Short
CV:
After my dissertation in
the Philosophy of Science at the University of
Genoa (with Evandro Agazzi) I have studied at
Cambridge
with Timoty J. Smiley and at Oxford
with Michael
Dummett, of whom I have edited, and translated into
italian, his book
on
Frege's philosophy of language. I have been teaching
Philosophy of
Science at the
University of Lecce (Italy) and I am
now
teaching Philosophy of
Language
and Ontology at
the
University of Genoa, where I am the
Director of the Master in
Philosophy (Laurea
Magistrale)
and of the Doctorate
School in Human
Sciences. I have been
Visiting at the
University
of Iceland at Reykjavik ,
at the University
of Barcelona,
at King's
College
(London), at the
University of
Pittsburgh, and at the
Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science.
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My main research
areas are
in
Philosophy of Language, Foundations of Cognitive
Science and Theory of
Communication. I am working now on topics in
pragmatics and contextualism (definite descriptions,
indexicals).
Recent publications include papers on
Lecture Notes
in AI, History and Philosophy of Logic, History of
modern Logic, Philosophical
Investigations, Pragmatics
and
Cognition, Theoria,
a
contribution to the volume on Dummett on the Library
of
Living Philosophers,
and
a new
italian edition of Frege's
Logical
Writings.
I am on the
editorial board of Epistemologia
and of the European
Journal
of Analytic
Philosophy, and have
been in the Steering Commettee
of SIFA
(Italian
Society
for
Analytic
Philosophy, of which I
have been President in 2002-2004), of ESAP
(European
Society
for
Analytic
Philosophy)
and of SILF (Italian
Society
for Logic and the Philosophy of Science).
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