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738In 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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53Assertion and InferenceIn Cristina Amoretti, Carlo Penco & Federico Pitto (eds.), Towards and Analytic Pragmatism, Ceur Ws. 2009.A very short introductory tutorial to Brandom's idea of assertion
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G. Frege, "Alle origini della nuova logica. Epistolario scientifico con Hilbert, Husserl, Russell, Vailati" (review)Epistemologia 8 (2): 336. 1985.
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456Rational 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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45Explaining the mental: naturalist and non-naturalist approaches to mental acts and processes (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Press. 2007.The aim of this collection of papers is to present different philosophical perspectives on the mental, exploring questions about how to define, explain and understand the various kinds of mental acts and processes, and exhibiting, in particular, the contrast between naturalistic and non-naturalistic approaches. There is a long tradition in philosophy of clarifying concepts such as those of thinking, knowing and believing. The task of clarifying these concepts has become ever more important with …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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1M. MERLEAU-PONTY, "La prose du monde" (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 65 (n/a): 379. 1973.
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771Converging towards what: on semantic and pragmatic competenceIn L. Serafini & P. Bouquet (eds.), CEUR-Workshops, . 2005.
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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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154Updating the Turing Test Wittgenstein, Turing and Symbol ManipulationOpen Journal of Philosophy 2 (3): 189-194. 2012.
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AA. VV., "La formalizzazione della dialettica. Hegel, Marx e la logica contemporanea" (review)Epistemologia 3 (1): 132. 1980.
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236Holism, strawberries, and hair dryersTopoi 21 (1-2): 47-54. 2002.The paper "Does Epistemological Holism lead to Meaning – Holism" (Cozzo, 2002) touches one of the main problems of a molecularist theory of meaning: how to restrict the class of inferences connected with a word, in order to define the sense of the word. I will discuss the starting point of this approach, mainly the pre-theoretical criterion against meaning holism: meaning holism, following a well-known argument by Dummett, reduces communication to a mystery. However there is a strong background …Read more
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S. Peters & E. Saarinen, "Processes, Beliefs and Questions" (review)Epistemologia 7 (2): 324. 1984.
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40Discussione su "Making it Explicit" di Robert BrandomIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 12 (1): 179-196. 1999.
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294Frege, sense and limited rationalityHistory of Modern Logic 9 53-65. 2003.In this paper, I will discuss a well-known oscillation in Frege’s conception of sense. My point is only partially concerned with his two different criteria of sense identity, and touches upon a more specific point: what happens if we apply Frege’s intuitive criterion for the difference of thoughts to logically equivalent sentences? I will try to make a schematic argument here that will preempt any endeavor to make Frege more coherent than he really is. In sections A and B, I will present two alt…Read more
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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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1021Indexicals as Demonstratives: on the Debate between Kripke and KünneGrazer Philosophische Studien 88 (1): 55-71. 2013.This paper is a comparison of Kripke’s and Künne’s interpretations of Frege’s theory of indexicals, especially concerning Frege’s remarks on time as “part of the expression of thought”. I analyze the most contrasting features of Kripke’s and Künne’s interpretations of Frege’s remarks on indexicals. Subsequently, I try to identify a common ground between Kripke’s and Künne’s interpretations, and hint at a possible convergence between those two views, stressing the importance given by Frege to no…Read more
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40Etica e giustificazione: Wittgenstein e l'influenza di MooreIn R. M. Carcaterra (ed.), Le ragioni del conoscere e dell'agire. Scritti in onore di Rosaria Egidi,, . 2006.Nel febbraio 1912 Wittgenstein venne ammesso al Trinity College con Russell come supervisor, e iniziò a seguire le lezioni di Moore. E’ probabile che leggesse il libretto di Moore, Ethics, pubblicato al suo arrivo a Cambridge, o che ritrovasse nelle lezioni di Moore alcune delle suggestioni presenti nel libro. Ma dopo il Tractatus Wittgenstein dedicò poco spazio alle riflessioni sull’etica e quel poco in un periodo ristretto di tempo, agli inizi degli anni ‘30, dalla Conferenza sull’etica2 alle …Read more
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30Holism in Artificial Intelligence?In Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara (ed.), Language, Quantum, Music, . 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
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Gottlob Frege |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Gottlob Frege |
Complex Demonstratives |
Demonstratives, Misc |