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29What Is Said and What Is Not: The Semantics/pragmatics Interface (edited book)Chicago University Press. 2013.This volume contains essays that explore explicit and implicit communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grice's theories on "what is said," the contributors explore a number of areas, including: the boundary between semantics and pragmatics; the concept of implicit communication; the idea of the logical form of our assertions; the notion of conventional meaning; the phenomenon of deixis, which refers to when an utterance require context in order to be understood full…Read more
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503Three alternatives on ContextIn Diego Marconi (ed.), Knowledge and Meaning, Mercurio. 2000.Context is a concept used by philosophers and scientists with many different definitions. Since Dummett we speak of "context principle" in Frege and Wittgenstein: "an expression has a meaning only in the context of a sentence". The context principle finds an extension in some of Wittgenstein's ideas, especially in his famous passage where he says that "to understand a sentence is to understand a language". Given that Wittgenstein believes that "the" language does not exist but only language game…Read more
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30Kenny's Wrong FormulaPhilosophical Investigations 40 (2): 170-172. 2017.Kenny’s book on Wittgenstein has been studied by hundreds of students. What happens when a student comes to the lecturer and says that Kenny’s formula for the number of truth-functions is wrong? You read the 2006 revised edition of the book and realise that the student is right and are ashamed at not having pointed this out to the class. Then you try to focus on which misunderstandings may lie behind the wrong formula. This is what we are trying to do in these short remarks.
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120Ragione E pratica sociale: L'inferenzialismo di Robert BrandomRivista di Filosofia (3): 467-486. 1999.Insieme a John McDowell, Robert Brandom è uno dei filosofi emergenti della reazione al naturalismo filosofico; seguace Wilfrid Sellars, è l'autore americano che più si avvicina al dialogo con la filosofia continentale e propone una rivalutazione di Kant e Hegel nella filosofia analitica. Già allievo di Richard Rorty, Brandom è diventuo famoso con la pubblicazione di Making it Explicit. Questo ponderoso volume di 900 pagine non ha avuto però ancora una sufficiente attenzione nel dibattito filosof…Read more
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Bob Brandom's Recent Philosophy of Language: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism Genoa, Italy, April 19-23, 2009 (edited book)University of Genoa, Department of Philosophy. 2009.
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33Expressing the BackgroundIcelandic Philosophical Association (talks). 1997.Is deduction of use in application to our everyday problems? Aristotle said that in practical matters we cannot use a strictly deductive attitude: "we must be content...in speaking about things which are only for the most part true, with premises of the same kind, to reach conclusions that are no better" (Nic.Eth.I,4 - my underlining). We may content ourselves with conclusions which - according to the usual views - are not true; but what happens when we realize that such conclusions bring us int…Read more
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Proceedings of the 4th Latin Meeting in Analytic Philosophy (edited book)Genoa: University of Genoa. 2007.
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49Competenza pragmatica come filtroRivista di Estetica 47 (34): 213-231. 2007.In questo lavoro tratto del problema del rapporto tra semantica e pragmatica, e in particolare cerco di dare una visione generale di cosa si dovrebbe intendere per "competenza pragmatica". Assumo una visione olistica del significato, perché mi permette di mostrare come, anche con una posizione radicale di questo genere, possiamo trovare modi per spiegare la comunicazione e salvare la composizionalità. Il modo per spiegare la comunicazione e salvare la composizionalità passa attraverso la dimensi…Read more
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Alle radici della filosofia analitica (edited book)ERGA. 1996.This is the collection of the FIRST Congress of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy. It is a piece of intellectual history, where we can see European Analytic Philosophers at the beginning of their renovated interest in analytic philosophy (European Society for Analytic Philosophy was founded in 1992) .
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43Keeping track of individuals: Brandom’s analysis of Kripke’s puzzle and the content of beliefPragmatics and Cognition 13 (1): 177-201. 2005.This paper gives attention to a special point in Brandom’s Making it Explicit. Brandom proposes in MIE a “Fregean” way out of Kripke’s puzzle about belief. In the first part, I analyze two main features of Brandom’s strategy, the definition of anaphoric chains as senses of proper names and the implausibility of the application of a disquotational principle to proper names. In the second part, I discuss the problem of the stability of contents and the problem of sharing contents. I claim that Bra…Read more
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44Uomini, topi e formiche: riflessioni sulla scienza cognitiva1 (bozza)In Fondazione Devoto (ed.), Cultura umanistica e cultura scientifica, . 2005.Riassunto: in queste note presentouna breve panoramica della scienza cognitiva, che costituisce a tutt'oggi, a più di vent'anni dalla sua nascita, un coacervo di novità rilevanti nell'ambito della ricerca interdisciplinare. Dopo una prima presentazione generale (§1), traccio una breve storia della disciplina (§2) per passare poi a descrivere nel § 3 uno dei nuclei di fondo della scienza cognitiva: il funzionalismo e l'idea di mente come sistema di rappresentazioni o mappe cognitive. Nel § 4. acc…Read more
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G. STEINER, "Linguaggio e silenzio" (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 65 (n/a): 833. 1973.
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1008The cognitive load of presupposition triggers: mandatory and optional repairs in presupposition failureLanguage, Cognition and Neuroscience 29 (1): 136-146. 2014.
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Robert Brandom, Between Saying and doing. Toward an Analytic Pragmatism. Oxford University Press, 2008. (review)Theoria 75 (4): 366-369. 2009.
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716Dummett and the Game of TarotsTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy (1): 141-155. 2013.In this paper I give a reconstruction of Dummett’s main arguments concerning the theory of the occult origin of the Tarot, and discuss the reasons behind the success of the Tarot pack – in particular the Major Arcana – in the history of card games. I also provide some indication of the links between Dummett’s interest in the history of card games and aspects of his philosophical background. As I am not an expert on card games, this paper is mainly a personal tribute to a side of Dummett’s work t…Read more
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Gottlob Frege |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Gottlob Frege |
Complex Demonstratives |
Demonstratives, Misc |