Annibale Pastore

Valentino Annibale Pastore was an Italian philosopher and logician.
Pastore was born in Orbassano.
He studied literature at the University of Turin under Arturo Graf. His thesis La vita delle forme letterarie was published in 1892 in Turin. Pastore then turned to philosophy, influenced by the works of Pasquale d'Ercole, Friedrich Kiesow, Antonio Garbasso, and Giuseppe Peano, publishing his own thesis Sopra le teorie della scienza: logica, matematica, fisica in 1903.
He was a professor in Turin from 1913 until 1939, leading a laboratory of "experimental logic". He eventually focused on logical aspects and procedures in science. His 1914-1915 seminary upon the concept of homo faber influenced Antonio Gramsci in his theories about the fonction of intellectuals in a capitalist society.
Pastore died in Turin.

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', 1906Del nuovo spirito della scienza e della filosofia, 1907Sillogismo e proporzione, 1910Dell'essere e del conoscere, 1911Il pensiero puro, 1913Il problema della causalitá, con particolare riguardo alla teoria del metodo sperimentale, 1921Il solipsismo, 1923La logica del potenziamento, 1936Logica sperimentale, 1939L'acrisia di Kant, 1940La filosofia di Lenin, 1946La volontá dell'assurdo. Storia e crisi dell'esistenzialismo, 1948Logicalia, 1957Dioniso, 1957Introduzione alla metafisica della poesia, 1957