May)

• Nietzsche on Truth. A Pragmatic View?, Bonner Nietzsche Vorträge, University of Bonn (26 January)

2015

• I buoni europei di Nietzsche e il rinnovamento culturale dell’Europa, SPN XII, Università della Calabria, Cosenza (10-12 December)

• Nominalismo e critica della cultura del senso comune. Alcune considerazioni per una lettura pragmatista di Nietzsche a partire da MA 11, VIII Congreso Internacional del GIRN Genealogía y crítica de la cultura en Humano, demasiado humano, UNED, Madrid (24-26 June)

• Nietzsche’s and Pessoa’s Psychological Fictionalism, International Conference “The Plurality of the Subject and the Crisis of Modernity”, Casa Fernando Pessoa - New University of Lisbon (4-6 February) (with A. Cardiello)

2014

• “Nuove forme e raffinamenti dell’ipotesi anima”. Nietzsche e la psicologia scientifica, Jornada Internacional "Perspectivas de investigación sobre F. Nietzsche", Universidad de Valencia (30 October)

• “The Heirs of Europe’s Longest and Most Courageous Self-Overcoming”: The Good European beyond Nihilism and Christian Morality, SEDEN 3rd International Conference, Madrid (1-3 April) (with P. Stellino)   

2013

• Is the Twilight of Christian Europe the Time for Good Europeans?, International conference "Nietzsche and the Good European", New University of Lisbon (12-13 November)

• The Principles of Mach’s Antimetaphysical Aim, October 23rd, Seminar session of the research group in “Philosophy of Mathematics”, CFCUL, Lisbon 

• “La verità come problema”. Riflessioni a partire da GM III 24. October 15th, seminar session on “Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality”, University of Padua 

• Il soggetto scomparso. Lange, Mach, Nietzsche e la sfida della psicologia scientifica. October 2nd, Scuola di dottorato in “Scienze della mente e delle relazioni umane”, Università del Salento (Lecce) 

• Epistemologia Evoluzionistica, May 22nd, Series of Lectures “Le Eredità di Darwin”, Scuola Galileiana, Padua 

• Psychology without a Soul, Philosophy without an I. Nietzsche and 19th century Psychophysics, May 14th, Nietzsche-Seminar, IFL-Universidade Nova, Lisbon

2012

• Dall'alba al tramonto. Pensieri sul valore della verità nell'epoca della Trasvalutazione, GIRN Conference: "Aurora: uma viragem na obra de Nietzsche?" A inversão dos valores e o futuro da humanidade, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (21-23 June). 

• Kant, Nietzsche, and the Anthropological Question, Conference/Workshop “Kant & Nietzsche”, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (20-21 April).

2011

• Nichilismo ed epistemologia nell’ultimo Nietzsche, Giornata di studio “Letture di una vita. I filosofi di Franco Volpi”, Università di Padova, May 26th. 

• Riflessioni sul prospettivismo tra teoria e prassi, International workshop Teorías y prácticas de la verdad en F. Nietzsche, Universidad de Valencia (May 30th). 

• Nihilismo y ciencia natural. para una nueva determinacion del “positivismo” de Nietzsche, Congreso Internacional "La filosofía de Nietzsche y su trasfondo científico", Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (5-7 April) 

2010

• Nietzsche as Phenomenalist?, International Conference "Nietzsches Wissenschaftsphilosophie", Technischen Universität Berlin (18-21 July). 

• Diventare ciò che si è guardando a ciò che si è scritto, “Letture del Crepuscolo degli idoli”. III Convegno internazionale GIRN, Università di Pisa (28-30 April). 

• On the Use of History for Science. Nietzsche and Mach against Mechanism, International Workshop “Nietzsches Philosophie des Wissens im Kontext des 19. Jahrhunderts”, Technisches Universität – Berlin (22 January)

2009

• Beyond immediate certainties. Nietzsche on the cause of thinking, 17th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society “Nietzsche on Mind and Nature”, Oxford (11-13 September)  

• Small Moment and Individual Taste. Nietzsche on Science and Society, Internationaler Kongress der Nietzsche-Gesellschaft e.V. in Naumburg an der Saale „Nietzsche - Macht – Größe“ (27-30 August)  

• Fenomenalismo e prospettivismo in FW 354, First GIRN International Conference “Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft”, Université de Reims (11-13 March)  

2008

• Forme e problemi della comunicazione filosofica in Nietzsche. Seminario Permanente Nietzscheano. Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples (2-4 October) – Speaker and organizer

•  «Sounding out idols». Knowledge, History and Metaphysics in Human, All Too Human and Twilight of the Idols, 16. Nietzsche-Werkstatt “Nietzsches Götzen-Dämmerung”, Naumburg (10-13 September)  

•  The anti-metaphysical value of historical reconstruction in Nietzsche and Mach, International Conference "Neue Nietzsche-Philologie. Arbeit mit der KGW-IX und dem Nietzsche-Wörterbuch", Greifswald, Alfried Kupp Wissenschaftskollegin (13-15 May).

2007

• Volontà di potenza e descrizione del mondo: le ragioni di una scelta terminologica, International Conference “Nietzsche and Hermeneutics”, Univerdad de Valencia (5-7 November)

2005

• Ewige Wiederkehr: The Eternal Becoming of a Definite Number of Temporal Moments, International conference “Nietzsche on Time and History”, Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Cambridge (16-18 September)  

• La “considerazione dinamica del mondo”: l’interesse di Nietzsche per R. Boscovich, Seminario Permanente Nietzscheano, University of Pisa (10-11 March)