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Thought, Language, Ontology. A Conference for Francesco ORILIA

June 24, 2026

Chair: Michele PAOLINI PAOLETTI

9.00-9.30 Greetings by John Francis MCCOURT (Rector)

Roberto MANCINI (Head of the Department of Human Studies)

Silvia PIEROSARA (Head of the Philosophy Degree Programs)

Carla CANULLO (Head of the Philosophy and Human Sciences Research Area)

9.30-10.30 Francesco ORILIA (Macerata) Ideal Language Ontology

10.30-11.00 Break 

11.00-12.00 Gregory LANDINI (Iowa) Time and Place within the Metaphysics of Orilia’s Singular Reference Descriptivism

12.00-13.00 Riccardo BRUNI (Florence) Step by revision step. On the logic of the step conditional by Gupta and Standefer 

13.00-15.00 Lunch Break 

Chair: Alberto VOLTOLINI

15.00-16.00 Mario ALAI (Urbino) Skepticism, Metaphysical Realism, and Orilia on Noumenal Knowledge

16.00-17.00 Paolo LEONARDI (Bologna) What’s in a name

17.00-17.30 Break

17.30-18.30 Mauro DORATO (Third University Rome) An attempt to close the circle between physical and experiential time

18.30-19.30 Giuliano TORRENGO (Milan) The Varieties of Presentism

June 25, 2026

Chair: Gregory LANDINI

9.30-10.30 Achille C. VARZI (Columbia) On the Structure of Events (as Opposed to Facts)

10.30-11.30 Gabriele USBERTI (Siena) A Discussion of Orilia’s Solution to Kripke’s Translation Puzzle

11.30-12.00 Break

12.00-13.00 Marcello D’AGOSTINO (Milan) Informational semantics for bounded rationality

13.00-15.00 Lunch Break 

Chair: Giuliano TORRENGO

15.00-16.00 Adriano G. PALMA (KwaZulu Natal) Francesco's well-tempered present

16.00-17.00 Nathan OAKLANDER (Michigan, Flint) The R-Theory, the B-Theory, and Moderate Presentism: A Reply to Orilia

17.00-17.30 Break

17.30-18.30 Venanzio RASPA (Urbino) Presentism and the Theory of Objects

18.30-19.30 Giuseppe VARNIER (Siena) Some Types of Temporality

June 26, 2026

Chair: Adriano G. PALMA

9.30-10.30 Gianlazzaro RIGAMONTI (Palermo) Sull’ambiguità della nozione di presente

10.30-11.30 Aldo FRIGERIO (Catholic University Milan) Tensed propositions, tense semantics and grounding

11.30-12.00 Break

12.00-13.00 Alberto VOLTOLINI (Turin) Different Forms of Fiction-Involving Samenesses

13.00-15.00 Lunch Break 

Chair: Marcello D’AGOSTINO

15.00-16.00 Edwin MARES (Victoria University Wellington) Modality and Conditionals in Relevant and Substructural Logic

16.00-17.20 Thoughts and Memories by Former Students, Part I

Michele BISCEGLIA, Laura CELANI, Nevia DOLCINI, Jansan FAVAZZO

17.20-17.50 Break

17.50-19.10 Thoughts and Memories by Former Students, Part II

Ernesto GRAZIANI, Roberto MOSCIATTI, Michele PAOLINI PAOLETTI, Andrea VETTORE

19.10-19.30 Francesco ORILIA (Macerata) Conclusion and Greetings

La partecipazione in presenza conferisce 0,25 CFU per ogni sessione per le Ulteriori attività formative alle studentesse e agli studenti di Filosofia e Scienze filosofiche (per un massimo di 1,5 CFU)

JUNE 24-26, 2026

Aula Verde Polo Pantaleoni | via della Pescheria Vecchia 26 | MACERATA

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