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Curriculum
In spring 1999 I have discussed my degree thesis in Philosophy at Florence University. The work was entitled «Truth and correspondence in Hartry Field’s philosophy of language» (here is available an abstract). My supervisor was Prof. Sergio Bernini.
In June 2000 I have been granted a PhD fellowship in Philosophy at Florence University. I have discussed my PhD thesis in September 2004. The title of the work is: “Truth and determinism: metaphysical implications of the principle of bivalence” (see below).
Research Interests
The wide-range topic I am concerned with is theory of truth. Among sub-topics there are: theory of reference, relationships between formal theories of truth and natural language, semantic paradoxes, the problem of truth bearers, metaphysical implications of the principle of bivalence (determinism), indexicality.
Published Papers
- "Verità e paradossi: una rilettura dell’Outline di Kripke"*, in: Kykéion 3, May 2000, pp. 121-126.
- "Di che cosa si predica la verità?"*, in: Kykéion 4, November 2000, pp. 27-40 (on-line).
- "Gli animali hanno diritti?", in: Kykéion 6, November 2001, pp. 17-32.
- "Logica e determinismo nella filosofia di Jan Lukasiewicz", in: Kykéion 7, March 2002, pp. 95-104 (revised English version available below).
- "Sulla verità: dialogo tra Parmenide e un amico non filosofo", in Kykéion, 8, settembre 2002 (on-line paper).
- "Lukasiewicz e il determinismo logico", forthcoming in Logic and Philosophy of Science - An electronic journal, Vol. 4, Trieste, 2006.
(*) four-hands written with Dr. Fulvio Guatelli.
Draft-papers and Work in Progress
- "Correspondence truth and indeterminacy of reference: Field on «partial denotation»", 2001 (on-line paper);
- "Logic and determinism in Jan Lukasiewicz's philosophy", 2002 (on-line paper);
- "Excluded Middle and Bivalence - Lukasiewicz and Lesniewski in comparison", 2003 (on-line-paper);
- "La «teoria non tradizionale della predicazione» di Horst Wessel: negazione «esterna» e negazione «interna»" (on-line paper).
- "Three-valued logic and modalities: Lukasiewicz's proposal", submitted for GAP.6, Berlin, FU, 11-14 September 2006 (on-line summary).
Talks and seminars
- May, 13, 2002 - advanced seminar: «Una analisi di On Determinism di Jan Lukasiewicz», Cagliari University (Sardinia), Faculty of Social Sciences;
- December, 16, 2002 - talk on my PhD work-in-progress at the National PhD Students Meeting, «Banfi Institute», Reggio Emilia;
- March, 13, 2003 - seminar for undergraduate students: «Terzo Escluso e bivalenza: Lesniewski e Lukasiewicz a confronto», Florence University, Department of Philosophy;
- March, 31, 2003 - seminar for undergraduate students: «La critica di Hartry Field alla teoria tarskiana della verità», Florence University, Department of Philosophy;
- July, 1, 2003 - seminar for undergraduate students: «Sommers’ logic of terms and internal negation», Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Abteilung Philosophie;
- July, 9, 2003 - advanced seminar: «Excluded Middle and Bivalence - Lukasiewicz and Lesniewski in comparison», Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Abteilung Philosophie;
- November, 29, 2003 - seminar for undergraduate students: «Terzo Escluso e determinismo in Aristotele e Lukasiewicz», Cagliari University (Sardinia), Faculty of Social Sciences.
- December, 15, 2005 - advanced seminar: «Logica trivalente e modalità alétiche: la proposta di Lukasiewicz», Cagliari University (Sardinia), Faculty of Social Sciences (on-line slides).
PhD Thesis (abstract)
My PhD thesis is concerned with the relationship between the logical principle of bivalence and the metaphysical thesis of determinism, both in an historical perspective and in a theoretical one. The first section of the work is concerned with a critical reconstruction of the debate about bivalence and fatalism in ancient Greek philosophy (Aristotle, Stoics, Epicureans). The second section is based on the contributions that the Polish philosophers and logicians Kotarbinski, Lesniewski and Lukasiewicz gave to the problem at issue, reaching - in the case of Lukasiewicz - to the development of the first three-valued system of propositional logic. The third section tries to put into a sharper focus certain aspects of the main problem by means of some conceptual instruments devised in the framework of analytic philosophy (truth-bearers, truth-makers, philosophy of time, theory of negation). Some striking similarities are emerged between the ancient Greek philosophers and the modern Polish logicians as far as the way of putting the problems and advancing some solutions is concerned. Further, I have also tried to stress the great relevance that our ways of conceptualize the relationships between truth and time have for the main problem at issue. A point of the originality of this work consists - in my view - in showing how some fundamental choices that have been performed in the philosophy of logic have been strictly connected to peculiar attitudes towards the morals and overall world-views.
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