•  391
    Distinguishing the commonsense senses
    with Jérôme Dokic and François Le Corre
    In Dustin Stokes (ed.), Perception and Its Modalities, Oxford University Press. 2014.
    This paper proposes a methodological strategy to investigate the question of the individuation of the senses both from a commonsensical and a scientific point of view. We start by discussing some traditional and recent criteria for distinguishing the senses and argue that none of them taken in isolation seems to be able to handle both points of views. We then pay close attention to the faculty of hearing which offers promising examples of the strategy we pursue of combining commonsense and scien…Read more
  • Papers of the 16th International Wittgenstein Symposium, vol. I (edited book)
    The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. 1993.
  •  149
    Thinking about space is thinking about spatial things. The table is on the carpet; hence the carpet is under the table. The vase is in the box; hence the box is not in the vase. But what does it mean for an object to be somewhere? How are objects tied to the space they occupy? This book is concerned with these and other fundamental issues in the philosophy of spatial representation. Our starting point is an analysis of the interplay between mereology (the study of part/whole relations), topology…Read more
  •  29
    Notes on the
    with Lucy Allais, Louise Antony, Elizabeth Barnes, John Bigelow, Alexander Bird, Ross P. Cameron, and John Campbell
    In Robin Le Poidevin (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, Routledge. 2009.
  •  2
    Studying disorientation is studying how, through our bodies, culture and technology, we humans are connected to our environment, and what happens when this connection is weakened or severed. What happens, of course, depends again on our environment, bodies, culture and technology: the world around us becomes at times uncanny, unfamiliar or dangerous when we get disoriented. Disorientation can be exciting and refreshing—an invitation to explore, to leave behind nagging desires for control and cer…Read more
  •  219
    The not so incredible shrinking future
    Analysis 71 (2): 240-244. 2011.
    Quel bon vent, quel joli vent, ma vie m’appelle, ma vie m’attend French folk song 1. Presentists and Growing Block theorists appeal to ‘powerful intuitions’ when they defend their respective conceptions of time . Eternalists are prepared to go some length towards ‘reconciling’ the view from nowhen with at least some of these intuitions, or try to explain them away . Unaided intuitions may in fact underdetermine any particular metaphysical choice. One set of intuitions about time seems to have be…Read more
  •  292
    The Ockhamization of the event sources of sound
    with E. Di Bona and J. Dokic
    Analysis 73 (3): 462-466. 2013.
    There is one character too many in the triad sound, event source, thing source. As there are neither phenomenological nor metaphysical grounds for distinguishing sounds and sound sources, we propose to identify them
  •  70
    Philosophy: What is to be done? (review)
    Topoi 25 (1-2): 25-28. 2006.
    If, as it is assumed here, philosophy is pervasive and continuous with non-philosophical disciplines, if consequently this dialogue is above all highly interdisciplinary, tends to align itself with the standards of scientific disciplines, and generates strongly contextualised and localised philosophical problems, and if a certain social role is part of the nature of philosophy, then we can expect in decades to come increasingly articulated and interesting interactions between philosophers and no…Read more
  •  8
    Discussione su "Lexical Competence" di Diego Marconi
    with Carlo Penco and Timothy Williamson
    Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 11 (2): 389-402. 1998.
  •  74
    This paper deals with recent work on the role of objects in cognition and the methodological problems created by findings and theories in various strands of the cognitive sciences. The term ‘object’ is here mean to refer to spatially extended items that persist over time. The main theses of this paper are as follows. First, we should ideally consider the various notions and representations of objects and objecthood that emerge from the literature as components of something akin to the notion of …Read more
  •  68
    Preface: The review of philosophy and psychology
    with Dario Taraborelli, Paul Egré, and Christophe Heintz
    Review of Philosophy and Psychology 1 (1): 1-3. 2010.
    Preface: The Review of Philosophy and Psychology Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-3 DOI 10.1007/s13164-010-0024-1 Authors Dario Taraborelli, University of Surrey Centre for Research in Social Simulation Guilford GU2 7XH United Kingdom Roberto Casati, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure 29 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris France Paul Egré, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure 29 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris France Christophe Heintz, Central European University Budapest Hungary Journal Review…Read more
  •  7
    The mereological theory of odors
    with François Le Corre
    We propose the mereological theory of odors, according to which odors are proper parts of concrete objects. We distinguish between object solid core and gaseous periphery; the odor is the periphery and plays a role in olfactory perception similar to the role played by surfaces in visual and tactile perception. Some epistemological and metaphysical consequences of the theory are explored, in particular the fact that objects are larger than they visually appear, and that smell turns out to be more…Read more
  • Object perception
    In Mohan Matthen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
  •  9
    Lost in pandemic time: a phenomenological analysis of temporal disorientation during the Covid-19 crisis
    with Pablo Fernandez Velasco, Bastien Perroy, and Umer Gurchani
    Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 22 (5): 1121-1144. 2023.
    People have experienced many forms of temporal disorientation during the Covid-19 crisis. For this study, we collected a rich corpus of reports on the multifaceted experiences of disorientation during the pandemic. In this paper, we study the resulting corpus using a descriptive approach. We identify six emerging themes: temporal rift; temporal vertigo; impoverished time; tunnel vision; spatial and social scaffolding of time; suspended time. We offer a phenomenological analysis of each of the th…Read more
  •  112
    Borgesian maps
    Analytic Philosophy 63 (2): 90-98. 2020.
    Analytic Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 90-98, June 2022.
  •  10
    Events
    Dartmouth. 1996.
    Philosophical questions about events lie at the crossing of several disciplines, from metaphysics and logic to philosophy of language, action theory, the philosophy of space and time.
  • Italian translation of "Holes and Other Superficialities" (1994)
  •  571
    Events
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2020.
    A critical survey of the main philosophical theories about events and event talk, organized in three main sections: (i) Events and Other Categories (Events vs. Objects; Events vs. Facts; Events vs. Properties; Events vs. Times); (ii) Types of Events (Activities, Accomplishments, Achievements, and States; Static and Dynamic Events; Actions and Bodily Movements; Mental and Physical Events; Negative Events); (iii) Existence, Identity, and Indeterminacy.
  •  384
    Holes
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2019.
    A brief introduction to the main philosophical problems and theories about the nature of holes and such-like nothingnesses.
  •  11
    The Sailing Mind (edited book)
    Springer. 2022.
    This book scrutinizes the practice of sailing and its relation to philosophy of mind. Sailing brings about a peculiar human-artifact interaction which can lead to unexplored research paths. The idea behind this collection is that this interaction is better scrutinized by sailor scientists/philosophers to open up new possible pathways in research. Fascinating theoretical breakthroughs have been provided by observing sailing practices with the most well-known being Hutchins’ introduction in cognit…Read more
  •  33
    A Slow Impossible Mirror Picture
    Perception 49 (12). 2020.
    A new type of impossible picture is presented and described. The picture involves an object along with its reflection in a plane mirror, delivering two apparently irreconcilable views of the object itself when seen simultaneously in its flesh and in the mirror. Contrary to other, more familiar impossible pictures, its interpretation requires explicit reasoning about the represented reality. It is a slow impossible picture.
  •  1699
    Online collection of papers by Devitt, Dretske, Guarino, Hochberg, Jackson, Petitot, Searle, Tye, Varzi and other leading thinkers on philosophy and the foundations of cognitive Science. Topics dealt with include: Wittgenstein and Cognitive Science, Content and Object, Logic and Foundations, Language and Linguistics, and Ontology and Mereology.
  •  637
    Event Concepts
    In Thomas F. Shipley & Jeffrey M. Zacks (eds.), Understanding Events: From Perception to Action, Oxford University Press. 2008.
    This chapter analyzes the concept of an event and of event representation as an umbrella notion. It provides an overview of different ways events have been dealt with in philosophy, linguistics, and cognitive science. This variety of positions has been construed in part as the result of different descriptive and explanatory projects. It is argued that various types of notions — common-sense, theoretically revised, scientific, and internalist psychological — be kept apart.
  •  304
    I trabocchetti della rappresentazione spaziale
    with Achille C. Varzi
    Sistemi Intelligent 11 (1). 1999.
    This is a position article summarizing our approach to the philosophy of space and spatial representation. Our concern is mostly methodological: above all, we argue that a number of philosophical puzzles that arise in this field—puzzles concerning the nature of spatial entities, their material and mereological constitution, their relationship with the space that they occupy—stem from a confusion between semantic issues and true metaphysical concerns.
  •  195
    Sfondo e figura
    with Achille C. Varzi
    Rivista di Estetica 43 (24): 38-40. 2003.
    A dialogue between a figure and its background, illustrating that the perceptual conditions that determine which is which are not as clear as standard Gestalt theory dictates.
  •  239
    Esercizi di attenzione
    with Achille C. Varzi
    Riga 24. 2005.
    A brief study of Saul Steinberg’s works on shadows and reflections, and of the seemingly paradoxical world that emerges from such works.