TALKS

In my experience, travelling for conferences is one of the best parts of pursuing an academic career in philosophy. Below you can find a list of my upcoming and past talks.

Upcoming

• A talk on groundign vs causation. 25 JRCK (accepted). Concepcion, Chile
• A talk on groundign vs causation. USACH Metaphysics seminar (invited). Santiago, Chile
• A talk on the metaphysics of physics. TBA UChile Workshop. Santiago, Chile.
• A talk on responsible AI. ACEPS seminar. Joburg (online), South Africa.

Invited

• A talk on scientific anti-anturalistic metaphysics. Joburg
• A talk on moderately anti-naturalist metaphysics. Philosophy of Science Workshop at UChile (Apilr 19 – 20)
• A talk on varieties of grounding and fundamentality at the L’Aquila Workshop on this theme. June 20, 2025.
• Governance, Grounding, Generalism. Workshop “‘La naturaleza y los límites de la explicación metafísica”. USACH, Santiago. 8 – 10 January 2025
• A paper on metaphysics, modelling, and methodology. 4th Workshop on the Philosophy of Science. UChile. Santiago. 20 – 22 January 2025.
• Natural Grounding. Seminario Metafísica de y para las Ciencias. , UNAM, Mexico. 11 June, 2024.
• Naturalistic Metaphysics and the Problem of Progress. Conferencia COMEFI. 13 June, 2023.
• Sobre las perspectivas de una metafísica eficaz guiada por la ciencia”. Seminario de Metafisca USACH. June 6, 2024.
• Spacetime Emergence Grounding. USACH Metaphysics Seminar. October 2024.
• Fundamentality Emergence and Spacetime Metaphysics. Conceptions of fundamentality conference in Wien. September 2024.
• Fundamentality in Physics and Metaphysics: Bridging the Gap. CISS Seminar. November 22, Santiago.
• Spacetime Emergence Grounding. USACH Metaphysics Seminar. October 2024.
• Powers and Symmetries. Buenos Aires Metaphysics of Science group. Buenos Aires, May 2024.
• Powerful Qualites for a Scientifically Responsible Metaphysics. PHYSIS Lecture in Analytic Metaphysics. Madrid (online). March 7, 2023

• Powers Grounded. Grounding Theories of Powers Workshop. Buffalo. November 3, 2023

• Powers, Best Systems, and Laws. Workshop on Philosophy of Science 2023. Santiago. November 9 – 10, 2023.

• A talk on fundamentality in physics. VIII Colloquium on Analytic Metaphysics. Buenos Aires, August 2023.

• ‘Scientific Explanation as a Guide to Ground’. w/Markel Kortabarria. FraMEPhys final conference. Birmingham, May 2023.

• ‘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/Abstract

• Natural Grounding. 2024 Conference of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science. Online, 29 – 31 August 2024.
• Natural Grounding. ALFAN 7, Montevideo. May 29 – June 1, 2024.
• Dual Aspect Essentialism: Essential Solutions to Powerful Problems. Powerful Qualities, Powers, Qualities workshop. Cyprus. 24 November, 2023

• Is Grounding Physically Superfluous? XXIII JJRCK. Santiago. October 24 – 26, 2023.

• Is Grounding Physically Superfluous? Grounding and Metaphysical Explanation WiP. Southampton (online). October 2, 2023.

• 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.
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•  ‘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.