Massimo Mugnai

Biographic Data

ID4497835
NAMEMassimo Mugnai
GIVEN NAMESMassimo
FAMILY NAMEMugnai
SIGNATUREMUGNAI M
AFFILIATIONSScuola Normale Superiore
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Syllogistic Logic and Mathematical Proof

    Paolo Mancosu, Massimo MugnaiBOOKSyllogistic Logic and Mathematical…2023

  • Thinking and Calculating: Essays in Logic, Its History and Its Philosophical Applications in Honour of Massimo Mugnai

    Open AccessMassimo Mugnai, Francesco Ademollo et al.BOOKThinking and Calculating2022

  • Leibniz: General Inquiries on the Analysis of Notions and Truths: General Inquiries on the Analysis of Notions and Truths

    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Han Van Ruler et al.BOOKLeibniz2021

  • Leibniz from Oxford: Dissertation on Combinatorial Art: Dissertation on Combinatorial Art

    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Massimo Mugnai et al.BOOKLeibniz2020

  • Theory of Relations and Universal Harmony

    Massimo Mugnai, Maria Rosa AntognazzaCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of Leibniz2018

    This chapter discusses Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s philosophical reflections on the theory of relations and universal harmony. It first outlines the scholastic background of the doctrines concerning the ontology of relations. It turns then to Leibniz and his development of a theory of relations based on the ideas of Pierre Du Moulin and Caspar Bartholinus. More specifically, it examines Leibniz’s explicit characterization of the “mental” nature o…

  • Essences, Ideas, and Truths in God’s Mind and in the Human Mind

    Massimo Mugnai, Maria Rosa AntognazzaCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of Leibniz2018

    This chapter discusses Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s philosophical reflections on essences, ideas, and truths in God’s mind and in the human mind. After examining Leibniz’s claim that the essences ( essentiae ) of things are like numbers, the chapter goes on to analyze his argument that ideas are the buildings blocks of truths and that the intimate nature of ideas is what determines the truth of a proposition. It then outlines Leibniz’s views about…

  • Ars Characteristica, Logical Calculus, and Natural Languages

    Massimo Mugnai, Maria Rosa AntognazzaCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of Leibniz2018

    This chapter discusses Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s philosophical reflections on ars characteristica (“characteristic art,” the art of forming and arranging characters so that they agree with thoughts), logical calculus, and natural languages. It begins by providing an overview of Leibniz’s project for a universal language, his division of general science into analysis and synthesis, and his investigations on grammar. It then considers Leibniz’s n…

  • Ontology and Logic: The Case of Scholastic and Late-Scholastic Theory of Relations

    Massimo MugnaiARTICLEBritish Journal for the History…2016

    This paper investigates the reason (or reasons) why, in the tradition of Western philosophy, a logic of relations was developed only in the second half of the nineteenth century. To this end, it moves along two different but interconnected paths: on the one hand, it attempts to reconstruct the main views concerning the ontology of relations during the middle ages; on the other, it focuses on the treatment of so-called oblique terms (termini obliq…

  • Logic and Mathematics in the Seventeenth Century

    Massimo MugnaiARTICLEHistory and Philosophy of Logic2010

    According to the received view (Bocheński, Kneale), from the end of the fourteenth to the second half of nineteenth century, logic enters a period of decadence. If one looks at this period, the richness of the topics and the complexity of the discussions that characterized medieval logic seem to belong to a completely different world: a simplified theory of the syllogism is the only surviving relic of a glorious past. Even though this negative ap…