Achille Varzi (philosopher)

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Achille C. Varzi
BornMay 8, 1958
Galliate
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
University of Trento
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
InstitutionsColumbia 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] Since 2017 he is 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

  • 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 Claudio Calosi), Rome: Laterza, 2014.
  • Ontologie, Paris, Ithaque, 2010.
  • Il mondo messo a fuoco, Rome: Laterza, 2010.
  • Insurmountable Simplicities. Thirty-nine Philosophical Conundrums (with Roberto Casati), 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 Roberto Casati), 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 Roberto Casati), Noston (MA): MIT Press, 1999.
  • Theory and Problems of Logic (with John Nolt and Dennis Rohatyn), New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.
  • Holes and Other Superficialities (with Roberto Casati), Boston (MA): MIT Press, 1994.

See also

References

  1. ^ Achille C. Varzi retrieved 2018-04-06
  2. ^ "Professors". usi.ch - Master in Philosophy. 2020. Retrieved November 14, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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