University of Padua
Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology
PhD, 1998
Padua, Italy
  • Quattro tesi sui criteri d'identità
    with Pierdaniele Giaretta
    Rivista di Estetica 43 (22): 109-126. 2003.
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    Recensioni
    with Jan Woleński, Roberto Poli, Luigi Dappiano, and Sandro Bertoni
    Axiomathes 5 (2-3): 465-468. 1994.
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    Errata Corrige to “Pragmatic and dialogic interpretation of bi-intuitionism. Part I”
    with Gianluigi Bellin, Daniele Chiffi, and Alessandro Menti
    Logic and Logical Philosophy 25 (2). 2016.
  • Ontologia, ontologie ed analisi
    with Pierdaniele Giaretta
    Rivista di Estetica 44 (26): 3-21. 2004.
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    Recensioni
    with Roberto Poli, Liliana Albertazzi, Sandro Bertoni, and Luigi Dappiano
    Axiomathes 4 (2): 295-317. 1993.
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    Reviews (review)
    with Wiktor Hertrich and Roberto Poli
    Axiomathes 7 (3). 1996.
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    The many facets of identity criteria
    with Pierdaniele Giaretta
    Dialectica 58 (2). 2004.
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    2.4. Criteri d’identità e adeguatezza logica
    with Silvia Gaio
    Rivista di Estetica 49 141-160. 2012.
    Aim of the paper is to make some steps towards a formal characterization of identity criteria. First of all, we analyse some logical requirements identity criteria are supposed to satisfy and observe that some commonly used identity criteria fail to meet some of them. We focus in particular on the equivalence requirement. We consider then the proposals which have been given so far and aimed at providing logical adequacy to non-equivalent identity conditions. To this purpose, we analyse Williamso…Read more
  • Some observations on the identity of indiscernibles
    Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 57 (1): 28-45. 2002.
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    Individuals, Essence, and Identity. Themes of Analytic Metaphysics (edited book)
    with Andrea Bottani and Daniele Giaretta
    Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002.
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    Propositions. An introduction
    Grazer Philosophische Studien 72 (1): 1-27. 2006.
    According to Frege a proposition—or, in his terms, a thought—is an abstract structured entity constituted by senses which satisfies, at least, the three following properties: it can be semantically assessed as true or as false, it is the object of so called propositional attitudes and it can be grasped. What Frege meant by 'grasping' is the peculiar way in which we can have epistemic access to propositions. The possibility for propositions to be grasped is put by Frege as a warrant for their exi…Read more
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    È un uccello, è un aereo, è Superman! Visione e identificazione sortale
    with Marzia Soavi and Pierdaniele Giaretta
    Rivista di Estetica 39 265-280. 2008.
    1. Introduzione Immaginate di guardare in una certa direzione nel cielo. Vedete un oggetto avvicinarsi. A un certo punto, dopo un alcuni istanti di incertezza, pensate di aver capito di cosa si tratta e dite al vostro amico: «È un uccello!». L’oggetto continua ad avvicinarsi e le ali che prima vi sembravano in movimento ora vi appaiono decisamente ferme. Inoltre la velocità non può essere quella di un uccello. Vi correggete ed esclamate: «È un aereo!». Cominciate a essere preoccupati perché l...
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    Nuovi libri
    Rivista di Filosofia 94 (1). 2003.
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    Symposium on “Cognition and Rationality: Part I” (review)
    with Paolo Cherubini and Pierdaniele Giaretta
    Mind and Society 5 (2): 167-171. 2006.
    This is an excerpt from the contentThis symposium on Cognition and Rationality originated from two conferences held in Padua on March 17–21, 2003. The title of the first conference was Reasoning and understanding: mental models, relevance, and limited rationality approaches. The second one was entitled: Being rational. Models and limits of rationality in scientific research, economic behaviour, common sense reasoning. The papers published in these two issues are a selection of the ones presented…Read more
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    Untimely Reviews
    with Roberto Ciuni and Giuliano Torrengo
    Topoi 34 (1): 295-295. 2015.
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    Four theses on the Alleged Innocence of Mereology
    with Enrico Martino
    Humana. Mente. Journal of Philosophical Studies 19 57-77. 2011.
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    The fine-grained metaphysics of artifactual and biological functional kinds
    with Pieter Vermaas
    Synthese 169 (1): 125-143. 2009.
    In this paper we consider the emerging position in metaphysics that artifact functions characterize real kinds of artifacts. We analyze how it can circumvent an objection by David Wiggins (Sameness and substance renewed, 2001, 87) and then argue that this position, in comparison to expert judgments, amounts to an interesting fine-grained metaphysics: taking artifact functions as (part of the) essences of artifacts leads to distinctions between principles of activity of artifacts that experts in …Read more
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    Identity criteria are used to confer ontological respectability: Only entities with clearly determined identity criteria are ontologically acceptable. From a logical point of view, identity criteria should mirror the identity relation in being reflexive, symmetrical, and transitive. However, this logical constraint is only rarely met. More precisely, in some cases, the relation representing the identity condition fails to be transitive. We consider the proposals given so far to give logical adeq…Read more