Autor: Michael Beaney Carlo Penco

Michael Beaney is Reader in Philosophy at the University of York. He was educated at Oxford, where he took his BA, BPhil and DPhil. Previous posts include a Senior Lectureship at the Open University, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowships at the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Jena, and lectureships at the Universities of Manchester, Leeds, London (Birkbeck College) and Sheffield. He is author of Frege: Making Sense (Duckworth, 1996) and Imagination and Creativity (Open University, 2005), editor of The Frege Reader (Blackwell, 1997) and The Analytic Turn: Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology (Routledge, 2007), co-editor (with Erich Reck) of Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (4 volumes, Routledge, 2005), and has also published a number of papers on analysis and the history of analytic philosophy.[see: york.ac.uk/depts/phil/staff/mikeb.htm]Carlo Penco teaches Philosophy of Language at the University of Genoa. After taking his University Degrees at the University of Genoa, he studied with Michael Dummett at Oxford, taught Philosophy of Science at the University of Lecce, and was a fellow at the Pittsburgh center for the Philosophy of Science. He has given talks at Columbia, London (King“s College), Reykjavik, Heidelberg, Barcelona, and elsewhere. He is author of a book on Wittgenstein“s philosophy of mathematics (1981), a book on Frege (1994), and an introduction to the philosophy of language (2004). He has edited Italian translations of Austin, Dummett and Frege, a collection of readings in the philosophy of language with translations of classic works of analytic philosophy (2001), and a volume of papers on the topic of context (2002). He has published in History and Philosophy of Logic, Review of Modern Logic, Pragmatics and Cognition, and Topoi. [see: dif.unige.it/epi/hp/penco/]Massimiliano Vignolo teaches Theory of Communication at the University of Genoa. After taking his DES (Diplome d“Etudes Superieures) at the University of Geneve with Kevin Mulligan, and his PhD at the University of Eastern Piedmont (at Vercelli) with Diego Marconi, he studied with John Perry at the University of Stanford. He has published a book on propositional attitudes after Frege and Russell (2001) and various papers in journals including Abstracta, Disputatio, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, and Philosophical Investigations.[see: dif.unige.it/epi/hp/vignolo/]