Eva Picardi on Language, Analysis and History

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Annalisa Coliva, Paolo Leonardi, Sebastiano Moruzzi

   Pages 1-4

3. Themes from Frege

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Early Analytic Philosophy’s Austrian Dimensions

      • Kevin Mulligan

      Pages 7-29

   3. Truth, Ascriptions of Truth, and Grounds of Truth Ascriptions

      • Wolfgang Künne

      Pages 31-66

   4. The Names of the True

      • Paolo Leonardi

      Pages 67-85

   5. Was Frege a Logicist for Arithmetic?

      • Marco Panza

      Pages 87-112

   6. Logic as Science

      • Robert May

      Pages 113-160

   7. Thin Reference, Metaontological Minimalism and Abstraction Principles: The Prospects for Tolerant Reductionism

      • Andrea Sereni

      Pages 161-181

   8. A Context Principle for the Twenty-First Century

      • Fabrizio Cariani

      Pages 183-203

   9. Slurs and Tone

      • Ernie Lepore, Matthew Stone

      Pages 205-217

   10. Refusing to Endorse: A Must Explanation for Pejoratives

       • Carlo Penco

       Pages 219-239

   11. Fregean Presentationalism

       • Elisabetta Sacchi

       Pages 241-261

4. Themes from Davidson

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263

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   2. Agency Without Rationality

      • Lisa Bortolotti

      Pages 265-280

   3. Reasons and Causes in Psychiatry: Ideas from Donald Davidson’s Work

      • Elisabetta Lalumera

      Pages 281-296

   4. The Doxastic Zoo

      • Pascal Engel

      Pages 297-316

5. Language, Contextualism and Naturalism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 317-317

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   2. Naturalizing Picardi

      • Diego Marconi

      Pages 319-335

   3. Practical Knowledge and Linguistic Competence

      • Annalisa Coliva

      Pages 337-356

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 volume is split into three sections: one on Gottlob Frege’s work – in philosophy of language and logic –, taking into account also its historical dimension; one on Donald’s Davidson’s work; and one on the contextualism-literalism dispute about meaning and on naturalist research programmes such as Chomsky’s.

• Italian analytic philosophy
• anti-realism
• language
• Frege
• logic

• University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA

  Annalisa Coliva

• Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  Paolo Leonardi, Sebastiano Moruzzi

Annalisa Coliva is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy of the  University of California Irvine, USA.

Sebastiano Moruzzi is Lecturer in Philosophy of Language in the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Paolo Leonardi is Senior Professor of Philosophy of Language in the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies at the University of Bologna, Italy.

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