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1987Indexicals 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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769Frege, 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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P.A. French, T.E. Uehling Jr., H.K. Wettstein, "The Foundations of Analytic Philosophy" (review)Epistemologia 7 (2): 317. 1984.
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88Etica 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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109Context and contractIn Paolo Bouquet, Luciano Serafini & Richmond H. Thomason (eds.), Perspectives on Contexts, Center For the Study of Language and Inf. 2008.The main point of the paper is the claim that a strong notion of cognitive context can answer the needs of a representation of dialogue context, with a higher generality than the "normative" notion suggested by Gauker. I will discuss some well known claims in the literature about communication and context, and I will suggest giving a central role to the notion of contract or semantic bargaining and to the normative constraints of indexicals and anaphora.
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84Uomini, 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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A. Bonomi, "Le immagini dei nomi. Il significato e le sue raffigurazioni: modelli semantici, universi narrativi, rappresentazioni mentali" (review)Epistemologia 12 (1): 167. 1989.
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188Kripke's puzzle about beliefteaching material. 1998.A traditional argument is often used against Mill's theory of names (the meaning of a name is exhausted by its referent). Mill's theory implies transparency of proper names (coreferring proper names are substitutable salva veritate); but examples like Frege's and Quine's show that proper names are not transparent in belief contexts. This could be thought to be a reductio ad absurdum of Mill's theory. In " A puzzle about Belief" (1979; 1988) Kripke builds up an argument which aims to show that th…Read more
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90Propositional attitudes towards presuppositionsPragmatics and Cognition 22 (3): 291-308. 2014.According to the Common Ground account proposed by Stalnaker, speakers involved in a verbal interaction have different propositional attitudes towards presuppositions. In this paper we propose an experimental study aimed at estimating the psychological plausibility of the Stalnakerian model. In particular, the goal of our experiment is to evaluate variations in accepting as appropriate a sentence that triggers a presupposition, where different attitudes are taken towards the presupposition requi…Read more
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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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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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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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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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L. Wittgenstein, "Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics" (review)Epistemologia 2 (2): 436. 1979.
Areas of Specialization
| Philosophy of Language |
| Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
| Gottlob Frege |
Areas of Interest
| Philosophy of Language |
| Gottlob Frege |
| Complex Demonstratives |
| Demonstratives, Misc |