Andrea Pedeferri
Curriculum VitaePersonal Data
3601 Greenway apt 811 21218 Baltimore, MD USA +1 443 850 0092
apedef@gwu.edu
http://departments.columbian.gwu.edu/philosophy/people/172
Areas of Specializations
Logic, History of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics.
Areas of Competence
Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Early Analytic Philosophy.
Appointments
Fall 2012/Present - Regular part-time faculty - Department of Philosophy - George Washington University.
Fall 2011/ Spring 2012 - Lecturer - Department of Philosophy - George Washington University.
Spring 2011 - Lecturer - Department of Philosophy - Towson University.
2003 - 2009 - Teaching assistant (equivalent) - Università degli Studi di Milano.
Education
2003 - Ph.D in Philosophy at Università degli Studi di Milano. Dissertation title:
Secondo ordine e neofregeani [Second Order and Neofregeans] Supervisor: Professor Corrado Mangione.
Awards and Grants
Spring 2010 - Visiting Scholar - Department of Philosophy - George Washington University .
2007/2008 - Fulbright Fellow - Department of Philosophy - Columbia University. Spring 2003 - Visiting Student - Arché Research Centre for the Philosophy of Logic, Language, Mathematics and Mind, University of St. Andrews.
Publications
Books:- From Peano to Peano, Logic in Italy in the 20th Century, Complete Manuscript. - Logica e filosofia della matematica (Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics), under contract with Carocci Editore, Roma.
- Frege e il neologicismo [Frege and Neo-logicism], Franco Angeli, Milano, 2005. Articles in peer-reviewed journals
- “Better to call a Mathematician a Pluralist than a Formalist” (with M. Friend), under review.
- “Rigorous Mathematical Proofs” (with M. Friend), under review.
- “Are Mathematicians Better Described as Formalists or Pluralists?” (with M. Friend), Logic and Philosophy of Science, IX, 1, 2011, pp. 173-180.
- “An Analysis of the Notion of Rigour in Proofs” (with M. Friend), Logic and Philosophy of Science, IX, 1, 2011, pp. 165-171.
- “George Boole”, APhEx - Analytical and Philosophical Explanation, II, 2010.
- “Versioni alternative della logica del secondo ordine: un’introduzione” [Al- ternative versions of second order logic: an introduction], Epistemologia, I, 2007, pp. 145-170. Chapters in Books and Conference Proceedings
- “Logic and Mathematics”, Co-authored with F. Berto, in T. Andina (ed.), Bridging The Analytical-Continental Divide: A Companion to Western Philosophy, Leiden: Brill, 2014, pp. 108-144.
- “Formalism and Pluralism”, Co-authored with M. Friend, in M. Friend, Pluralism in Mathematics; A New Position in the Philosophy of Mathematics, Berlin: Springer 2013, pp. 150-171.
- “Rigour in Proof ”, Co-authored with M. Friend, in M. Friend, Pluralism in
Mathematics; A New Position in the Philosophy of Mathematics, Berlin: Springer 2013, pp. 201-219.
- “Logica e Matematica (o del linguaggio universale)" [Logic and Mathematics], Co-authored with F. Berto, in T. Andina, (ed.) Filosofia Contemporanea, Roma: Carocci, 2013, pp. 143-166.
- “Alcuni aspetti del ‘nazionalismo culturale’ della logica italiana del novecento” [Some Aspects of ‘Cultural Nationalism’ of Italian Logic in the First Half of 20th Century], E. Ballo, C. Cellucci (eds.) La ricerca logica in Italia, Milano: Cisalpino, 2011, pp. 415-425.
- “Some Reflections on Plurals and Second Order Logic in a Neofregean Context’, in Proceedings of the International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, London: College Publications, 2010, pp. 47-53.
- “Logica in italia: da Peano al secondo dopoguerra” [Logic in Italy, from Peano to the second post war period], in L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, Storia della Cultura Italiana, Torino: UTET, 2009, pp. 200-214.
Translations
- S. Shatil, D. Cryan and B. Mayblin, Introducing Logic, London: Icon Books, 2008. Italian translation: La logica a fumetti, Milano: Raffaello Cortina, 2010.
- M. D. Hauser, Moral Minds, New York: Ecco, 2006. Italian translation: Menti morali, Milano: Saggiatore, 2007.
- M. Clark, Paradoxes from A to Z, London: Routledge, 2002. Italian translation: I paradossi dalla A alla Z, Milano: Raffaello Cortina, 2004.
Talks and Lectures
- “Is It Orginial Only Once?”, III Latin American Analytic Philosophy Conference and the III Conference of the Brazilian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Fortaleza, Brasil, 2014.
- “The Path of Italian Logic from Peano to the Second World War”, 2014 Meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2014.
- “The Path of Italian Logic from Peano to the Second World War”, UNILOG 13, 4th World Congress on Universal Logic, Rio de Janeiro, 2013.
- “Is It Original Only Once?”, Logic Colloquium 2012, Manchester, 2012.
- “Are Mathematicians Better Described as Formalists or Pluralists?” (with Michele Friend), 2010 International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Bergamo, 2010.
- “An Analysis of the Notion of Rigor in Proof” (with Michele Friend), 2010
International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Bergamo, 2010.
- “Formalism or Pluralism; Which Better Describes Mathematical Practice” (with Michele Friend), Logic Colloquium 2010, Paris, 2010.
- “Rigor, Gapless Proofs and Invariance” (with Michele Friend), Logic Colloquium 2010, Paris, 2010.
- “Some Remarks about the Status of Second Order Logic”, UNILOG 10 , 2th World Congress on Universal Logic, Estoril, Accepted paper, Unable to attend, 2010.
- “Second Order Categoricity and Invariance”, Association for Symbolic Logic North American meeting, Washington, DC, 2010.
- “Why Do We Call Second Order Logic ‘Logic’?”, George Washington University, 2009.
- “Some Reflections on the Status of Second Order Logic”, ENFA 4, 4th meeting of the Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy, Evora, 2009.
- “Some Remarks about the Status of Second Order Logic”, Logic Colloquium 2009, Sofia, 2009.
- “Some Reflections on Plurals and Second Order Logic in a Neofregean Context”, New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association Fall 2008 meeting, 2008
- “Plural Quantification and Neologicism”, 2007 International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Milano, 2007.
- “Infinitesimals: Ghosts of departed Quantities”, Arché Research Centre for the Philosophy of Logic, Language, Mathematics and Mind, University of St. Andrews, 2003.
- “Una nuova visione dell’infinito e dell’infinitesimo: l’Analisi non standard di A. Robinson” [A new version of infinite and infinitesimals: A. Robinson’s non standard analysis], Università di Genova, 2002.
- “Neologicismo e logica del secondo ordine” [Neo-logicism and second order logic], Istituto Banfi, Reggio Emilia, 2002.
Teaching
UndergraduateGeorge Washington University :
Introduction to Logic PHIL 2045.11 Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Spring 2013 Fall 2013 PHIL 2045.12 Spring 2012
Spring 2013 PHIL 2045.13 Fall 2012 PHIL 2045.14 Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Fall 2013
Symbolic Logic PHIL 3121 Spring 2014
Introduction to
Towson University
Introduction to logic PHIL 111 Spring 2011
Symbolic Logic PHIL 311 Spring 2011
Philosophy of Language PHIL 380 Spring 2011 Graduate
Università degli Studi di Milano
Seminar on Model
Theory Spring 2009
Academic services
-Website Administrator Department of Philosophy, George Washington University 2013.
-PhD’s representative in the board of the Department of Philosophy of Universita` degli Studi di Milano from 2000 to 2003.
-Organizing committee of the 2007 International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science.
References
Professor Achille Varzi
Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1150 Amsterdam Avenue,
New York NY 10027 av72@columbia.edu
Professor Francesco Berto
Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen King’s College, High Street, Old Brewery OBG14 Aberdeen AB243UB
f.berto@abdn.ac.uk Professor Michele Friend
Department of Philosophy, George Washington University, Phillips Hall T- 525, 801 22nd St NW,
Washington, DC 20052 michele@gwu.edu
