Talks
INVITED TALKS
9 February 2024: “Etica di popolazioni: linee della situazione italiana e le questioni aperte” (Population ethics: how Italy fares, and open questions), at the conference “La Fecondazione Assistita Dopo 20 Anni Di L. 40/04:” (Assisted Reproduction 20 years after the 40/04 law), organized by Società Italiana di Fertilità, Sterilità e Medicina della Riproduzione (SIFES-MR), Theodoli-Bianchelli Government Palace, Rome
13 October 2023: “The Monstrous Conclusion”, at Global Priority Institute Work In Progress seminar, Oxford
26 September 2022: “Obstacles in grasping moral responsibility in climate change” at the conference Per un Futuro Sostenibile: Adattamento, Metodo scientifico e Politiche Pubbliche (For a Sustainable Future: Adaptation, Scientific Method and Public Choices), organized by the University of Milan within the context of University 4 EU – Il tuo futuro, la nostra Europa
11 of March 2021: “The Monstrous Conclusion”, at the Institute for Future Studies Work In Progress Seminar, Stockholm
18 November 2020: “La fine della riproduzione? Esiste una popolazione ottimale e come raggiungerla” (The end of reproduction? Optimal population size, and how to reach it), at the conference “Scienza ed etica del controllo riproduttivo” (Science and ethics of reproductive control), organized by Società Italiana di Fertilità, Sterilità e Medicina della Riproduzione (SIFES-MR), online
Video here (in Italian)
Papers presented
All the presentations are peer reviewed submissions unless specified.
29 April 2024: “A Dilemma for Value Pluralists”, Value Additivity Workshop, University of Lund
7-9 September 2023: “A Dilemma for Value Pluralists”, 15th SIFA 2023 conference (selected, not presented), University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria
6 July 2023: “Callousness, Demandingness and Climate Change”, at ISUS Conference, LUISS, Rome
8 June 2023: “Callousness, Demandingness, and Climate Change”, at CEPPA Climate Conference, St. Andrews University (not peer reviewed).
12 July 2023: “A Dilemma for Value Pluralists”, at 3rd Workshop on Welfare, Saadland University
22 March 2023: “A Dilemma for Value Pluralists”, at the conference Understanding Value XI, University of Sheffield
16 September 2021: “The Lives Worth Living Problem”, at the British Society for Ethical Theory (BSET) Graduate Conference, online
10 July 2021: “The Monstrous Conclusion”, at 1st Workshop on Welfare, Saadland University
21 November 2020: “The Monstrous Conclusion”, at the Austin Graduate Ethics and Normativity Talk (AGENT) Conference 2020, University of Austin, Texas
DEPARTMENT TALKS
17-19 April 2024: “The Structured Range View”, CEPPA/GPI Workshop at University of St. Andrews
22 February 2024: “The Structured Range View”, CEPPA Talk at University of St. Andrews
27 April 2023: “Callousness, Demandingness, and Climate Change”, at University of Turin Moral Philosophy Reading Group
26 April 2023: “Callousness, Demandingness, and Climate Change”, at CEPPA Moral Philosophy Reading Group, St. Andrews University
27 February 2023: “A dilemma for Value Pluralists”, St. Andrews University Philosophy Friday Seminar
26 July 2022: “A dilemma for Value Pluralists”, CEPPA Moral Philosophy Reading Group, St. Andrews University
21 March 2022: “Challenging Person Affecting Principles”, FINO Politics and Philosophy Work In Progress Seminar
23 October 2021: “Lives Worth Living, Improvements and Lotteries”, St. Andrews Work In Progress Seminar
22 October 2021: “The Monstrous Conclusion and Imaginable Lives”, St. Andrews Work In Progress Seminar
15 October 2021: “The Lives Worth Living Problem”, St. Andrews University Philosophy Friday Seminar
6 July 2021: “The Lives Worth Living Problem”, FINO June Seminar
3 January 2020: “The Monstrous Conclusion and Imaginable Lives”, FINO Work in Progress Seminar
10 June 2018: “Choosing who lives our lives”, as a concluding lecture for the course “Value Theory”, taught by Faroldi Federico, at the University of Milan.
OUTREACH
5 June 2021: ‘Il paradosso degli individui futuri: una introduzione al problema della non-identità’ (The paradox of future individuals: an introduction to the non-identity problem), article on the bioethics public engagement website Colloqui di Bioetica, available here: https://colloquidibioetica.com/2021/06/05/il-paradosso-degli-individui-futuri/
21 January 2021: “Il valore delle popolazioni: una introduzione” (Population value: an introduction) public lecture at CongiuntaMente, University of Siena
13 April 2016: “David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, public lecture at High School Liceo Classico P. Verri, Lodi
5 December 2015: “Plato’s Phaedrus and Symposium”, public lecture at High School Liceo Classico P. Verri, Lodi
Discussant
31 May 2023: “Should I give or save?” by Leora Sung (LSE), at the 5th CEPPA Graduate Conference, St. Andrews.
17 May 2022: “Second Thoughts on the Paretian Route to Utilitarianism”, by Pietro Cibinel (Princeton), at the 4thCEPPA Graduate Conference, St. Andrews.
18 December 2021: “Riflessioni sull’etica della popolazione alla luce del futuro prefigurato dall’ONU con l’Agenda 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile, e dall’Europa con le Direttive Green Deal e Next Generation. (On Population Ethics, ONU 2030 Agenda for Substainable Development, Europe’s Green Deal directives and Next Generation Directives)”, Master’s dissertation by Franco Piunti, University of Turin.
13 March 2020: “The institutional critique to Effective Altruism”, Master’s dissertation by Matteo Iammarone, Stockholm Universitet.
26 November 2019: “Why Derek Parfit had reasons to accept the Repugnant Conclusion by Torbjörn Tännsjö (Stockholm University), at the Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy of the Stockholm University. Now published on Utilitas Vol. 37, pag.387-397, Cambridge University Press
7th June 2019: “Epistemic peerhood as equal expected accuracy: Implications for conciliationism”, Master’s dissertation by Gustav Alexandrie, Stockholm Universitet.