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48Guest Editors' PrefaceDiscipline Filosofiche 22 (2): 5-6. 2012.This is the guest editors' preface to the Discipline Filosofiche special issue on Knowledge and Justification.
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Lo scetticismo sull'esistenza del mondo esternoIn Annalisa Coliva (ed.), Filosofia analitica: temi e problemi, Carocci. pp. 255--280. 2007.
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33In Quest of a Wittgensteinian Hinge EpistemologyIn Shyam Wuppuluri & Newton da Costa (eds.), Wittgensteinian : Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein's Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 107-121. 2019.Hinge epistemology is a family of theories about justification which give centre-stage to Wittgenstein’s notion of a “hinge”. In the following, I will first put forward some basic methodological considerations regarding the relationship between merely exegetical work on, in particular, Wittgenstein’s texts, and more theoretically committed work, which aims at developing suggestions that can be found in the texts, even though they are not clearly attributable as such to their author. I will then …Read more
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128Human diagrammatic reasoning and seeing-asSynthese 186 (1): 121-148. 2012.The paper addresses the issue of human diagrammatic reasoning in the context of Euclidean geometry. It develops several philosophical categories which are useful for a description and an analysis of our experience while reasoning with diagrams. In particular, it draws the attention to the role of seeing-as; it analyzes its implications for proofs in Euclidean geometry and ventures the hypothesis that geometrical judgments are analytic and a priori, after all
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16Origins of Objectivity di Tyler BurgeIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 26 (1): 183-200. 2013.
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19In Quest of a Wittgensteinian Hinge EpistemologyIn A. C. Grayling, Shyam Wuppuluri, Christopher Norris, Nikolay Milkov, Oskari Kuusela, Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Beth Savickey, Jonathan Beale, Duncan Pritchard, Annalisa Coliva, Jakub Mácha, David R. Cerbone, Paul Horwich, Michael Nedo, Gregory Landini, Pascal Zambito, Yoshihiro Maruyama, Chon Tejedor, Susan G. Sterrett, Carlo Penco, Susan Edwards-Mckie, Lars Hertzberg, Edward Witherspoon, Michel ter Hark, Paul F. Snowdon, Rupert Read, Nana Last, Ilse Somavilla & Freeman Dyson (eds.), Wittgensteinian : Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 107-121. 2019.Hinge epistemology is a family of theories about justification which give centre-stage to Wittgenstein’s notion of a “hinge”. In the following, I will first put forward some basic methodological considerations regarding the relationship between merely exegetical work on, in particular, Wittgenstein’s texts, and more theoretically committed work, which aims at developing suggestions that can be found in the texts, even though they are not clearly attributable as such to their author. I will then …Read more
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8IntroductionIn Annalisa Coliva, Paolo Leonardi & Sebastiano Moruzzi (eds.), Eva Picardi on Language, Analysis and History, Palgrave. pp. 1-4. 2018.The introduction provides a biographical sketch of Eva Picardi’s scientific career.
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97Notes on Italian Philosophy, Peer-Reviews and “la corruttela”Philosophia 38 (1): 29-39. 2010.The paper offers a critical review of Roberto Farnetiâs paper a minor philosophy. The state of the art of philosophical scholarship in Italy , recently published in Philosophia. It is argued that overall the status and interest of philosophy as practiced nowadays in Italy is less disappointing than Farneti makes out. It is also maintained that submitting papers to peer-refereed international journals can help cure the moral and sociological disease that besets the Italian academia, but that, a…Read more
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154How to Commit Moore’s ParadoxJournal of Philosophy 112 (4): 169-192. 2015.Moore’s paradox is taken to be emblematic of peculiarities in the first person point of view, and to have significant implications for several issues in epistemology, in philosophy of language and mind. Yet, its nature remains elusive. In the first part of the paper, the main kinds of analysis of it hereto proposed in the literature are criticized. Furthermore, it is claimed that there are cases in which its content can be legitimately judged. Close inspection of those cases reveals that they de…Read more
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137Introduction: Hinge EpistemologyInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 6 (2-3): 73-78. 2016._ Source: _Volume 6, Issue 2-3, pp 73 - 78 This introduction gives a summary of the content of the special issue _Hinge Epistemology_, grouping the papers in three sections: more exegetical accounts of Wittgenstein’s notion of hinge certainties and their bearing on a theory of justification and knowledge as well as on the topic of external world scepticism; papers critical of the very notion of hinge certainty; and papers that apply the notion to various areas of epistemology and compare Wittgen…Read more
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26Hinge Epistemology (edited book)Brill. 2016.In _Hinge Epistemology_, eminent epistemologists investigate Wittgenstein's concept of basic or 'hinge' certainty as deployed in _On Certainty_ and show its importance for mainstream epistemology.
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27Hinges in the knowledge economy. on greco’s common and procedural knowledgeSynthese 201 (5): 1-18. 2023.In his “Common knowledge” (2016) and _The Transmission of Knowledge_ (2021), John Greco proposes a novel account of hinge propositions. Central to it is the idea that they are items of common knowledge – that is, of knowledge that is already present in the system, freely available to anyone, without having to figure it out by oneself or having to be taught it by others. As such, they are not subject to any quality control at all. Furthermore, they figure in a subject’s cognitive economy as items…Read more
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22PrécisAnalysis 82 (3): 477-479. 2022.Relativism: New Problems of Philosophy1 presents, in some detail, the key arguments and justifications for the most prominent relativistic positions in contempo.
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27Doubts, Philosophy, and TherapyMidwest Studies in Philosophy 45 155-177. 2021.There is nowadays a tendency, to be dated back to Gordon Baker’s reading, to interpret the later Wittgenstein as proposing a thoroughly therapeutic view of philosophy. Accordingly, he was not dealing with philosophical problems to show how they originated in a misunderstanding of our language. For that would have presupposed his advancing theses about how language works. Rather, his therapeutic method was in the service of liberating philosophers from the kind of intellectual prejudices that wou…Read more
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37Are There Mathematical Hinges?International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 10 (3-4): 346-366. 2020.In this paper I argue that, contrary to what several prominent scholars of On Certainty have claimed, Wittgenstein did not maintain that simple mathematical propositions like “2 × 2 = 4” or “12 × 12 = 144,” much like G. E. Moore’s truisms, could be examples of hinge propositions. In particular, given his overall conception of mathematics, it was impossible for him to single out these simpler mathematical propositions from the rest of mathematical statements, to reserve only to them a normative f…Read more
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455Disagreement unhinged, constitutivism styleMetaphilosophy 52 (3-4): 402-415. 2021.Hinge epistemology has to dispel the worry that disagreeing over hinges is rationally inert. Building on a companion piece (Coliva and Palmira 2020), this paper offers a constitutivist solution to the problem of rational inertia by maintaining that a Humean sceptic and a hinge epistemologist disagree over the correct explication of the concept of epistemic rationality. The paper explores the implications of such a solution. First, it clarifies in what sense a disagreement over hinges would be a …Read more
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83On What There Really Is to Our Notion of Ownership of a ThoughtPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 9 (1): 41-46. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 9.1 (2002) 41-46 [Access article in PDF] On What There Really Is to Our Notion of Ownership of a Thought Annalisa Coliva JOHN CAMPBELL'S REPLY to my paper aims at reestablishing the point that there are two strands to our notion of ownership of a thought. There are two ways of cashing out this idea. 1 First, one could say that A is the owner of a thought if and only if both the following two indep…Read more
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Ch. 34. Scepticism and knowledge : Moore's proof of an external worldIn Michael Beaney (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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3Alcune osservazioni su verità, relativismo, filosofia dibattito pubblicoJura Gentium 5 (S1): 31-39. 2008.
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31Critical notice of Origins of Objectivity, Oxford, by Tyler BurgeDisputatio 4 (33): 515-530. 2012.033-07
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35Externalism, Self-Knowledge and Skepticism: New Essays, edited by Sanford C. GoldbergInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 9 (1): 69-74. 2019.
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29Anna Boncompagni, Wittgenstein and PragmatismJournal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 6 (4). 2018.
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86Disagreeing with Myself: Doxastic Commitments and Intrapersonal DisagreementAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 56 (1): 1-14. 2019.This paper explores the idea of disagreement with oneself, in both its diachronic and synchronic forms. A puzzling case of synchronic intrapersonal disagreement is presented and the paper considers its implications. One is that belief is a genus that comes in two species: as disposition and as commitment. Another is that self-deception consists in a conflict between one's beliefs as dispositions and one's beliefs as commitments. Synchronic intrapersonal disagreement also has implications for the…Read more
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Against (neo-Wittgensteinian) entitlementsIn Peter Graham & Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen (eds.), Epistemic Entitlement, Oxford University Press. 2020.
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