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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.

Future

  • ‘Farewell to Viking Naturalism’. JRCK 2026. Santiago. 14 – 16 October

Invited

  • ‘A Metaphysics for Racial Pluralism’. Workshop on “Ontology, Pluralism, and Values”. Universidad Alberto Hurtado. May 2026.
  • ‘Grounds for Racial Justice’. Milan, Ethics, Language, Fiction, Seminar. April 2026.
  • ‘Artificial Responsibility’. ACEPS Seminar. Johannesburg (online). November 2025. (invited)
  • ‘The metaphysics of fundamentality in physics’. UChile Philosophy of Science Seminar. Santiago. November 2025 (invited)
  • A talk causation and grounding. USACH metaphysics seminar. Santiago. October 2025. (invited)
  • ‘Science as a toolbox for metaphysics’. WITS Philosophy of Science Workshop. Johannesburg, August 2025 (invited)
  • ´’Non-naturalistic metaphysics of science’. Metaphysics of Science Workshop. Johannesburg, August 2025 (invited)
  • Mas alla’ de lo Fundamental. Dialogos USS. Chile, July 2025.
  • On the Elusive Distinction Between Grounding and Causation. Varieties of Grounding workshop. Italy, August 2025
  • Spacetime Emergence Grounded. 10th Annual IAPT Conference. Santiago, July 2025
  • Non-naturalistic metaphysics of science. Workshop on the Metaphysics of Science. UChile. April 2025
  • A talk on metaphysical modelling. 4th Workshop on the Philosophy of Science. UChile. January 2025
  • Grounding, Governance, Generalism. 1st Workshop on the Nature of Metaphysical Explanation. USACH. January 2025
  • The Metaphysics of Fundamentality within Physics. Charla COMEFI. Online. September 2024.
  • A talk on fundamentality in physics and metaphysics. TBA fundamentality conference in Wien. September 2024.
  • Become Ungovernable: Laws of Nature and Metaphysical Grounding. CEFA conference 2024. August 2024.
  • A talk (in Spanish) on naturalistic metaphysics versus a priori metaphysics. USACH seminar series. June 2024.
  • Powers and Symmetries: Friends or Foes. w/Cristian Lopez. 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’. 95th 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

  • Farewell to Viking Naturalims. SIFA Mid-term AMAMI Joint Conference. Venice, September 2026.
  • A talk causation and grounding. Jornadas Rolando Chuaqui Kettlun. Concepción October 2025.
  • w/Heber Leal, Más allá de los principios abstractos: fundamentar la IA responsable en en la ética del discurso. I Jornada Internacional sobre el Fenomeno de la IA. CIEPE. Online
  • Fundamentality Metaphysics and Spacetime Emergence. 24 Jornadas Rolando Chauqui Kettlun. Valparaiso. September 2024.
  • ‘Natural Grounding’. SMS 2024 (online). August 2024.
  • ‘Natural Grounding’. ALFAN 7. Montevideo. June 2024.
  • 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.
  • ‘Fundamental Yet Grounded’. 10th 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.
  • 11th 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.