Talks (and Commentaries)

Upcoming​
  • "Creativity That Matters," American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Chicago, 23-26.10.2024.>>
  • "Towards a Pluralist Account of Creativity", UNED, Madrid, 26.11.2024.
  • TBA, University of Uppsala, 05.02.2025.  

​Past
(2024)
  • "Three Kinds of Culinary Creativity," Congress of the International Society for Gastronomic Sciences and Studies, Pollenzo, 27.09.2024.
  • "Creativity that Matters," Annual Conference of the British Society of Aesthetics, Oxford, 06.09.2024.
  • "The Philosophy of Natural Wine," World Congress of Philosophy, Rome, 05.08.2024.
  • "Locked and Expandable Creative Domains," London Aesthetics Forum, London, 22.05.2024.
  • "The Naturefactual", AFHVS & ASFS Conference, Syracuse, NY,  06.06.2024.
  • "The Naturefactual", Thumos Research Seminar, Geneva, 02.05.2024.
  • "Locked-In and Expandable Creative Domains," CUSO Workshop, Crêt-Bérard, 29.01.2024.
  • "Food and The Appreciation of Nature," University of Milan, 11.01.2024.
  • "Nature Matters," Sophia University, Tokyo, 21.03.2024.

(2023)
  • "Deux formes de la créativité: ouverte et fermée," Phileas, Geneva, 07.12.2023. ​
  • (Cancelled COVID) "Nature Matters," Stockholm Gastronomy Conference, 23.11.2023.
  • (Cancelled COVID) "Creativity, Art, and the Culinary Arts," Stockholm Gastronomy Conference, 24.11.2023.
  • "Locked-In and Expandable Creative Domains," University of Genoa, 23.10.2023.
  • "Creativity, Two-Fold," ECAP 2023, Vienna, 22-25.08.2023.
  • "Food and Our Experience of Multimodal Objects," ECAP 2023, Vienna, 22-25.08.2023.
  • "Imagination, Creativity, and the Culinary Arts," Imagination and Creativity Conference, Geneva, 15.-17.05.2023.
  • "The Heritage Value of Culinary Items", EXRE Research Colloquium, Fribourg, 15.03.2023.​
  • "Creativity, Two Fold", Thumos Research Seminar, Geneva, 27.04.2023.
  • "The Heritage Value of Culinary Items", CAA Annual Conference, New York, 15-18.02.2023.​

(2022)
  • Commentary on Shane Epting's The Ethics of Agribusiness, University of Milan, 25.10.2022.
  • "Real Philosophy of Creativity," CISA Annual Research Forum, Geneva, 24.11.2022.
  • "Real Philosophy of Creativity," EXRE Colloquium, Fribourg, 21.12.2022.
  • "Works of Fiction as Special Epistemic Opportunity", Geneva, 11.07.2022.
  • "Works of Fiction as Special Epistemic Opportunity", SOPHA, Neuchâtel, 19.07.2022.
  • "Metaphysical and Normative Aspects of Natural Food. The Case of Natural Wine", GAP.11, Berlin, 15.09.2022.

(2021)
  • "Product, Appreciation, and Value. A Philosophical Perspective on Natural Wine", Quarter Bake Online Colloquium, Culinary Mind, 13.12.2021.

(2020)
  • "Thetism, intentionality without representation and analytic existentialism" (with Philipp Blum). Eidos Seminar, University of Geneva, 08.10.2020.
  • "Modelling Culinary Value", Half Baked Online Colloquia Series, 20.11.2020. (Recording available here)
  • "Smelling Objects", Post-Covid Swiss Philosophers Gathering, Ligerz, 11.09.2020.
  • (Cancelled) "Recipes, Tradition, and Representation",  Sixth International Convention on Food History and Food Studies, Tours, 4-5 June 2020.
  • (Cancelled) "Modelling Culinary Value", European Society of Aesthetics Annual Meeting, , Tallinn, June 2020. 
  • (Cancelled) "Recipes and Culinary Creativity: The Noma Legacy", University of Milan, 17.03.2020.
  • "Smell, Identification, and Attribution", Third Aesthetic Mind Workshop, University of Fribourg, 12.02.2020.
  • "Recipes, Tradition, and Representation", Philosophical Perspectives on Food and Landscape, University of Milan, 20.12.2019.

(2019)
  • "Recipes, Tradition, and Representation", EXRE Research Colloquium, University of Fribourg, 19.12.2019.
  • Commentary on Axel Barturo Barceló Aspeitia's "What Shall We Have to Eat", Food, Art, and Philosophy, UNAM, Mexico, 3-4.10.2019.
  • Commentary on Gianfranco Soldati's "Autonomy and Control", Tehran-Fribourg Conference, Sharif University, Tehran, 06.07.2019.
  • "Self, Sincerity, and Authenticity: Selfhood in a Williams Key". Fribourg-Liège Meeting, University of Fribourg, 21-22.06.2019.
  • "The Actor, the Acting, the Acted". European Society of Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Warsaw, 12-14.06.2019.
  • "The Actor, the Acting, the Acted". 2nd Aesthetic Mind Workshop, University of Fribourg, 16.02.2018

(2018)
  • "Traditions in Action: Recipes, Memory, and Representation". Framing Recipes: Identities, Relations, Norms. University of Milan, 04.12.2018. 
  • "Fiction, Imagination, and Narrative", Arché Mind and Language Seminar, St-Andrews, 27.11.2018.
  • "Fiction, Imagination, and Narrative", SIFA Conference, Novara, 6-7 September 2018. 
  • "Non-Cognitivism About Fiction", Workshop on Imagination with Amy Kind, University of Geneva, 15.06.2018. 
  • "Non-Cognitivism About Fiction", Fabian Dorsch Memorial Conference, University of Fribourg, 12.06.2018. 
  • Commentary on Andrea Borghini's "A Recipe's Life: Food Identities Across Space and Time",  Workshop On the (Im)Possible Futures of Cities and Agricultural Sites, University of Milan, 16.04.2018.
  • "Erzeugungsprinzipien für fiktionale Tatsachen” (mit Tobias Klauk), Mürzer Gespräche zur Dichtung, Mürzzuschlag, 07.04.2018.
  • "What Could Non-Thetic Awareness of the Self Be?", Commentary on Dan Zahavi, CUSO Workshop on the Self and Subjectivity, Ovronnaz, 15.03.2018.
  • "On the Nature of Fiction", Introductory Lecture on Fiction, University of Miami, 05.02.2018.​
  • ”Patchwork Puzzles and the Nature of Fiction”, Workshop with Greg Currie, University of Miami, 01.02.2018.
  • ”There Is Still No Role for Imagination in Fiction”, University of Salzburg, 29.01.2018.​

(2017)
  • "There Is Still No Role for Imagination in Fiction", EXRE Colloquium, University of Fribourg, 20.11.2017.
  • "There Is Still No Role for Imagination in Fiction", Thumos Seminar, University of Geneva, 14.11.2017.
  • "Patchwork Puzzles and the Nature of Fiction", CUSO Fall School, Champex, 02.10.2017.
  • "If Only Imagine...", Commentary on Kathleen Stock's Only Imagine, Symposium on Stock's Only Imagine, University of Fribourg, 11.09.2018.
  • "Fiction and Imagination", 1st Aesthetic Mind Workshop, University of Fribourg, 02.06.2017.
  • “Is the Notion of Intentionality Univocal?”, Phenomenal Intentionality Workshop, Institut Jean Nicod, ENS, Paris, 14.03.2017.

(2016)
  • “Intentionality and Conceptual Dependence”, Workshop on Intentionality, Modality, and Constitution, University of Turin, 10.11.2016

(2015)
  • “About ‘About’”, EXRE Research Seminar, Ottenleuebad, 24.01.2015;
  • “Philosophie analytique, philosophie continentale et philosophie tout court’, Journée philosophique romande CUSO, Université de Fribourg., 02.03.2015; 
  •  “Digging our Singular Heels”, Workshop on Singularity in Thought and Perception, Fribourg,  04.09.2015;
  • “Meinongianism and Quasi-Meinongianism”, Workshop on Intentionality and the First-Person, Fribourg, 16.12.2015;

(2014)
  • “Empty Singular Thought: The Grouping Problem”, Mind and World Berlin/Fribourg Workshop, Fribourg, 28.03.2014;

(2013)
  • “Intentionality, Singularity, and Satisfaction Conditions”, LOGOS Graduate Reading Group, University of Barcelona, 10.04.2013;
  • “The Face-Value Argument In Favor Of Empty Singular Thought” EXRE Research Seminar, Ottenleuebad, 30.11.2013;

(2012)
  •  “Singular Thought and the Acquaintance Principle”*, Swiss Philosophy Graduate Conference, Luzern, 11.02.2012;
  • “Singular Thought Without Acquaintance ?”*, SOPHA Conference, ENS, Paris, 06.05.2012;
  • “Some General Thoughts About Singular Thoughts”, Graduate Students Colloquium, University of Fribourg, 14.05.2012;
  •  “Names, Descriptive Names, and Singular Thought”, EXRE Research Seminar, Coglio, 13.06.2012.