Dr. Roberto Loss

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.

See my webpage:

robertoloss.com

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.