Papers by Alberto Peruzzi
Ilge Interference Patterns In Semantics and Epistemology
Axiomathes
The issue as to whether an atomistic or holistic viewof knowledge and meaning is correct relies o... more The issue as to whether an atomistic or holistic viewof knowledge and meaning is correct relies on the way part/whole relationships is analysed,exactly as the issue as to whether a constructive or realistic view of knowledge and meaningis correct relies on the way internal/external relationships is analysed. Both theprinciple of compositionality and the context principle depend on how finely the constituents,the nature and the size of the context are identified; both the notion of meaning andthe notion of truth depend on the resources of internalisation/externalisation. Thus thespectrum of semantic and epistemological theories varies from (global) atomismto (global) holism, and from minimal to maximal internalisation. Are compositionaltheories necessarily extensional? Does formal semantics necessarily rely on set theory?Does the domain-specific character of the notions of element, part and whole prevent anygeneral, non-trivial account? The aim of the present paper is to provide a ne...
Hartmann's Stratified Reality
There are a few questions I asked myself time and again since, as an undergraduate, I was introdu... more There are a few questions I asked myself time and again since, as an undergraduate, I was introduced to Nicolai Hartmann’s ‘critical ontology’ by Giulio Preti thirty years ago. Until this Conference on the 50th anniversary of Hartmann’s death, I lacked the occasion to reconsider those questions at length. My present answers to them are ones I could not foresee
Prolegomena to a Theory of Kinds
Lo spirito positivo, ovvero le regole del "bon ton" epistemologico
Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica, 2003
Iride Filosofia e discussione pubblica ISSN : 1122-7893. Numero: 1, aprile 2003, Indice. DOI: 10.... more Iride Filosofia e discussione pubblica ISSN : 1122-7893. Numero: 1, aprile 2003, Indice. DOI: 10.1414/8728. Lo spirito positivo, ovvero le regole del "bon ton" epistemologico Alberto Peruzzi, pp. 117-124 7 [pdf 413K ...
Logic in Category Theory
The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 2011
Logic already spanned a great range of topics before the birth of categorical logic. Some celebra... more Logic already spanned a great range of topics before the birth of categorical logic. Some celebrated results achieved in logic during the first half of the twentieth century are milestones in the understanding of mathematical relations between syn-tactic, semantic and algorithmic aspects of the ...
Metacognizione e linguaggio
От двух культур к одной. Короткие заметки о наследии одной научно-гуманитарной дискуссии
Constraints on Universals
Manuali. Umanistica, May 1, 2009
Logic in Category Theory
The Western Ontario series in philosophy of science, 2011
Logic already spanned a great range of topics before the birth of categorical logic. Some celebra... more Logic already spanned a great range of topics before the birth of categorical logic. Some celebrated results achieved in logic during the first half of the twentieth century are milestones in the understanding of mathematical relations between syntactic, semantic and algorithmic aspects of the structure of language and reasoning. Logical tools have been exploited in a variety of applications: from
Action of structures, structure of actions
Axiomathes, Dec 1, 1995
Around 1920, Edmund Husserl sketched a fascinating project: to run over again the phenomenoiogica... more Around 1920, Edmund Husserl sketched a fascinating project: to run over again the phenomenoiogical genesis of logical form, starting from ordinary experience of objects and our interaction with them. It was not an empiricist program and even less a logical-empiricist one. According ...
Category Theory and the Search for Universals: A Very Short Guide for Philosophers
Studies in universal logic, 2016
The aim of the paper is to present the categorical notion of an adjoint functor as a key to forma... more The aim of the paper is to present the categorical notion of an adjoint functor as a key to formally capturing the philosophical notion of “universal” especially as it figures in relation to semantics and epistemology. In the first part (first section to seventh section) the relevance of category theory for the main topics of analytic philosophy is suggested, in opposition to a widespread conservative attitude towards the entrenched conjunction of logic and ∈-based set theory. In the second part (8th section to 16th section) the concept of an adjunction is introduced and shown to provide the framework of some fundamental examples of universality. The paper is of an introductory character, because it is addressed to a broad philosophical audience, in particular to philosophically-oriented logicians and logically-educated philosophers with no previous knowledge of category theory.
An Essay on the Notion of Schema
Springer eBooks, 1999
The time is ripe for simplifying the theory of meaning. This simplification is made possible by i... more The time is ripe for simplifying the theory of meaning. This simplification is made possible by introducing a more articulated view of the way intuitive meanings can generate highly complex semantic architecture, as displayed by the expressive resources of natural language.
La struttura di una spiegazione secondo il modello nomologico-deduttivo
L'oggetto semantico è un oggetto cinestetico
L'OGGETTO SEMANTICO È UN OGGETTO CINESTETICO Alberto Peruzzi CIOÈ
Tralasciando preliminari ... more L'OGGETTO SEMANTICO È UN OGGETTO CINESTETICO Alberto Peruzzi CIOÈ
Tralasciando preliminari eruditi, verrò subito alla domanda fondamentale. Che cosa rende possibile il nostro accesso al significato di espressioni linguistiche complesse? La risposta standard è: ...
Keiron, 2001
The notion of relevance was a traditional topic of rhetoric rather than logic. Beyond modal logi... more The notion of relevance was a traditional topic of rhetoric rather than logic. Beyond modal logic and its use in the semantics of natural language, the devolopment of a logically-based pragmatics paved the way to a precise analysis of the formal structure of relevant inferences, the principles of which are investigated in a new field of logic, named “relevant logic”. In 1990 Sperber and Wilson proposed a theory of relevance. This paper examines the general features of the resulting bridge between logic and pragmatics and lists some problems yet to be solved.
Scienza e democrazia : appunti per una migliore educazione scientifica
Noema fondato 2: schemi cinestetici e architettura categoriale della semantica
The paper describes the path of my research towards a kinaesthetic theory of meaning within which... more The paper describes the path of my research towards a kinaesthetic theory of meaning within which some of the main issues in 20th century's semantics and philosophy of language are approached from the perspective of a naturalized phenomenology centered on spatiality. The core issue lies in the grounding of cognitive structure, as expressed in supposedly "atomic" sentences, and the solution proposed rests on the existence of a finite set of basic schemata of objects-and-actions which, suitably combined, allow for the constitution of any possible act of reference. The steps which led to the kinaesthetic theory are presented here in retrospect, from the roots in Husserl's phenomenology to the essential debt toward cognitive grammar, particularly for what concerns the theory of metaphor. The emphasis is on one characteristic feature of the resulting approach, namely, the tools provided by category theory are argued to be indispensable in order to set up a model of the ...
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