•  684
    Denotación y uso
    In J. J. Acero, L. Flores & A. Flórez (eds.), Viejos y nuevos pensamientos, Editorial Comares. 2003.
  •  470
    On Names
    with Ernesto Napoli
    In P. Leonardi & M. Santambrogio (eds.), On Quine, Cambridge University Press. pp. 251-266. 1995.
  •  428
    Predication
    Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Kevin Mulligan. 2011.
    In the sentence “Tom sits,” the name distinguishes Tom from anyone else, whereas the predicate assimilates Tom, Theaetetus, and anyone else to whom the predicate applies. The name marks out its bearer and the predicate groups together what it applies to. On that ground, his name is used to trace back Tom, and the predi- cate is used to describe and classify what it applies to. In both cases, the semantic link is a direct link between expressions and particulars. Here, I will explore the workings…Read more
  •  315
    The Act of Meaning
    In G. Cosenza (ed.), Paul Grice's Heritage, . pp. 9--33. 2001.
    Speaker’s meaning is the act at the core of meaning shift, where meaning can be the very act or its output. What are its conditions, which intentions direct it? What’s its mechanics? I will give a first answer to the first question. Then, I will discuss the mechanics of speaker’s meaning, as well as meaningful links different from speaker’s meaning. This will bring me to surmise a second answer to the first question. Along the way, I will compare the act of meaning with other acts. In closing, …Read more
  •  183
    The philosophy of David Kaplan (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2010.
    This volume collects new, previously unpublished articles on Kaplan, analyzing a broad spectrum of topics ranging from cutting edge linguistics and the ...
  •  62
    On Quine: New Essays (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 1995.
    Quine is one of the most influential of contemporary philosophers, whose work has ranged broadly across a great number of topics and issues in a career spanning some fifty years. In this collection a group of distinguished philosophers offer a sustained critical evaluation of the full range of Quine's writings. Amongst the topics addressed are interpretation, epistemology, ontology, modality, and mathematical truth. This collection will certainly influence all future discussion of Quine. The con…Read more
  •  37
    Names and illusions
    Dialectica 57 (2). 2003.
    Here, I defend the view that fictional narratives are illusionary and that fictional names are to be accounted metalinguistically, a blend of Walton’s and Donnellan’s theories. Besides, I offer a remedial semantic for sentences external to the story which connects those uses back to the text of the story and to the neighborhood of its retellings.
  •  33
    Tyler Burge's Origins of Objectivity
    Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 26 (1): 183-200. 2013.
  •  22
    Descriptions in use
    In (in Further advances in pragmatics and philosophy A. Capone, M. Carapezza & F. Lo Piparo eds vol. 2 Springer Nature Cham: 137-539)., Springer Nature. pp. 137-153. 2019.
    Introduction: The two sections of this volume present theoretical developments and practical applicative papers respectively. Theoretical papers cover topics such as intercultural pragmatics, evolutionism, argumentation theory, pragmatics and law, the semantics/pragmatics debate, slurs, and more. The applied papers focus on topics such as pragmatic disorders, mapping places of origin, stance-taking, societal pragmatics, and cultural linguistics. This is the second volume of invited papers tha…Read more
  •  18
    Anomalous Monism
    In M. De Caro (ed.), Interpretations and Causes. New Perspectives on Donald Davidson's Philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 285--117. 1999.
    In "The Measure of the Mental" (Davidson 1990), replying to a series of criticisms, that grow out of inadvertence or misunderstanding, Davidson has revisited his thesis concerning the physical and the mental, which he called "anomalous monism" (henceforth, AM). The thesis is subtle and elusive, as it is most often the case with Davidson: there is only one kind of event and state, which has a physical description (i.e., a description in physical terms) and may have a mental description too (i.e.,…Read more
  •  11
    Names and Illusions
    Dialectica 57 (2): 165-176. 2003.
    Here, I defend the view that fictional narratives are illusionary and that fictional names are to be accounted metalinguistically, a blend of Walton's and Donnellan's theories. Besides, I offer a remedial semantic for sentences external to the story which connects those uses back to the text of the story and to the neighborhood of its retellings.
  •  8
    The volume honours Eva Picardi – her philosophical views and interests, as well as her teaching – collecting eighteen essays, some by former students of hers, some by colleagues with whom she discussed and interacted. The themes of the volume encompass topics ranging from foundational and historical issues in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of logic and mathematics, as well as issues related to the recent debates on rationality, naturalism and the contextual aspects of meaning. The…Read more
  •  7
    The Names of the True
    In Annalisa Coliva, Paolo Leonardi & Sebastiano Moruzzi (eds.), Eva Picardi on Language, Analysis and History, Palgrave. pp. 67-85. 2018.
    Frege’s claim that sentences are names of truth-values, I argue, was drawn to fit the formal project, but it respects our pre-theoretical intuitions and does not undermine the sentence’s central semantic role. I do a minimal work both on the expression and on its referent, connecting the sentence and the definite description, suggesting an intuitive referent for a true sentence, suggesting a motive for Frege’s choice of the truth-values as referents, and finally suggesting an understanding of th…Read more
  •  5
    Essays on Reference, Language, and Mind (edited book)
    Oup Usa. 2012.
    This volume collects Keith Donnellan's key contributions dating from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, along with a substantive introduction by the editor Joseph Almog, which disseminates the work to a new audience and for posterity.
  •  4
    Having In Mind: The Philosophy of Keith Donnellan (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2011.
    Keith Donnellan of UCLA is one of the founding fathers of contemporary philosophy of language, along with David Kaplan and Saul Kripke. Donnellan was and is an extremely creative thinker whose insights reached into metaphysics, action theory, the history of philosophy, and of course the philosophy of mind and language. This volume collects the best critical essays on Donnellan's forty-year body of work. The pieces by such noted philosophers as Tyler Burge, David Kaplan, and John Perry, discuss D…Read more
  •  2
    Introduction
    In Annalisa Coliva, Paolo Leonardi & Sebastiano Moruzzi (eds.), Eva Picardi on Language, Analysis and History, Palgrave. pp. 1-4. 2018.
    The introduction provides a biographical sketch of Eva Picardi’s scientific career.
  • Metaphysics, Mathemeatics, and Meaning (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 1995.
  • Come si connettono parole e cose
    Rivista di Estetica 39 (11): 17-38. 1999.
  • Reference and attention
    In R. Turner & M. Sbisà (eds.), Pragmatics of Speech Actions, De Gruyter. pp. 339-359. 2013.
  • 6.4 e 6.5
    Revista Guairacá de Filosofia 38 (1). 2022.