News - GUIDO TANA

Recent News:

NEW POSITION: From September 2026 to August 2028, I will be a Postdoctoral Researcher at IUSS Pavia, in Prof. De Toffoli's HUMATH Project. For the duration of this contract, I will be on unpaid leave from my position in Lisbon
I will be editor of the Proceedings of the 2026 SILFS Triennial Conference, to be published by College Publishing
My paper 'Philosophical Argumentation, Epistemic Injustice, and Recognition' has been accepted for publication in the journal Ratio
I will be participating at the beginning of September at the Third Biennial Conference of the British Society for the Theory of Knowledge at Oxford, giving a talk co-authored with Filippo Lanari.
I have been invited to participate in a Book Symposium on Kevin McCain's book "Explanatory Solutions to Skeptical Arguments", to be published next year in the Asian Journal of Philosophy.
I will be organizing a workshop at the IFILNOVA Institute in October 2026 on Wittgenstein and Davison together with Pedro Abreu and Nuno Venturinha. Invited Speakers: Claudine Verheggen, Robert Myers.
In August, I will participate in the 12th European Conference of Analytic Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, with three talks on Epistemic Authority, Logical Monism, and Epistemic Duties to Engage.
From June to August 2026, I will be a Visiting Researcher at IUSS Pavia, within Prof. De Toffoli's HUMATH project

Past News:
2026

In July, I was at the ENFA10 Conference at the Universidade de Beira Interior, giving two talks on Epistemic Authority, and Logical Pluralism
I have been in the organizing committee of the 2026 Triennal SILFS Conference (Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science) at IUSS Pavia, 29 June-2 July
On the 23rd of June, I held an outreach event at the Orientation Days of the Università di Pavia
On the 10th of June, I gave a talk on Annalisa Coliva's forthcoming book at a workshop at IUSS Pavia together with Alessio Tacca (IUSS Pavia)
In June 2026, I was Visiting Guest Lecturer at IUSS Pavia, giving a seminar on the Epistemology of the A Priori
On the 13th of February, I gave a talk on the Autonomy Paradox and Preemptionism at the Portuguese Epistemology Group, Universidade de Lisboa

2025

On the 11th of December, I gave a talk on Autonomy and Deference in a Workshop on Thomas Grundmann's work at the IFILNOVA Institute of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa
On the 17th of October, I gave a talk on Disagreement and Skepticism at the Portuguese Epistemology Group, Universidade de Lisboa, LanCog
In September 2025, I began participating in the activities of the Portuguese Epistemology Group, hosted at the Universidade de Lisboa
CHANGE OF INSTITUTION: In September 2025, I began a new position as FCT Junior Researcher at the IFILNOVA Institute of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa with a 255,000€ Grant on my project 'Knowledge as Practice'
My paper "Innkeeper! Is the Wine Good Here?": Phenomenal Conservatism and the Arbitrariness Problem, was accepted at Grazer Philosophische Studien
My paper 'Dogmatism and Easy Knowledge: Avoiding the Dialectic?' has been accepted for publication at the journal Analytic Philosophy (after 2 years of review at that journal, I might add).
I gave talks at the following Society Congresses and Conferences between August and October: SIFA 25 in Turin, GAP.13 in Düsseldorf, SEFA25 in Seville, and SPF6 in Lisbon.
From June 23rd to July 28th, I was a Visiting Researcher at the Technische Universität Berlin, at the chair of Prof. Dr. Axel Gelfert.
On July 11, I was an invited speaker in the Philosophy of Mathematics & Epistemology Workshop at the TU Berlin, organized by Fenner Tanswell
In June 2025, I hosted (together with Prof. Silvia De Toffoli and Prof. Elijah Chudnoff) the International Conference "Inference in Pavia" at IUSS Pavia. The speaker line-up included: Paul Boghossian (New York University), Elijah Chudnoff (University of Miami), Christopher Peacocke (Columbia University), Anna-Sara Malmgren (Inland Norway), Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm), Crispin Wright (Stirling), Antonia Peacocke (Stanford), Mariela Aguilera (CONICET), Corine Besson (Sussex), Tommaso Piazza (Pavia)
On the 10th of April, me and Alessio Tacca (IUSS) hosted the workshop 'Trust & AI', at IUSS Pavia, with the participation of Annalisa Coliva, Giuseppe Primiero, Daniele Chiffi, and Judith Simon
In March, my Paper "Skepticism Needs No Scenarios" was accepted for publication in Philosophia
In January, my Paper "Open Problem: The Debasing Demon" was accepted for publication in APhEx: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica

2024

In December, my Critical Notice of the Volume Kripke at 40, edited by Claudine Verheggen, was published in the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism [Link]
In November and December, I hosted the IUSS Speaker Seminar on Epistemology, featuring Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam), Nastasia Müller (HHU Düsseldorf), Jesus Navarro (Seville), Alessio Tacca (IUSS), and myself as speakers.
In November, me, Filippo Lanari, and Evelina Lissoni (IUSS) held an informal reading group on Robin McKenna's book Non-Ideal Epistemology.
In September and October, I participated as a speaker at two conferences at the University of Glasgow and at the Universitat des les Illes Balears, on epistemology and Wittgenstein respectively.
The conference 'Epistemic Injustice in Public Arguments' - connected to my previous post-doc position at IFILNOVA - took place in Lisbon on the 17th and 18th of September.
On the 23rd and 24th September, I attended the Understanding Scientific Disagreement Workshop - part of the PRIN Project "Understanding Disagreement and its Impact on Society - at the University of Bologna
From the last week of June until the end of July, I was Visiting Researcher at the Technische Universität Berlin, in Prof. Axel Gelfert's research group
In July I gave a talk at the ENFA 9 Conference at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
The first workshop within the Project "Understanding Scientific Disagreement and its Impact on Society" will be held at IUSS Pavia on the 21of May, with Crispin Wright, Elijah Chudnoff, Deborah Kant, and Colin Rittberg as Speakers
I organized the conference 'Epistemic Injustice in Public Arguments', at the IFILNOVA Department in Lisbon, together with Dr. Federico Cella (BIAP Barcelona) and Dr. Maria Grazia Rossi (IFILNOVA Lisbon). It will take place on the 18th and 19th of September. The Call for Papers can be found here
I am in the organizing committee of the 7th International Meeting of the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, which took place at IUSS Pavia between the 18th and 21st of June.
I have been invited to give a Talk to the MLAG Research Seminar at the University of Porto, on the 8th of May
I participated in the Workshop on Peter Baumann's work at the IFILNOVA Department on the 13th of May