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Prof. Diego Marconi
Diego Marconi was born in Torino in 1947. He graduated under Luigi Pareyson in 1969, writing a thesis on Wittgenstein. At that time, he shared the existential-hermeneutic orientation of Pareyson’s philosophy. Later, he did graduate work at the University of Pittsburgh with Nicholas Rescher, Wilfrid Sellars, Richmond H.Thomason and others. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis (1979) on Hegel. The thesis was an attempt at tracing the origin of so called "dialectical contradictions" in Hegel’s use of language. Afterwards, Marconi has been working within analytic philosophy, which he conceives not as a doctrinal body but as a philosophical style. He wrote or edited four books on Wittgenstein (1971, 1987, 1988, 1997), edited a reader on the formalization of Hegelian dialectics (1979), and published many articles in logic and philosophy of language.
In the last few years he has been working mostly on lexical meaning, writing a short book (Dizionari e enciclopedie, 1982, 1986(2)) on the alleged distinction between linguistic knowledge and world knowledge, and several articles on lexical semantic competence, i.e. on our knowledge of the meaning of words. A book on this topic (Lexical Competence) was published in 1997 by MIT Press. He is also the author of Filosofia e scienza cognitiva (2001). A short book on truth and relativism will be published in 1997 by Einaudi.
He was a co- editor of the new edition of Dizionario Palazzi-Folena della lingua italiana (1986-1992) and the 1993 edition of the Garzanti Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He was a founding member of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP) and has been President of the Italian society for analytic philosophy (1996-98). He is co-editor of the journal Sistemi Intelligenti and a member of the editorial boards of European Journal of Philosophy, Dialectica, and Iride.
Some publications:
"Being and being called", to be published in Journal of Philosophy
"Conceivability", in R.Almeder, Rescher Studies. A Collection of Essays on the Philosophical Work of Nicholas Rescher, Ontos Verlag, Frakfurt 2008, pp.169-195.
Per la verità, Einaudi, Torino 2007.
"How many multiplications can we do?" , in F.Minazzi (a cura di), Filosofia, scienza e bioetica nel dibattito contemporaneo, Studi internazionali in onore di E.Agazzi, Roma 2007, pp.857-864.
“On the Mind Dependence of Truth", Erkenntnis 65(2006), 301-318.
Review of W.Künne’s Conceptions of Truth, European J. of Philosophy 14(2006), 138-146.
"Rappresentazioni, immagini e procedure", in R.M.Calcaterra (a cura di), Le ragioni del conoscere e dell'agire, Scritti in onore di Rosaria Egidi, Angeli, Milano 2006, pp.320-333.
"Two-dimensional semantics and the articulation problem", Synthese 143 (2005), pp.321-349.
“Frascolla on Logic in the Tractatus”, Dialectica 59(2005), 97-107.
(with A. Iacona) “Petitio principii: what’s wrong?”, Facta Philosophica 7(2005), 19-35
"La teoria del significato tra competenza e condizioni di verità – Il caso della teoria di P.Horwich", in A.Frigerio, S.Raynaud (a cura di), Significare e comprendere. La semantica del linguaggio verbale, Aracne, Roma 2005, 1-25
“Contro la mente estesa”, Sistemi Intelligenti 17(2005), pp.389-398.
“Neuropsychological data, intuitions, and semantic theories”, Mind & Society 4(2005), 149-162.
"Can there be a scientific theory of vision? Hacker on Marr", in A.Coliva, E.Picardi, Wittgenstein Today, Il Poligrafo, Padova 2004, pp.319-337.
"Verificationism and the Transition", in R.Haller, K.Puhl (Hg.), Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy. A Reassessment after 50 years/Wittgenstein und die Zukunft der Philosophie. Eine Neubewertung nach 50 Jahren, Wien 2002, pp.241-250.
"The normative ingredient in semantic theory", in W.Hinzen, H.Rott (hrsg.), Belief and Meaning: Essays at the Interface, Hänsel-Hohenhausen AG, Frankfurt a.M., München, New York 2002, pp.215-228.
"Quine and Wittgenstein on the Science/Philosophy Divide" [unpublished, 2001].