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.
My personal website is here.
Selection of Pubblications
Books
2024 Temporal Experience. The Atomist Dynamic Model, Oxford University Press [ISBN 978-0192845580]
2022 Fragmenting Reality: An Essay on Passage, Causality and Time Travel (with Samuele Iaquinto), Bloomsbury [ISBN 978-1-3502-3532-8]
2018 Filosofia del Futuro [Philosophy of the Future] (with S. Iaquinto), Milano: Raffaello Cortina (ISBN 978-88-3285-014-7. Click here for the public reaction to the book. Reviewed by A. Frigerio in Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 111, 2019)
2011 I Viaggi nel Tempo. Una Guida Filosofica [Time Travels. A Philosophical Guide], Roma-Bari, Laterza
2008 Time and Cross-Temporal Relations, Mimesis, Milano [2015, 2nd edition for Mimesis International]
Articles
2024 “The Passage of Time,” forthcoming in N. Emery (ed.) Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Time
2024 “The closed future”, Theoria (online first: https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12561)
2024 “Plural Metaphysical Supervaluationism” (with C. Mariani and R. Michels), Inquiry, 67(6), 2005–2042 [online first 2021] (https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2021.1982404)
2023 “Taste Fragmentalism” (with S. Iaquinto and G. Spolaore), Erkenntnis (online first: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-023-00754-8)
2023 “Temporal Transparency and the Flow of Time”, in K. Jaszczolt (ed.) Understanding Human Time, Oxford, OUP: 220-243
2023 “Fear of the past” (with D. Bordini), Ergo. An Online Journal of Philosophy (https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article/2269/galley/1656/view/)
2023 “The way of presentness” (with D. Cassaghi), Erkenntnis, 88, 2787-2805 (DOI: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-021-00477-8) [online 2021]
2022 “Flow and presentness in experience” (with D. Cassaghi), Analytic Philosophy (online first)
2022 “A Puzzle about Aftertaste” (with A. Frischhut), in A. Borghini and P. Engisch (ed.s) A Philosophy of Recipes: Identity, Relationships, Values, London, Bloomsbury: 151-168
2022 “Explanation, persistence, and location” (with V. Buonomo), THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 37(2), 137-148
2022 “The Metaphysics of Passage in Dynamical Reduction Models of Quantum Mechanism” (with C. Mariani), in A. Santelli and D. Donati (eds.), Ockhamism and Philosophy of Time: Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Future Contingents, Springer: 147-172 [Chapter 9]
2022 “Materiality, parthood, and possibility” (with S. Iaquinto), Erkenntnis, 87:1125–1131 (DOI: 10.1007/s10670-020-00233-4) [online 2020]
2021 “Frightening Times” (with D. Bordini), European Journal of Philosophy (online first: DOI: 10.1111/ejop.12633)
2021 “The Indeterminate Present and the Open Future” (with C. Mariani), Synthese (online first)
2021 “Purely Theoretical Explanations” (with G. Andreoletti and J. Tallant), Philosophia, 49, 133–154
2020 “The Invisible Thin Red Line” (with S. Iaquinto), Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 101: 354–382 (DOI: 10.1111/papq.12314)
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)
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
