Local organizers and scientific committee
IAPT 9 is hosted by the Institute of Philosophy at USI-FTL, Lugano, Switzerland.
The conference is sponsored by two Swiss National Science Foundation grants:
- Temporal Existence (Damiano Costa, SNSF Starting Grant, 211294)
- Quantum Indeterminacy (Cristian Mariani, SNSF Ambizione, 208762)
The local organisers are Damiano Costa and Cristian Mariani.
Damiano Costa
Damiano Costa is Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Philosophy at USI-FTL (2018-).
After his PhD at the University of Geneva (2014), he taught in Fribourg (2014-17), Geneva (2015-17) and at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford (2019).
He was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (2013-14) and Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford (2019-20).
He currently directs the Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (BAF). He also directs the Master in Philosophy (MAP) and PhD Philosophy (PhDPhil.) programmes that he contributed to create in 2017 and 2022, respectively.
He was a member of the editorial committee of the international journal Dialectica. He is a member of the Research Commission of the FTL. He is a member of eidos - the Centre for Research in Metaphysics at the University of Geneva.
In 2022, he was awarded an SNSF Starting Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. At USI-FTL, he currently leads three research projects, including two funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
In 2024, he is organiser of the annual congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Time. In his career, he has given more than 70 talks, 15 public lectures, organised 30 workshops or congresses and 15 public lecture series.
Cristian Mariani
Cristian Mariani is a research fellow at the Istituto di Studi Filosofici in Lugano (CH), where he is also the PI of an SNSF Ambizione Research Grant. His main research areas are in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics. Since 2018, he is an active member of the International Association for Philosophy of Time. In the past few years, he has published various papers on the topic of quantum indeterminacy, including a review of the recent debate for Philosophy Compass (2021, with Claudio Calosi). He is currently editing a topical collection for the EJPS entitled ‘New Perspectives in Quantum Foundations’.
Scientific Committee
David Ingram (York), Vice-President of Philosophy of Time Society [chair]
Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest), Member of the Advisory Board of the IAPT
Damiano Costa (USI), Local Organiser
Nina Emery (Mount Holyoke), President of Philosophy of Time Society
Florian Fischer (Siegen), Director of Society for Philosophy of Time
Cristian Mariani (USI), Local Organiser
Kristie Miller (Sydney), Director of Centre for Time
Giuliano Torrengo (Milan), Director of Centre for Philosophy of Time
