Eva Picardi on Language, Analysis and History (eBook)

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.

1. Introduction; Annalisa Coliva, Paolo Leonardi and Sebastiano Moruzzi.- Section I: Themes from Frege.- 2 Early analytic philosophy's Austrian dimension; Kevin Mulligan.- 3. Truth, Ascriptions of Truth, and Grounds of Truth Ascriptions; Wolfgang Kuenne.- 4. On Frege's truth; Paolo Leonardi.- 5. Was Frege a logicist?.- Marco Panza.- 6. Logic as science; Robert May.- 7. Thin reference, metaontological minimalism and abstraction principles. The prospects for tolerant reductionism; Andrea Sereni.- 8. A context principle for the 21st century; Fabrizio Cariani.- 9. Slurs and tone; Ernie Lepore & Mathew Stone.- 10. Refusing to endorse: a must explanation for pejoratives; Carlo Penco.- 11. Fregean presentationalism; Elisabetta Sacchi.- Section II: Themes from Davidson.- 12. Agency without rationality; Lisa Bortolotti.- 13. Reasons and causes in psychiatry: Ideas from Donald Davidson’s work; Elisabetta Lalumera.- 14. The doxastic zoo; Pascal Engel.- Section III: Language, contextualism and naturalism.- 15. Naturalizing Picardi; Diego Marconi.- 16. Practical knowledge and linguistic competence; Annalisa Coliva.- 17. A Plague on All Your Houses: Some Reflections on the Variable Behaviour of “Knows”; Crispin Wright.- 18. Truth relativism and Evans' challenge; Sebastiano Moruzzi.- 19. Knowing the Facts: a Contrastivist Account of the Referential Opacity of Knowledge Attributions; Giorgio Volpe.- Index.