Achille Varzi (philosopher)
Achille C. Varzi | |
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Born | May 8, 1958 |
Alma mater | University of Toronto University of Trento |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic |
Institutions | Columbia University |
Main interests | Philosophical logic, metaphysics |
Achille C. Varzi (born May 8, 1958) is an Italian-born philosopher. He graduated at University of Trento and received a master's and doctoral degree at the University of Toronto. He teaches at Columbia University, where he has been a member of the philosophy faculty since 1995.[1] Varzi is also Bruno Kessler Honorary Professor at the University of Trento and, since 2017, Visiting Professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.[2]
Work[]
Varzi has made notable contributions to the fields of philosophical logic (mainly vagueness, supervaluationism, paraconsistency, formal semantics) and metaphysics (mainly mereology and mereotopology, causation, events, and issues relating to identity and persistence through time). His first book, Holes and Other Superficialities (1994, with Roberto Casati), was an exploration of the realist ontology of common sense and naive physics. His more recent work is inspired by a nominalist-conventionalist stance.
Varzi is currently an editor of The Journal of Philosophy and an advisory editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Varzi is also a prolific writer for the general public and contributes regularly to several Italian newspapers.
Achille C. Varzi is a second cousin of the Italian racecar driver Achille Varzi.
Books[]
- Mereology (with ), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- I colori del bene, Naples: Orthotes, 2015.
- Le tribolazioni del filosofare. Comedia Metaphysica ne la quale si tratta de li errori & de le pene de l’Infero (with ), Rome: Laterza, 2014.
- Ontologie, Paris, Ithaque, 2010.
- Il mondo messo a fuoco, Rome: Laterza, 2010.
- Insurmountable Simplicities. Thirty-nine Philosophical Conundrums (with ), New York: Columbia University Press, 2006; also translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Greek, Chinese, Korean.
- Il pianeta dove scomparivano le cose. Esercizi di immaginazione filosofica (with ), Torini: Einaudi, 2006.
- Parole, oggetti, eventi e altri argomenti di metafisica, Rome: Carocci, 2001.
- An Essay in Universal Semantics, Dorrecht, Kluwer, 1999.
- Parts and Places. The Structures of Spatial Representation (with ), Noston (MA): MIT Press, 1999.
- Theory and Problems of Logic (with and ), New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.
- Holes and Other Superficialities (with ), Boston (MA): MIT Press, 1994.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Achille C. Varzi retrieved 2018-04-06
- ^ "Professors". usi.ch - Master in Philosophy. 2020. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
External links[]
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- Living people
- Columbia University faculty
- 20th-century American philosophers
- 21st-century American philosophers
- Analytic philosophers
- 20th-century Italian philosophers
- 21st-century Italian philosophers
- 1958 births