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149Anatra all'arancia: il tema del contesto nella filosofia analiticaTeoria (1): 3-21. 2005.Questa conferenza offre una presentazione semplificata del concetto di contesto nella filosofia analitica,in particolare nella filosofia del linguaggio. E' semplificata perché tralascia una serie di discussioni rilevanti per fermarsi alle grandi linee che segnano l'emergenza del concetto di contesto in filosofia del linguaggio. Inoltre mi concentro su un aspetto particolare del dibattito: la linea di confine tra pragmatia e semantica e il ruolo che il concetto di contesto ha in questo dibattito,…Read more
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107In quanto segue si d× in poche pagine un'idea del paradigma classico della logica assiomatica; Ë un richiamo alla terminologia e ai simboli che si useranno in seguito. I due successivi capitoli presentano i problemi ce hanno segnato la nascita del paradigma classico e un confronto con il paradigma tradizionale della logica aristotelica.
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1264Dummett and Wittgenstein's Philosophy of MathematicsIn Brian F. McGuinness & Gianluigi Oliveri (eds.), The Philosophy of Michael Dummett, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 113--136. 1994.
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L. Wittgenstein, "Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics" (review)Epistemologia 2 (2): 436. 1979.
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149Wittgenstein, locality and rulesIn Annalisa Coliva & Eva Picardi (eds.), Wittgenstein Today, Il Poligrafo. pp. 249--74. 2004.This paper tries to give some substance to local holism, a picture that seems to fit Wittgenstein’s analysis of the working of language. In the first part I state the well-known paradox of semantic holism, as discussed in philosophy of language: if meaning is holistic there is no possibility to share any meaning. In the second part I present the different answers to this paradox, from atomism to different forms of holism. In the third part I give a criticism of the traditional interpretation of …Read more
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1806Between Knowing How and Knowing ThatLiber Amicorum Pascal Engel. 2014.I wonder whether the idea of knowing how as kind of knowing that with a peculiar mode of presentation really helps in the debate between philosophers and scientists.
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264Idiolect and contextIn L. E. Hahn (ed.), Library of Living Philosphers: the Philosophy of Michael Dummett, Open Court. 2007.In this paper I will compare some of Dummett and Davidson’s claims on the problem of communication and idiolects: how can we understand each other if we use different idiolects? First I define the problem, giving the alternative theses of (I) the priority of language over idiolects and (II) the priority of idiolects over language. I then present Dummett's claims supporting (I) and Davidson's claims supporting (II).
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1229In this paper [submitted in 2008] I discuss the relation between truth and assertion. But the paper was never published, because the journal did not start (I don't know whether it started with another name and I wish all the best for this enterprise). After a while, I realized that what I had written was unclear and I tried to re-write with more details for "Agora filosofica". In this new paper I discuss in detail Kripke's example presented as a case against Donnellan's distinction, and I clai…Read more
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1046Rational ProceduresThe Dialogue - Yearbook of Philosophical Hermenutics, Lit Verlag. Berlin, 2009 4 (1): 137-153. 2009.In this paper I shall deal with the role of "understanding a thought" in the debate on the definition of the content of an assertion. I shall present a well known tension in Frege's writings, between a cognitive and semantic notion of sense. This tension is at the source of some of the major contemporary discussions, mainly because of the negative influence of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, which did not give in-depth consideration to the tension found in Frege. However many contemporary authors, aft…Read more
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893Sense and Linguistic Meaning: a Solution to the Kirkpe-Burge ConflictParadigmi 23 (3). 2013.In this paper I apply a well known tension between cognitive and semantic aspects in Frege’s notion of sense to his treatment of indexicals. I first discusses Burge’s attack against the identification of sense and meaning, and Kripke’s answer supporting such identification. After showing different problems for both interpreters, the author claims that the tension in Frege’s conception of sense (semantic and cognitive) accounts for some shortcomings of both views, and that considering the tensio…Read more
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1823Frege: Two theses, two sensesHistory and Philosophy of Logic 24 (2): 87-109. 2003.One particular topic in the literature on Frege’s conception of sense relates to two apparently contradictory theses held by Frege: the isomorphism of thought and language on one hand and the expressibility of a thought by different sentences on the other. I will divide the paper into five sections. In (1) I introduce the problem of the tension in Frege’s thought. In (2) I discuss the main attempts to resolve the conflict between Frege’s two contradictory claims, showing what is wrong with some …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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1736Essentially Incomplete DescriptionsEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy 6 (2). 2010.In this paper I offer a defence of a Russellian analysis of the referential uses of incomplete (mis)descriptions, in a contextual setting. With regard to the debate between a unificationist and an ambiguity approach to the formal treatment of definite descriptions (introduction), I will support the former against the latter. In 1. I explain what I mean by "essentially" incomplete descriptions: incomplete descriptions are context dependent descriptions. In 2. I examine one of the best versions of…Read more
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82Competenza e competenzeIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 329-397. 1998.Lexical Competence si presenta come una analisi dei diversi aspetti del del concetto di competenza semantica, con contributi originali sull'aspetto referenziale e sui problemi al margine tra filosofia e intelligenza artificiale. La pacata analisi del concetto di competenza lessicale porta a criticare tesi filosofiche sostanziali: le teorie oggettivistiche del significato alla Putnam tendono a ipostatizzare le norme semantiche, e le teorie naturaliste alla Chomsky tendono a dare poco o nessuno sp…Read more
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404Keeping 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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197Updating the Turing Test Wittgenstein, Turing and Symbol ManipulationOpen Journal of Philosophy 2 (3): 189-194. 2012.In this paper I present an argument against the feasibility of the Imitation Game as a test for thinking or language understanding. The argument is different from the five objections presented by Turing in his original paper, although it tries to maintain his original intention. I therefore call it “the Sixth Argument” or “the Argument from Context”. I show that – although the argument works against the original version of the imitation game – it may suggest a new version of the Turing Test, sti…Read more
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A. Greco, "Introduzione alla simulazione come metodologia di ricerca in psicologia" (review)Epistemologia 13 (2): 350. 1990.
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S. Peters & E. Saarinen, "Processes, Beliefs and Questions" (review)Epistemologia 7 (2): 324. 1984.
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112Selecting Presuppositions in Conditional Clauses. Results from a Psycholinguistic ExperimentFrontiers in Psychology 6. 2015.
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R.S. Cohen and M.W. Wartofsky , "Language, Logic and Method" (review)Epistemologia 9 (1): 197. 1986.
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89Filosofia Del LinguaggioIn [introductory work], . 1989.- la prima parte dà una presentazione sommaria dei principali paradigmi di filosofia del linguaggio, mostrando alcune connessioni tra i principali autori di riferimento. Dovrebbe contenere il minimo indispensabile per avere una panoramica delle tematiche della filosofia del linguaggio e addentrarsi negli argomenti in modo più approfondito. La conoscenza dei contenuti di questa parte è un prerequisito per l’esame.
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75Olismo e molecolarismoIn Massimo Dell'Utri (ed.), Olismo, . 2002.In questo saggio non sviluppo una tesi precisa, ma presento alcune osservazioni sull'olismo e molecolarismo che tentano di mostrare la praticabilita' del molecolarismo e vederne allo stesso tempo le difficoltà: (i) Mi interrogo sulla fortuna del dibattito sull'olismo degli ultimi anni, come ripresa e precisazione delle osservazioni fatte a suo tempo da Dummett nel suo libro su Frege. (ii) Richiamo alcune idee fregeane a proposito di linguaggi formali che definiscono una specie di olismo innocuo,…Read more
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M. Di Francesco, "Parlare di oggetti. Teorie del senso e del riferimento" (review)Epistemologia 10 (2): 349. 1987.
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130Wittgenstein, Olismo Ed Esperimenti MentaliParadigmi 2. 2008.In questo articolo parlo della influenza di Einstein su Wittgenstein a partire da alcuni problemi che si pongono all’olismo. L’olismo è stato spesso collegato a Wittgenstein, almeno in forma di “olismo locale”. L’olismo è però soggetto a due tipi di paradossi: il paradosso della comunicazione per l’olismo semantico e il paradosso del relativismo concettuale per l’olismo epistemologico. Dopo aver presentato brevemente i due paradossi, confronto le risposte di Davidson, in difesa dell’olismo, con …Read more
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150Between saying and doing: Towards an analytic pragmatism – by Robert B. BrandomTheoria 75 (4): 366-369. 2009.No Abstract
Areas of Specialization
| Philosophy of Language |
| Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
| Gottlob Frege |
Areas of Interest
| Philosophy of Language |
| Gottlob Frege |
| Complex Demonstratives |
| Demonstratives, Misc |