Dr. Roberto Loss

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc, Projekt "Grounding: Metaphysics, Science, and Logic")
Theoretische Philosophie
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Employment
2017—current Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter). Department of Philosophy (Philosophisches Seminar), University of Hamburg.
2015—2017 Post-doctoral Research Fellow. LOGOS Research Group in Analytic PhilosophyDepartment of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science University of Barcelona.
2013—2015 Post-doctoral Research Fellow. Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Autonoma y Nacional de México (UNAM), Mexico City.
Education
2012 PhD in Philosophy. University of Nottingham. Thesis: The True Future of the Open Future Supervisor: Prof. Stefano Predelli. Examiners: Prof. Stephen Barker (internal), Dr Patrick Greenough (external).
2008 Visiting student. Department of Philosophy, New York University (Fall term)
2006—2007 Visiting student. Arché Research Centre, University of St Andrews. Supervisor: Prof. Crispin Wright.
2005 Graduation from University of Venice (Ca’ Foscari) with thesis L’ingiustizia del tempo. Analisi e critica del concetto di differenza ontologica nel pensiero di Emanuele Severino [The Injustice of Time: A Critical Analysis of the Concept of Ontological Difference in the Thought of Emanuele Severino] under the supervision of Prof. L. V. Tarca. Mark: 110/110 cum laude
2000—2001 Erasmus student. Technische Universtaet Berlin.
Forschungsschwerpunkte
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Publikationen
201_ A sudden collapse to nihilism, The Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming.
201_ Against 'Against 'Against Vague Existence'', Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, forthcoming.
201_ Fine's McTaggart: Reloaded, Manuscrito, Special Issue: Time and Reality, (ed. E. Boccardi), forthcoming, [invited]
2017 Grounding, contingency and transitivity, Ratio, 30:1, 1-4.
2016 Parts ground the whole and are identical to it, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 94:3, 489-98.
2016 Grounds, roots and abysses, Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 5(1): 41-52.
2015 How to change the past in one-dimensional time, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 96(1): 1-11.
2013 Indeterminate actuality and the open future, Analysis, 73(2): 248-260.
2012 Branching time, actuality and the puzzle of retrospective determinacy, Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 1(1): 16-25.
2012 Escape from epistemic island, Analysis, 72(3): 498-506.
2010 Fatalism and the necessity of the present: reply to Campbell, Analysis, 70(1): 76-78.
2009 Free will and the necessity of the present, Analysis, 69(1): 63-69 .
2008 Yet another problem for reichenbachian approaches to the semantic analysis of indexical languages, The Reasoner 2(6): 4-5.
2008 Actuality in the garden of forking paths, in M. Carrara & V. Morato, Language, Knowledge and Metaphysics: selected papers from the 1st SIFA Graduate Conference, College Publications, London.
2007 Tempo, totalitá e contraddizione: ció che il principio non dice [Time, totality and contradiction: what the principle does not say] In: Francesco Altea, Francesco Berto (eds), Scenari dell’impossibile. La contraddizione nel pensiero contemporaneo [Scenarios of the impossible. Contradiction in contemporary thought], Il Poligrafo, Padova.