Selected Talks
(* peer reviewed)
[2021]
[invited] Between Deference and Autonomy: On Grundmann's View of Epistemic Authority
Cologne Summer School in Philosophy, University of Cologne (06.08)
[with Tommaso Piazza; invited] Sharing Fake News
Online Disinformation Workshop, University of Bologna (29.06)
Science Communication and the Ethics of Expertise
LanCog Social Epistemology Workshop, University of Lisbon (28.05)
[invited] Virtù epistemiche e Virtù morali
La virtù tra paideia, politeia, ed episteme: Una questione di lungo periodo. University of Pavia (14.05)
On Epistemic Exemplars
Work in Progress Seminar, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin (03.03)
[with Tommaso Piazza; invited] Fake News Consumption: Can We Do Any Better?
LanCog Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy, University of Lisbon (26.02)
Response to Shane Ryan's "Epistemic Paternalism and Fake News"
IV Asian Epistemology Network Meeting. (22.02)
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[2020]
[with Tommaso Piazza; invited] Fake News Consumption: Can We Do Any Better?
International Speakers Seminar Series, Department of Christian Philosophy, University of Innsbruck (09.12)
[with Tommaso Piazza; invited] Misinformation and Intentional Deception: A Novel Account of Fake News
"Cognitive distortion and political disinformation in the era of fake news” Seminar Series. University of Piemonte Orientale (04.12)
On Testimony and Its Functions
PEriTia Work in Progress Seminar, University College Dublin (04.11)
[with Maria Silvia Vaccarezza] Cultivating Civic-Epistemic Virtues to Counteract The Spread of Fake News
* Post-Truth: Perspectives, Strategies, Prospects. Catholic University at Leuven (16.01)
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[2019]
[with Maria Silvia Vaccarezza] Civic Virtues in The Post-Truth Era: An Aristotelian Approach
* Civic Virtues Worskhop. University of Nottingham (07.11)
[invited] Moral Exemplars in Education: A Liberal Approach
International Colloquium - The Role of The Exemplar in Arendt and Spinoza: Insight for Moral Exemplarism and Moral Education, University of Malmö (24.10)
[with Tommaso Piazza] On Fake News: Epistemic Diagnosis & Available Treatments
* IV Aretai Annual Conference: Virtues, Media, and Democracy, University of Genoa (26.09)
La virtù dell'umiltà: tra filosofia analitica e pensiero debole
[invited] Di quella umile Italia: L'umiltà nella cultura italiana, University Paris-Sorbonne (20-21.06)
On Testimony and Its Functions
Bled Epistemology Conference (02-07.06)
COGITO Work in Progress Seminar, University of Glasgow (09.05)
Epistemology Workshop, University of Edinburgh (08.03)
Critical Thinking and Intellectual Virtues as Aims of Education: Is There A Real Divide?
[invited] Good Judgment, Critical Thinking, and Intellectual Virtues in Academic Education Conference, Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands. (03-05.04)
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[2018]
On What It Takes to Be An Expert
[invited] LANCOG Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy, University of Lisbon, Portugal. (09.11)
Moral Understanding and Advising: The Prospects of Exemplarist Moral Theory
*III Aretai Annual Conference, European University Rome, Italy. (20.10)
On Fake News and Partisan Epistemology: A Reply to Rini
*European Epistemology Network Conference, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands. (29.06)
*Current Issues Across Ethics and Epistemology Conference, University of Pavia, Italy. (26.06)
*Fake Knowledge Conference, University of Cologne, Germany. (02.06)
Diaphora Workshop IV: The Structure of Warrant, University of Edinburgh, UK. (30.05)
Educating through Epistemic Exemplars
*Virtue & Moral Education Conference, University of Gdansk (18.05)
[invited] Epistemology of Education Workshop, University of Pavia, Italy. (16.04)
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[2017]
The Benefits of Exemplarism to Moral Education
*II Aretai Annual Conference: "Exemplars and Exemplarism", University of Genoa, Italy. (06.10)
Epistemic Paternalism and the Service Conception of Epistemic Authority
Diaphora Workshop III: A-Priori Knowledge, University of Stirling, UK. (06.09)
*Summer School in Social Epistemology, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. (29.08)
*New Trends in Epistemology Conference, University of Pavia, Italy. (13.06)
*Don't Know, Don't Care - 6th WFAP Graduate Conference, University of Vienna, Austria. (07.06)
What Is an Expert? A Service Conception of Epistemic Authority
*Expertise and Expert Knowledge Workshop, University College Dublin, Ireland. (29.05)
Response to Kelly Epley's "Revisiting the question: Emotion-judgment conflicts and rational attitude revision"
Feeling Reasons: the Role of Emotions in Reasoning, University of Edinburgh, UK. (24.05)
[invited] Autorità epistemica e testimonianza
Seminario di Analisi Filosofica, University of Pavia, Italy. (29.03)
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[2016]
What Is an Expert? On Coady's Dispute with Goldman
*BPPA Annual Conference, University of Reading, UK. (14.09)
*XII SIFA Conference, Pistoia, Italy. (05.09)
[accepted; with Paul Poenicke] Testing What's at Stake: Defending Stakes Effect for Testimony
*Buffalo Annual Experimental Philosophy Conference, University at Buffalo, US. (10.09)
[with Maria Silvia Vaccarezza] Educating through Exemplars: Alternative Paths to Virtue
*Jubilee Centre Annual Conference, Oxford, UK. (08.01)
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[2015]
L'esemplarismo come teoria morale: Uno sguardo critico
60° Convegno Fondazione Centro Studi Filosofici di Gallarate, Vercelli, Italy. (09.09)
Fiducia e Coesione Sociale
FILPRA UNIGE Seminar, University of Genoa, Italy. (22.05)
Expert-oriented Abilities vs. Novice-oriented Abilities: An Alternative Account of Epistemic Authority
*Workshop on Pragmatics and Testimony, University of Trieste, Italy. (06.11)
*GAP.9 German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Osnabruck University, Germany. (16.09)
*Graduate Conference in Theoretical Philosophy, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. (29.04)
*Workshop on Philosophical Writing, Rome, Italy. (06.04)
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[2014]
Why Virtues Are Fundamental to Epistemology: The Case of Testimony
*Understanding Value Conference, University of Sheffield, UK. (23.07)
Between Gullibility and Suspiciousness: A Virtuous-pragmatist Account of Testimony-based Justification
*BPPA Masterclass on Epistemic Value and Intellectual Virtues, University of Edinburgh, UK. (11.06)
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[2013]
Come giustificare le credenze acquisite per testimonianza: la soluzione della Virtue Epistemology
*Workshop on Epistemology - A Junior-Senior Debate, University of Modena, Italy. (11.12)
Beyond Reductionism and Non-reductionism in the Epistemology of Testimony
*Swedish Congress of Philosophy, University of Stockholm, Sweden. (15.06)
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[2012]
Subjective Certainty, Testimony, and Knowledge: Ordinary Context and Philosophical Context
*The Communication of Certainty and Uncertainty, University of Macerata, Italy. (14.10)
[2021]
[invited] Between Deference and Autonomy: On Grundmann's View of Epistemic Authority
Cologne Summer School in Philosophy, University of Cologne (06.08)
[with Tommaso Piazza; invited] Sharing Fake News
Online Disinformation Workshop, University of Bologna (29.06)
Science Communication and the Ethics of Expertise
LanCog Social Epistemology Workshop, University of Lisbon (28.05)
[invited] Virtù epistemiche e Virtù morali
La virtù tra paideia, politeia, ed episteme: Una questione di lungo periodo. University of Pavia (14.05)
On Epistemic Exemplars
Work in Progress Seminar, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin (03.03)
[with Tommaso Piazza; invited] Fake News Consumption: Can We Do Any Better?
LanCog Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy, University of Lisbon (26.02)
Response to Shane Ryan's "Epistemic Paternalism and Fake News"
IV Asian Epistemology Network Meeting. (22.02)
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[2020]
[with Tommaso Piazza; invited] Fake News Consumption: Can We Do Any Better?
International Speakers Seminar Series, Department of Christian Philosophy, University of Innsbruck (09.12)
[with Tommaso Piazza; invited] Misinformation and Intentional Deception: A Novel Account of Fake News
"Cognitive distortion and political disinformation in the era of fake news” Seminar Series. University of Piemonte Orientale (04.12)
On Testimony and Its Functions
PEriTia Work in Progress Seminar, University College Dublin (04.11)
[with Maria Silvia Vaccarezza] Cultivating Civic-Epistemic Virtues to Counteract The Spread of Fake News
* Post-Truth: Perspectives, Strategies, Prospects. Catholic University at Leuven (16.01)
---
[2019]
[with Maria Silvia Vaccarezza] Civic Virtues in The Post-Truth Era: An Aristotelian Approach
* Civic Virtues Worskhop. University of Nottingham (07.11)
[invited] Moral Exemplars in Education: A Liberal Approach
International Colloquium - The Role of The Exemplar in Arendt and Spinoza: Insight for Moral Exemplarism and Moral Education, University of Malmö (24.10)
[with Tommaso Piazza] On Fake News: Epistemic Diagnosis & Available Treatments
* IV Aretai Annual Conference: Virtues, Media, and Democracy, University of Genoa (26.09)
La virtù dell'umiltà: tra filosofia analitica e pensiero debole
[invited] Di quella umile Italia: L'umiltà nella cultura italiana, University Paris-Sorbonne (20-21.06)
On Testimony and Its Functions
Bled Epistemology Conference (02-07.06)
COGITO Work in Progress Seminar, University of Glasgow (09.05)
Epistemology Workshop, University of Edinburgh (08.03)
Critical Thinking and Intellectual Virtues as Aims of Education: Is There A Real Divide?
[invited] Good Judgment, Critical Thinking, and Intellectual Virtues in Academic Education Conference, Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands. (03-05.04)
---
[2018]
On What It Takes to Be An Expert
[invited] LANCOG Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy, University of Lisbon, Portugal. (09.11)
Moral Understanding and Advising: The Prospects of Exemplarist Moral Theory
*III Aretai Annual Conference, European University Rome, Italy. (20.10)
On Fake News and Partisan Epistemology: A Reply to Rini
*European Epistemology Network Conference, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands. (29.06)
*Current Issues Across Ethics and Epistemology Conference, University of Pavia, Italy. (26.06)
*Fake Knowledge Conference, University of Cologne, Germany. (02.06)
Diaphora Workshop IV: The Structure of Warrant, University of Edinburgh, UK. (30.05)
Educating through Epistemic Exemplars
*Virtue & Moral Education Conference, University of Gdansk (18.05)
[invited] Epistemology of Education Workshop, University of Pavia, Italy. (16.04)
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[2017]
The Benefits of Exemplarism to Moral Education
*II Aretai Annual Conference: "Exemplars and Exemplarism", University of Genoa, Italy. (06.10)
Epistemic Paternalism and the Service Conception of Epistemic Authority
Diaphora Workshop III: A-Priori Knowledge, University of Stirling, UK. (06.09)
*Summer School in Social Epistemology, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. (29.08)
*New Trends in Epistemology Conference, University of Pavia, Italy. (13.06)
*Don't Know, Don't Care - 6th WFAP Graduate Conference, University of Vienna, Austria. (07.06)
What Is an Expert? A Service Conception of Epistemic Authority
*Expertise and Expert Knowledge Workshop, University College Dublin, Ireland. (29.05)
Response to Kelly Epley's "Revisiting the question: Emotion-judgment conflicts and rational attitude revision"
Feeling Reasons: the Role of Emotions in Reasoning, University of Edinburgh, UK. (24.05)
[invited] Autorità epistemica e testimonianza
Seminario di Analisi Filosofica, University of Pavia, Italy. (29.03)
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[2016]
What Is an Expert? On Coady's Dispute with Goldman
*BPPA Annual Conference, University of Reading, UK. (14.09)
*XII SIFA Conference, Pistoia, Italy. (05.09)
[accepted; with Paul Poenicke] Testing What's at Stake: Defending Stakes Effect for Testimony
*Buffalo Annual Experimental Philosophy Conference, University at Buffalo, US. (10.09)
[with Maria Silvia Vaccarezza] Educating through Exemplars: Alternative Paths to Virtue
*Jubilee Centre Annual Conference, Oxford, UK. (08.01)
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[2015]
L'esemplarismo come teoria morale: Uno sguardo critico
60° Convegno Fondazione Centro Studi Filosofici di Gallarate, Vercelli, Italy. (09.09)
Fiducia e Coesione Sociale
FILPRA UNIGE Seminar, University of Genoa, Italy. (22.05)
Expert-oriented Abilities vs. Novice-oriented Abilities: An Alternative Account of Epistemic Authority
*Workshop on Pragmatics and Testimony, University of Trieste, Italy. (06.11)
*GAP.9 German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Osnabruck University, Germany. (16.09)
*Graduate Conference in Theoretical Philosophy, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. (29.04)
*Workshop on Philosophical Writing, Rome, Italy. (06.04)
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[2014]
Why Virtues Are Fundamental to Epistemology: The Case of Testimony
*Understanding Value Conference, University of Sheffield, UK. (23.07)
Between Gullibility and Suspiciousness: A Virtuous-pragmatist Account of Testimony-based Justification
*BPPA Masterclass on Epistemic Value and Intellectual Virtues, University of Edinburgh, UK. (11.06)
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[2013]
Come giustificare le credenze acquisite per testimonianza: la soluzione della Virtue Epistemology
*Workshop on Epistemology - A Junior-Senior Debate, University of Modena, Italy. (11.12)
Beyond Reductionism and Non-reductionism in the Epistemology of Testimony
*Swedish Congress of Philosophy, University of Stockholm, Sweden. (15.06)
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[2012]
Subjective Certainty, Testimony, and Knowledge: Ordinary Context and Philosophical Context
*The Communication of Certainty and Uncertainty, University of Macerata, Italy. (14.10)