MOST RECENT PRESENTATIONS:

2025:

6. December 15: took part (virtually) in a round-table discussion on translating Leibniz at Sodalitas, the Italian Leibniz society;

5. November 19: took part in a Round Table also in Paris on my and David Rabouin’s Leibniz on the Foundations of the Differential Calculus, with commentaries by Federico Raffo Quintana, Oscar Esquisabel, and Valérie Debuiche.

4: November 17-18: presented “Misreading Leibniz’s Space as an Intensive Magnitude: Russell and Deleuze” to the conference on Intensive Magnitude at the Université de Paris; 

3. November 14-15: attended the Québec-Ontario Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, where I presented “Transcreation and Contiguity”;

2. October 21:participated in the Red de Jóvenes investigadores Leibniz, where I commented on papers by Omar Hraoui and Filippo Costantini;

1. October (17-19) took part in the Leibniz Society of North America annual conference, where I presented my paper “Transcreation and Contiguity”.

2024:

2. Presented a paper with Filippo Costantini at the LSNA/SELFF conference in the Panthéon Sorbonne in Paris, June 14: “Monads, Situation, and Infinite Explanation”, June 14.

1. Presented a paper in Paris in a session at l’atelier Mathesis, 11 June, 2024: “Deriving the laws of motion from abstract principles: A Newly Transcribed Leibnizian Manuscript»”.

2023:

5. Gave a Public Lecture, “Time: What’s the Problem?”, at the University of Bristol on October 6.

4. Read a paper, on “Leibniz on Zeno’s Paradoxes of Motion”, to the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bristol on September 21.

3. Read a paper at the 2023 Leibniz Kongress in Hanover in July/August co-sponsored by SELFF and David Rabouin’s research group Philiumm; “Leibniz’s Principle of Equipollence and the Origins of his Dynamics”.

2. Gave a presentation at the workshop “Leibniz on Infinity: New Studies”,  held in Milan, 21-22 March, 2023: “Leibniz on metaphysical points and instants of change”.

1. Gave a presentation in Paris to Phillium on my way to Milan, 16 March, 2023: “Leibniz and Zeno’s paradoxes of motion”.

2022:

4. Presented a paper to the Philosophy Department at McMaster University on “Leibniz and Zeno’s Paradoxes”, November 18, 2022,.

5. Presented a paper, “On Leibniz’s rejection of the existence of infinitesimals in 1676”, at the Zoom workshop Mathematics and the Mathematization of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy from Argentina, organized by Raffo Quintana and Esquisabel, October 20, 2022.

3. Gave a paper in the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, September 9, 2022, on “Leibniz’s Analysis of Change”.

2. Participated in a conference in honour of François Duchesneau at the University of Montreal, May 2022, where I presented a paper, “On the Relation between Leibniz’s Metaphysics and the Conservation of Force: Duchesneau on Leibniz’s dynamics”.

1. David Rabouin and I presented two papers for a workshop in Paris, organisé à l’occasion de la Chaire d’excellence du Professeur Paolo Mancosu, “Leibniz’s Syncategorematic Infinitesimals, Again”, mine subtitled “existence, quantity, and the actually infinite”; February 3, 2022.

2021

(4) Invited as keynote speaker at a conference on Science and Philosophy in the Early Modern Period, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, July 26-28, 2021, but withdrew from participating in this conference. See my “Less recent news” for an explanation.

3. Gave a presentation with Osvaldo Ottaviani on “Towards the Science of the Inifnite”, one of the papers that will be in our book Leibniz’s Metaphysics of the Infinite, to PhD students in Milan and members of the “Sodalitas Leibnitiana”, on May 14, 2021.

2. Took part in a conference on Time at the Turn of the 20th C in Anglo-American Philosophy, where I presented “On the Chequered Reception of A. A. Robb’s Philosophy of Time”, April 29-30, 2021.

1. Presented chapters 1 and 4 of my book on the Flow of Time to the Rotman Philosophy of Physics Reading Group, in debate with Carlo Rovelli, April 16, 2021.

2020

6. Participated in the Princeton-Bucharest seminar on Leibniz and the relation between metaphysics and physics on Oct 13, 2020.

5. Gave a talk at the Department of Philosophy’s Visiting Speaker Research Seminar at the University of Bristol on October 8, 2020.

4. Gave a talk at the Mexico-Canada Early Modern conference at Western University, October 2, 2020.

3. Presented a paper, “Leibniz’s Syncategorematic Infinitesimals II”, co-authored with David Rabouin, at a workshop on Leibniz and Inifnitesimals at UC Riverside on Friday, February 14, 2020.

1, 2.. Presented two papers to the OCIE seminar in History and Philosophy of Science and Logic, Chapman University, Orange, California, “Leibniz’s analysis of change: vague states, physical continuity, and the calculus”, and, on David Rabouin’s behalf, a version of his paper, “Leibniz on the reduction to identites”, (with the assistance of Marco Panza).