Down But Not Out by Alberto Voltolini

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This book provides a detailed reassessment of the role and impact of analytic philosophy in the overall philosophical debate. In particular, the book scrutinizes whether the theses written about such points have been convincingly argued for, or whether they have gained attraction as a type of rhetorical device.

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Down But Not Out by Alberto Voltolini

This book provides a detailed reassessment of the role and impact of analytic philosophy in the overall philosophical debate. In particular, the book scrutinizes whether the theses written about such points have been convincingly argued for, or whether they have gained attraction as a type of rhetorical device.
Alberto Voltolini (PhD Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 1989) is a philosopher of language and mind whose works have focused mainly on fiction, intentionality, depiction, and Wittgenstein. He is currently Professor in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Turin (Italy). He has had scholarships at the Universities of Geneva and Sussex. He has been visiting professor at the Universities of California, Riverside (1998), Australian National University, Canberra (2007), Barcelona (2010), London (2015), Auckland (2007, 2018), and Antwerp (2019). He has been a member of the Steering Committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (2002-2008) and of the Board of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2009-2012). His publications include How Ficta Follow Fiction (Springer, 2006), as well as the “Fictional Entities” and the “Fiction” entries (with F. Kroon) of the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, and A Syncretistic Theory of Depiction (Palgrave, 2015).
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ISBN 13 9783031044526
ISBN 10 3031044525
Title Down But Not Out
Author Alberto Voltolini
Series Synthese Library
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG
Year published 2023-05-14
Number of pages 158
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