GIULIANO TORRENGO
Founder and Coordinator
My current focus of interest is the connection between temporal experience and the fundamental features of temporal reality. On the one hand, I am developing an account of temporal experience that aims at being empirically plausible and compatible with the B-theory. On the other hand, I am exploring alternative metaphysics to standard A- and B-theory. Relatedly, I am working on the open future, and on an original account of explanation in metaphysics of time.
I am currently an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy at the State University of Milan. I am supervising three PhD students of the Doctoral School in Philosophy and Human Sciences, and two post-docs at the Department of Philosophy.
Selection of Pubblications
2020 “Materiality, parthood, and possibility” (with S. Iaquinto), forthcoming in Erkenntnis
2020 “The Invisible Thin Red Line” (with S. Iaquinto), forthcoming in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
2019 (with G. Spolaore) “The moving spotlight(s)”, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (online first)
2019 (with S. Iaquinto) “Flow Fragmentalism”, Theoria 85: 185-201
2019 (with G. Andreoletti) “Time travel and the immutability of the past with B-theoretical models”, Philosophia, 47: 1011–1021 (online 2018)
2018 Filosofia del Futuro [Philosophy of the Future] (with S. Iaquinto), Milano: Raffaello Cortina (Click here for the public reaction to the book. Reviewed by A. Frigerio in Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 111, 2019)
2017 “Feeling the passing of time”, The Journal of Philosophy, 114, 4: 165-188
2018 “Perspectival Tenses and Dynamic Tenses”, Erkenntnis, 83(5), 1045-1061 (online 2017)
2018 “Nunc pro tunc. The Problem of Retroactive Enactments”, Philosophia, 46, 1: 241-250 (online 2017)
2017 “Time travel and coincidence-free local dynamical theories”, Synthese (online first)
2017 “The Myth of Presentism’s Intuitive Appeal”, Phenomenology and Mind, 12: 50-55
2018 “Hyper-Russellian Skepticism”, Metaphysica, 19, 1: 1-17 (online 2017)
2016 “Presentism and the Sceptical Challenge”, Manuscrito, 39, 4: 101-116
2015 “Chronometric Explanations”, Philosophia, 44,1: 275-287
2014 “Ostrich Presentism”, Philosophical Studies, 170: 255-276 (online 2013)
2013 “The Grounding Problem and Presentist Explanations”, Synthese, 190: 2047–2063
2013 “Yet Another Confusion about Time-Travel”, Disputatio, 1, 35: 49-56
2013 “Time Travel and the Thin Red Line”, in P. Graziani and M. Sangoi (eds.) Open Problems in the Philosophy of Science, London, College Publications: 245-258.
2013 “The Metaphysics of the Thin Red Line” (with A. Borghini), in F. Correia, A. Iacona (eds.), Around the Tree, Berlin, Synthese Library, Springer Verlag: 105-125.
2012 “Time and Simple Existence”, Metaphysica, 13:125–130
2011 “The Modal Dimension”, Humana.Mente Journal of Philosophical Studies, 19: 105–120
2011 “The not so incredible shrinking future” (with R. Casati), Analysis, 71, 2: 240–44
2010 “Perspectival Truth and Perspectival Realism”, in F. Recanati, I. Stojanovic, N. Villanueva (eds.) Context-dependence, perspective and relativity in language and thought, De Gruyter, Mouton Series in Pragmatics: 333-48
2010 “Time, Context, and Cross-temporal Claims”, Philosophia, 38: 281-296
