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GIUSEPPE MARIO SPOLAORE

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Position

Professore Associato

Structure

Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia Applicata - FISPPA

Address

PIAZZA CAPITANIATO, 3 - PALAZZO DEL CAPITANIO - PADOVA

Telephone

0498273768

E-mail

giuseppe.spolaore@unipd.it

Giuseppe Spolaore is associate professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages (PHIL-04/B) at the University of Padua, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology. Since 2022, he has held the Italian National Habilitation (ASN) for Full Professor in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Language, and since 2013 for Associate Professor in Logic, History and Philosophy of Science. He is a member of the Departmental Research Committee, coordinator of the Department Website Group, and serves on the faculty board of the PhD program in Philosophy at the University of Padua. In the academic year 2024/25, he is responsible for the courses in Philosophy of Mind (BA in Philosophy) and Semiotics and Communication Theory (BA in Communication).

He earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Padua in 2006. Before his current position, he held a researcher position at the University of Padua, postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Verona and Trieste, and adjunct teaching positions at the Universities of Verona (courses in Logic and Philosophy of Language) and Padua (courses in Logic and Semiotics).

His research focuses on philosophy of language and mind, philosophy of time, logic, metaphysics, and formal epistemology. He is the author of three books and around fifty papers, including the entry "Branching Time" of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and articles in international journals such as Analysis, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, Erkenntnis, Inquiry, and Thought. His work has been presented at numerous national and international conferences.

Complete CV in the attached file.

Notices

The office hours on Monday, March 24, are canceled due to academic commitments. For the following three Mondays, I will be visiting New York, so please contact me to schedule a Zoom meeting only if strictly necessary.

Office hours

  • Monday from 14:30 to 16:15
    at Palazzo Capitanio, piano 1 ufficio 36; ID Zoom 3355421119
    Vi prego di preavvertirmi via email (giuseppe.spolaore@unipd.it) se intendete partecipare al ricevimento. È possibile collegarsi anche via zoom all'ID 3355421119. Nei mesi di luglio-agosto i ricevimenti avranno generalmente luogo solo su Zoom.

Teachings

Publications

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

PAPERS ON JOURNAL (SELECTED)
“Predicative subject matter”, Philosophical Studies, 181 (2024), pp. 247–265 (with M. Plebani).
“Taste fragmentalism”, Erkenntnis, online first, DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqaa054 (with S. Iaquinto, G. Torrengo).
“Subject matter: a modest proposal”, Philosophical Quarterly, 71, 3 (2021), pp. 605–622 (with M. Plebani).
“The future ain’t what it used to be. Strengthening the case for mutable futurism”, Synthese (2021), online first (with G. Andreoletti).
“A philosophically neutral semantics for perception sentences”, Theoria (2021), online first (with S. Iaquinto).
“The actual future is open”, Erkenntnis, 85, 1 (2020), pp. 99–119 (with F. Gallina).
“Outline of a logic of knowledge of acquaintance”, Analysis, 79, 1 (2019), pp. 52–61 (with S. Iaquinto).
“The moving spotlight(s)”, Inquiry (2019), online first (with G. Torrengo).
“Out of nothing”, Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 7 (2018), pp. 132–138, DOI 10.1002/tht3.274 (with D. Sgaravatti).
“Michelangelo’s puzzle”, Philosophia, 46, 2 (2018), pp. 453–464, DOI 10.- 1007/-s11406-017-9940-y (with P. Giaretta).
“Gunky time and indeterminate existence”, Manuscrito, 40, 1 (2017), 81–86.
“Agency and fictional truth”, Synthese, 192, 5 (2015), pp. 1235–1265.
“Transcendental disagreement”, The Monist, 97, 4 (2014), pp. 592–620 (with G. Lando).
“A paradoxical challenge”, The Reasoner, 8, 12 (2014), p. 131 (with M. Plebani).
“Not just a coincidence. Conditional counter-examples to Locke’s thesis”, Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 1, 2 (2012), pp. 108–115.
“Validity and effectiveness of ambiguity: a famous argument by Socrates”, Argumentation, 26, 2 (2012), pp. 393– 407 (with P. Giaretta).
“Knowability principle and disjunction property”, Logique et Analyse, 209 (2010), pp. 9–23 (with P. Giaretta).

BOOKS
Fiction, Time, and Agency. An Essay on the Language and Logic of Fiction-Making, Cleup, Padova 2012.
Logos in fabula. Un’indagine filosofica sui personaggi fittizi, Mimesis, Milano 2009.
Esistenza e identità. Temi di logica filosofica, Mimesis, Milano 2008 (with a chapter written by P. Giaretta).

Research Area

Topics in the philosophy of language: reference, formal semantics, discourse semantics, semantics of fiction and fictional contexts, relative truth, the contextualism-relativism debate, tense semantics. Topics in logic and the philosophy of logic: tense-modal logics, formal semantics, formal epistemology, the logic of action. Topics in metaphysics: ontology of fiction, common sense metaphysics, the philosophy of time and temporal experience.

Thesis proposals

Philosophy: topics in the philosophy of language and mind, in metaphysics and in formal semantics. You can check the webpage https://unipd.academia.edu/GiuseppeSpolaore to get an idea of my research interests.

Communication: topics in semiotics and the pragmatics of language.