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  • Publication
    Massimo Marraffa, La mente in bilico. Le basi filosofiche della scienza cognitiva. Carocci, Roma 2008, pp. 258
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)
    Signoriello, Mariastella
    The text offers a Critical Review of "La mente in bilico. Le basi filosofiche della scienza cognitiva" by Massimo Marraffa. The author critically reflects on the book by considering its methodologies, its arguments, and its relation with other books of the same type and on the same subject.
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  • Publication
    Normatività
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)
    Lalumera, Elisabetta
    Norms are standards of assessment and guide our rational behavior. All areas of philosophy deal with norms and normative concepts. This paper briefly outlines the main issues concerning norms and normative concepts currently discussed in analytic philosophy: the metaphysical question, the epistemological question, the problem of motivation, and the extension of the scope of the normative from domains traditionally conceived as normative, such as ethics and action theory, to the study of meaning and mind.
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  • Publication
    Conversation with Arhtur C. Danto
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)
    Andina, Tiziana
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  • Publication
    Claudia Bianchi, Pragmatica cognitiva. I meccanismi della comunicazione, Laterza, Roma - Bari, 2009, pp. 240
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)
    Ervas, Francesca
    Claudia Bianchi's book, Pragmatica cognitiva. I meccanismi della comunicazione (2009), provides the reader with a reasoned map of the main stances held by the scholars investigating our beliefs and expectations in the attribution of meaning to others' words. By analysing the possibilities and the limits of the theories in the field, the author wonders whether and to which extent talking about "language as a code" or about "literal meaning" makes sense. To answer this question, the book brings in front of the tribunal of the philosophical analysis - but also in front of the tribunal of the empirical research - the main contemporary trends in philosophy of language.
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  • Publication
    Michael Thompson, Life and Action Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 2008, pp. 223
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)
    Paese, Annalisa
    In my review I explain the central theses of each of the three chapters of Life and Action (∫∫ 2-4) and the framework informing the overall project (∫ 1) and then offer some critical remarks (∫ 5). The reader is provided with a general picture of how Thompson develops and responds to the work in practical philosophy of some of the most influential figures in the analytic tradition (Anscombe, Foot, Davidson, Gauthier, Rawls) and of his analysis and appropriation of a philosophical method, which he credits Anscombe with, that combines lessons coming from two very different thinkers: Aristotle and Frege.
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