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Panorama aggiornato delle principali teorie filosofiche su propriet\ue0 e relazioni intese come universal

Singular reference. A descriptivist perspective

Singular reference to ourselves and the ordinary objects surrounding us is a most crucial philosophical topic, for it looms large in any attempt to understand how language and mind connect to the world. This book explains in detail why in the past philosophers such as Frege, Russell and Reichenbach have favoured a descriptivist approach to this matter and why in more recent times Donnellan, Kripke, Kaplan and others have rather favoured a referentialist standpoint. The now dominant referentialist theories however still have a hard time in addressing propositional attitudes and empty singular terms. Here a way out of this difficulty emerges in an approach that incorporates aspects of the old-fashioned descriptivist views of Frege, Russell and Reichenbach without succumbing to the anti-descriptivist arguments that back up the current referentialist trend. The resulting theory features a novel approach to the semantics and pragmatics of determiner phrases, definite descriptions, proper names and indexicals, all treated in uniform fashion in both their anaphoric and non-anaphoric uses. This work will be of interest to researchers in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and theoretical linguistics

Indication of recent warming process at the intermediate level in the Tyrrhenian Sea from SOOP XBT measurements

The Tyrrhenian Sea is a sub-basin of the western Mediterranean crossed by intermediate and deep waters from the eastern basin. Across this sub-basin, temperature profiles of the water column from expendable bathythermographs (XBT) have been acquired for sixteen years along transects realized thanks to the use of commercial vessels. Since 1999 an increase of temperature has been observed at intermediate depths even if interspersed with periods of decrease. This increase involves deeper and deeper depths along the years then involving the whole sub-basin in the range 200-800 m in September 2014 when largest anomalies over the whole period are found. The paper shows evidences of this rapid heating, giving insights into the origin and the diffusion of the warmer intermediate waters then showing its evolution in years and its relationship with the Eastern Mediterranean Transient

Responsibility and appropriate blame: The no difference view

How do the fact that an agent is morally responsible for a certain morally objectionable action and the fact that she is an appropriate target of blame for it relate to each other? Many authors inspired by Peter Strawson say that they necessarily co‐occur. Standard answers to the question of why they co‐occur say that the occurrence of one of the facts explains that the other obtains. This article presents a third option: that they are one and the same fact. There is no difference between the fact that a person is an appropriate target of blame for an objectionable action and the fact that she is morally responsible for it. This view has the advantage of being metaphysically more parsimonious and of answering, in an elegant and plausible way, an interesting question about which many standard theories of responsibility keep silent: what is it to be morally responsible simpliciter

Rivista italiana di filosofia junior

la rivista si occupa di tutti gli ambiti della filosofia analitica, mirando principalmentge ad offrire un forum agli studenti di dottorato

Filosofia del Tempo. Il Dibattito contemporaneo

Viviamo immersi nel tempo, lo misuriamo con strumenti di crescente complessit\ue0, dalle clessidre agli orologi atomici, e ne parliamo nei modi pi\uf9 svariati. Ma che cosa \ue8 davvero il tempo e in che senso possiamo dire che esiste indipendentemente dalle nostre menti? Nel vivace dibattito su questo tema in corso tra i filosofi analitici, si contrappongono due punti di vista. Secondo la teoria A, pi\uf9 vicina al senso comune, \ue8 la differenza tra passato, presente e futuro a conferire oggettivit\ue0 al tempo. Per la teoria B, invece, sono relazioni quali la precedenza e la simultaneit\ue0 a garantire l'oggettivit\ue0 del tempo, in sintonia con la teoria della relativit\ue0 di Einstein. Il libro descrive e analizza la controversia, soffermandosi in particolare sulla versione della teoria A attualmente pi\uf9 discussa: il presentismo

Predicables. An Essay in Formal Property Theory

Versione estesa e stampata presso casa ed. ILA-PALMA, Palermo, del libro successivamente pubblicato col titolo PREDICATION ANALYSIS AND REFERENCE. Manca di ISBN/ISS