Stefano Caputo

Università Di Sassari
  •  5
    Grounding and Analytic Explanations: A Plea for Antirealism
    Disputatio 15 (71): 464-490. 2023.
    This paper puts forward an argument against realist views of grounding, which hinges on explanations based on so-called ‘real definitions’. I will provide some essential background, then phrase the argument, and show some anti-realist conclusions that can be drawn from it. Finally, I will deal with some potential objections, and I will discuss Correia’s [2017] view of real definitions, in order to show that despite appearances, the notion of grounding does not have any actual theoretical role wi…Read more
  •  15
    Contents
    with Jean-Maurice Monnoyer, Kevin Mulligan, Peter Simons, Barry Smith, Jonathan Simon, D. M. Armstrong, Philipp Keller, François Clementz, Herbert Hochberg, Frédéric Nef, E. J. Lowe, Pascal Engel, and Stephen Mumford
    In Metaphysics and Truthmakers, De Gruyter. 2007.
  •  499
    Schnieder (2020) argues, against Orilia (2009) and Koslicki (2013), that claims of existential grounding of the form “the fact that x exists is grounded in the fact that y is F” cannot be grounded in claims of existential dependence of the form “x existentially depends on y” and defends the view that the latter claims are grounded, via a definition of existential dependence, in the former. I will firstly argue that Schnieder’s main point against the claim that existential grounding is grounded i…Read more
  •  45
    Nell’introdurre questo volume chiariamo come il concetto dell’altro sia suscettibile di essere declinato in modi così variegati che, a proposito di esso, dovrebbe piuttosto parlarsi di una galassia concettuale. I dieci saggi presenti nel volume ambiscono proprio a fare luce su tale galassia. Dopo aver presentato le idee centrali di ciascuno dei saggi sottolineiamo come essi costituiscano un episodio di pensiero paradigmatico di come filosofi cosiddetti “analitici” e “continentali” possano cooper…Read more
  •  13
    Verità
    GLF editori Laterza. 2015.
  •  1413
    Truthmaking: What It Is Not and What It Could Be
    In Jean-Maurice Monnoyer (ed.), Metaphysics and Truthmakers, De Gruyter. pp. 275-311. 2007.
  •  55
    Le due verità
    Rivista di Estetica 63 178-187. 2016.
    L’articolo si propone di individuare somiglianze e differenze fra due usi del termine “vero”, quello per cui esso è usato per riferirsi a una caratteristica esclusiva delle cose che diciamo e pensiamo, detta nel testo “verità-delle-parole”, e quello per cui è usato per riferirsi a una caratteristica di cose di qualsiasi tipo (come quando diciamo “quello è un vero amico”), detta nel testo “verità-delle-cose”. L’idea centrale dell’articolo è che tali somiglianze e differenze possano essere proficu…Read more
  •  223
    One but not the Same
    Phenomenology and Mind 24 64-74. 2023.
    The paper aims at identifying similarities and differences between two different ways of using the word “true”, on the one hand when it is used to refer to a property of what we say or believe, here called “words’ truth”, on the other when it is used to refer to a feature of things in general (as when we say “he is a true friend”), here called “things’ truth”. I will point out how such similarities and differences may be usefully described starting from the feature of truth called “transparency”…Read more
  •  100
    Teorie Della verità– by Giorgio Volpe
    Dialectica 63 (1): 106-110. 2009.
    No Abstract.
  •  40
    New Frontiers in Truth (edited book)
    with Fabio Bacchini, Stefano Caputo, and Massimo Dell'Utri
    Cambridge Scholar. 2014.
    Although philosophers have been concerned with truth since at least the age of Plato, the last thirty years have witnessed a veritable explosion of the philosophical debate on this topic. The touchpaper which lit the fuse for this was undoubtedly the Deflationist Renaissance (half a century after the seminal work of F.P. Ramsey) due, in the Seventies, both to the Quinean disquotational interpretation of the Tarskian truth definitions and to the development of the prosentential theory of truth by…Read more
  •  54
    New Advances in Causation, Agency, and Moral Responsibility (edited book)
    with Fabio Bacchini Massimo Dell'Utri
    Cambridge Scholars Press. 2014.
    This volume brings together a number of previously unpublished essays that will advance the reader's philosophical understanding of specific aspects of causation, agency and moral responsibility. These are deeply intertwined notions, and a large proportion of the volume is taken up by papers that shed light on their mutual connections or defend certain claims concerning them. The volume investigates several important questions, including: Can causation be perceived? If it can, can it be perceive…Read more
  •  78
    La critica all’antirealismo costruttivista del pensiero postmoderno è al centro della riflessione di Maurizio Ferraris per lo meno a partire da Il mondo esterno (Ferraris 2001). Forme radicali di costruttivismo sono state però difese anche al di fuori del pensiero postmoderno tanto nella tradizione della filosofia analitica quanto, più recentemente, nell’ambito delle scienze cognitive. Nell’articolo viene dapprima presentata e criticata un’affermazione dal netto sapore costruttivista fatta da Vi…Read more
  •  150
    Three Dilemmas For Alethic Functionalism (review)
    Philosophical Quarterly 62 (249): 853-861. 2012.
    According to Lynch’s aletich functionalism truth is manifested by/immanent in different properties in different domains of discourse; so a core concept of Alethic Functionalism is the concept of the relation of manifestation holding between truth and other properties. The claim I’m going to defend is that Lynch makes too many theoretical demands on the manifestation relation and this makes it a metaphysical monster, that is to say a relation with mutually inconsistent features. In order to make …Read more
  • Realism and Ontology without Myths (edited book)
    with Massimo Dell’Utri and Fabio Bacchini
    Cambridge Scholars Press. 2014.