Pieranna Garavaso is an

analytic philosopher Analytic philosophy is a branch and tradition of philosophy using analysis, popular in the Western world and particularly the Anglosphere, which began around the turn of the 20th century in the contemporary era in the United Kingdom, United ...

and professor emerita at the

University of Minnesota Morris The University of Minnesota Morris (UMN Morris) is a public liberal arts college in Morris, Minnesota. It is part of the University of Minnesota system and was founded in 1960 as a public, co-educational, residential liberal arts college offering ...

. Her areas of interest include epistemological and

metaphysical Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...

issues in

philosophy of mathematics The philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies the assumptions, foundations, and implications of mathematics. It aims to understand the nature and methods of mathematics, and find out the place of mathematics in peop ...

philosophy of language In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world. Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of meaning, intentionality, reference, ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He is con ...

Gottlob Frege Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (; ; 8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician. He was a mathematics professor at the University of Jena, and is understood by many to be the father of analytic ph ...

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, ...

, and feminist epistemology. She received her doctorate in philosophy from the

University of Nebraska, Lincoln A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

. 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.

Publications

Books

* ''The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism'', Bloomsbury Academic, June 2018. * ''Frege on Thinking and Its Epistemic Significance'', coauthored with Nicla Vassallo, Lexington Books, Lanham, November 2014. * ''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

* "Psychological Continuity and Trauma," The Journal of Philosophical Research, 39(2014), 101-125. * "Four Theses in Frege," Paradigmi, 3 (2013): 43-59. * "Hilary Putnam's Consistency Objection Against Wittgenstein's Conventionalism in Mathematics," Philosophia Mathematica, (III), 00 (2013): 1-18. * "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.

References

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