The MELT Seminars, early known as Seminars of Philosophy of Language, Peception and Mind, take place every year since 2001 at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan. The meetings aim at being an opportunity for people working in analytic philosophy to keep updated on the latest directions of research. Language of the talks is either Italian or English.

Organizers

Andrea Borghini. Metaphysics, philosophy of biology, philosophy of food.

Clotilde Calabi. Philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception.

Daniel Dohrn. Philosophy of language, modal epistemology, decision theory, metaethics, aesthetics.

Andrea Guardo. Metasemantics, metanormative theory, metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophical methodology, philosophy of mind.

Anna Ichino. Philosophy of mind, philosophical psychology, aesthetics.

Elisa Paganini. Philosophy of language, metaphysics.

Nicola Piras. Philosophy of food, environmental philosophy, metaphysics.

Paolo Spinicci. Philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, aesthetics.

Giuliano Torrengo. Metaphysics, philosophy of physics, philosophy of the social sciences, philosophy of language, metaphilosophy.

Nick Young. Philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception.

Sandro Zucchi. Semantics.

Activities 2001-2012 http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/filoling/

Activities 2013-2018 http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/fl/index.html

MELT 2023

Sala Piero Martinetti
Department of Philosophy “Piero Martinetti"
University of Milan, Icehouse Courtyard
Via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan

13 January 2023. 11:00-13:00
Michele Palmira (Madrid Complutense)
The aims and attitudes of inquiry

18 January 2023. 11:00-13:00
Brigitte Claire Everett (Sydney)
Intelligibility Problems and Temporal Passage Illusionism

20 January 2023. 11:00-13:00
Bianca Cepollaro (Milan, San Raffaele)
Blocking Toxic Speech Online. A Qualitative Study on Social Media

17 February 2023. 14:00-16:00
Ivano Ciardelli (Padua)
Inquisitive semantics: an introduction

7 March 2023. 12:00-14:00
Benj Hellie (Toronto)
Précis of Out of This World: Logical Mentalism and the Philosophy of Mind

10 March 2023. 14:00-16:00
Filippo Domaneschi (Genoa)
Testing theories of reference. An eye-tracking visual-word paradigm

14 March 2023 12.00-14:00
Jessica Wilson (Toronto)
On the emergence of spacetime

28 April 2023. 11:00-13:00
Sebastiano Moruzzi e Filippo Ferrari (Bologna)
A (Non-linguistic) Taste of Relativism: Metaphysics and Epistemology

12 May 2023. 11:00-13:00
Catharine Abell (Oxford, Queen’s College)
Art and Monument

29 May 2023. 11:30-13:30
Jada Twedt Strabbing (Wayne State)
Title TBA