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IRENE BININI
Address: Piazzale Mattarella 11
43123 Parma
Italy
Phone: 3405169611
Email: irene.binini@sns.it
Website: irenebinini.wordpress.com
CURRENT POSITION
PhD in Philosophy
2013-now
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Dissertation topic: Theories of modality and theories of consequences
in Early Medieval Logic.
Supervisor: professor Massimo Mugnai.
EDUCATION
M.A in Philosophy
2013
University of Parma. Cum laude.
Dissertation topic: Aristotelian theory of modality.
Supervisors: professor Roberto Pinzani and professor Stefano Caroti.
B.A. in Philosophy
2010
University of Parma. Cum laude.
Dissertation topic: The problem of other minds in Ryle and Austin.
Supervisors: professor Wolfgang Huemer and professor Andrea
Bianchi.
EDUCATION AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS
08/2014 Logic Summer School. Gargnano (Italy)
01-06/2011 Exchange Programme at the Department of Philosophy at Boston Col-
lege (Boston, MA)
08-01/2004 Exchange AFS Programme in Jyväskylä (Finland)
09/2004-09/2013 Piano music student at the Conservatory of Music of Parma (Italy)
GRANTS, STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
01-06/2011 Visiting scholarship for an exchange study programme at Boston Col-
lege (5000$ from Boston College).
09/2010 Exchange student at a three week course of Advanced English Lan-
guage at Oxford Brookes University (1500€ from University of Parma).

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Irene Binini,SNS
CurriculumVitae
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PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES
Upcoming Conceivability and possibility in Abelard’s theory of modality. Uni-
log’15. Istanbul, 25-30 June 2015.
Upcoming The power of inference. Abelard’s reflection on the nature of en-
tailment. Fourth Reasoning Club. University of Manchester, 30-31
March 2015.
2015 Interpreting Aristotelian modalities without determinism. PhD
students’ seminar. Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. 2 February 2015.
2014 c Reasoning, deliberating and choosing in Aristotelian Ethics. Work-
shop Games and Decision 2. Scuola Normale Superiore. 7-9- July 2014.
2014 b Aristotle’s theory of modality. Friday Seminars of Analytic Philoso-
phy. University of Parma, Parma. 27 June 2014.
2014 a Modalità e tempo in Aristotele. SELP conference. University of Saler-
no. 6 June 2014.
OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
06/2014-now Creator and co-editor of the philosophical blog:
https://emiliafilosofica.wordpress.com/
a page created to share news and events among the Philosophy De-
partments of Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena and Ferrara.
GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
History and Philosophy of Logic
Ancient, and in particular Aristotelian, theories of modality
Medieval Logic and Medieval Philosophy
Philosophy of Modal Logic
COMPUTER SKILLS
Word-highly proficient
Latex-highly proficient
PowerPoint-highly proficient
Excel-highly proficient
Adobe Indesign-proficient
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Italian-mother tongue
English-highly proficient
French-highly proficient
German-beginner
Chinese- very beginner
Latin-proficient
Ancient Greek-proficient
Arabic-elementar

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Irene Binini,SNS
CurriculumVitae
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MEMBERSHIPS
I am currently member of AILA (Italian Association for Logic and its Applications) and of SELP
(Permanent Seminar on Logic for students and young researchers). I am also a member of
SILFS (Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Scence).