Carlo Penco
Biographic Data
| ID | 5978780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlo Penco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlo |
| FAMILY NAME | Penco |
| SIGNATURE | PENCO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Genoa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Gottlob Frege and Gongsun Long in Dialogue
This work addresses the critical discussion featured in the contemporary literature about two well-known paradoxes belonging to different philosophical traditions, namely Frege’s puzzling claim that “the concept horse is not a concept” and Gongsun Long’s “white horse is not horse”. We first present the source of Frege’s paradox and its different interpretations, which span from plain rejection to critical analysis, to conclude with a more general…
Indexicals and essential demonstrations
In this paper, I discuss some of Maximilian de Gaynesford’s arguments regarding indexicals. Although I agree with his treatment of the first singular personal pronoun as a prototype of demonstrative expressions, I challenge his refusal to treat indexicals as complex demonstratives. To offer an alternative to this refusal I try to develop a common ground from different theories that consider indexicals as linguistic constructions that embed a nonl…
Sense and linguistic meaning. A solution to the Burge-Kripke conflict
When “Sinning Against Frege” was published in 1979 I thought it should have given a real turn in the discussion on Frege’s ideas. Actually the impact was less then I imagined, and the problem was that – at the end of the story – Tyler Burge’s interpretation should have posed a shadow on the direct reference theories and the Millean criticism of descriptivist theories of proper names, based on the criticism of the identification of Frege’s notion …
Propositional attitudes towards presuppositions
According to the Common Ground account proposed by Stalnaker (2002, 2009), speakers involved in a verbal interaction have different propositional attitudes towards presuppositions. In this paper we propose an experimental study aimed at estimating the psychological plausibility of the Stalnakerian model. In particular, the goal of our experiment is to evaluate variations in accepting as appropriate a sentence that triggers a presupposition, where…
What Happened to the Sense of a Concept-Word
Si presenta una nuova interpretazione dei rapporti tra le categorie filosofiche si senso-significato-itensione con una discussione sulle teorie semantiche di Church e di Kaplan
Between Saying and Doing
Keeping track of individuals
This paper gives attention to a special point in Brandom’s Making it Explicit . Brandom proposes in MIE a “Fregean” way out of Kripke’s puzzle about belief. In the first part, I analyze two main features of Brandom’s strategy, the definition of anaphoric chains as senses of proper names and the implausibility of the application of a disquotational principle to proper names. In the second part, I discuss (i) the problem of the stability of content…
No prominent works on this page.
Keeping track of individuals
This paper gives attention to a special point in Brandom’s Making it Explicit . Brandom proposes in MIE a “Fregean” way out of Kripke’s puzzle about belief. In the first part, I analyze two main features of Brandom’s strategy, the definition of anaphoric chains as senses of proper names and the implausibility of the application of a disquotational principle to proper names. In the second part, I discuss (i) the problem of the stability of content…
Between Saying and Doing
What Happened to the Sense of a Concept-Word
Si presenta una nuova interpretazione dei rapporti tra le categorie filosofiche si senso-significato-itensione con una discussione sulle teorie semantiche di Church e di Kaplan
Sense and linguistic meaning. A solution to the Burge-Kripke conflict
When “Sinning Against Frege” was published in 1979 I thought it should have given a real turn in the discussion on Frege’s ideas. Actually the impact was less then I imagined, and the problem was that – at the end of the story – Tyler Burge’s interpretation should have posed a shadow on the direct reference theories and the Millean criticism of descriptivist theories of proper names, based on the criticism of the identification of Frege’s notion …
Propositional attitudes towards presuppositions
According to the Common Ground account proposed by Stalnaker (2002, 2009), speakers involved in a verbal interaction have different propositional attitudes towards presuppositions. In this paper we propose an experimental study aimed at estimating the psychological plausibility of the Stalnakerian model. In particular, the goal of our experiment is to evaluate variations in accepting as appropriate a sentence that triggers a presupposition, where…
Indexicals and essential demonstrations
In this paper, I discuss some of Maximilian de Gaynesford’s arguments regarding indexicals. Although I agree with his treatment of the first singular personal pronoun as a prototype of demonstrative expressions, I challenge his refusal to treat indexicals as complex demonstratives. To offer an alternative to this refusal I try to develop a common ground from different theories that consider indexicals as linguistic constructions that embed a nonl…
Gottlob Frege and Gongsun Long in Dialogue
This work addresses the critical discussion featured in the contemporary literature about two well-known paradoxes belonging to different philosophical traditions, namely Frege’s puzzling claim that “the concept horse is not a concept” and Gongsun Long’s “white horse is not horse”. We first present the source of Frege’s paradox and its different interpretations, which span from plain rejection to critical analysis, to conclude with a more general…
Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Principle of compositionality (2 works)