Books
2. Ferraris, M., Hernández Marcelo J., Onnis E. (2024). Realismo y Emergencia. Madrid, Dykinson.
1. Onnis, E. (2021). Metafisica dell’emergenza. Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier.
Reviews
– Alberto Giustiniano, Universa. Recensioni di Filosofia, Vol. 11, 2/2022.
– Jacopo Colelli, Mefisto. Rivista di Medicina, Filosofia, Storia, Vol. 7, 1/2023.
– José Juan Palomo del Rey, Disputatio. Philosophical Research Bulletin, 12/26.
Symposia
– June 6th, 2022. Circolo dei Lettori (Torino), with Alessandro Armando (Politecnico di Torino), Vincenzo Crupi (University of Turin), Maurizio Ferraris (University of Turin), Lamberto Rondoni (Politecnico di Torino).
– November 7th, 2022. University of Salamanca, with Jimmy Hernandez Marcelo (University of Salamanca), José Juan Palomo del Rey (University of Salamanca).
– April 18th, 2023. Roma Tre University, with Mario De Caro (Roma Tre University), Massimo Marraffa (Roma Tre University), Matteo Morganti (Roma Tre University), Marco Viola (Roma Tre University).
Edited volumes
5. Onnis, E, Paolini Paoletti, M. (eds.) (forthcoming). New Philosophical Approaches to Emergence: Towards Pluralism. Synthese Topical Collection.
4. Onnis, E., Worth, S. (eds.) (forthcoming 2025). The Epistemology of Narrative Knowledge. Rivista di Estetica, 88.
3. Onnis, E., Ouyang, X. (eds.) (2020). Bridging Traditions. Chinese and Western Philosophy in Dialogue. Rivista di Estetica, 72.
2. Onnis, E. (ed.) (2019). Parti, insiemi e sistemi. Il concetto di emergenza in filosofia/Parts, Wholes and Systems. The Concept of Emergence in Philosophy. Philosophy Kitchen, VII, 11.
1. Andina, T., Onnis, E. (eds.) (2019). The Philosophy and Art of Wang Guangyi. London, Bloomsbury Academic.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters (selection)
16. Onnis, E. (forthcoming 2025). Nuove capacità e nuove qualità. Due forme diverse, ma non mutualmente esclusive, di novità ontologica. Rivista di Estetica, 89.
15. Martino, V., Onnis, E. (forthcoming 2025). Stereotypes and Forms of Injustice. A Non-Atomistic Analysis. In A. Condello, A. Wagner (eds.), Gender Stereotypes. Case Studies, Policies and Theoretical Approaches. Cham, Springer.
14. Onnis, E. (forthcoming 2025). Think outside the bun. Freedom-based food narratives and the need for global dietary changes. Cybernetics and Human Knowing, 32(3/4).
13. Onnis, E. (2024). Between Armaments and Ornaments. Weak and Strong Emergent Patterns in Virtual and Real Cellular Automata. In A. Cuevas-Badallo, M. Martín-Villuendas, & J. Gefaell (eds.), Life and Mind – Theoretical and Applied Issues in Contemporary Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. Cham, Springer.
12. Onnis, E. (2024). Emergenza. APhEx. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica, 29, 2024.
11. Onnis, E. (2024). Carne coltivata, mitigazione climatica e narrazioni collettive: il caso italiano. Scienza e Filosofia, 31/2024.
10. Onnis, E. (2024). Questioning, rather than solving, the problem of higher-level causation. Argumenta. Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 10(1).
9. Onnis, E. (2023). Considerazioni sul continuum natura/tecnica. Il cibo come artefatto ibrido. Bollettino Filosofico, XXXVIII.
8. Onnis, E. (2023). Teorie emergentiste contemporanee della coscienza: un’introduzione. In M. Cruciani, F. Gagliardi (eds.), Coscienza. Prospettive scientifiche e filosofiche. Roma, Aracne.
7. Onnis, E. (2023). Emergence: A pluralist approach. Theoria. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 38(3).
6. Onnis, E. (2023). Cibo e libertà di scelta. Verso nuove narrazioni alimentari compatibili con la mitigazione climatica. Rivista di Estetica, 82.
5. Onnis, E. (2022). Emergenza, poteri causali ed efficacia causal-determinativa. Studi di Estetica, 23(2).
4. Onnis, E. (2020). Il ceppo e l’intaglio. Riflessioni metafisiche sul Daodejing. Rivista di Estetica, 72.
3. Onnis, E. (2020). Emergencia e icnología ontológica. Hacia un textualismo metafísico. Estudios Filosóficos, 68(199).
2. Onnis, E. (2019). On the meanings of propaganda. In T. Andina, & E. Onnis (Eds.), The Philosophy and Art of Wang Guangyi. London, Bloomsbury Academic.
1. Onnis, E. (2016). Wang Guangyi e il potere inverso della propaganda. Riflessioni a margine del ciclo Great Criticism. Rivista di Estetica, 61.
Contributed Presentations
xx.07.2025 Emergent Novelty: Causal and Qualitative (that is, what types of properties emerge when properties emerge). Society for the Metaphysics of Science 10th Annual Conference (SMS25). USI, Lugano.
08.09.2024 Emergent Novelty: Causal and Qualitative. Fundamentality and Emergence. 6th Weekend Seminar on Philosophy of Physics. Radbound University.
12.07.2024 Emergent Causal Efficacy: From the British Emergentists to the Contemporary Debate. 15th Biennial Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS24). University of Vienna.
29.06.2024 Emergent Causal Efficacy between British and Contemporary Emergentism. 12th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAP24). University of Connecticut and Wesleyan University.
27.05.2024 (with Vittorio Giordano, Politecnico di Torino) Dietary Patterns and Climate Mitigation. Food Narratives as Social Tipping Elements Capable of Triggering Desirable Tipping Points. Numbers and Stories II Workshop. Politecnico di Milano.
24.04.2024 Constraining Structures and the Emergence of Macro-Levels of Organisation. 4th Politics of the Machines Conference. Lifelikeness & Beyond. RWTH Aachen University.
07.10.2023 (with Valeria Martino, University of Turin) How Complex is Social Change? Exploiting Tipping Dynamics to Trigger Desirable Social Transformations. Complexity Theory, Social Ontology, and Social Change Workshop. “Social Movement and Social Change” working group. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
08.09.2023 (with Vittorio Giordano, Politecnico di Torino) Dietary Patterns and Climate Mitigation. Food Narratives as Social Tipping Elements Capable of Triggering Desirable Social Tipping Points. 15th Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA23). University of Eastern Piedmont.
26.05.2023 Pluralism about Emergence. Threads of Emergence Workshop. University of the West of England.
01.04.2023 Think Outside the Bun. Freedom-Based Food Narratives and the Need for Global Dietary Changes. 7th MAP-Penn Conference: Climate Justice. University of Pennsylvania [online].
15.12.2022 Explaining Emergent Patterns in Cellular Automata. Panel: “Explaining Emergentism: Towards a non-reductionist metaphysics of mindand scientific phenomena”, organised by Andrea Velardi (University of Messina).18th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (AISC22). University of Trento.
10.11.2022 Constraining Structures and the Emergence of Macro-Levels of Organisation. Panel: “Exploring Compositional Levels, Explanation and Reduction in the Sciences”, organised by Carl Gillett (Northern Illinois University). Philosophy of Science Association 28th Biennial Meeting (PSA22). University of Pittsburgh.
04.11.2022 Weak and Strong Emergent Patterns in Virtual and Real Cellular Automata. Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences XI (PBCS XI). University of Salamanca [online].
04.08.2022 Emergent Social Systems and Emergent Individuals. Metaphysical Considerations. Panel: “Individual and collective. Pragmatist perspectives at the crossroads of metaphysics, biology, and semiotics”, organised by Andrea Parravicini (University of Milan).4th European Pragmatism Conference (EPC4). University College London.
23.06.2022 Weak and Strong Emergent Patterns in Virtual and Real Cellular Automata. 6th Italian Conference in Analytic Metaphysics and Ontology. University of L’Aquila.
15.06.2022 Between Armaments and Ornaments. Emergent Patterns (and Communication Systems) in Abstract and Embodied Cellular Automata. Panel: “Semiotic approaches to research cultures”, organised by Alin Olteanu (RWTH Aachen University) and Phillip H. Roth (RWTH Aachen University).4th Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS4). RWTH Aachen University.
14.10.2021 Il cibo come artefatto ibrido. Considerazioni sul continuum natura/tecnica. II Convegno della Società Italiana di Filosofia Teoretica (SIFIT). Centro Congressi Federico II, Napoli.
06.12.2019 Emergence. Taxonomies, Criteria, and a Case Study. Irish Philosophical Society Annual Conference. University College Cork.
07.08.2019 Discontinuity and Robustness as Hallmarks of Emergence. 6th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (XVI CLMPST). Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.
20.07.2019 An Analysis of Emergence. Irreducibility, Novelty, Discontinuity, and Robustness. 93rd Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association. Durham University.
11.05.2019 Emergence: A Model for Natural Discontinuity. Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena (DIEP) Workshop “Emergence: conceptual and philosophical aspects”. Mediamatic Biotoop, Amsterdam.
26.10.2018 Emergence and Reduction. An Integrated Account. 7th World Conference on Metaphysics. Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca.
16.08.2018 Consciousness as a Cognitive Resource Manager. An Evolutionary Hypothesis on the Proper Function of Consciousness. 24th World Congress of Philosophy. Peking University, Beijing.
21.09.2017 Handling Concurrency Through Consciousness. 4th Philosophy of Language and Mind Conference (PLM4). Ruhr University, Bochum.
Invited Presentations
16.05.2025 Emergent Novelty: Causal and Qualitative. Emergence Seminar. University of Namur (forthcoming).
24.04.2025 Emergence: Ontological and Epistemological Perspectives. HAT-Group Symposium. Change and Memory in Complex Systems. Tampere University (forthcoming).
14.04.2025 Which Metaphysics of Emergence for a Metaphysics of (Biological) Complexity? Shapes of Complexity Workshop, Aix Marseille Université (forthcoming).
25.03.2025 Which Metaphysics of Emergence for a Metaphysics of Complexity? Cultures of Research International Conference. RWTH Aachen University.
26.02.2025 Qualia and Mental Powers. Varieties of Emergent Novelty. Seminar, University of Messina.
25.11.2024 Emergent Novelty: Causal and Qualitative. Emergence, Causality and Complexity Workshop. RWTH Aachen University.
23.10.2024 On the Nature of Emergent Novelty. Tips on How to Avoid Becoming a Reductive Emergentist. Emergentism and Realism Workshop. University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
30.09.2024 Food Narratives as Social Tipping Elements. International Seminar on Narration. Cusano University. Rome.
02.08.2024 Emergent Causal Efficacy: From the British Emergentists to the Contemporary Debate. Emergent Properties Beyond Reductionism. Invited Session at the XXV Word Congress of Philosophy. Rome.
30.07.2024 Qualitative Novelty and the Emergence of New Categorical Properties. Emergence: New Philosophical Perspectives Workshop. Niccolò Cusano University.
09.10.2023 (with Valeria Martino, University of Turin) The Complexity of Change. Discorsi a Tavola. Hourly Oyster House. Harvard University.
29.09.2023 Devo raccontarti una storia. Il potere (argomentativo?) delle narrazioni. Dialogare, includere, vendere. L’arte di argomentare nella società contemporanea. University of L’Aquila.
05.05.2023 Emergent Social Structures. What They Are, What They Do. What is Social Reality Workshop. University of Malta.
24.03.2023 Think Outside the Bun. Freedom-based Food Narratives and the Need for Global Dietary Dhanges. Just Climate Transitions Reading Group. Potsdam University [online]
22.03.2023 Emergenza, riduzione, complessità. Workshop Phenomenology Today. Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele.
22.02.2023 Emergenza ed emergentismo in biologia. Workshop Phenomenology Today. Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele [online].
14.02.2023 Emergentist Theories of Consciousness. IUSS Philosophy Seminar. Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia.
07.11.2022 Pluralism about Emergence. Seminario Internacional. Realismo y Emergencia. Universidad de Salamanca [online].
30.09.2022 Hermeneutics as Koiné, the Formless Form of Dao, and its Epistemic Elusiveness. Weakening Strategies. Vattimo and Chinese Thought. Pompeu Fabra University.
21.06.2022 Questioning, Rather than Solving, the Problem of Higher-Level Causation. 6th Italian Conference in Analytic Metaphysics and Ontology. University of L’Aquila.
09.05.2022 Emergentismo, riduzionismo, complessità. Seminar. University of Messina.
12.04.2022 About the World and its Parts. Towards an Emergentist Realism. Does the World exist? 1st “Realism as a Philosophical Response to the Challenges of our Time” (RPRCT) Workshop. Centre Lourcine, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
24.09.2021 Emergenza e causalità. Sensibilia. Colloquium on Perception and Experience. Tor Vergata University of Rome.
26.03.2021 Dal micro al macro e ritorno. La pandemia fra complessità e virus emergenti. Post-Coronial Studies. Idee per la ripartenza. University of Turin.
27.01.2021 Emergence: from Physics to Biology. Science & More Talks. Center for Logic, Language, and Cognition (LLC). University of Turin.
26.05.2020 Emergenza e novità. Labont Seminar. University of Turin.
11.10.2019 Emergence: Taxonomies and Criteria. Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei.
8.10.2019 Emergence and Aesthetic Properties. WHU-UniTO International Workshop for Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art “Something the Eye Cannot Descry. On Art: East and West”. Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei.
18.07.2019 Libertà e/o determinismo. Un falso dilemma. Praxi Summer School. Forlì.
28.06.2019 Uncarved and Carved wood. Metaphysical Reflections on the Daodejing. QUB-WHU Workshop on Comparative Philosophy. Queen’s University, Belfast.
17.09.2018 Reduction, Emergence and in Between. A Collectivist Ontology. Ontology in a Contemporary Context. G. F. Abela Junior College, Malta.
10.08.2018 A different Science for a Different World. How Complexity Reshaped Scientific Values and Worldviews. International Academic Forum on Values in the Changing World. Shaanxi University, Xi’an.
10.11.2017 From an Essentialist to a Factual View of Personal Identity. I Work Therefore I Am European International Conference. European Economic and Social Committee, Bruxelles.