Carlo Penco


Carlo Penco, August 1948 –, is an Italian analytic philosopher and full professor in philosophy of language at the University of Genoa in Italy.

Biography

Born to Emilio Penco and Margherita Castello, Penco received his Ph.D. in Philosophy Summa cum Laude at the University of Genoa in 1972 with a specialization in the philosophy of science. He studied with Evandro Agazzi in Genoa, with Michael Dummett in Oxford, and later with Robert Brandom and John McDowell at the University of Pittsburgh.
He has received various academic awards and fellowships including: CNR Fellow, NATO Fellow at Oxford University, and .
He has been President of the , and member of Steering Committee of the Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Sciences and the . Together with Joao Branquino and Josep Corbi, he began a series of , in order to foster the exchange of ideas among Analytic Philosophers in the southern countries in Europe, with connection with Latin America.
He has been teaching in South of Italy between 1988 and 1991; then he went to the University of Genoa, where he taught as full professor in Philosophy of Language until 2017. President of the Master in Philosophy during the period 2004-2010, he became Head of the Doctoral School in Human Science.
He has been working in the Editorial or Scientific Committees for various journals, such as Epistemologia, An International Journal for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Networks, A journal for the philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and the Cognitive Sciences, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Theoria.
His early research interests has been mainly on the philosophy of the later Wittgenstein and the philosophy of Frege. He began to work on the problem of context for the Meetings "Modeling and Using Contexts" since 1999. His latest interests are more strictly linked to different topics in the Philosophy of Language and Pragmatics, mainly on the problem of the boundaries between semantics and pragmatics and the relation between indexicals and demonstrations. He is a founder of the .

Published works

Books
  • "The Dask Side of Speech", Vernon Press
  • "Come non detto: usi e abusi dei sottintesi", Laterza, Roma
  • "Frege", Carocci, Roma, 2010
  • Introduzione alla filosofia del linguaggio Laterza, Roma-Bari 2004
  • Vie della Scrittura, Milano, Angeli, 1994
  • Matematica e gioco linguistico, Wittgenstein e la filosofia della matematica del '900. Firenze, Le Monnier, 1981
Books
  • "Frege: Logica, Pensiero e linguaggio. I fondamenti dell'aritmetica e altri scritti", Roma, Laterza, 2019.
  • "Modeling and Using Context", LNAI 10257, 2017.
  • : "What is Said and What is Not ", Stanford, CSLI, 2013.
  • "Significato e teorie del linguaggio", 2n edition with added bibliography, Milano, Angeli, 2013-
  • "Explaining the Mental", Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2007.
  • La svolta contestuale McGraw Hill, 2002
  • : Gottlob Frege, Senso, funzione e concetto Laterza, Bari, 2001.
  • Filosofia analitica - Reading of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Quine, Austin, Grice, Searle, Putnam - La Nuova Italia, Firenze, 2001.
  • Alle radici della filosofia analitica, Erga, Genova, 1996
  • Linguaggi e Macchine - Epistemologia - 1993
  • Significato e teorie del linguaggio Milano, Angeli, 1991.
  • Italian edition of E. Tugendhat Vorlesungen über die Sprachanalytische Philosophie:Introduzione alla filosofia analitica, Marietti, Genova, 1989
  • , Capire Wittgenstein Readings Genova, Marietti, 1988
  • Italian edition of J.L.Austin How to do things with words: Come fare cose con le parole, Genova, Marietti. 1987
  • Italian edition of M. Dummett, Philosophy of language, : Filosofia del linguaggio. Saggio su Frege, Genova, Marietti, 1983
Selected papers
  • "Wittgenstein, Context and AI. And Engineer among philosophers", in The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and Art, May 2024.
  • "Einstein and Wittgenstein’s mental experiments:on the similarity between Wittgenstein and relativity theory", the Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2024.
  • "Wittgenstein's Non-non-cognitivism", in Roberta Dreon, Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, Gian Luigi Paltrinieri e Elena Valeri Senza Trampoli. Saggi filosofici per Luigi Perissinotto. Mimesis, 2024.
  • "Gottlob Frege and Gongsun Long in Dialogue". Asian Studies, 11 :267-295, 2023. DOI: 10.4312/as.2023.11.1.267-295
  • "Contexts: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Context ", Argumenta, 8, 2022. DOI 10.14275/2465-2334/202215.maz
  • "Indexical and Essential Demonstrations", Semiotica 240, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2021-0008
  • "Meaning and Context Sensitivity". .
  • "Wittgenstein's Thought Experiments and Relativity Theory", in N. Da Costa, S. Wuppuluri Looking at Science from the viewpoint of Wittgenstein's philosophy, Springer: 341-362, 2020.
  • "Nonlinguistic aspects of linguistic contexts" in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 11939, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34974-5_1
  • "Some reflexions on Conventions" in Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 19 : 375-402, 2019.
  • "Defeasible Arguments and Context Dependence" in Paradigmi, 36/3: 561-577, 2018.doi: 10.30460/91908
  • "Refusing to Endorse. A Must Explanation for Pejoratives" in A. Coliva et al. Eva Picardi on Language, Analysis and History, Springer, 2018.
  • "Context in Philosophy: Pragmatic Competence as Filter" In Modeling and Using Contexts, ISTE Open Science 2018/1: 1-121, 2018.
  • "Kaplan's Sloppy Thinker and the Demonstrative Orginis of Indexicals", Quaderni di Semantica, 3-4,2017-18.
  • "Varieties on Contexts" in CEUR Proceedings 1845 , 2017.
  • "Donnellan's Misdescriptions and Loose Talk", in Maria Ponte & Kepa Korta editors, Reference and Representation in Language and Thought, Oxford: Oxford U.P. 2017.
  • "Selecting presuppositions in conditional clauses" in G. Airenti, M. Cruciani, A.Plebe ; Context in Communication. A cognitive view, Lausanne: Frontiers Media.2017.
  • "Kenny's wrong formula", in Philosophical Investigations, 40, 2016.
  • "Selecting presuppositions in conditional clauses" in Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2016.
  • "Context Dependence, MOPs, WHIMs and Procedures: Recanati and Kaplan on Cognitive Aspects in semantics", in Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence 9405, 2015.
  • "Frege's Theory of Demonstratives as a Model for Indexical Thought" in Dieter Shott Frege: Freund un Feind, Berlin: Logos, 2015.
  • "The cognitive Load of presupposition triggers: Mandatory and optional repairs in presupposition failure", in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience Volume 29, Issue 1, 2014.
  • "An experimental Approach to Attitudes towards Propositions" in Pragmatics and Cognition, 2014.
  • "What Happened to the Sense of a Concept Word?" in ProtoSociology, 30, 2013.
  • "Sense and Linguistic meaning: a solution to the Kripke-Burge Conflict", in Paradigmi, 2013/III. 2014.
  • "Dummett and the game of Tarot", in Teorema, XXXII/1, 2014.
  • "Indexicals as demonstratives: on the debate between Kripke and Künne" in Grazer Philosophische Studien, 88, 2014
  • "New Perspectives on Analytic Pragmatism", Philosophia, 40, 2013.
  • "Essentially Incomplete Descriptions", European Journal for Analytic Philosophy, 2011
  • "Assertion and Inference" in Towards an Analytic Pragmatism, CEUR Workshop, 2009: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-444
  • "The influence of Einstein on Wittgenstein's Philosophy", in Philosophical Investigations 2010
  • "Il senso degli enunciati. La nefasta influenza del Tractatus sulla filosofia della logica", in L. Perissinotto /Un filosofo senza trampoli. Saggi su Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mimesis, 2010.
  • "Rational procedures: A Neo-Fregean Perspective on Thought and Judgement" in Yearbook of Philosophical Hermeneutics: The dialogue, Münster, 2009
  • "Keeping track of individuals: Brandom's Analysis of Kripke's puzzle and the content of belief". In: S. Pirmin, Stekeler, Weithofer The Pragmatics of Making It Explicit, Benjamins, Amsterdam.
  • "Wittgenstein, olismo ed esperimenti mentali:l'influenza di Einstein" in Paradigmi, 2, 2008
  • "Inferenza e contesto: quali limiti alla libertà di parola?", in Cassazione penale, XLVIII, 2008.
  • "Idiolect and Context"; in R.E.Auxier and L.E. Hahn The Philosophy of Michael Dummett - Library of Living Philosophers, vol. XXXI, 2007.
  • "Competenza pragmatica come filtro", in M.Andronico, A. Paternoster, A. Voltolini, Il significato eluso. Saggi in onore di Diego Marconi, Rivista di Estetica, n. 34, anno XLVII
  • "Context and Contract" in Perspectives on Contexts, edited by Paolo Bouquet, Luciano Serafini, and Rich Thomason. CSLI, Stanford, 2006.
  • Enciclopedia Filosofica di Gallarate, 2006, Voci: E. Anscombe, Apriori-Aposteriori, D. Armstrong, R. Brandom, Deflazionismo, M. Dummett, Estensionalita', G. Evans, Filosofia Postanalitica, G. Frege, P. Geach, Gioco Linguistico, Intensione/Estensione, F. Kambartel, D. Kaplan, S. Kripke, L. Linsky, J. Mcdowell, Opacita' Referenziale, J. Perry, A. Prior, E. Tugendhat, C. Wright.
  • "Converging towards What? on semantic and pragmatic competence" in P. Bouquet, L. Serafini, Context representation and reasoning 2005, proceedings of the first international workshop, CEUR-WS, vol.136, 2005
  • "Keeping Track of Individuals: Brandom's Analysis of Kripke's Puzzle and the Content of Belief", in Pragmatics and Cognition, 13:1, 177-201
  • "Anatra all'arancia: il tema del contesto nella filosofia analitica", Teoria 2005 pp. 3–21.
  • "Wittgenstein, Locality and Rules" in E.Picardi, A.Coliva, Wittgenstein Today, Il Poligrafo, Padova, 2004, pp. 249–274.
  • "Frege, sense and limited rationality" Modern Logic Vol.9, 2001-2003 pp. 53–65
  • "Frege: Two thesis, two senses", in History and Philosophy of Logic 2003, vol. 24, n.2.
  • "Filosofia del linguaggio", in Floridi, Luciano, Linee di Ricerca, SWIF, 2003.
  • "Sensi fregeani, procedure e limiti computazionali", in Vassallo N. La filosofia di Gottlob Frege, Angeli, Milano 2003.
  • "Introduzione" a J. Perry, Contesti De Ferrari, Genova, 2002.
  • "Holism, Strawberries and Hairdryers" in Topoi 2002
  • "Local Holism" in V. Akman, P. Bouquet, R. Thomason, R.A. Young Modeling and Using Context - Proceedings of the Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, Springer Verlag, July 2001
  • " Three alternatives on contexts" in D. Marconi Knowledge and Meaning. Topics in Analytic Philosophy edizioni Mercurio, Vercelli, 2000.
  • " Ragione e Pratica Sociale " in Rivista di Filosofia 3, 1999
  • " Objective and Cognitive Context " in Paolo Bouquet, Patrick Brézillon, Luciano Serafini, Francesca Castellani eds. Modeling and Using Context, 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT'99 Springer, 1999.
  • " Sensi, catene anaforiche e olismo " in Iride 1999
  • " Context and Incomplete knowledge" in Third European Congress of Analytical Philosophy, Maribor 1999
  • "Holism in Artificial Intelligence?" in Language, Quantum, Music edited by M.L.Dalla Chiara, Laudisa and Giuntini, Kluwer, 1999
  • "Wittgenstein and our times" R.Egidi, In Search of a New Humanism: the Philosophy of Georg Henrik von Wright, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1999.
  • "Competenza e competenze: tre tesi su competenza, linguaggio e significato" in Iride 1998.
  • "Frege e Carnap: verso una teoria integrata del senso" in Vito Michele Abrusci, Carlo Cellucci, Roberto Cordeschi, Vincenzo Fano Prospettive della Logica e della Filosofia della scienza: Atti del Convegno SILFS, ETS, Pisa, 1998
  • "Dummett and Wittgenstein's philosophy of Mathematics", in McGuinness B. - Oliveri G. The Philosophy of Michael Dummett, Kluwer Academic Press,, 1994.
  • "Wittgenstein et le Conventionalisme" in G.Sommaruga Aspects et problémes du Conventionalisme, Fribourg, Presse Universitaire di Fribourg, 1992
  • "Frames and Logic in Knowledge Representation", Epistemologia, 15, 1992.
  • Italian edition of G.Frege's letters to Wittgenstein: G. Frege, "Lettere a Wittgenstein", in Epistemologia, 14, 1991
  • "Eredi del terzo regno" in Epistemologia 12 , 1989
  • "Mathematik und Interesse" in R.Haller Sprache und Erkenntnis als Soziale Tatsache, Wien, Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1981
  • "Intuition in mathematics: Wittgenstein's Remarks" in Epistemologia 4, 1981
  • "Matematica e Regole. Wittgenstein interprete di Kant" in Epistemologia 2, 1979
  • "Intension: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics considered under the influence of Frege's Tradition" in: Akten des 2.Int. Wittgenstein Simposiums: Wittgenstein und sein Einfluss auf die gegenwartige Philosophie, Wien, Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1978