Short CV: After my dissertation on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics at the University of Genoa (with Evandro Agazzi) I have studied at Cambridge with Timothy J. Smiley and at Oxford with Sir 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 and then Philosophy of Language and Theories of Communicaton at the University of Genoa, where I was the Director of the Master in Philosophy (Laurea Magistrale) and of the Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium (FINO). I have been visiting scholar at the University of Iceland's Department of Philosophy'at the University of Barcelona, at King's College (London), at the University of Pittsburgh, at the Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science and at the Institute of
Philosophy (London, Senate House).
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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). Publications include papers on
Lecture Notes in AI, History and Philosophy of Logic,
History of modern Logic, Philosophical
Investigations, Pragmatics
and Cognition, Theoria, Semiotica,
a contribution to the volume on Dummett on the Library
of Living Philosophers, and (with Eva Picardi) an italian edition, in two volumes,
of Frege's Writings. I am on the
editorial board of Theoria,
Argumenta, and
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 SILFS (Italian
Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science).
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