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110Meaning, Contexts and JustificationIn T. R. Roth-Berghofer D. C. Richardson B. Kokinov (ed.), Modeling and Using Context. 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT '07, LNAI 4635, Springer. pp. 69--81. 2007.Contextualism in philosophy of language and in epistemology are two distinct but closely entangled projects. The epistemological thesis is grounded in a semantic claim concerning the context-sensitivity of the predicate “know”: we gain insight into epistemological problems by investigating our linguistic intuitions concerning knowledge attribution sentences. Our aim here is to evaluate the plausibility of a project that takes the opposite starting point: the general idea is to establish the sema…Read more
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691Underdetermination and Theory-Ladenness Against ImpartialityProtoSociology 32 216-234. 2015.The aim of this paper is to show that science, understood as pure research, ought not to be affected by non-epistemic values and thus to defend the traditional ideal of value-free science. First, we will trace the distinction between science and technology, arguing that science should be identified with pure research and that any non-epistemic concern should be directed toward technology and technological research. Second, we will examine different kinds of values and the roles they can play in…Read more
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21Filosofia delle donneLaterza, Bari. 2007.Filosofia delle donne (Philosophy of Women) is a book written in Italian in which authors Pieranna Garavaso (University of Minnesota, Morris, USA) and Nicla Vassallo (University of Genoa, Italy) claim that a greater interaction between analytic philosophy and feminist philosophies can generate philosophical theories that are more accessible and relevant to a broader range of people. This interaction can also produce richer solutions to traditional philosophical problems. The authors' main inter…Read more
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Recensioni/Reviews-Building on Frege. New Essays on Sense, Content, and ConceptEpistemologia 26 (2): 351-353. 2003.
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25Frege on Thinking and its Epistemic SignificanceLexington Books. 2014.Pieranna Garavaso and Nicla Vassallo investigate Gottlob Frege's largely unexplored notion of thinking to provide insight into the roles of language in expressing thoughts and in fostering the development of human knowledge. The analysis will benefit studies of epistemology, logic, philosophy of mind, psychology, and philosophy of language
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38On Dummett's early Frege and analytical philosophyDialectica 51 (3). 1997.SummaryIn his Origins of Analytical Philosophy Michael Dummett claims that even in this earliest writings Frege can be identified as the grandfather of analytical philosophy. My aim here is to show how difficult it is to make out this claim convincingly
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468Realismo soggettivista & pragmatismo epistemicoParadigmi, Rivista di Filosofia (3): 135-151. 2011.
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17Il caso epistemologico di George BushIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 18 (2): 409-422. 2005.
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Epistemological contextualismFilosofia 52 (1): 61-88. 2001.Contextualist theories of knowledge have received a lot of attention in the contemporary epistemological literature. The central idea of such theories is that contextual factors play an important role in determining whether a particular knowledge sentence is true or false. Thus, on contextualist theories of knowledge it might be the case that a particular subject knows a proposition in one context but fails to know that same proposition in another context—while the only thing that has changed is…Read more
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Recensioni/Reviews-Empirical Knowledge. Readings in Contemporary EpistemologyEpistemologia 22 (2): 3481. 1999.
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Meaning as justification: Some epistemological considerationsRivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 99 (1): 121-135. 2007.
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1Contesto della giustificazione versus contesto della scoperta?Epistemologia 20 (1): 147-176. 1997.
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53On the Virtues and Plausibility of Feminist EpistemologiesEpistemologia, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Della Scienza (1): 99-131. 2003.In this paper, we examine some issues debated in mainstream epistemology for which the social features of knowledge are relevant, such as the epistemic relevance of social contexts, the nature of practical knowledge, and the epistemic role of testimony. In the first part of the paper, we show how feminist epistemologies have usefully stressed the social character of knowledge in many central areas of debate within mainstream epistemology. We call these the virtues of feminist epistemology: the…Read more
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45Analysis versus laws boole’s explanatory psychologism versus his explanatory anti-psychologismHistory and Philosophy of Logic 18 (3): 151-163. 1997.This paper discusses George Boole’s two distinct approaches to the explanatory relationship between logical and psychological theory. It is argued that, whereas in his first book he attributes a substantive role to psychology in the foundation of logical theory, in his second work he abandons that position in favour of a linguistically conceived foundation. The early Boole espoused a type of psychologism and later came to adopt a type of anti-psychologism. To appreciate this invites a far-reachi…Read more
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11Sul matrimonio same-sex ei suoi nemiciIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 26 (1): 67-84. 2013.
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4On Dummett's early Frege and analytical philosophyDialectica 51 (3): 171-187. 1997.SummaryIn his Origins of Analytical Philosophy Michael Dummett claims that even in this earliest writings Frege can be identified as the grandfather of analytical philosophy. My aim here is to show how difficult it is to make out this claim convincingly.
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