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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