Nicla Vassallo

University of Genoa

Department of Philosophy - Epistemology Section

Nicla Vassallo

Full Professor of Theoretical Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, University of Genova
via Balbi 4, I-16126 Genova, Italy
telephone: +39 010 209 9844
fax: +39 010 209 9864
nicla.vassallo@unige.it
http://www.dif.unige.it/index.php?section=57

Personal home page: http://www.niclavassallo.net

My present main research interests are in theoretical philosophy, philosophy of knowledge, feminist philosophies, gender studies. I teach these subjects.

My favourite quotations

"Welcome to the desert of the real", Morpheus, Matrix.

"I was a wing in heaven blue", Patti Smith, Wing.

"I do want indeed to consider my next book, but I am inclined to wait for a clearer head", Virginia Woolf, The Diary, 30 July 1925.

My background in a nutshell

PhD in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy - University of Genoa, Italy.
Post-PhD Fellow at the Department of Philosophy - University of Genoa, Italy.
Research Scholar at the Department of Philosophy - King's College London, UK.
Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy - University of Genoa, Italy.
Researcher in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy - University of Genoa, Italy.
Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science's Degree - Idoneità da Professore Associato in Logica e Filosofia della Scienza - University of Catania, Italy.
Full Professor of Theoretical Philosophy's Degree - Idoneità da Professore Ordinario in Filosofia Teoretica - University of Bergamo, Italy.
Visiting Professor of Epistemology - Psychology Faculty, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
Full Professor of Philosophy of Knowledge - University of Genoa, Italy.
Full Professor of Theoretical Philosophy - University of Genoa, Italy.

Selected Bibliography - just my books

Books as author:

(1995), La depsicologizzazione della logica: un confronto tra Boole e Frege, Franco Angeli, Milano.
(1997), La naturalizzazione dell'epistemologia: contro una soluzione quineana, Franco Angeli, Milano.
(1999), Teorie della conoscenza filosofico-naturalistiche, Franco Angeli, Milano.
(2002), Conoscenza e natura, De Ferrari Editore, Genova.
(2003), Teoria della conoscenza, Laterza, Roma-Bari (2a edizione 2008).
(2007), Filosofia delle donne, with P. Garavaso, Laterza, Roma-Bari (2a edizione 2007).

Books as editor:

(1998), George Boole. Filosofia, logica, matematica, ed. with E. Agazzi, Franco Angeli, Milano.
(1998), Introduzione al naturalismo filosofico contemporaneo, ed. with E. Agazzi, FrancoAngeli, Milano.
(2001), Identità personale. Un dibattito aperto, ed. with A. Bottani, Loffredo Editore, Napoli.
(2002), Storia della filosofia analitica, ed. with F. D'Agostini, Einaudi, Torino.
(2003), La filosofia di Gottlob Frege, Franco Angeli, Milano.
(2003), Filosofie delle scienze, Einaudi, Torino.
(2005), Filosofia della comunicazione, ed. with C. Bianchi, Laterza, Roma-Bari (2a edizione 2006).
(2006), Filosofia delle conoscenze, Codice Edizioni, Torino.
(2008), Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation. On the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, ed. with M.C. Amoretti, Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt.
(2009), Donna m'apparve, Codice Edizioni, Torino.

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