My CV

Please get in touch with me if you wish to receive a .PDF copy of my CV.

APPOINTMENTS

Principal Investigator, Dual Aspect Essentialism: A Scientifically Responsible Metaphysics of Fundamental Properties. Universidad De Chile. Fondecyt Iniciación 2022 – 2025 (Start date: 5^th September 2022; ref 11220030)

Lecturer, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. 2022 – 2023.

Research Associate, A Framework for Metaphysical Explanation in Physics (FraMEPhys) ERC Starting Grant (757295). 2020 – Present

Teaching Fellow, University of Birmingham. 2020 – 2022.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at theUniversity of Tilburg. 2021. [offer declined]

Course Lecturer, University of Glasgow. 2020.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Glasgow. 2015–2020.

Teacher at theUniversity of Glasgow Summer School. 2017–2018.

For details about the courses, see Teaching (p. vi)

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Glasgow. 26^th June 2019.

Viva passed with no corrections. Examiners: Alexander Bird, Neil McDonnell

Visiting Research Student, Durham University. 2017.

Supervisors: Alex Carruth, Matthew Tugby

M.A. in Philosophy, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele. July 2014.

Final Grade: First. Advisor: Michele di Francesco

B.A. in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, State University of Genova. July 2012.

Final Grade: First with Honours. Advisor: Carlo Penco

RESEARCH

Areas of Specialisation

Metaphysics, Metaphysics of Science, Philosophy of Science

Areas of Competence

Applied Ethics, Epistemology, Logic, Critical Thinking, Philosophy of Mind

PUBLICATIONS

Accepted/Published

‘Brutalist Fundamentalism: Radical and Moderate’, Synthese. forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03705-y

‘Fundamentality and Minimalist Grounding Laws’, Philosophical Studies, open access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-022-01811-8. 2022.

‘The Fundamentality of Fundamental Powers’, Acta Analytica, 36, 589–613: 10.1007/s12136-021-00466-0. 2021.

‘Pure Powers Are Not Powerful Qualities’, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 17 (1):(A2)5-29 (2021): 10.31820/ejap.17.1.2. 2021.

‘Grounding Ontic Structuralism’ (with Silvia Bianchi), Synthese 199 (1-2):5205-5223 (2021): 10.1007/s11229-020-03001-7. 2021.

‘Fundamental Yet Grounded’. Theoria 87 (3):578-599: 10.1111/theo.12293. 2021.

‘The Identity Theory of Powers Revised’, Erkenntnis, 86, 603–621. 10.1007/s10670-019-00122-5. 2019.

Under Review

‘Is There a Metaphysically Robust Distinction between Natural and Artificial Dispositions?’

‘Ways of Grounding’

‘Could Scientific Explanation Be a Better Guide to Ground?’ w/Markel Kortabarria

‘The Special Power-Composition Question and the Powerful Cosmos’

In Preparation

A paper on how non-dispositional features of fundamental properties raise a challenge for the pure powers view.

A paper on feminist challenges to the duty to adopt.

TALKS

Upcoming

‘Grounding Perspectivalism’. VII SBFA. Rio de Janeiro. October 2022.

Invited

‘Strong emergence and weak fundamentality’. Emergence and Reduction in Science and Metaphysics (Lisbon). July 2022.

‘Grounding Perspectivalism’. Causal Perspectivalism Conference (Birmingham). June 2022.

‘Brutalist Fundamentalism’. The Serious Metaphysics Group seminar series (Cambridge). March 2022.

‘Grounding Laws as Difference-Makers’. Difference-Making and Explanatory Relevance Conference (Hamburg). July 2021.

‘Laws of Ground and Fundamentality’. 95^th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society (Online). July 2021

‘Grounds for Ontic Structuralists’. EPSA21 (Turin). September 2021

‘Grounding-based Approaches to Ontic Structuralism’. SMS21 (Online). September 2021

‘Fundamentality and Laws of Ground’. Durham Metaphysics Conference (Durham). May 2021.

‘Groundwork for a Humean Theory of Laws of Ground’. Arché Metaphysics and Logic Seminar (St Andrews). [online]. June 2021.

‘The Fundamentality of Fundamental Powers’. LanCog Research Group (Lisbon). [online]. November 2021.

‘The Fundamentality of Fundamental Powers’. Mereology of Potentiality project Seminar (Oxford). [online]. October 2020.

‘Grounding Ontic Structuralism’ w/Bianchi, S. MetaScience (Bristol)WIP Meeting. [online]. July 2020.

‘Grounding Ontic Structuralism’ w/Bianchi, S. IUSS (Pavia) WIP Workshop. [online]. June 2020.

Groundwork for Grounding Evidentialism’. Cogito Glasgow WIP Workshop. [online]. May 2020.

‘Comments on Silvia Bianchi’s (IUSS Pavia) “Metaphysical Grounding as a Non-foundationalist explanation of Quantum Entanglement’. Metaphysical Explanation in Science Conference. University of Birmingham (UK). January 2020.

‘Reconsidering the Identity Theory of Powerful Qualities’. Powerful Qualities Workshop. Durham University (UK). August 2017.

Selected from Call for Papers/Abstracts

Brutalist Fundamentalism: Radical and Moderate’. VI International Conference of the Latin American Association of Analytic Philosophy. Santiago. August 2022.

‘Brutalist Fundamentalism’. CLE Permanent Seminar (Campinas). March 2022.

Of Powers and Causes’. Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-Making And Mechanism Conference (Kent). June 2021.

‘Grounds for Ontic Structuralists’. EENPS 2021 (Belgrade). June 2021.

‘The Powers Ontology: A Case Study in the Methodology of the Metaphysics of Science’. Methodological Issues in the Metaphysics of Science Workshop. Bristol (UK) [online]. September 2020.

W/Bianchi, S. ‘Grounding Ontic Structuralism’. 9^th Ernst Mach workshop on non-causal explanation in physics. Prague (CZ) [online]. September 2020.

‘Fundamental Yet Grounded’. 10^th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy. [Online Conference]. August 2020.

‘Grounding Orthodoxy and Empirical Adequacy’. 2020 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society. University of Kent (UK). [online conference] July 2020.

‘Fundamental Yet Grounded’. SEFA 2019. University of Valencia (SPA). November 2019.

‘Fundamentality for Moderate Structuralists’. Recontres Doctorales in Philosophie des Sciences 2019. University of Lausanne (CH). November 2019.

‘Divide et Impera: Pure Powers are not Powerful Qualities’. New Foundations of Dispositionalism Conference. University of Exeter (UK). May 2019.

‘Fundamentality: Metaphysical Orthodoxy and Symmetric Dependence’. Philosophy in Progress 2019. University of Nottingham (UK). January 2019.

‘Ontological Fundamentality’. 22nd Oxford Graduate Conference. University of Oxford (UK). November 2018.
11^th Arché Graduate Conference. University of St Andrews (UK). November 2018.

—2018 Society for the Metaphysics of Science Conference. University of Milan (ITA). August 2018.

ENFA 7. University of Lisbon (POR). September 2018.
7th CEU International Philosophy Graduate Conference. Central European University (HUN). April 2018.
6th Seoul Philosophy Graduate Conference. Seoul National University (KOR). April 2018.

‘Powers and Causal Relevance in Space and Time’.The Insides of Nature Conference. University of Braga (POR). September 2018.
‘Not Pure Powers But Something Near Enough’.2017 Society for the Metaphysics of Science Conference. Fordham University (USA). September 2017.

‘Mental Properties: Strongly Emergent Powerful Qualities’. MLAG Seminar. University of Porto (POR). December 2017.

‘Reconsidering the Identity Theory of Powerful Qualities’. OZSW Conference 2016. University of Groningen (NLD). December 2016.

‘Comments on V. Livianos’ “Categoricality, Locations, and Symmetry Operations”. 2016 Society for the Metaphysics of Science Conference. University of Geneva (CH). September 2016.

‘The Powerful Qualities View Reconsidered’. OntoForMat Metaphysical Seminar. University of Milan (ITA). September 2016.

AWARDS & GRANTS

CLP 47.400.000 (~ £44573.82) for a three-year research project on Dual Aspect Essentialism: A Scientifically Responsible Metaphysics of Fundamental Properties. Universidad De Chile. Start date: September 5^th 2022.

£1,000 for organising the Minorities and Philosophy Conference 2019 ‘Us and Them: Violence, Discrimination, and Minorities’. University of Glasgow, 11–12 April 2019.

£2,000 for organising the Minorities and Philosophy Conference 2019 ‘Us and Them: Violence, Discrimination, and Minorities’. University of Glasgow, 11–12 April 2019.

£8,000 for “research in certain fundamental parts of philosophy”.

£300 award won for the conference Aristotelian Themes in Metaphysics. Boğaziçi University. (The conference was later cancelled due to political turmoil in Turkey at that time.)

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE & PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Glasgow Science Festival. Research stall with Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (University of Glasgow). June 2019.

Glasgow Science Festival. Research stall with Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (University of Glasgow). June 2018.

Explorathon ‘17 – Researchers’ Night in Scotland. Glasgow. Research stall with Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (University of Glasgow). October 2017.

Glasgow Science Festival. Research stall with Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (University of Glasgow). June 2017.

Cheltenham Science Festival. Research stall with Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (University of Glasgow). June 2017.

Explorathon ‘16 – Researchers’ Night in Scotland. Glasgow. Research stall with Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (University of Glasgow). October 2016.

Glasgow Science Festival. Research stall with Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (University of Glasgow). June 2016.

Glasgow Science Festival. Research stall with Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (University of Glasgow). June 2015.

TEACHING

2022. Lecturer, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

1^st year course on Academic Skills

2020. Course Lecturer, University of Glasgow.

3^rd year courses: Metaphysics, module on the metaphysics of properties (2019–2020); guest lectures on material objects (2018 – 2019).

2015–2020. Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Glasgow.

1^st year tutorials: Critical Thinking, Ethics, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Modern Philosophy.

2^nd year tutorials: Logic, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology. Critical Thinking, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Logic, Epistemology, Introduction to Metaphysics

3^rd year tutorials: Metaphysics.

Teacher at the University of Glasgow Summer School

Introduction to the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. 2018.

Introduction to Metaphysics, Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind. 2017

ADMIN ROLES

Politics, Religion, and Philosophy & Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics Liaison. University of Birmingham. 2021

Philosophy and Mathematics Joint Honours Lead. University of Birmingham. 2021

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Editorial Work

Special Issue on the ‘Source of Modality’ for Argumenta, co-edited with G. Giannini (LSE).

Referee Work

Philosophical Quarterly

Erkenntnis

Inquiry

Synthese

Philosophical Studies

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly

Dialectica

BJPS

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

Conference organisation

Administration

Staff member of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (University of Glasgow) at the Glasgow Science Festival 2018, June 2018.

Staff member of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (University of Glasgow) at the Explorathon ‘17 – Researchers’ Night in Scotland, October 2017.

Staff member of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (University of Glasgow) at Glasgow Science Festival 2017, June 2017.

Staff member of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (University of Glasgow) at the Cheltenham Science Festival 2017, June 2017.

Staff member of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (University of Glasgow) at the Explorathon ‘16 – Researchers’ Night in Scotland, October 2016.

Reception and Display at the University Library for the workshop “Understanding The Sense: Past and Present”, organised by the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience. University of Glasgow, 6 July 2016.