Eva Picardi on Language, Analysis and History

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Introduction (Annalisa Coliva, Paolo Leonardi, Sebastiano Moruzzi)....Pages 1-4 Front Matter ....Pages 5-5 Early Analytic Philosophy’s Austrian Dimensions (Kevin Mulligan)....Pages 7-29 Truth, Ascriptions of Truth, and Grounds of Truth Ascriptions (Wolfgang Künne)....Pages 31-66 The Names of the True (Paolo Leonardi)....Pages 67-85 Was Frege a Logicist for Arithmetic? (Marco Panza)....Pages 87-112 Logic as Science (Robert May)....Pages 113-160 Thin Reference, Metaontological Minimalism and Abstraction Principles: The Prospects for Tolerant Reductionism (Andrea Sereni)....Pages 161-181 A Context Principle for the Twenty-First Century (Fabrizio Cariani)....Pages 183-203 Slurs and Tone (Ernie Lepore, Matthew Stone)....Pages 205-217 Refusing to Endorse: A Must Explanation for Pejoratives (Carlo Penco)....Pages 219-239 Fregean Presentationalism (Elisabetta Sacchi)....Pages 241-261 Front Matter ....Pages 263-263 Agency Without Rationality (Lisa Bortolotti)....Pages 265-280 Reasons and Causes in Psychiatry: Ideas from Donald Davidson’s Work (Elisabetta Lalumera)....Pages 281-296 The Doxastic Zoo (Pascal Engel)....Pages 297-316 Front Matter ....Pages 317-317 Naturalizing Picardi (Diego Marconi)....Pages 319-335 Practical Knowledge and Linguistic Competence (Annalisa Coliva)....Pages 337-356 A Plague on All Your Houses: Some Reflections on the Variable Behaviour of “Knows” (Crispin Wright)....Pages 357-383 Truth Relativism and Evans’ Challenge (Sebastiano Moruzzi)....Pages 385-400 Knowing the Facts: A Contrastivist Account of the Referential Opacity of Knowledge Attributions* (Giorgio Volpe)....Pages 401-420 Back Matter ....Pages 421-425