• F. Waismann, "Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics" (review)
    Epistemologia 6 (2): 357. 1983.
  •  64
    Expressing the Background
    Icelandic 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
  •  125
    Competenza pragmatica come filtro
    Rivista 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
  •  2
    M. MERLEAU-PONTY, "La prose du monde" (review)
    Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 65 (n/a): 379. 1973.
  •  1600
    What Happened to the Sense of a Concept Word?
    ProtoSociology 30 6-28. 2013.
    In this paper I shall outline a short history of the ideas concerning sense and reference of a concept-word from Frege to model theoretic semantics. I claim that, contrary to what is normally supposed, a procedural view of sense may be compatible with model theoretic semantics, especially in dealing with problems at the boundary between semantics and pragmatics. A first paragraph on the paradox of the concept horse will clarify the attitude concerning the history of ideas that I assume in this p…Read more
  • Alle radici della filosofia analitica (edited book)
    with G. Sarbia
    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) .
  • Linguistica e filosofia. A proposito di un recente lavoro di Ét. Gilson
    Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 65 (n/a): 522. 1973.
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  • G. STEINER, "Linguaggio e silenzio" (review)
    Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 65 (n/a): 833. 1973.
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    Dummett and the Game of Tarots
    Teorema: 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
  • Eredi del terzo regno
    Epistemologia 12. 1989.
  •  97
    Holism in Artificial Intelligence?
    In Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara (ed.), Language, Quantum, Music, Springer. pp. 37--48. 1999.
    [This is a larger version of the published article] In the discussion on semantic holism it has been claimed that A.I. is almost entirely holistic. In this paper I show that some of the main lines of research in symbolic artificial intelligence are not holistic; I will consider three classical cases: toy words, frames and contextual reasoning. I claim that these examples from A.I. can be interpreted as implementing molecularist intuitions about language. Eventually I suggest that some assumption…Read more
  •  137
    Brandom's solution of Kripke's puzzle
    [Papers on Line - Teaching Material]. 1998.
    Brandom's "solution" of Kripke's puzzle in Making it Explicit [573-583] is to be read on the background of four main ideas, plus his general concern on inferential role semantics. I will give some hints about these basic presuppositions, because, once they have been accepted, Kripke's puzzle seems to have no more appeal (at least from Brandom's point of view). If already acquainted with Brandom's general ideas, you may skip part I and go directly to part II.
  • M. Dummett, "The Interpretation of Frege's Philosophy" (review)
    Epistemologia 6 (1): 168. 1983.