Diego Marconi

Prof. Diego MARCONI – Curriculum vitae
Diego Marconi (Laurea in Filosofia, Torino 1969; PhD, Philosophy, Pittsburgh 1979) is professor
of Philosophy of Language at the University of Torino. He previously taught at the University of
Cagliari and the University of Eastern Piedmont. He also gave logic and philosophy courses at
Pittsburgh, Geneva, Barcelona and the University of the Basque Country. During his graduate
studies he was a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund (1974-76). At Eastern Piedmont he
headed the Humanities Dept. (1997-2001), the philosophy curriculum (1992-95), the
communication science curriculum (2001-03), and the Doctoral Program in Philosophy of language
(1994-2004). In Torino he has been Chair of the advanced curriculum in Philosophy (2007-09).
Until recently he was a member of the Research Observatory of the University of Torino. He is or
was a Senior Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science at Pittsburgh (1983), NATO-CNR
Fellow (1987), Chercheur Associé at CREA (now the Centre Jean Nicod; 1996), Invited Research
Scholar at the University of California at Irvine (2004), Visiting scholar at Oxford (2010) and
Barcelona (2010). He was President of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (1996-98) and
belongs to the Boards of several Italian academic institutions. He was among the founders of the
European Society of Analytic Philosophy (1990), being a member of the Society's first Steering
Committee. He was a member of the Philosophy panel of ERIH (2005-06). He has been (2011-13)
the coordinator of the subpanel of Philosophy of the Italian Evaluation Agency (ANVUR). He
belongs to the Editorial Board of several journals (Dialectica, Mind & Society, Eur. J. of
Philosophy, Eur. J. for Philosophy of Science, Revue philosophique de Louvain, and others). He
was or is a referee for those journals and many others, for the University of Padova and Venice, and
for Columbia UP and Oxford UP. He was editor in chief of Dizionario Palazzi-Folena della lingua
italiana (with C. Marello, 1986-92) and the 2nd edition of Enciclopedia Garzanti di Filosofia (with
M. Ferraris, 1993). He is a member of the Torino Academy of Sciences and the Academia
Europaea. In 2013 he was awarded the Medal for Philosophy of the Italian Society of Neuroethics.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Il mito del linguaggio scientifico. Studio su Wittgenstein, Mursia, Milano 1971
(ed.), La formalizzazione della dialettica, Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino 1979 ("Introduzione", 9-84)
"A decision-method for the calculus C1", Proceedings of the Third Brazilian Conference on
Mathematical Logic, 1980, 211-23
Dizionari e enciclopedie, Giappichelli, Torino 1982 [2a ed. riveduta, Torino 1986]
"Che cos'è la teoria della verità di Tarski?", Teoria 1984, 75-95
(with N. C.A.da Costa) "A Note on Paracomplete Logic", in Rendiconti
dell'Accademia
Nazionale dei Lincei, 1986, 504-9
L'eredita' di Wittgenstein, Laterza, Bari 1987
"Two Aspects of Lexical Competence", Lingua e Stile 1987(22), 385-95
(with M.Andronico and C.Penco)(ed.) Capire Wittgenstein, Marietti, Genova 1988
(with N. C.A.da Costa) "An Overview of Paraconsistent Logic in the 80s", Journal of NonClassical Logic 1989, 1, 5-32
"Dictionaries and Proper Names", History of Philosophy Quarterly, 1990, 1, 77-92
"An Algebraic Study of Thomason's System ∆", Reports on Mathematical Logic 27(1993), 3-18
"On the Structure of Lexical Competence", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 95(1995), Part 2
(January 1995), 131-150
"On the Referential Competence of Some Machines", in P.McKevitt (ed.), Integration of Natural
Language and Vision Processing: Grounding Representations, AI Review 10 (1996),123-137
Lexical Competence, MIT Press, Cambridge Mass. 1997
(ed.) Wittgenstein, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1997 [“Il Tractatus”, in Wittgenstein, 15-58; “Transizione”,
in Wittgenstein, 59-101].
La filosofia del linguaggio. Da Frege ai giorni nostri, UTET, Torino 1999.
Filosofia e scienza cognitiva, Laterza, Roma 2001.
"The normative ingredient in semantic theory", in W.Hinzen, H.Rott (hrsg.), Belief and Meaning:
Essays at the Interface, Hänsel-Hohenhausen AG, Frankfurt a.M., München, New York 2002,
pp.215-228.
"Two-dimensional semantics and the articulation problem", Synthese 143 (2005), 321-349
“Frascolla on Logic in the Tractatus”, Dialectica 59(2005), 97-107.
(with A. Iacona) “Petitio principii: what’s wrong?”, Facta Philosophica 7(2005), 19-35
“Contro la mente estesa”, Sistemi Intelligenti 17(2005), pp.389-398
“Neuropsychological data, intuitions, and semantic theories”, Mind & Society 4(2005), 149-62
“On the Mind Dependence of Truth", Erkenntnis 65(2006), 301-318
Per la verità, Einaudi, Torino 2007.
"Being and being called. Paradigm case arguments and natural kind words", Journal of Philosophy
106(2009), 113-136
"Wittgenstein and Necessary Facts", in P.Frascolla, D.Marconi, A. Voltolini (eds.), Wittgenstein:
Mind, Meaning and Metaphilosophy, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2009, 140-166.
"Quine and Wittgenstein on the Science/Philosophy Divide", Humana.Mente. Journal of
Philosophical Studies, 2012, 173-189
"Semantic Normativity, Deference and Reference", Dialectica 66(2012), 273-87.
(with Manenti R., Catricalà E., Della Rosa P.A., Siri S., Cappa S.F.) "The neural substrates of
inferential and referential semantic processing", Cortex 49(2013), 2055-2066.
"Pencils have a point. Against generalized externalism about artifactual words", Review of
Philosophy and Psychology 4(2013), 497-513.
Il mestiere di pensare, Einaudi, Torino 2014.
(with L. Gasparri) "Word Meaning", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015.
"Reference and theories of meaning as use", in A.Bianchi (ed.), On Reference, Oxford University
Press, Oxford 2015.