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Curriculum Vitae
Andrea Pedeferri
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Personal Data
Andrea Pedeferri
Home address:
3601 Greenway apt 811
21218 Baltimore, MD
USA
Phone Number:
+1 443 850 0092
[email protected]
http://departments.columbian.gwu.edu/philosophy/people/172
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Areas of Specializations
Logic, History of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics.
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Areas of Competence
Logic, History of Logic, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics,
Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Introduction to Philosophy.
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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
Spring 2010 - Visiting Scholar - George Washington University
2008 - Visiting Scholar - Columbia University
Spring 2003 - Visiting Student - Archè Research Centre for the Philosophy
of Logic, Language, Mathematics and Mind, University of St. Andrews
2003 - 2009 - Teaching assistant (equivalent) - Università degli Studi di
Milano
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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
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Awards and Grants
2007/2008 - Fulbright Fellow (Visiting Scholar - Columbia University)
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Publications
Books
- Logica e filosofia della matematica(provisional title), under contract with
Carocci.
- 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 Michele
Friend) Submitted paper (peer-review).
- “Rigorous Mathematical Proofs” (with Michele Friend) Submitted paper
(peer-review).
- “Are Mathematicians Better Described as Formalists or Pluralists?” with
Michele Friend, Logic and Philosophy of Science, IX, 1, 2011.
- “An Analysis of the Notion of Rigour in Proofs” with Michele Friend, Logic
and Philosophy of Science, IX, 1, 2011.
- “George Boole”, APhEx, 2, 2010.
- “Versioni alternative della logica del secondo ordine: un’introduzione” [Alternative versions of second order logic: an introduction], Epistemologia, 1,
2007.
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Chapters in Books and Conference Proceedings
- “Formalism and Pluralism” Co-authored with Michele Friend, in Friend,
M. Pluralism in Mathematics; A New Position in the Philosophy of Mathematics, Series: Logic Epistemology and the Unity of Science, Springer 2013.
- “Rigour in Proof ” Co-authored with Michele Friend, in in Friend, M. Pluralism in Mathematics; A New Position in the Philosophy of Mathematics,
Series: Logic Epistemology and the Unity of Science, Springer 2013.
- “Logica e Matematica (o del linguaggio universale)” Co-authored with
Francesco Berto, in Filosofia Contemporanea, Carocci, 2013.
- “Alcuni aspetti del ‘nazionalismo culturale’ della logica italiana del novecento”, in La ricerca logica in Italia, edited by Edoardo Ballo and Carlo
Cellucci, Quaderni di Acme 124, Cisalpino, Milano, 2011
- “Some Reflections on Plurals and Second Order Logic in a Neofregean
Context’, in SILFS 2007 Proceedings of the International Conference of the
Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, College Pubblications,
London, 2010.
- “Logica in italia: da Peano al secondo dopoguerra” [Logic in Italy,from
Peano to the second post war period], in Storia della Cultura Italiana, edited
by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, UTET, Torino, 2009.
Translations
- Sharron Shatil, Dan Cryan and Bill Mayblin, La logica a fumetti, Raffaello
Cortina, Milano, 2010.
- Marc D. Hauser, Menti morali, Saggiatore, 2007
- Michael Clark, I paradossi dalla A alla Z, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano, 2004.
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Reviews
- A. Guerraggio, P. Nastasi, Matematica in camicia nera, Bruno Mondadori,
2005, Secretum, 2006.
- “Teoria dei modelli”, Annuario 1999-2000 della Associazione degli Studenti
di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Milano, CUEM, 2002.
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Talks and Lectures
- “The Path of Italian Logic from Peano to the Second World War”, Unilog
13, Rio de Janeiro, 2013.
- “Is It Orginal Only Once?”, Logic Colloquium 2012, Manchester, 2012.
- “Are Mathematicians Better Described as Formilists or Pluralists?” (with
Michele Friend), SILFS Conference 2010, Bergamo, 2010.
- “An Analysis of the Notion of Rigor in Proof” (with Michele Friend), SILFS
Conference 2010, 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 World Congress, Estoril, Accepted paper, Unable to attend, 2010.
- “Second Order categoricity and Invariance”, ASL 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, 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”, NJRPA Fall 2008 meeting, 2008
- “Plural Quantification and Neologicism”, SILFS 2007 Conference, Milano,
2007.
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- “Infinitesimals: Ghosts of departed Quantities”, Archè 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.
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Teaching
Undergraduate
George Washington University : Introduction to Logic (PHIL 2045.11[twice],
2045.12 [twice], 2045.13, 2045.14)
Towson University : Introduction to logic (PHIL 111). Symbolic Logic
(PHIL 311). Philosophy of Language (PHIL 380)
Graduate
Università degli Studi di Milano : Model Theory (Seminar)
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Academic services
-Website Administrator Department of Philosophy, George Washington University
-PhD’s representative in the board of the Department of Philosopy of Università degli Studi di Milano from 2000 to 2003
-LaTex editing consultant for the Department of Philosophy of Università
degli Studi di Milano.
-Organizing commitee of 2007 SILFS Conference.
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References
Professor Francesco Berto
Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen
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King’s College, High Street, Old Brewery OBG14
Aberdeen AB24 3UB
[email protected]
Professor Achille Varzi
Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1150 Amstedam Avenue,
New York NY 10027
[email protected]
Professor Michele Friend
Department of Philosophy, George Washington University, Phillips Hall T525, 801 22nd St NW, Washington, DC 20052
[email protected]
Professor Paolo Pagli
Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche e Informatiche Universitá di Siena Pian
dei Mantellini 44, 53100 Siena
[email protected]
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