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Proceedings of the 4th Latin Meeting in Analytic Philosophy (edited book)Genoa: University of Genoa. 2007.
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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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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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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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112Selecting Presuppositions in Conditional Clauses. Results from a Psycholinguistic ExperimentFrontiers in Psychology 6. 2015.
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S. Peters & E. Saarinen, "Processes, Beliefs and Questions" (review)Epistemologia 7 (2): 324. 1984.
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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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R.S. Cohen and M.W. Wartofsky , "Language, Logic and Method" (review)Epistemologia 9 (1): 197. 1986.
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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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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
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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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113Kenny'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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3145The Influence of Einstein on Wittgenstein's PhilosophyPhilosophical Investigations 33 (4): 360-379. 2010.On the basis of historical and textual evidence, this paper claims that after his Tractatus, Wittgenstein was actually influenced by Einstein's theory of relativity and, the similarity of Einstein's relativity theory helps to illuminate some aspects of Wittgenstein's work. These claims find support in remarkable quotations where Wittgenstein speaks approvingly of Einstein's relativity theory and in the way these quotations are embedded in Wittgenstein's texts. The profound connection between Wit…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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958Sense and ProofIn Marcello D'Agostino, Federico Laudisa, Giulio Giorello, Telmo Pievani & Corrado Sinigaglia (eds.), New Essays in Logic and Philosophy of Science, College Publications. 2010.In this paper we give some formal examples of ideas developed by Penco in two papers on the tension inside Frege's notion of sense (see Penco 2003). The paper attempts to compose the tension between semantic and cognitive aspects of sense, through the idea of sense as proof or procedure – not as an alternative to the idea of sense as truth condition, but as complementary to it (as it happens sometimes in the old tradition of procedural semantics).
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64Expressing 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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P. Quattrocchi, "Etica, Scienza, Complessità. Etica della scienza e filosofia della natura nell'epistemologia della complessità" (review)Epistemologia 11 (1): 157. 1988.
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125Competenza 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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2M. MERLEAU-PONTY, "La prose du monde" (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 65 (n/a): 379. 1973.
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1598What 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
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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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Linguistica e filosofia. A proposito di un recente lavoro di Ét. GilsonRivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 65 (n/a): 522. 1973.
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1877The cognitive load of presupposition triggers: mandatory and optional repairs in presupposition failureLanguage, Cognition and Neuroscience 29 (1): 136-146. 2014.
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| Philosophy of Language |
| Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
| Gottlob Frege |
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| Philosophy of Language |
| Gottlob Frege |
| Complex Demonstratives |
| Demonstratives, Misc |