Pieranna Garavaso is an analytic philosopher

Analytic philosophy

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 at the University of Minnesota Morris. Her areas of interest include epistemological and metaphysical

Metaphysics

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 issues in philosophy of mathematics

Philosophy of mathematics

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, philosophy of language

Philosophy of language

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, Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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, Gotlob Frege, Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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, and feminist epistemology

Feminist epistemology

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. She received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is the recipient of two distinguished teaching awards: the University of Minnesota, Morris Alumni Association Teaching Award in 2003 and the Horace T. Morse University of Minnesota Alumni in 2004.

Books

• Filosofia delle donne (Philosophy of Women), coauthored with Nicla Vassallo, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2007; first reprint September 2007.
• Filosofia della matematica. Numeri e strutture (Philosophy of Mathematics. Numbers and Structures), Guerini, Milan (Italy), 1998.

Articles

• ”Il destino di Karen. Università e donne nel Nord America” (Karen’s Fate. Academe and Women in North America), Diogene, Vol. 4, 16(September-November 2009), pp. 44-46.
• “Scienza,” in Donna m’apparve, Codice Edizioni 2009, pp. 117-130.
• ”Editor’s Introduction,” in Philip Hugly and Charles Sayward, Arithmetic and Ontology: A Non-Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Monograph-in-Debate Series of The Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 90, Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2006, pp. 11-20.
• ”On Frege’s Alleged Indispensability Argument,” in Philosophia Mathematica (III) 13(2005), pp. 160-173.
• ”Esiste una condizione necessaria per la razionalitá?” (Is there a necessary condition for rationality?), in Esperienza e razionalitá. Prospettive contemporanee, edited by Roberta Corvi, Franco Angeli, Milan, 2005, pp. 127-143.
• “On Behalf of the Neglected Body,” in Ikaheimo, Kotkavirta, Laitinen, and Lyyra, eds., Personhood. workshop Papers of the Conference “Dimensions of Personhood,” University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2004, pp. 54-60.
• "Filosofia della Matematica" (Philosophy of Mathematics), Storia della filosofia analitica (History of Analytic Philosophy), Einaudi, Turin (Italy), 2002.
• "La Varietà delle epistemologie femministe" (The Variety of Feminist Epistemologies), Donne e filosofia (Women and Philosophy), Erga, 2001, pp. 218-233.
• "Why the New Theorist May still Need to Explain Cognitive Significance but not Mind Doing It," Philosophia Vol. 28 (2000), pp. 1-11.
• "Mens Una in Corpore Uno," Identità personale: un dibattito aperto (Personal Identity: an open debate), Andrea Bottani and Nicla Vassallo, eds. Loffredo, Naples 2000, pp. 281-309.
• "The Quine/Wittgenstein Controversy: Any Role for Feminist Empiricism in It?," Epistemologia, Vol. XXII (1999), pp. 63-90.
• "Il controverso rapporto fra naturalismo e femminismo" (The Controversial Relationship Between Naturalism and Feminism), in E. Agazzi and N. Vassallo, eds., Introduzione al Naturalismo (Introduction to Naturalism), Franco Angeli, March 1998.
• "The Distinction Between the Logical and the Empirical in On Certainty," Philosophical Investigations, 1998.
• "Actuality and Necessity," The Journal of Critical Analysis, vol. 9, No. 2 (1992). pp. 173-187.
• "Anti-Realism and Objectivity in Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics," Philosophica, 48 (1991, 2), 93-106.
• "Frege on the Analysis of Thoughts," History and Philosophy of Logic, 12 (1991), 195-210.
• "Taylor's Defense of Two Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God," Sophia, (co-authored with Lory Lemke), vol. 29, no. 1, April 1990, pp. 31-41.
• "Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics: A Reply to Two Objections," Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26, 1988, pp. 179-191.

Reviews of Garavaso's work

• Jose Maria Ariso, El efecto de la experiencia sobre la reestructuración de los sistemas de creencias de Quine y Wittgenstein (The effect of experience on the restructuration of Quine’s and Wittgenstein’s systems of beliefs), LOGOS. Anales del Seminario de Metafísica Vol. 41 (2008): 239-258.
• Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, “Wittgenstein Distinguished: A Response to Pieranna Garavaso,” Philosophical Investigations, Volume 23, Number 1, January 2000 , pp. 54-69(16).
• "Some Objections to Garavaso's Wittgenstein",The Southern Journal of Philosophy (1991) Volume XXIX, No. 3.

External links

• Morris academic philosophy Pieranna biography